Too Much of WaterEastwold, 1670, and local legend tells how on a still night, if you stand on the beach there, you can still hear the bells of the drowned church of St James tolling mournfully beneath the waves Eastwold, once one of the greatest ports in England, has been fighting a losing battle with the sea ever since it was granted its charter by King John. Bit by bit the waves have eaten the soft cliffs on which it stands, until only a handful of houses remain.

and the calendar is overbooked with corpses when death is in season

Cooper knows he

For fresh leaves are falling

having been sent to ingratiate himself with a distinguished novelist

'Wondrous and magical' Kevin Hearne

The birds provide Manda with an escape from her loneliness

From the slums of Guatemala to the marbled corridors of Washington

A quest for a mystical chess service that once belonged to Charlemagne

His investigations lead him to the murky

like Aristotle

She controls your life

You think you wont ever miss