Told from the point of view of 9-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, 'The Fishermen' is the Cain and Abel-esque story of an unforgettable childhood in 1990s Nigeria. When their father has to travel to a distant city for work, the brothers take advantage of his extended absence to skip school and go fishing. At the forbidden nearby river they encounter a madman, who predicts that one of the brothers will kill another. What happens next...

On his 100th birthday Allan Karlsson makes his escape from the old people's home and embarks on an unlikely and momentous adventure.

It starts with just one body - tortured, mummified and then discarded. Its discovery reveals a nightmare world of hidden lives. Of lost identities, secret rituals and brutal exploitation, where nobody can be trusted. This is the darkest, most complex case the police have ever seen. This is the world of the crow girl.

For almost a decade Rachel Caine has turned her back on home, kept distant by family disputes and her work monitoring wolves on an Idaho reservation. But now, summoned by the eccentric Earl of Annerdale and his controversial scheme to reintroduce the grey wolf to the English countryside, she is back in the peat and wet light of the Lake District. The earl's project harks back to an ancient idyll of untamed British wilderness - though Rachel must contend...

In the early 1950s, a boy boards a huge liner bound for England. Placed at the lowly Cat's Table for mealtimes, the youngster encounters an eccentric group of grown-ups and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the ocean, the boys tumble from one adventure and delicious discovery to another.

Inspired by Jane Eyre, Wild Sargasso Sea is Jean Rhys's powerful and compassionate story of Antoinette Cosway who is haunted by her brother's death and the madness of her mother and who is trapped in an unstable marriage.