Rick Dockery is an NFL quarterback for America's most famous football team, when he arguably gave his worst performance in his league's history. Overnight he became a laughing stock and unemployable in his own country. But all Rick knows is football and he needs to find a team. Against all odds he gets his break as star quarterback for the Panthers of Parma, Italy. Unlike America with a salary, the Italian players only get paid in free meals. Rick doesn't speak a word of Italian and the crowds there aren't exactly NFL standard, but football americano is about more than fame, and home comes in the most unlikely of packages. What follows is a delightful, heartwarming story of an innocent abroad and Grisham shows a gift for coming up with twists and appealing minor characters. 325pp in paperback reprint of the 2007 original.

Glory never dies. Neely Crenshaw was the best quarterback ever to play for the Messina Spartans, the state's most legendary high school football team. 15 years later with the glory days far behind them, the man everyone remembers is Coach Eddie Rake. Neely is coming home to Messina to bury the dying Coach Rake, and he's not alone. One by one the veterans of the Spartans return to pay tribute to the man who moulded them into an invincible football dynasty, confronting their own broken dreams. As Coach Rake's 'boys' sit in the bleachers waiting for the dimming field lights to signal his passing, they replay the old glories, and try to decide once and for all whether they love Eddie Rake, or hate him. Neely Crenshaw is struggling to come to terms with his explosive relationship with the Coach, his dreams of a great career in the NFL, and the choices he made as a young man, before he can get on with his life, and the stakes are especially high. 'An easy going, but not over-sentimental read, Grisham touches the soul and scores a winning touchdown with his 16th novel.' - Evening Standard. 181pp, paperback reprint of the 2001 original.

The Deadmen are back, but so are the demons who have broken free from their eternal prison, bent on mankind's destruction. The worst of the lot is Vine, determined to claim their lives for taking hers. She will see the world burn and has the perfect lure to destroy them all. One of their own. Kalder Dupree has never known a day of mercy. Born to the cruellest of mer-races, he sacrificed himself for his crew and is in Vine's hands. He expects no mercy or rescue. Yet Cameron Jack is determined to set Kalder free. As a Hellchaser, it's her calling, and she cannot allow even a not-so-innocent to be tortured for an act of kindness that spared her damnation. To defeat evil it sometimes takes an even worse evil, and Cameron is willing to do whatever she must to make this right. If Vine thought she had her hands full before she hasn't seen anything nearly as powerful as Cameron's resolve. No one does sexy, tormented heroes better than this popular fantasy writer and her Deadman's Cross historical fantasy series with a dark edge and dangerous powers. 331pp, paperback.

"A brilliant blending of crime, mystery and American history. Terrific entertainment." - Stephen King. Atlanta 1950. Officer Denny Rakestraw and 'Negro Officers' Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith face the Klan, gangs and family warfare in a rapidly changing Atlanta. Black families including Smith's sister and brother-in-law are moving into Rake's formerly all-white neighbourhood, leading his brother-in-law, a proud Klansman, to launch a scheme to 'save' their streets. When those efforts leave a man dead, Rake is forced to choose between loyalty to family or the law. Meanwhile, Boggs has outraged his preacher father by courting a domestic whose dangerous ex-boyfriend is then released from prison. As Boggs, Smith, and their all-black precinct contend with violent drug dealers fighting for turf in new territory, their personal dramas draw them closer to the fires that threaten to consume Atlanta once again. One city is on the brink of huge and violent change. Three cops who cross colour lines, and a city full of secrets. Sunday Times - "Violent, compassionate and brilliant." 374pp, paperback.

One of the founding members of the Will Self Club (WSC), Sam Mills was recently elevated to the position of Sovereign Grand Quiddity Inspector General, the most powerful position in the Selfian hierarchy. Essentially the book takes elements found in Will Self novels and uses them to satirise the publishing industry and those who market it and those who follow it. Self appears both man and myth and characters fruitlessly try to capture his essence. Ambitious, imaginative, this is for all literary snobs touching on social engineering, madness and dystopia. The ghost of a beautiful young woman Sylvie hovers outside the window of Will Self's study. She is seeking to influence his latest novel before she can rest in peace. She was a member of the WSC, a mysterious cult of charismatic writers who appear to worship Will Self. When Richard, a twenty-something idler and literary wannabe discovers Sylvie's dead body, he gets sucked into their dark world of absinthe, cloaks and bizarre initiation rites, slowly losing his sense of perspective on the strange events that encircle him. What is the true nature of the WSC? What did they do to Sylvie and does Richard now face a similar fate? Ranging from the present day to 2049, a highly original comic novel. 375pp, paperback.

'Political thriller, absurdist farce, globe trotting romance: multiple forms jostle in a beautifully written take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.' - Mail on Sunday. A work of psychological precision and moral force which captures both timeless human truths and the perplexities of the present day, Englander is a wonderfully gifted writer. Prisoner Z, held at a black site in the Negev desert for a dozen years, has only his guard for company. How does a nice American Jewish boy from Long Island wind up being an Israeli spy working for Mossad, and later, a traitor to his adopted country? What does it mean to be loyal? What does it mean to be a traitor when the ideals you cherish are betrayed by the country you love? Z can do nothing but think of the past and where her life went wrong and reveal to the reader in a series of often gripping flashbacks. A spellbinding political thriller, spy novel, love story. 252pp, paperback.

'This moving tale of growing up in a Maoist cult, and the traumatic aftermath, explores ideas of freedom, control and identity with warmth and humour.' - Observer. This award-winning novel is 'literary gold'. - Sunday Times. Nina X has never been outside or met another child. She has no books, toys or privacy. Nina X has a lot to learn. She has no mother or father; she has Comrade Chen, and her Comrades Uma, Jeni and Ruth. Her closest emotional connection is with the birds she sees when she removes the plasterboard that covers her bedroom window. Comrade Chen has named her The Project. She is being raised entirely separated from the false gods of capitalism and the cult of the self. He has her record everything in her journal to track her thoughts. In order to keep her identity pure, her words are erased, over and over again. But that was before. Now Nina is in Freedom, and all the rules have changed. She has to remember that everything is opposite to what she was told, and yet Freedom seems to be a very confusing and dangerous place. A most brutal and innovative novel which is challenging, horrific and visceral, experimental and humane, but also a deeply serious of a mind-bending cult and the difficulty a survivor has in adjusting to the world of normality. 273pp, paperback.

November 1989 and society in El Salvador is immersed in the horror of civil war. On a fateful November dawn, a group of armed men entered the Universidad Católica and murdered six Jesuit priests with their housekeeper and her daughter in cold blood. Survivor of the massacre Father Tojeira is forced to take the reins of control in the sinister days following the attack, desperate to uncover the truth behind the terrible slaughter and discover who these assassins are. The only witness however has been silenced by the authorities. Inspired by the tragic events that shook Latin America, November is a moving and unsettling novel about fear, hate and impunity and the first book to cast some light on the crime that was never solved, and an attempt to speak out, as the murdered Jesuits attempted to do, in the defence of the disadvantaged. 293pp, paperback.

The Paris Review said, 'timelessly cinematic, with painterly visual descriptions and pitch-perfect dialogue that ranges across class, region, race, age, and gender.' The stories contained here are as American as jazz, and as wise and as multifaceted as their writer. Dorothy West's metier is the unique crucible in which America places its black middle class, but her themes are universal - the daily misunderstandings between young and old, men and women, rich and poor that can lead to tragedy, and the ways in which bonds of family and community can bring us together and tear us asunder. These autobiographical essays explore the poles of West's remarkable life from growing up black and middle-class in Boston to her near-mythic trip to Moscow in 1933 with Langston Hughes and other Harlem Renaissance writers to live on her beloved Martha's Vineyard. A celebrated novelist, short story writer, essayist and editor, this is a collection of her most luminous stories, a world of black people reaching for the American dream in the wake of slavery and often finding themselves betrayed or betraying themselves in their struggle to conform to standards that are only half theirs. She writes like a social historian, capturing significant moments that seem to alter lives forever or change nothing at all. 17 short stories and 13 essays in what may appear to be two books in one by a writer of huge compassion and acute observation. 272pp, paperback.

Two bodies are discovered near Gubu, one burning at the base of a tree struck by lightning and, on the banks of the Zambezi, a second killing which threatens to tear Detective Sibanda's life apart. The victims are not connected, as one is a foreign wildlife researcher, and the other a local driver, but Sibanda's intuition tells him the murders are linked. The only clues are a fragment of material found in the brain of one victim, a puncture wound in the thigh of the other, and a diary full of coded names. As Detective Sibanda and Sergeant Ncube investigate further, they find links to an ivory smuggling gang, and in their pursuit of the killer not only have to cope with their temperamental Land Rover, their chief inspector's lack of cooperation, but a rough and remote landscape full of wild and dangerous adventure. An intricate detective yarn told to the gentle music of the bush, and the harsher notes of the poachers' deadly gunfire. 249pp in large glamorous softback.