What Will Survive of UsLove can change your life. Can it survive it? 'Howard Jacobson at his finest' LINDA GRANT, author of The Story of the Forest ' How is it possible to read him and not lose oneself in admiration' THE TIMES Lily falls in love with Sam the minute she sets eyes on him. It takes Sam a day or two longer. Curious, because Lily independent, headstrong, rational has never quite believed in love; while Sam confident, passionate, romantic thought he understood it

and wants nothing more than to be left alone

But Martin Beck of the Homicide Squad suspects otherwise: this apparently motiveless killer has managed to target one of Becks best detectives and he

suggesting that the case is linked to the murder a year before in North London of Catherine Watson

She didnt have an enemy in the world

In this midcareer collection of twenty-three short stories

whose social-media presence has attracted the wrong kind of followers

latent always in the blood

ever since they were discovered

and the rich landscape and characters unique to Tolkien

is accused of violently murdering his girlfriend

Sudice Inc

an unlikely friendship forms between a man trying to escape his past and a woman trying to uncover hers