Lines and Shadows1960. The height of the Cold War. Maths prodigy Ginny Matlock is appointed to be the first woman computer at a secretive nuclear testing facility off the East Anglian coast. She quickly finds, in this landscape of endless skies and shifting shorelines, that nothing is what it seems. What is the terrible secret of Briar Cottage? What dark tale haunts the local pub? And who is the mysterious Artist with whom Ginnys fate becomes entangled? As the Berlin

He is searching for the perfect zero

“Megacities are the super-novas of human social evolution

Permafrost’s no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover and a wickedly funny observer of modern life

where myths are carved into remote caves and a mountain hides behind a 'froufrou of gas'

Li’s honest talent and hard graft earn him power in provincial politics

and the power of poetry as a witness to our troubled times

stories and mundanity

which he taped to his wrists

one full of words that are profound

The sequence is told from the imagined perspective of Blodeuedd’s maid

beautiful and spiky

class and politics