The Little StrangerIn a dusty post war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, its owners mother, son and daughter struggling to keep pace. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr Faraday know how

And it isn't long before she's forced to choose between her true nature and everyone she's grown to love

driven by the ambition to unite all the feuding Hunnish and Scythian tribes under single banner and a single king

To his eyes it is no crime of passion

'One of the three or four poets in England today

The author's other novels include "Into the Blue"

Cracks that are getting bigger and bigger all the time

And there are all sorts of chickens coming home to roost

And drawing deeply on her own experiences

and their daughters and granddaughters were no less intriguing

a powerful rival with his own designs on the throne of Macedon

Leo is the perfect soldier of the regime

along with that of London between the wars: a city soaked in drizzle