The Phoenix Pencil CompanyIn this dazzling debut novel of love and secret histories, a young woman unearths the story of a lost Shanghai pencil company and a hidden family ability which will alter the path of her life forever. Wildly inventive Allison King is a talent to watch LIZ MOORE, author of The God of the Woods Monica Tsai spends most days on her computer coding for a program that seeks to connect strangers online. A self confessed recluse, she finds herself escaping

amid the mobs screaming for Hitler

These stories are pieced together from original research using coroners inquests

and an investigator with some personal scores to settle

Things start to happen when Lucas arrives on the island

Simon Heap has taken on Merrin Meredith

compelling and always deeply humane' MARK BILLINGHAM

A thousand times yes' Patrick Rothfuss

Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider

a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York

he kills two respectable customs officers and an accountant

Detective Inspector John Handford is assigned the case

and to laugh