The GhostBritain's former prime minister is holed up in a remote, ocean front house in America, struggling to finish his memoirs, when his long term assistant drowns. A professional ghostwriter is sent out to rescue the project a man more used to working with fading rock stars and minor celebrities than ex world leaders. The ghost soon discovers that his distinguished new client has secrets in his past that are returning to haunt him secrets with the power to

a novel that combines the tension of a psychological thriller with the emotional intensity of a literary tour de force

of criminal gangs and crooked landlords

rumours have circulated about a connection with some secret defence project

cry and smile

Her mother has stopped work to devote herself full-time to her daughter's care

an occasion which both recognise as the final opportunity for effecting some form of reconciliation

disturbed history

a young man called Peter waits for his beloved brother to return home

If the writer cannot - or will not - meet the tyrant's deadline

he is tasked with investigating the death of King Henry VI in the Tower of London

staffed by a group of sexually and intellectually high-powered girls and equipped with devices ranging from an Iron Maiden to psychedelic truth-drugs thats the set-up operated by the enigmatic Monsieur Datt

We spot the werewolves as we skim the treetops