In his debut novel Darkness in the City of Light, Tony Curtis transports us to the ‘city of light’ in the warped times of the German occupation. On the streets of Paris, a mass murderer is at work. Marcel Petiot: who is he, why is he killing? Perhaps even he himself does not know. Available now.

In her new collection We Have to Leave the Earth, Carolyn Jess-Cooke deftly interweaves the personal and the political. Climate change is confronted in a sequence about the Arctic; poems that are vividly descriptive of an extreme landscape, sensitive to the effects of global warming. A second sequence, ‘The House of Rest’, is a history in 9 poems of Josephine Butler, (1828-1906) a pioneering feminist activist. There are also tender poems about family and mental health. Available now.