Christopher Wakling

The Georgian terraces are rising.In the aftermath of the abolition of the slave trade, the port of Bristol is awash with the commercial gains of the Empire. But in the midst of all the grand building projects something is rotten at the heart of the city.The first victim is discovered.News of the mutilated body speads quickly. And as further horrifically charred corpses are found, the new streets are gripped with a primal sense of fear. The city fathers decide to step in to suppress the rising panic.An innocent is drawn into the tangled net.A lowly legal clerk with a taste for coffee, Inigo Bright has been charged with investigating customs fees in the great port. Yet this routine investigation will drag him down in a net of violence and deception that puts not only his life but that of those closest to him in deadly danger...

Escape and Evasion reads like a Network for the Bitcoin era. Tony ParsonsCity banker Joseph Ashcroft has stolen 1.34 billion from his own bank. He has given it - untraceably - to impoverished strangers worldwide, and has fled.Why has he done this? And will he get away with it?Joseph knows that if he leaves the country, he will easily be tracked down. So he opts for hiding close by - first in the city, then in the woods near the home of his estranged family. An ex-soldier, hes adept at the art of camouflage.On Josephs trail is Ben Lancaster, the banks head of security and, as it happens, a former army friend with whom he shares a violent, guilt-ridden past.The hunt is on.Escape and Evasion is a tragicomic tale of buried secrets, the lengths a man will go to win back those he loves, and the fallout from a monumental change of heart.

In the vein of Alex Garland''s THE BEACH, BENEATH THE DIAMOND SKY is an absorbing psychological examination of how character fragments under pressure. It is a beautifully written, blackly funny and t

A boy runs across a busy road. His father catches him and smacks him. A passer-by looks on. This is what happens next.

This is family life today at its most believable: warm and messy, bored and raging.I LOVED IT.Emma Donoghue, author of the New York Times bestseller Room What I Did by Christopher Wakling is a truly astonishing novelthe chronicle of a family crisis that is equal parts hilarity, poignancy, and horror, told in the singular voice of a most precocious youngster. Room meets The Slap meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Waklings tour de force concerns one rash act that pitches a six-year-old boy and his hapless parents into the center of a social services maelstrom. What I Did is contemporary fiction at its most enthrallingly originalpoignant, powerful, and extremely funnya miraculous work that prompted Londons Daily Mail to declare it the novel that should have won the Booker prize.

Lewis Penn acaba de caer en la cuenta de que ha traspapelado el expediente de unos importantes clientes ucranianos del prestigioso bufete de abogados londinense al que se ha incorporado hace poco. Por temor a que ese despiste trunque su prometedor futuro como abogado, Lewis comete un error: decide no decir nada. Pero el asunto, en principio sin importancia, se complica cada vez mas, arrastrandolo en un periplo tragicomico que le conduce a una peligrosa trama de corrupcion, que naturalmente le pone tambien en el punto de mira de la temible Interpol... Como los males nunca vienen solos, su vida privada padres, hermano y novia se convierte en una autentica pesadilla.