Christopher Fowler

The nation's longest-serving detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May, guide readers around the extraordinary city that's been at the heart of their 20-book career. Here are London (and some of its citizens) in all their eccentric, elusive, fascinating, and often peculiar glory as they've never been seen before. As the nation's oldest serving detectives, we know more about London than...

An enthralling anthology of 20 CWA Dagger Award-shortlisted gripping and thrilling stories for the most hardened crime fan. Featuring bestselling authors such as Neil Gaiman, Ann Cleeves, Christopher Fowler, and Val McDermid. Legendary editor, Maxim Jakubowski, delivers another chilling anthology collecting stories of cold-blooded murder, revenge, and crimes-gone-wrong from the best of the best in crime fiction. Spine-chilling and gripping,...

Detectives Arthur Bryant and John May, assisted by the oddballs and eccentrics of the Peculiar Crimes Unit, return to break rules, infuriate officialdom and maybe, just maybe, catch the criminal in their 19th hugely entertaining and unorthodox new investigation. 'The most consistently brilliant, entertaining and educational voice in contemporary British crime fiction, the utterly fabulous Christopher Fowler.' Cathi Unsworth, CRIMESQUAD...

Few authors are so iconic that their name is an adjective – Ballard is one of them. Master of both literary and science fiction, his novels such as Empire of the Sun, Crash, and Cocaine Nights show a world out of joint – a bewildering, alienating, and yet enthralling place. From his rapturously weird takes on contemporary reality to his...

A remarkable memoir from the acclaimed author of the Bryant & May series and the award-winning Paperboy, in which he contemplates how he became a writer and what it's meant to him, while weaving into the narrative his candid, moving (and surprisingly funny) account of having to confront his own mortality in what he knew would be the final chapter...

Set during the Dark Ages (a time about which we know next to nothing), this is a story of London - a story that's filled with myths reimagined, legends retold, seductions, executions, deceits, betrayals and perhaps - just perhaps - a little hope; a posthumous work of maverick genius from the unmistakable, mischievous imagination of the creator of Bryant &...

Set during the Dark Ages (a time about which we know next to nothing), this is a story of London - a story that's filled with myths reimagined, legends retold, seductions, executions, deceits, betrayals and perhaps - just perhaps - a little hope; a posthumous work of maverick genius from the unmistakable, mischievous imagination of the creator of Bryant &...

On a hot afternoon, Summer sits beside a swimming pool in the South of France, waiting for her married lover, Steve, to arrive. By the time he turns up, flight delayed and his family unexpectedly in tow, Summer has vanished from the villa. Hannah, the maid, is under strict instruction never to speak to any of the guests, but perhaps...

The second collection of original and never-before-published stories drawn from the casebooks of Arthur Bryant and John May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit. Winningly eccentric . . . London, in all its non-homogenous, sprawling splendour, is as much a character as Fowler's sleuthing duo - Barry Forshaw, Financial Times The Peculiar Crimes Unit has solved many extraordinary cases over the...