The Last Word and other collected storiesCollected in this volume are 12 stories from the author of "The Power and the Glory", "Brighton Rock" and "The Captain and the Enemy".

An old man with a terrible temper and a pathetic assistant

To his body

on the very edge of England

the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist

is outwardly uneventful

But she also knows that with every second she spends trying to unlock the past

As Lazmet ignites a barbaric war

has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture

this is a unique story of love lost and found

In the weeks leading up to the Battle of Stirling Bridge

Doripalam's wife is facing her own challenges and finds herself entangled with murder and with the fugitive officer

numbered edition of Matt Haig's Sunday Times bestselling novel illustrated throughout by the award-winning Chris Riddell