The NightspinnersA secret history, a menacing future, and a killer who knows too much'It is our secret. No one guesses that we are nightspinners. No one knows how much we talk, or about the words we weave between us. We work in silence, and when our mother eases the door open she rewards us for what she assumes is our sleep. She whispers "You are such a good girl." She says it just once, to both of us, as if we were one. Which, in fact, we are. We are two peas in a

Shakespeare must decide which leads to follow

much more than the striker's fancy footwork

but they're wound drum-tight - as

Lee Scoresby

whose presence could herald the return of the Empire she spent her entire life fighting

It's all in a day's work for Lt Dick Coward and Sgt Tom Price on their second published adventure

'Inexhaustibly ingenious' HILARY MANTEL

Jake Jones has worked in the UK ambulance service for ten years: every day

like the recluse known as The Ridgerunner'

It is at Ubsola that Sigurd will face the sacrificial knife

Francis Drake

'Full of heart and strangeness' Nell Stevens