Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick.

Mark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless hotel rooms and broken relationships have left him dissatisfied with his life. He?s then rocked by a chance encounter with Frank Begbie, from whom he?d been hiding for years after a terrible betrayal and the resulting debt. But the psychotic Begbie appears to have reinvented himself as a celebrated...

A friendship renewed; a marriage going sour; Harry Bentick heads for the Lake District not knowing if he?s going in search of something or running away.Then two girls are found murdered in the high fells, and suddenly there?s no doubt about it.He?s running. Set in his native Cumberland, this was Reginald Hill?s very first novel, a unique blend of detective story, psychological thriller and Buchanesque adventure that was to lay the groundwork for many...

Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey - with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake - through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind...