Farewell My HerringEthelred Tressider and his agent Elsie Thirkettle have been invited to lecture on a creative writing course at Fell Hall, a remote location in the heart of ragged countryside that even sheep are keen to shun. While Ethelred's success as a writer is distinctly average, Elsie sees this as an opportunity to scout for new, hopefully more lucrative, talent. But heavy snow falls overnight, trapping those early arrivals inside, and tensions are quick to

But who picks our strawberries these days

but the armament of the Norsemen was little better than that of the American Indians

and conspiracies

kissing her goodbye before she turned to leave

The Straw Men is the most eagerly anticipated book of the year

Salon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in the decadent Berlin of the Weimar Republic - the city of Cabaret

Can she pull her new team together to catch the killer before its too late

with their elderly step-mother and step-sister for the majority of their adult lives

I had to pull myself away' ELIZABETH MACNEAL

and one of the hardest winters in memory

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and Im in a strange house