Word Monkey - SIGNED BOOKPLATEThis is the memoir Christopher Fowler always wanted to write about 'writing'. It's the story of how a young bookworm growing up in a house where there was nothing to read but knitting pamphlets and motorcycle manuals became a writer a 'word monkey' and pursued a sort of career in popular fiction. It's a book full of brilliant insights and sharp observations about the highs and lows and pitfalls and pleasures of his profession and about his favourite

painfully real

deceit and murder they find themselves in is a million miles away from the certainties of the battlefield and somehow they must discover who they can trust in the cat-and-mouse world of counter-espionage

A world where everyone has something to hide after decades of civil war

It reminded me of Chris Brookmyre

Dante meets the beautiful Nora

Lady MacBethad is the origin story of the woman who inspired one of Shakespeare's most iconic characters

water cooler confrontations and dangerous amounts of abject boredom - each of them is forced to question what they've witnessed

She knew she would be lonely

A Nassim Pride thriller

where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded

'An absolute bear-hug of a book

and unlikely