A mind-blowing adventure into a literary fourth dimension: part noir, part London snapshot, all unsettlingly amazing Hawthorn and his partner, Child, are called to the scene of a mysterious shooting in North London. The only witness is unreliable, the clues are scarce, and the victim, a young man who lives nearby, swears he was shot by a ghost car. While Hawthorn battles with fatigue and strange dreams, the crime and the narrative slip from his grasp and the stories of other Londoners take over: a young pickpocket on the run from his boss; an editor in possession of a disturbing manuscript; a teenage girl who spends her days at the Tate Modern; a pack of wolves; and a madman who has been infected by the former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Haunting these disparate lives is the shadowy figure of Mishazzo, an elusive crime magnate who may be running the city, or may not exist at all.

Ever since Keith Ridgway published his landmark cult novel Hawthorn & Child, his ardent fans have yearned for more Finally, Ridgway gives us A Shock, his thrilling and unsparing, slippery and shockingly good new novel. Formed as a rondel of interlocking stories with a clutch of more or less loosely connected repeating characters, it’s at once deracinated yet potent with place, druggy yet frighteningly shot through with reality. His people appear, disappear, and reappear. They’re on the fringes of London, clinging to sanity or solvency or a story by their fingernails, consumed by emotions and anxieties in fuzzily understood situations. A deft, high-wire act, full of imprecise yet sharp dialog as well as witchy sleights of hand reminiscent of Muriel Spark, A Shock delivers a knockout punch of an ending. Perhaps Ridgway’s most breathtaking quality is his scintillating stealthiness: you can never quite put your finger on how he casts his spell—he delivers the shock of a master jewel thief (already far-off and scot-free) stealing your watch: when at some point you look down at your wrist, all you see is that in more than one way you don’t know what time it is…

During the Great Famine in Ireland in the 1840s, three children are left alone and in danger of being sent to the workhouse, so they set out to find the great-aunts they remember from their mother's stories.

The mystery of conception, pregnancy and birth evoke wonder, even in today's fast paced technical world.�The Incarnating Child�respects that, 'Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.' Joan Salter picks up Wordsworth's theme and follows the soul life of tiny babies into childhood and adolescence.

Michael Hawthorn is the most eligible bachelor in Dover. Every marriage-minded mama hope's her daughter will catch his eye. The future Lord is so rich that the town has dubbed him the Hawthorn Prince. What no one knows is that his family comes with a dark secret. When he meets Alaina Preston after saving her life, Michael is smitten instantly. He cannot wait to see her again. Good thing he is throwing a ball to find himself a bride. Will, he let her into his heart? Or will his secret tear them apart? Read to find out.

A shattered ward. Bloodthirsty undead. Can she conjure an impossible magic before they’re all sent to their doom? Kit Melbourne never imagined raising her baby in a city under siege. After vicious vampires obliterate the protective hex keeping the bloodsuckers at bay, she’s charged with casting an impenetrable barrier. But such a spell has never been cast, and failing could see the fiends send every citizen to their slaughter. Needing time to learn the magic and with her husband away, Kit must rely on a faerie nanny to watch her child. But with the babysitter harboring secrets of her own, trusting her could cost Kit the most precious life of all… Can she save the city and her firstborn before everyone she loves is sucked dry? Hawthorn’s Hex is the sixth book in the spellbinding Kit Melbourne urban fantasy series. If you like kickass heroines, tricky antagonists, and daring powerplays, then you’ll love Kater Cheek’s dark tale. Buy Hawthorn’s Hex to join a high-stakes bid for survival today!