Small worldsThe one thing that can solve Stephen's problems is dancing. Dancing at church, with his parents and brother, the shimmer of Black hands raised in praise; he might have lost his faith, but he does believe in rhythm. Dancing with his friends, somewhere in a basement with the drums about to drop, while the DJ spins garage cuts. Dancing with his band, making music which speaks not just to the hardships of their lives, but the joys too. Dancing with his

When Isaac Addy walks into the woods on the worst day of his life and finds something extraordinary there

Anne is a former patient from a women's asylum trying to carve out a new life for herself in a world that doesn't understand her

bouquets of flowers and other presents

just use the seven bright colours on the inkpad attached to the back cover

a couple of lodgers

wage a glorious but hopeless struggle against rapacious coalmasters

this is the first story about the March family

But they have been desperate to escape each other ever since they were born

the triplets are forced to contend with an unexpected complication: a fourth Oppenheimer sibling has just been born

For Louis has come to Europe to hunt them down: five killers to be found and punished before they can vanish into the east

For fans of William McIlvanney's Laidlaw

nurse and childminder sometimes all at once and believed the world would end in 1975