The murder of a well-connected Portuguese businessman leads Chief Inspector Henrique Monroe of the Lisbon Police Department deep into a world of political corruption and violence, and triggers traumatic memories of the policeman’s own childhood in America.

In Jo Walton’s alternative history, Britain and Nazi Germany signed the Farthing Treaty in 1941. Now, it is 1960 and a summit meeting in London offers an unlikely pair – the commander of Britain’s infamous secret police and a debutante – a chance to end Fascist rule. Book three of the Small Change trilogy.

Inspired by the Suffolk countryside, Midwinter follows a widower and his son who work a farm handed down through generations, and who never confront the loss of a wife and mother until a punishing winter breaks their silence.

Lynn Shepherd’s ingenious novel tells the story of a young detective who, in 1850, is hired by the only surviving son of Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley to investigate a case of blackmail that develops into something far more disturbing.