Liverpool LiesIt is 1941 and Connie and Lottie Brinsley are training to be nurses at Liverpool's Walton Hospital. When heavy bombing is followed by the news that their home has taken a direct hit and their parents and little brother are dead, the two sisters are utterly devastated. Later, they are shocked to discover that their uncle, Steve, is not who they thought he was, and the Brinsleys have been living a lie for years. And Steve's not the only one who's hiding

emotional depth

confiscated her income and taken away her children

starting with poems written in the early 1980s

Fever Beach is an unmissable skewering of American politics in all its ridiculousness

How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasure from what we read

Dead Man’s Mirror and Triangle at Rhodes – each a miniature classic of characterisation

Though I know he�s hiding something

An urgent call to arms for each and all of us

Ghosh finds opium at the origins of some of the world's biggest corporations

the legend

and was still surprised

making the resident jackdaws very unsettled