Joseph Delaney used to be an English teacher, before becoming the best-selling author of the Spook's series, which has been published in 30 countries and sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide. The first book, The Spook's Apprentice, was adapted into a major motion picture starring Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore.

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35 YEARS IN THE MAKING: THE MOST ANTICIPATED GRAPHIC NOVEL IN RECENT HISTORY 
 
*A GUARDIAN 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK* 
 
The year is 1964. 
 
Bailey doesn't realize he is about to fulfil his tragic destiny when he walks into a US Army recruitment office. Secretive, damaged, innocent, trying to forget a past and looking for a future, Bobby is the perfect candidate for a secret US government experiment, an unholy continuation of a genetics program that was discovered in Nazi Germany nearly 20 years earlier in the waning days of World War II. Bailey's only ally and protector, Sergeant McFarland, intervenes, which sets off a chain of cascading events that spin out of everyone's control. As the monsters of the title multiply, becoming real and metaphorical, the story reaches a crescendo of moral reckoning. 
 
A 360-page tour de force of visual storytelling, Monsters' narrative canvas is copious: part familial drama, part thriller, part metaphysical journey, it is an intimate portrait of individuals struggling to reclaim their lives and an epic political odyssey that plays across two generations of American history. 
 
Monsters is rendered in Barry Windsor-Smith's impeccable pen-and-ink technique, the visual storytelling, with its sensitivity to gesture and composition, the most sophisticated of the artist's career. There are passages of heartbreaking tenderness, of excruciating pain, of redemption and sacrifice, and devastating violence. Monsters is surely one of the most intense graphic novels ever drawn.

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Scribe, drug-addict, soldier, spy – a brilliant and troubled jurist in Europe’s highest courts becomes a double agent, risking it all amidst the crimes that define our era 
 
Stanton is an ex-soldier who served in Iraq and speaks with a stutter, his legacy from a difficult childhood. He is also the unlikely star jurist at the Court of Justice of the European Union. Stanton is responsible for translating Europe’s biggest court cases into laws that will govern the lives of millions. But when he meets an enigmatic stranger called Pirotti at a conference in the Swiss Alps, his allegiance begins to shift. 
 
Pirotti offers Stanton two blue pills, known as petit bleus, for the war wound that still troubles him and the effects are so powerful – and addictive – they send Stanton into visions and reveries of pure feeling. Crucially, they bring him closer than anything else to the defining moment of his life: a violent incident in Iraq that continues to haunt him. 
 
Soon Stanton finds himself passing the Court’s confidential papers to Pirotti’s colleagues in exchange for a steady supply of the petit bleus. When the Court begins to detect a leak in security, it suspects everyone but Stanton, who can do no wrong. All it needs is for Stanton to deliver a landmark ruling, more important and far-reaching than anything he has written before. But Stanton has been working on something else, a vast document of markings, patterns and revelations that has the power to change, and destroy, the life he and those around him have so carefully constructed.

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Richard Lloyd Parry

A father is stranded with his baby daughter as violence breaks out in the jungle, in this page-turning and explosive new novel 
 
'Brilliant, harrowing and heartbreaking, yet utterly compelling' David Peace 
 
Deep in a vast tropical rain forest, Kit and Lara escape the hollowness of modern life doing charitable work in a jungle village. With them is their tiny baby, Helen, who flourishes under the anxious care of her father. 
 
Their life of idyllic isolation is shattered by the arrival of an outsider with frightening news: close at hand, across the border, violence is looming. Hidden in a tiny memory card, Kit unwittingly holds evidence of the world-shattering event that is unfolding, the desperate power-play of a flailing superpower. 
 
Separated from Lara, with war erupting around them, Helen and Kit are forced to flee through the forest with a band of local children, pursued by a ruthless and determined army. Caught between the struggle of rival powers, Kit must keep his baby daughter alive while protecting the secret that his pursuers will kill to get their hands on. 
 
'Immersive and immensely readable, never not terrifying' Richard Beard 
 
Praise for the award-winning Ghosts of the Tsunami: 
 
'A book of absolute, harrowing truth and beauty. I'd give up four of my novels to have written this book' Jim Crace, author of Harvest 
 
'Every time I think of it, I'm filled with wonderment... A future classic' Observer 
 
'A remarkable and deeply moving book' Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm

In the Green Heart

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