Fiction

In a winding pursuit through the magic and mystery of returning to a lost homeland, Hard by a Great Forest is a rare, searching tale of home, memory and sacrifice of one family s mission to rescue one another, and put the past to rest.

The gripping sequel to Antonin Varenne's historical epic, Retribution Road

Set against the backdrop of the real-life arsenic wallpaper controversy of the late 19th century, The Company is a dark and haunting slice of gothic Victoriana, following one woman's fight to preserve all that she holds dear.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018 When two Parisian women are murdered in their homes, the police suspect young accordionist Clement Vauquer.

In spite of all this his colleagues are forced to admit that he is a born cop.When strange blue chalk circles start appearing overnight on the pavements of Paris, only Adamsberg takes them - and the increasingly bizarre objects found within them - seriously.

A woman is found dead in her bath. The murder has been disguised as a suicide and a strange symbol is discovered at the scene. Then the symbol is observed near a second victim, who ten years earlier had also taken part in a doomed expedition to Iceland. How are these deaths, and rumours of an Icelandic demon, linked to a secretive local society?

It is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in London's Pentonville Prison. Dublin lies in ruins after the disastrous Easter Rising led by his comrades of the Irish Volunteers. He has been caught after landing from a German submarine.

Following her own brilliant short story collection Multitudes, Lucy Caldwell guest edits the sixth volume of Faber's long running series of new Irish short stories, continuing the great work started by the late David Marcus and subsequent guest editors Kevin Barry, Deirdre Madden and Joseph O'Connor.

Batman must finally confront the evil that he is responsible for creating as well as the personal demons that have haunted him since that fateful day in Gotham City s Crime Alley. It was then that the seeds of the Batman persona were planted in the mind of young Bruce Wayne. Can he defeat this menace and end the evil he s spawned or will he be forced to abandon his crime-fighting career forever?

"Originally published in single magazine form in BATMAN 509, 510, 512-514, BATMAN: SHADOW OF THE BAT 29, 30, 32-34, DETECTIVE COMICS 676, 677, 679-681, BATMAN: LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT 62, 63, ROBIN 8, 9, 11-13, CATWOMAN 12, 13."

Collecting the hard-hitting crime tales starring the Dark Knight from the late 1980s in Batman: The Dark Knight Detective Vol. 3.