Blackout

Author: Gianluca Morozzi

Bologna on the 15th August. Unbearable heat, an empty city. Claudia is a young student in a hurry to return to the hospital bedside of her dying grandmother. Tomas, a young punk, on his way to elope with his girlfriend Francesca and rescue her from her abusive father. Aldo is a husband with guilty secrets that must be erased from his apartment before his wife returns. All three have an urgent need to be somewhere else. But then they're trapped in a lift and the jeopardy escalates in this dark, twisting and taught psychological: one of them is a serial killer...

Strange & Stranger

Author: Blake Bell

Steve Ditko is known among the cartooning cognoscenti as one of the supreme visual stylists in the history of comics, as well as the most fiercely independent cartoonist of his generation. His unique style and innovative spatial designs moved from the imaginatively hallucinatory landscapes of Dr Strange to the almost plebeian earthiness of The Amazing Spider-Man. Strange & Stranger is a coffee-table book tracing Ditko's life and career and his unparalleled stylistic innovations with lush displays of obscure and popular art from Ditko's thousands of comics.

Through a Glass Darkly

Author: Nigel Jones

Penetrating biography of a fascinatingly contradictory writer who, despite a privileged background and early and sustained success, became increasingly embittered with the world. Doris Lessing calls him a marvellous novelist, Keith Waterhouse A riveting dissector of English life and Nigel Jones makes excellent use of Hamilton's own letters and notes as well as his own highly perceptive insights. The Literary Review called Through a Glass Darkly One of the most stimulating biographies for years.

Through a Glass, Darkly

Author: Bill Hussey

Modern horror novel that deals with secrets long buried, festering guilt and haunting loneliness. Jack Trent, the most effective CID officer in the history of the department, is having bad dreams. He has seen the murder of a child in a forest at the hands of something indescribable. But these are more than dreams. They are visions of the future that Jack has tried for years to suppress. This is a brilliant novel from an exciting new writer who is steeped in the traditions and themes of the genre.