In legend, Theophilus loses his position of authority and signs a contract with the Devil to regain it. Repenting, he asks the Virgin to intervene with Christ for forgiveness. He gets his pardon and when the Virgin retrieves the contract for him, Theophilus tells his story to his bishop and congregation. This study explores issues raised by the legend, among them feudal bonds and the Virgin’s powers of intervention, and their representation in text and visual art. No jacket.

Starting with the puzzles surrounding his birth in Dublin in 1667, this highly regarded biography re-examines the evidence for Jonathan Swift’s life, gives new accounts of many aspects of the writer’s personal relationships, and shows how Swift created a deliberately misleading version of his own public life.

This is the first definitive bibliography of JK Rowling's work, from the Harry Potter series to the adult fiction published under her own name and the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Compiled with the co-operation of Rowling herself, her agent and key publishing figures, it provides details of each English-language edition published in the UK and the USA. Including extracts from correspondence and archives, the book sheds new light on the author's career and dispels many rumours.

Byron’s lover Caroline Lamb described him as ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’, and she was not the only woman to discover his dark side. This book explores his relationships with women, including his long-suffering mother Catherine and his wife Annabella Milbanke, who endured both his violent abuse and the knowledge of his incestuous affair with his half-sister Augusta Leigh.

You could ‘book a holiday coinciding with a Test match in the Southern Hemisphere, and leave the English Christmas far behind’, writes Simon Rae. ‘But then, of course, we’d miss it, wouldn’t we?’ Starting with ‘Christmas: For and Against’ (Bah! Humbug! from Scrooge, while Betjeman sings of ‘tissued fripperies’), the anthology is in 21 chapters, with poetry, prose and drama on themes such as food, war, Christmas in prison and Santa Claus. Bound in patterned linen.

If death inevitably claims the heroes of Shakespeare’s tragedies, its spectre stalks even his comedies. Illustrated with historic images, this book explores the playwright’s treatment of mortality in the context of Reformation England. It examines the way he depicts murder and suicide, the use of feigned deaths as a plot device, and the belief in ghosts and the afterlife.

Introduced and selected by the award-winning novelist Andrew O’Hagan, this anthology of Burns’s verse is arranged around the topics of love, drink and politics, and includes favourites such as ‘A Red, Red Rose’, 'The Silver Tassie’ and ‘To a Mouse’.

Ben Blatt brings his skills as a statistician to bear on the writing styles of authors from Shakespeare to JK Rowling, using numbers to reveal the nuts and bolts of their writing – including word counts, favourite words, how simple their sentences are or what percentage of the book jacket is taken up by their name.

Describing Poliphilo’s quest for his beloved Polia, Colonna’s arcane allegorical romance of 1499 is unapologetically pagan, suffused with eroticism and composed in highly stylized Italian. This translation, featuring the 174 original woodcuts, is the first complete rendering of the work into English. It allows the modern reader access to a text that provides valuable insights into Renaissance ideas about gardens and architecture – and recently inspired the bestselling novel The Rule of Four. Off-mint and American-cut pages.

Born in Dublin, Walter Quin (d. 1640) was poet to the Stuart court and his poetry and prose (in English, Latin, French and Italian) includes works in support of James VI, along with historical and philosophical writing. This first edition of Quin’s work includes a biographical introduction and translations of his non-English texts.

Christopher Ricks presents a study of the poets Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht and Robert Lowell, exploring the relationship of each poet’s work to that of their great predecessors, TS Eliot and Ezra Pound.

Since 1609, when they were first published, Shakespeare’s sonnets have fascinated readers, both with the depth of the poet’s insight into the variety of love and the passage of time and with the mysteries of the beautiful Young Man, the Rival Poet and the Dark Lady. This volume presents all 154 sonnets, with a brief introduction.

This collaboration pairs lines by Shakespeare with 70 photographs of landscapes reflected in antique bottles. Michael Witmore, who chose the texts, discusses the playwright’s visual imagination, while artist Rosamund Purcell tells how the distressed glass transforms sky, trees and human forms into something rich and strange.

Many twentieth-century despots, including Stalin, Hitler and Mao, wrote extensively before or during their reigns, producing theoretical works, poetry, memoirs, and even the occasional romance. Kalder’s sardonic survey of their often execrable literary works makes broader points about the dictatorial mindset and the battle between self-image and reality, arguing that the urge to control or deny empirical facts using words and ideas is a fundamental attribute of tyranny.

Best known for his satirical novel Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) created a large body of work over five decades. This alphabetical guide explains his complex web of interconnected characters, concepts and settings, and includes an introduction by Vonnegut himself. Slightly off-mint and felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge.

Based on her experiences as a teacher in Belgium, Charlotte Bronte's first novel is narrated by William Crimsworth, an English teacher at an all-girls' school in Brussels who falls in love with one of his pupils. First published posthumously in 1857. Off-mint.

Robert Bly retells six classic fairy tales, including The Six Swans and The Frog Prince. Drawing on the work of a range of thinkers, including Kierkegaard, Freud and Jung, he offers analysis from a male perspective of how each story captures the essence of human nature.

From the age of 16 the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) was a passionate collector of literary and historical autograph manuscripts, and his collection of unique pieces included poems by Rilke and Baudelaire, drafts by Robespierre, Darwin and Dostoevsky and lecture notes by Nietzsche. The collection was donated to the British Library by Zweig’s heirs in 1986, and is catalogued in this volume with full descriptions, commentary and 74 reproductions of manuscript pages.

The period from the 1950s to the 1970s was a golden age for British spy fiction. Based on conversations with many of the 150 writers covered, this book sets the phenomenon against the backdrop of imperial decline, the Cold War and a burgeoning paperback market. It identifies two distinct genres: the glamorous fantasy of James Bond, and the sombre realism of Le Carré and Deighton. With a foreword by Lee Child.

Having grown up in an alcoholic family, Olivia Laing felt drawn to investigate the link between drink and creativity through the lives and work of six great American authors: F Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver. In a journey across the USA that is both exploratory and redemptive, she asks whether writing and addiction are fuelled by the same inner dissatisfaction, and contemplates the possibility of recovery.

Glasgow is home to one of the UK’s most important collections of books from the first decades of printing in Europe. This illustrated overview presents a selection of volumes, with discussion of their contents, typography, decoration and ownership history. Slightly off-mint.

Forming one of the earliest author and illustrator partnerships, AA Milne and EH Shepard worked closely together in the 1920s to create some of the world’s best-loved children’s characters. This illustrated volume reveals the depth of that partnership, and incorporates many of Shepard’s previously unpublished sketches, letters, photos and even a personal Christmas card. The inspiration for Winnie-the-Pooh is revealed to be Shepard’s son’s teddy bear, Growler, still owned by his granddaughter Minette, who has written the foreword.

DJ Taylor, the literary critic and award-winning biographer of George Orwell, investigates the origins of Nineteen Eight-Four, showing how incidents and obsessions in the author’s early life, including the Spanish Civil War and the early Cold War years, shaped elements of the novel and particularly its view of totalitarianism. Taylor then traces the creation of the novel on the island of Jura, linking the writing to Orwell’s life and examining the lasting impact of his dystopian vision.

By exploring topics including gossip, grandmothers and husbands, these 21 essays offer an accessible insight into the world of Jane Austen’s novels. Light-hearted in tone, they discuss the techniques and themes she used to convey the appearance, personalities and thoughts of her characters and are introduced with elegant line drawings.

In his final book, Primo Levi turned once again to his time in Auschwitz, and the lessons to be drawn from it. He reflects on the necessity of bearing witness to the truth, on survivor guilt, his feelings towards the Germans and the futility of hatred, and delivers a sobering reminder that, with would-be dictators waiting in the wings, the unimaginable could happen again.

From Dante, Boccaccio and Chaucer to authors such as Murakami and Arundhati Roy writing today, this literary compendium presents succinct biographical articles, notes on key books, quotations, portraits and other illustrations for over 100 novelists, poets and playwrights. The book is international in scope, with writers from places as far-flung as China and Argentina, and arranged in six chronological sections, each one ending with a ‘Directory’ giving briefer profiles of a further selection of authors.

On its inauguration at Cleveland House, the home of the Marquess of Stafford, in 1806, the Stafford Gallery housing his private collection was described as the ’Louvre of London’. Among nearly 300 paintings were works by the great Italian, French and Dutch Old Masters and English painters including the young Turner. With over 150 illustrations, this book traces the short history of the collection up to 1830 and its reincarnation in the Sutherland and Bridgewater galleries in the Victorian period.

During the late 18th and 19th centuries, art and scientific observation converged as geologists and artists shared a fascination with the Earth’s topography. Accompanying an American exhibition, this catalogue explores that moment of interdisciplinary engagement through commentary and reproductions of 52 paintings and drawings, including works such as Joseph Wright of Derby’s Entrance to the Dove Holes, Derbyshire (1773), Henry Moore’s Mer de Glace (1856), and Legendary England: Tintagel (1882) by the American artist William Trost Richards.

Wordsworth was as passionate about his gardens at Dove Cottage and Rydal Mount as he was about the untamed world that surrounded them. With contemporary horticultural illustrations throughout, this book traces his interest in the natural world to his childhood fondness for gardening, before examining the references to flowers in his verse.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s much-loved tale, The Little Prince (1943) was written while its author was an exile in the USA; a year later, his plane vanished over the Mediterranean. Telling the story of the writer’s life, his book and its diverse legacy in films, cartoons, musicals, comics and merchandising, Christophe Quillien draws on Saint-Exupéry’s own illustrations along with materials that include illustrated editions, Orson Welles’s plans for an adaptation, and a 50 franc bank note.

In ‘a search for the soul of modern China’, the literary scholar and poet Yunte Huang has gathered Chinese works of fiction, poetry, essays and letters spanning almost a century. From Lu Xun’s autobiographical Preface to ‘Call to Arms’ published in 1922, a decade after the overthrow of the Qing dynasty, nearly 50 Chinese writers and thinkers are represented, up to Gao Xingjian, China’s first Nobel laureate in literature, represented here by excerpts from Soul Mountain (2000).

John Sutherland explores the hors texte, or life that goes on in the opaque world behind the characters and events in over 30 classic novels, including Bleak House, Middlemarch and Frankenstein.

Questions about Dracula’s blood temperature, risk-taking behaviour, sexuality, social status and wealth are among the many issues raised in this sharp-witted dissection of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula.

In the sequel to Tom Sawyer, his sidekick Huckleberry Finn takes centre stage. Innocent and well-intentioned, Huck is brought face to face with the grim reality of slavery in the southern states as he helps his friend Jim escape to freedom.

Part of the Writers and their Work series, this is a brief yet rigorous critical study of Betjeman. Beginning with a biographical outline, the book provides an original reappraisal of the poet’s work, examines critical responses and concludes with a detailed bibliography and index.

Looking at the social and political context of Austen’s work, this analysis shows how she was able to use her stories to comment on serious contemporary subjects, such as feminism, slavery, the treatment of the poor and the power of the Church.

Part of the Writers and their Work series, this is a brief yet rigorous critical study of Anne Brontë. Beginning with a biographical outline, the book provides an original reappraisal of the novelist’s work, examines critical responses and concludes with a detailed bibliography and index.

Described by Frank Ellis as ‘an amazing comic book’, Jonathan Swift’s story of Peter (Catholic), Martin (Anglican) and Jack (Dissenter) and their inheritance (a jacket apiece) is a satire on ‘the numerous and gross Corruptions in Religion and Learning’. Swift also takes aim at religious fanaticism and the contemporary debate about the Ancient and Moderns in two accompanying works: The Battle of the Books and The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit. This complete edition includes Sir Andrew Fontaine’s original illustrations (1710).

No playwright has captured the human predicament in the 20th century with the wit and insight of Samuel Beckett. This succinct, thorough and accessible introduction to the man, his work and his ideas surveys the plays, novels and poems, draws on interviews with theatrical colleagues such as Peter Hall and Peggy Ashcroft – and the author himself, who first met Beckett in 1961 – and includes a chronology and annotated bibliography.

This first full biography of Leonard Woolf (1880–1969) goes beyond his familiar role as husband of Virginia and member of the Bloomsbury set. Glendinning explores the many posts he filled during his long life, including colonial administrator, publisher, political writer and journal editor, and provides a full and lively portrait of a highly intelligent and complex man, who made significant contributions to the intellectual debates of his day.

In December 1860, an employee at the Swindon Locomotive Works is found dead, his head missing. It proves to be a complex, baffling case for Inspector Colbeck, the Railway Detective, and finding the killer becomes urgent when Colbeck learns that another railway worker has been abducted.

Selected by the late AA Gill himself, these recent pieces show one of the finest journalists of our time at his most perceptive, brilliant and funny. He tackles life-drawing, designs his own tweed, spends a day at Donald Trump’s university, and contemplates his cancer diagnosis. Above all, he addresses that most urgent of contemporary issues, the refugee crisis, reporting from Lampedusa, Lebanon and Calais with anger and compassion.

Jill Line explores the relationship between the Christian-Platonism of the 15th-century Florentine philosopher Marsilio Ficino and Shakespeare’s work, particularly the comedies, tragedies and sonnets.

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Beer, brewing and pub culture is celebrated in this compendium of literary extracts, articles and verse. The taste of beer, how it is brewed, the places where it is drunk, even philosophical thoughts on the meaning of beer from AE Houseman and Inspector Morse, are all explored in selections from authors ranging from Dickens, Joyce and Orwell to the best of today’s journalists and beer bloggers.

The second stage in Dante's journey to redemption, Purgatory is presented here in a verse translation by JG Nichols, with English and the original Italian on facing pages, notes and a concise introduction to each canto.

From ‘A Medieval Schoolboy’s Complaint’ to Gillian Clarke’s ‘Catrin’, this collection of poems celebrates children, childhood and being a parent. The poems are arranged by ages, from infancy to schooldays – not forgetting childhood ailments in Robert Louis Stevenson's ‘Land of Counterpane’.

Jane Austen's first novel tells the story of Mrs Dashwood and her two daughters, one full of good sense, the other prone to romantic notions. This photographic facsimile of the first editions (1811) is bound as a single volume. Slipcased.

In this volume from the Faber and Faber Poet-to-Poet series, Stephen Romer introduces his choice of poems by Robert Herrick (1591–1674). Most of the selections are from the Cavalier poet’s Hesperides (1648) with its wine, women and song, but there are some works from Noble Numbers, Herrick’s ‘pious pieces’.

Although best remembered today as the author of the Gormenghast trilogy, Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) was also a brilliant and prolific illustrator. This collection of nursery rhymes, first published in 1940, brings his dark magic to such perennial favourites as 'Rub-a-Dub-Dub', 'Sing a Song of Sixpence' and 'Little Jack Horner'.

Part of the Classical Literature and Society series, this study focuses on the role of the poet in the emerging Christian world of the fourth to sixth centuries CE and argues against the traditional view of a 'simple binary opposition' between pagans and Christians. Instead, Shorrock presents the Christian world of late antiquity as imbued with the Classical past, and demonstrates the complex ways in which Classical culture was embraced, integrated, rejected or ignored by poets of the period.

Dante's great poem, the first book written in Italian, begins with his descent through nine circles of Hell to the lake of ice where Lucifer is trapped for all eternity. In this edition of Longfellow's verse translation, the Inferno's 34 cantos are each preceded by a brief introduction and illustrated with a selection of artists' representations of the Last Judgement, the landscape of Hell and scenes from Dante's infernal voyage of self-discovery.

As well as the complete Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (with John Tenniel's original illustrations) and The Hunting of the Snark, this edition contains the whole bewildering range of Carroll's verses, puzzles, 'phantasmagoria' and stories, plus a miscellany of letters and prose pieces on topics that include women students, vivisection and dining room etiquette.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) felt that his vocation was poetry, despite the enduring popularity of stories such as The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart and The Murders in the Rue Morgue. In addition to those tales, this collection features five more stories, poems such as The Raven and a biography of Poe. Read by Kerry Shale, William Roberts and John Chancer. Unabridged.

Having fled to Virginia following the outbreak of the Civil War, John Tradescant the Younger, once gardener to Charles I, learns much from the native people. Then the arrival of the colonial settlers changes everything.

When a 14-year-old girl is the alleged victim of an act of violence, the simmering racial tensions of a New Jersey town erupt. This masterly novel interweaves the voices of the townspeople to reveal the fault-lines of a troubled society.

A teenager returns home to find the house covered in blood and her mother gone. For DS Maeve Kerrigan it is an investigation of what seems to be a gory murder, but without a victim and in a London street where no one wants to talk.

Two boys embark on a canoe voyage, but only one returns; a dead soldier leaves his comrade a dog; and a graffiti artist paints a puzzling message… Pulitzer-listed Urrea’s short stories reveal his empathy, insight and mastery of the form.

When pathologist Kay Scarpetta examines an injured patient in a New York asylum, he tells her his wounds were inflicted during a murder he did not commit. Is he criminally insane, or is there a killer on the loose?

E Nesbit wrote over 40 books for children, and this sequel to The Treasure Seekers sees the troublesome Bastable children vowing to mend their ways through the Society of the Wouldbegoods. Being good, however, proves harder than they think. Age 8+

Set in Peru, Llosa’s novel tells the stories of two men whose lives are destined to intersect: one is a small-town businessman who is being blackmailed, the other a successful company owner in Lima with two sons who want him dead. Translated by Edith Grossman.

This hard-hitting story of Brian Clough's troubled time as manager of Leeds United was criticised for its portrayal of Ol' Big Head but nevertheless added to his legend and garnered acclaim as one of the best sports novels ever written. Abridged.

Raised by his wealthy New York grandmother, Che sets out to find his radical activist parents – a quest that will turn him into an outlaw and lead him to a hippy commune in the Queensland rainforest. Abridged.

Katherine is a teenage girl who is trying to escape a tragedy in her past. When she arrives in town to start a new life at a different school, she is befriended by Alice, a beautiful, gregarious girl whose own dark secrets are gradually revealed. Age 12+

Recorded in February 1980, in the garage of Larkin’s friend John Weeks, the two Sunday Sessions tapes contain 26 poems from four collections: The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows. The tapes were found in the garage in 2006 and are released on a vinyl LP recording, as befits Larkin’s love of records.

In Kate Saunders’ award-winning sequel to E Nesbit’s Five Children and It, the First World War is breaking out and, while Anthea is at Art School, Cyril is heading off to war. With the original protagonists all grown up, the action falls to their younger siblings, Lamb and Edie. When the Psammead – an ancient, magical sand fairy – appears for the first time in ten years, their adventures really begin. Age 9+

Having inherited an East End crime network, the teenager Kitty Peck finds her empire under threat in this third instalment of a series set in the grimy streets and underground haunts of Victorian London.

This is Seamus Heaney’s last completed work, an inspired translation of the sixth book of Virgil’s Aeneid in which Aeneas travels through death’s dark door, into the underworld to meet the spirit of his father. The poem is read here by Ian McKellen.

From Leitch Richie’s The Man-Wolf (1831) to Running Wolf (1920) by Algernon Blackwood, this collection of twelve short stories and two poems shows the great literary versatility of the werewolf, with celebrated authors including WB Yeats, Kipling and Saki unable to resist the lure of the lycanthrope.

The female prophets known as sibyls were renowned across the Greco-Roman world and their pronouncements were considered a source of authoritative wisdom. Guillermo focuses on the stories that were told about four prominent sibyls, at Erythrae, Cumae, Delphi and Tibur. He also reflects on the wider cultural associations between women and prophecy and asks how the ancient pagan tradition was later fused with Christianity so successfully that sibyls feature in Michelangelo’s decoration of the Sistine Chapel.

The financial investigator Jason Stafford is hired to trace missing millions by the family of William Von Becker, whose investment bank has been revealed as a scam. Von Becker committed suicide in prison while awaiting trial; now any inquiry into his affairs courts danger.

A real-life tragedy on stage ended the run of When the Curtain Falls at the Southern Cross Theatre. Sixty-six years later, a new production of the play is to open, but the ghosts of that earlier night still haunt the Southern Cross.

In 16th-century Venice, taking the city’s secret technology of making mirrors off the island is punishable by death; but one man has a plan and, in other incarnations of Venice, Venice Beach California, 1953 and the Venetian casino in Las Vegas, 2003, other thieves have similar plans for stealing secrets.

In this detailed analysis of the Hebrew Scriptures’ most sensual text, Gillow Reynolds offers a fresh interpretation, reading the Song of Songs not as a symbolic expression of longing for God but as representing the human embodiment of divine love and wisdom.

While Precious Ramotswe toys with entering local politics, the latest case for the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – involving a ruthless property developer’s plans for a ‘Big Fun Hotel’ – falls to the Agency’s mechanic. When danger looms over his investigation, Precious abandons politics to rescue Charlie.

The good son, 25-year-old student Yu-jin, wakes one morning to find himself covered in blood, a dead body downstairs and his memory of the night before a blank. This is an unnerving psychological thriller by You-jeong Jeong, South Korea’s leading crime writer.

Following a particularly gruelling assignment, Liz Carlyle is posted to MI5’s counter-intelligence desk, but any calm is short-lived: she is soon engaged in the hunt for a Russian spy who threatens to plunge Britain back into a Cold War.

Beginning with ‘The Call of the Cthulhu’, the first story of the Cthulhu Mythos, and demonstrating the highly original combination of the supernatural, horror and science fiction that was to influence generations of fantasy writers, this collection of 20 short stories by HP Lovecraft (1890–1937) presents his best-known tales, including ‘The Dunwich Horror’, ‘The Rats in the Walls’ and the novella set in the wastes of Antarctica, ‘At the Mountains of Madness’.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle considered his first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, to be ‘as good as I could make it, and I had high hopes’: later, his hopes fulfilled, he wished Sherlock dead, but the public refused to let the great detective die. This volume presents 44 of the best Holmes mysteries, including The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear. Slightly off-mint.

Beginning with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, this collection of twenty 19th-century ‘sensation stories’ includes some of the most famous Gothic, supernatural or grisly tales, among them Edgar Allen Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum and James Malcolm Rymer’s The String of Pearls; or, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Off-mint.

First published in 1876, Mark Twain’s classic recounts the adventures along the Mississippi River of the orphaned Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn. Despite its lively humour, the novel contains darker episodes of social satire.

‘Just when you think you’ve seen everything, you get a crucifixion in an abandoned church.’ DI Charlie George and his team set about finding the killer who has crucified a priest and stoned to death a policeman before anyone else dies a martyr’s death.

This collection of darkly comic stories gives a feminist twist to fairy tales such as ‘Cinderella’, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘The Little Mermaid’, and the children’s classic The Velveteen Rabbit.

Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect, hitchhiking around the galaxy after the demise of Earth, are in trouble: the Improbability Drive fails in their host’s ship, Arthur has jammed the computer by asking it for a cup of tea and the restaurant is 576,000 million miles away. Part two of the five-part Hitchhiker trilogy.

Bram Stoker’s famous vampire story follows the adventures of Jonathan Harker, whose meeting with Count Dracula in Transylvania leads to carnage in England, as Jonathan's fiancée and her friend Lucy are pursued by the terrifying creature.

This final complete novel by Fitzgerald is set in the 1920s and explores the world of moneyed Americans who took refuge from a rapidly changing America in an ex-pat enclave on the French Riviera.

In this second book of May’s Lewis trilogy, set in the rugged islands of the Outer Hebrides, the retired detective inspector Fin Macleod is once more involved in solving crime when a mummified body of a man is discovered in a peat bog on the Isle of Lewis. Slightly off-mint.

The grotesquely burned corpse found in a Beijing park is the first case for detective Li Yan and the forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell. A day-trip to Shenzhen in 1983 fired Peter May’s interest in China. His ambition was to write the first crime thriller set in Beijing, and after years of research and travel, The Firemaker was published in 1999. Felt-tip mark on upper trimmed edge.

The hunter becomes the hunted as perpetrators of an old murder set out to destroy Enzo Macleod and his family; but Macleod, diagnosed with leukaemia, is running out of time to solve the ‘cold’ case before the killers strike. Slightly off-mint and felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge.

In this many-layered mystery, George Gunn investigates a murder at a remote lighthouse in the north Atlantic; mystery surrounds the suicide of a scientist two years previously; and a man is washed ashore on Harris with no memory, just a map of the island and Coffin Road.