Vintage Classics WEIRD GIRLS: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of women’s weird fiction.
When Elspeth Noblin dies she leaves her beautiful flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina Poole, on the condition that their mother is never allowed to cross the threshold. But until the solicitor's letter falls through the door of their suburban American home, either Julia nor Valentina knew their aunt existed.
The twins hope that in London their own, separate, lives can finally begin but they have no idea that they've been summoned into a tangle of fraying lives, from the obsessive-compulsive crossword setter who lives above them to their aunt's mysterious and elusive lover who lives below them and works in the cemetery itself.
As the twins unravel the secrets of their aunt, who doesn't seem quite ready to leave her flat, even after death, Niffenegger weaves together a delicious and deadly ghost story about love, loss and identity.
'A ghostly love story and a lovely ghost story' - Tatler
The Vintage Classics WEIRD GIRLS series ventures into the dark heart of the uncanny with disturbing, and disturbed, protagonists who dare to defy the norm. Bold, disruptive, chilling and enchanting, these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in.
With an introduction by Jeffery Renard Allen It's the early 1950s. Ilka Weissnix, a newly arrived Jewish-Austrian refugee, boards a train from New York hoping to find a 'real American'. In a railroad bar she meets Carter Bayoux, an urbane Black American intellectual. Although twice her age and in the grip of alcoholism, his amused, compassionate worldliness enthrals her. She finds - 'with his first, slightest touch, under her elbow' - that she has fallen in love. Lore Segal described Her First American as 'her favourite child', a reckoning and rendering with her own experiences in the 1950s. Her astonishingly vivid portrait of the charismatic Carter Bayoux, the glimpses he offers of New York's Black cultural life and the loneliness of addiction, are drawn with nuance, wit and truth. Segal illuminates from an outsider's perspective both the deep wounds of racism and a bright moment of Black American and Jewish solidarity. Lees meer
The Lancashire town of Burnley is a typical British melting pot. Where drugs, violence and human trafficking rub shoulders with grand houses and rolling moors... and now two people have been found dead - are they suicides or is there something darker lurking in this community?
DI Jane Hacker grew up in Burnley but fled to London after the death of her teenage brother. Now, she's back caring for her sick mother and heading up a crime unit that doesn't trust her instincts.
It's time Jane finally faces up to the truth of the town's past and present to track down a sadistic killer, before it is too late.
A book about feelings rarely talked about in everyday life. This book explores those emotions through sixteen short stories, each one painting a scene while leaving the details to your imagination. Lees meer
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFeaturing paperback exclusive bonus content THIS IS ONE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT YOU DON’T WANT TO MESS WITH'Juno Dawson is at the top of her game in this vibrant and meticulous take on witchcraft. Her characteristic wit and grit shine through'Samantha ShannonHidden among us is a secret coven of witches.Know has Her Majesty’s Royal Coven,they protect crown and country from magical forces and otherworldly evil.But their greatest enemy will come from within…There are whisperings of a prophecy that will bring the coven to its knees, and four best friends are about to be caught at the centre.Life as a modern witch was never simple … but now it’s about to get apocalyptic. Lees meer
Sisterhood bonds and courage are tested in the new standalone story set before the events of the New York Times bestselling Six Crimson Cranes. Lees meer