Keith's obsession with naming things, and with Gerda the newspaper seller outside his office, leads him into danger.

Jael tells what really happened when her husband Heber's old mate Sisera dropped in. Not quite what you read in the Song of Deborah.

A woman waits for her friend on a station concourse even though she knows she will never arrive. Winner of the 2012 Waterstones' Crime in the City Competition

Laxmi, a girl from the lowest caste of a village in the remote west of Nepal, is told that she is the unlucky kind. But, resourceful and fiercely protective of her sister and niece, she is determined that low birth will not ruin their lives. All profits from this story go to aid work in Nepal.

Increasingly adrift in life, a man reflects on his relationships with the people closest to him while he ponders a solution to his disquiet.

Into the labyrinth, two strangers go...

Everyone knows it will happen. But who do we blame? Ourselves? Each other? Me? You? Them?

Nigel is long past his peak, and a string of trivial incidents during a boozy day at the pub bring it home to him. Memories of times gone by are of no solace when you don't get the respect you think you deserve.