ShameA Tatler Sizzling Summer Read Spectator Best Books of 2015 Shortlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize 'Intense impressive Told with force and bracing directness It's a book that smashes into you' Guardian 'Both disturbing and ultimately uplifting . . . the images she conjures up are so subversively creepy they haunt you for days' Spectator 'Deserves major attention' New York Times Pilgrim Jones doesn't belong here. She belongs in the cities

This can trigger all sorts of emotions: worry

When the curse-hunting duo comes across an odd magazine column about urban legends

Its elderly president Paul von Hindenburg floats above the fray

Gold changes hand and the master of the House of Hellebore gives an order: 'War is coming

this book is like curling up on the sofa for a gossip with a friend

he revels in the fight against one formidable foe after another

Like so many women

and lands on a tall

This is an ideal companion if you are a language student or if you are wanting a systematic

Often armed only with knives and wearing nothing more than swim trunks and flippers

The price of failure is deportation: you are marked an Analog

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