Martyr!The instant New York Times besteller: a young man uncovers the truth behind his mother's death in this transcendental debut that takes the reader from New York to Tehran and heralds the arrival of a blazing and essential new voice.

Kyle can barely remember his grandfather

they've prepared a room for him

son to Miltiades who commanded at Marathon

travelling alone

Skoulding's first Carcanet collection is a navigation of lostness

But with a rabble of unruly OAPs to contend with

Horrified by the thought of breaking off his life-long love-affair with running

a novelist

Spare is a landmark publication full of insight

years later she meets Wentworth once more

Fragments of cloth become windows into Victorian life: pirates in Borneo

to troubled identities in Europe and the US