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The Elephant Keepers' Children is just silly enough to be clever and just mad enough to make perfect sense.

Manil Suri's new novel, The City of Devi, is a weird postmodern dystopia, a thriller and a love story.

In Calcutta in 1916, after the deaths of both their parents in bizarre circumstances, two babies are separated at birth.

Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress.

The isolated All Hallows church holds great terrors for Cora and Mimi and their new friends. Here the ghosts of children slain by Long Lankin appear. And now he's coming for Mimi...

Jinn loses her job and takes to the streets, leaving little sister Ruby desperately alone. Then Jinn disappears. A compelling read about life on the gritty side of the street.

Saadi's collection covers everything from Glaswegian Asian gangsta stories to themes drawn from various trans-Mediterranean cultures

Sixteen bite-sized tales around the theme of the perfect crime.

Luce has been falsely implicated in the mysterious death of a school friend, and much to her despair, has been sent to reform school. But one student, Daniel, seems curiously familiar.

Charlie Grey has gone missing in Tokyo, but her parents and the police aren't doing anything. Her brother Adam decides there's only one option: to go there himself.

The combination of an Ancient Greek setting, together with a leading character who is a vain and cowardly talking pig, makes for an unusual tale.

Sinister occultist Austerly Fellowes died in 1936. Didn't he? A truly disturbing supernatural thriller which may well keep readers awake at night.

Vanessa Adler may be a gifted dancer, but she has another reason for wanting to join the prestigious New York Ballet Academy - to find out what happened to her missing sister.

Nin must do what she can to save The Drift from destruction by uncovering the spell which hides the last of the Seven Sorcerers, Simeon Dark. But time and luck may be running out...

Fourteen year old Sam Templeton is having a completely normal day until his teacher disappearsin the middle of a class. But he soon discovers that it isn't only their teacher who is gone - everyone over the age of fifteen has inexplicably disappeared from the small town of Perdido Beach.

Orphan Bryn has grown up among Callum's werewolf pack. Discovering a caged Were revives terrible memories for her and begins a thrilling and potentially deadly chain of events...

The Guard is a superbly written novel, and a great read; part horror, part science fiction, but always original.

Set in the not too distant future this book investigates the restrictions on freedom and individuality that are placed on society by an all-controlling government.

There are murder mysteries and there are murder mysteries, but this is a noir where nothing is black and white

This debut from journalist Mirza Waheed is a powerhouse of a novel. It tells the sorry story of four childhood friends who wile away the days in the idyllic paradise of Kashmir, until the inevitability of politics and war causes three of them to cross the border into Pakistan and join the fight.

Sillitoe's depiction of petty crime and deep-seated anger in industrial and desperate cities remains as potent today as it was almost half a century ago.

As ever, Meg Rosoff writes beautifully, drawing the reader in with slow, languid prose

Sylvie's future as a star ballet dancer is mapped out, but her dreams are shattered when she breaks her leg.

Thomas Wainewright was an artist, poet and writer who exhibited at the Royal Academy and entertained some of the best-known figures of the day at his rooms on Great Marlborough Street.

Dance and Dream now takes us even deeper into the dark world of Jacques Deza as his relationship with his shadowy boss, Bertram Tupra, becomes increasingly disconcerting.

When the bombs begin to fall, runaway Skip camps out in the State Library with homeless old Billy and little Max, waiting for the mother who never comes.

How does a sweet and innocent child grow up to be so bitter and twisted that she is prepared not only to kill those she considers to be enemies but also to blow herself up in the process?

Californian private eye Philip Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colorful underworld figures - is the background to a story reflecting all the tarnished glitter of the great American Dream

An original and fascinating book by a talented new writer, which explores themes of trust, redemption, forgiveness and natural justice in the context of a dark and gripping mystery.

In Seldom Seen, Sarah Ridgard has written a claustrophobic, compelling coming-of-age tale that will reward a patient reader.

Ivo discovers that the victim of a brutal murder was a stranger who had earlier begged him to look after a small and mysterious object for him.

When Simeon is taken in by the Cathedral school, we meet the sinister school Warden – Dr Dee, a real necromancer of the time, and the ghost of his collaborator Edward Kelly.

This is a book about heroism, and it is a strange one. What makes Roy Hobbs potentially a hero is his immense natural gift for playing baseball.

Jake Harker's obsession with all things grisly had begun as a child but did not prepare him for the day he witnessed the gruesome murder of his own mother.

Grace is desperately poor, struggling to evade the workhouse – she has also had an illegitimate child. And the sinister Unwin family are scheming to blight her life again...

This gripping time-travel novel fuses the highs and lows of first love with the elements of a fast-paced thriller

London is in the grip of fear and a series of brutal, bloody murders. As the country cowers and looks for safety, of Messrs. Singleton and Trelawney quietly arrive from Boston to set up their own detective agency.

Katy Rivers has never been super-confident but finally, at college, she is beginning to feel comfortable in her own skin: she has good friends and drop-dead gorgeous Merlin seems besotted with her. Then the enigmatic, cruel and captivating Genevieve arrives on the scene...

Second in a series, this is a gripping, horrifyingly recognisable dystopian vision of a society re-inventing itself but with shaky rules and founded on fast-dwindling resources.

In the first young adult novel from bestselling crime author Harlan Coben, Mickey sets out to investigate the mysterious disappearence of his new girlfriend Ashley.

Wallis Stoneman sets out to look for her birth mother, but soon finds herself in danger in this gritty, fast-paced young adult thriller.

An original and entertaining adventure/thriller which has more than a few nail-biting moments and is the first book in the Demon Trappers series.

Seen through the eyes of Christopher, a mathematical genius and Sherlock Holmes fan, who also has Asperger's syndrome (a form of autism), the novel opens with his discovery of a murdered dog on his neighbour's lawn.

The Nine are sole survivors from the planet Lorien who fled to earth when hostile Mogadarians invaded. They try to live unnoticed, constantly moving, adopting new identities.

Alice’s world has been turned upside down by the unsolved murder of her beautiful older sister, Meggie

In this first book in the His Dark Materials trilogy, the discovery of a terrifying plot takes Lyra from her home in Oxford to the magical beauty of the frozen north.

In this brave and intelligent novel, Anne Cassidy explores a range of themes, questioning everything from the ethics of tabloid journalism to the outcome of ineffectual parenting.

1598, Prague: Lukas is tempted into crime by the petty thieves he meets in the local tavern. He steals a precious watch from the Emperor and puts his own and his uncle’s life at risk.

The new graphic novelist from Hannah Berry (trivia: she is Booktrust's writer in residence) takes her love of dark humour, les bandes dessinées and noir and twists them into a boiler room of a novel

Edward seems to hate Bella, but it turns out that he is in love with her and he is afraid of what he might do to her.