Queen K'This Patricia Highsmith esque tale [features] an untrustworthy narrator judging her employer's life of excess and desperate attempts to infiltrate a glittering world' Evening Standard 'The debuts you'll love in 2023' 'Her dazzling debut is both a gripping mystery and a treatise on the dangers of wealth without limits' Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters 'Evokes complex lives with compelling insight' Financial Times On a balmy evening in late

Rumis Vasi is the town's 'maths prodigy': untangling numbers and Rubik's Cubes protects her from the harsh vagaries of the playground and gives a pattern to her world

while laid up with malaria in the middle of his long Moluccan sojourn

the poet and historian Robert Conquest

Watching as the Mannian army slaughters their way across the world

bloodstained story

the promise of long

Will she wake

beautiful Tsarevna Elizabeth is the world's loveliest Princess and the envy of the Russian empire

Pendleton's simmering despair boils over with the arrival on campus of his one-time friend

the shadow of suspicion falls on the whole household

sometimes you have to risk all to discover it for yourself

'A tense gripper with a leave-the-lights-on shock ending' Sunday Times We all have fears we hide from