Jake Arnott

Hypnotic, feverish and altogether wonderful (Guardian) - Jake Arnotts acclaimed successor to the bestselling LONG FIRM trilogyIts 1972 and as the dreams of the sixties give way to anger and political unrest, the charismatic anarchist Declan OConnell commits suicide, leaving his boyfriend Pearson and fellow squatter Nina to try to make sense of what has happened. Enter Sweet Thing, a streetwise rent boy, who has an uncanny hold over glam rock star Johnny Chrome; and in the wings lurks Detective Sergeant Walker of the newly formed Bomb Squad, who knows more about OConnell than anyone ever suspected. The course of all their lives is about to change forever - for better and for worse. In this taut, powerful novel, Jake Arnott portrays four people searching for a sense of identity, their emotional and sexual turmoil mirrored by the turbulence of the times. Bringing that era vividly to life, he captures the mood of Britain at a turning point in history.

Robert Jones is a crew leader in a naval shipyard in Los Angeles in the 1940s. He should have a lot going for him, being educated, with a steady job and a steady relationship. But in the four days covered in this novel, the impossibility of life as a black man in a white world is made devastatingly clear.Jones is surrounded by prejudice, suspicion and paranoia, and his daily experiences influence his thoughts, dreams and behaviour. Immediately recognised as a masterful expose of racism in everyday life, If He Hollers Let Him Go is Chester Himes first book, originally published in 1945.

Londres en los años 60. Música pop, drogas, crimen y libertad sexual. Este es el escenario de la vida de Harry Stark, gángster maniaco depresivo, amante del buen comer, de los trajes hechos a medida y de un buen numero de jovencitos serviles. Nadie que conozca a Stark se puede mantener indiferente al aura de violencia contenida que parece impregnar todo lo que hace. No pudo, al menos, ninguno de los cinco personajes que desgranaran su vida. Esta novela es la primera parte de una aclamada trilogia, que se completa con Canciones de sangre y Crimenes de pelicula.

A work of dazzling imagination and linguistic inventiveness ObserverNewgate Gaol, 1726. An anonymous writer sets down the words of Edgworth Bess as she confides the adventures and misfortunes that led her all too soon to the judgement of London:Cruelly deceived, Bess is cast out onto the streets of the wicked city - and by nightfall her ruin is already certain. What matters now is her survival of it.In that dangerous underworld known in thieves cant as Romeville, she will learn new tricks and trades. And all begins with her fateful meeting, that very first night, with the corrupt thief-taker general Jonathan Wild.But it is the infamous gaol-breaker, Jack Sheppard, who will lay Romeville at her feet . . . Drawing on the true story that mesmerised eighteenth-century society, the acclaimed author of The Long Firm delivers a tour de force: a riveting, artful tale of crime and rough justice, love and betrayal. Rich in the street slang of the era, it vividly conjures up a murky world of illicit dens and molly-houses; a world where life was lived on the edge, in the shadow of that fatal tree - the gallows.

Larry Zagorski spins wild tales of fantasy worlds for pulp magazines. But as the Second World War hangs in the balance, the lines between imagination and reality are starting to blur. In London, spymasters enlist occultists in the war of propaganda. In Southern California, a charismatic rocket scientist summons dark forces and an SF writer founds a new religion. In Munich, Nazis consult astrologists as they plot peace with the West and dominion over the East. And a conspiracy is born that will ripple through the decades to come. The truth, it seems, is stranger than anything Larry could invent. But when he looks back on the 20th century, the past is as uncertain as the future. Just where does truth end and illusion begin? THE HOUSE OF RUMOUR is a novel of soaring ambition, a mind-expanding journey through the ideas that have put man on the moon yet brought us to the brink of self-destruction. What will you believe?

A consummate performance...virtuosoGuardianA fascinating, unusual and seductive historical novel by the bestselling author of The Long Firm.In a Parisian restaurant, Aleister Crowley, the notorious occultist, chances on Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald: once one of the greatest heroes of the British Empire, now facing ruin in a shocking scandal - and vulnerable to Crowleys curious offer of help. An extraordinary night of transgression and revelation ensues . . . Probing beneath the surface of Victorian conformity, this is an enthralling tale of imperialism, sexuality and the nature of belief, which captures a world on the brink of a brutal new era.

A mind-bending, thrilling journey into 20th-century history and outer space - a brightly coloured portrait of our times that is alternatively intimate and epic . . . brilliant (Independent on Sunday).

The cult bestseller that launched Jake Arnott as one of the most exciting new voices of the decade - A gangster novel every bit as cool, stylish and venomous as the London in which its set (Independe

Its thirty years since Harry Starks and his gang kept the underworld of Soho under control but the consequences of their brutal reign are still being felt. Julie McCluskey, the actress daughter of one of Starks victims, has grown up without a father and now that shes discovered it was money from her fathers murderers that put her through drama school, shes furious. Furious with her mother for accepting it, but even more furious with Harry Starks - and shes decided she wants revenge. Tony Meehan, journalist and part-time murderer (Ive only killed three) has added another occupation to his list: hes ghostwriting the autobiography of one of the Bullion Job (Brinks Mat) gang, a robbery in which Starks was also involved, and the golds still missing. And then theres Gaz, who worked for Starks rival Beardsley in the 80s and is now running bouncers, taking too many drugs, and playing a very dangerous game. Moving his focus on to the greedy 80s and the rave scene of the 90s, Arnott delivers another hard-edged, riveting, brilliant novel that will delight his many admirers and win him more.

August 1966, the long hot summer of World Cup euphoria is suddenly shattered by a brutal crime that shocks a nation seemingly at ease with itself. Three characters fates are irrevocably bound up with this event and consequences that reverberate across three decades. An ambitious detective dragged into intrigues of corruption. A gutter press journalist with a nose for a nasty story. And a disaffected petty criminal pushed over the edge by a violent crime that haunts him. An epic story that looks at morality and corruption on both sides of the law and at the very heart of the state.

A fascinating, unusual and seductive historical novel by the bestselling author of The Long Firm.

It''s 1995, and crime is the new cool. Actress Julie wants none of it as she comes to terms with her hidden criminal roots. But her public-school boyfriend is going all mockney and writing the script of his ''classic British gangster movie''. Meanwhile, ''Geezer'' Gaz, wannabe villain, is losing control as he preys on the Essex rave scene. And 60s gang boss Harry Starks is back to haunt them all... New lads meet old lags, celebrity villains mix with media types and Cool Britannia is stripped bare in Jake Arnott''s devilishly wicked new novel. Welcome to Cruel Britannia.

It''s 1972 and as the dreams of the sixties give way to anger and political unrest, the charismatic anarchist Declan O''Connell commits suicide, leaving his boyfriend Pearson and fellow squatter Nina to try to make sense of what has happened. Enter Sweet Thing, a streetwise rent boy, who has an uncanny hold over glam rock star Johnny Chrome; and in the wings lurks Detective Sergeant Walker of the newly formed Bomb Squad, who knows more about O''Connell than anyone ever suspected. The course of all their lives is about to change forever for better and for worse. In this taut, powerful novel, Jake Arnott portrays four people searching for a sense of identity, their emotional and sexual turmoil mirrored by the turbulence of the times. Bringing that era vividly to life, he captures the mood of Britain at a turning point in history.

Whenever Jake Arnotts got a new book out, I drop everything knowing that the next couple of hours are going to be pure gangland bliss. DAVID BOWIERanging from the Swinging Sixties to the Raving Nineties and with a cast that includes Machiavellian gangsters, politicians, bent coppers, actresses and gutter journalists, Jake Arnotts classic trilogy is at once sharply funny, relentlessly compelling, and frighteningly real.THE LONG FIRM is the cult bestseller that launched Jake Arnott as one of the most exciting new voices of the decade: A gangster novel every bit as cool, stylish and venomous as the London in which its set (Independent on Sunday)HE KILLS COPPERS is a mesmerizing, brilliant (New York Times Book Review) literary thriller that delves into corruption on both sides of the law and at the heart of the state.TRUECRIME is a blistering take on Cool Britannia and Londons underbelly in the 1990s, and the most expansive, ironical and funny novel of the series (Daily Telegraph)

The TARDIS is diverted to England in 1572, and the Sixth Doctor and Peri meet John Dee mathematician, astrologer, alchemist, magician, and the greatest mind of our time. (Only of your time?, the Doctor asks, unimpressed.) But what brought them here? When the Doctor discovers that Dee and his assistant have come across a great disturbance in the cosmos, in the constellation of Cassiopeia, he realizes that they are all in terrible danger.

A sensuous, vivid and unsettling modern gothic tale about a couple who move to the seaside town of Hastings and find themselves living in the former home of a notorious local occultist over whom the shadow of former town resident Aleister Crowley looms large. Ideal for fans of Andrew Michael Hurley or Francine Toon.Exhausted by the pressures of life in London, Justine and Adam move to Hastings. With Adams failed career as an artist and a recent miscarriage causing rifts in their marriage, Justine wants this to be a fresh start for them. As they try to settle into their new seaside home, they find a bolted door in their basement, behind which is a cave. Adam feels a strange but enchanting pull to the cave while apprehension begins to claw at Justine.Inside the cave, they find a witch bottle and with this discovery, the couple begin to uncover disturbing rumours about the homes previous owner, John Malachy. A sinister figure, Malachy was known for his obsession with chaos magic, and association with Sacred Disease - a band that rose to fame in the 80s that supposedly experimented with blood magic and occult forces and was made a scapegoat in the media due to their association with satanism. Justine and Adam seek answers from James Blackwood, a local occultist and former member of Sacred Disease. He warns them to leave things be and not to tamper with ancient rituals, dark magic and secrets long buried in the past. But John Malachy is long dead and surely everything the media said about him was only superstition?Despite Blackwoods warning, Adam cant resist opening the witch bottle. With this, a sinister chain of events begins to unfold. Justine notices that Adams behaviour changes and the obsession he once had with his art is reignited but begins to veer into something unnatural. Justine herself wakes night after night, haunted by the screams of a young woman that seem to come from the cave beneath the house.When Justine once again finds herself pregnant, and people in the town begin to turn up dead or missing, the lines between truth, reality and the mystical all begin to blur. The ghosts of John Malachy and the one and only Aleister Crowley himself loom large and a dark sacrificial reckoning closes in on both Justine and Adam.