CrimeCrime is the third annual themed compendium of essays from Five Leaves, following Maps and Utopia. The essays are quirky, intelligent and thought provoking. Subjects in this collection range from true crime stories, personal experiences, historic essays and material on crime fiction. a curious rattle bag of writing The Guardian Jon McGregor 'Coroners' Courts' Jon McGregor won the IMPAC prize for his novel about drug users, Even the Dogs. John Harvey Z

nature and our precarious place in it

the small marvels of finches or ladybugs

thrashed by Earth

They entertain their listeners at the bar

Judith Kazantzis proves herself again to be the constant sister of invention and imagination

Phil Cope takes the reader on a journey of discovery through densely wooded terrain

Abdullah’s Secrets

or celebrate boyhood in the countryside

original depictions of the landscape of Wales

In her first major collection for a decade

But the ‘Silent Holocaust’ of Guatemala was extraordinarily brutal even by the standards of Central America

The Rainbow