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?This is truly inimitable storytelling' Observer'[A] master of language' New York TimesA boy stands alone, unable to enter the room in which his grandfather's coffin lies. Freddie Jackson's song ?You Are My Lady' plays on the car radio as a son is brought to a prison cell in Arizona. A narrator contemplates the Atlanta child murders from 1979.Look For Me And I'll Be Gone is vital reading for anyone interested in the state of America today. Historical and contemporary, intimate and expansive, the stories here represent a pioneering writer whose innovation, form and imagination know no bounds.

An A-Z guide on how we stay informed in the era of fake news, from former Guardian Editor-in-Chief Alan Rusbridger

A powerful and moving novel recounting the life and death of Walter Benjamin from the award-winning author

A new story collection - full of love, melancholy and magic - from the Goldsmiths Prize and IMPAC award-winning author of the Booker-longlisted Night Boat to Tangier

March, 1588. As King Philip of Spain amasses a vast fleet of warships ready to invade England, Queen Elizabeth and her advisors seek a possible alliance with the Duke of Parma, Governor of the Netherlands. Ursula Stannard finds herself plunged into a hotbed of intrigue and rumour at the Duke of Parma's court, a place where no one is to be trusted.

Travel agent Campbell Hale isn't surprised when her good friend, Nashville socialite Bitsy Carter, goes on a luxury Mexican spa vacation. She is, however, extremely surprised - and extremely worried - when Bitsy doesn't come back. Campbell books herself a trip to Mexico to find her friend, but will it a vacation to remember . . . or one to die for?

When a hurricane hits the Caribbean with brutal force, Constable Teddy Creque, the sole police officer on tiny, sun-soaked Anegada, is too busy saving his fellow islanders to worry about an escaped prisoner who can allegedly kill with magic. After all, Teddy doesn't believe in magic. But events soon force him to reconsider .

December 1924. Young widow Maddie Pastore feels fortunate to be employed by well-meaning fake medium Carlotta Romany. It's not work she's proud of, but she's proud of how well she does it. But when her investigations into a new client get her mixed up with Chicago's violent gangs, she'll need all her wits about her if she's to make it out alive.

Cambridge, 1965. Albert Campion's wife, Lady Amanda, is arrested by Special Branch for breaking the Official Secrets Act - all part of her elaborate plan to catch the person responsible for leaking sensitive aeronautical research from Alandel Aeroplanes. But her plan did not account for a bizarre and gruesome industrial accident at the hangar .

DCI Arthur St. Just and Portia De'Ath visit the quiet village of Maidsfell in Cornwall only to find it divided over plans to redevelop the seafront. After a heated meeting on the topic, Lord Bodwally, who is fiercely against the plans, is found murdered. St. Just finds himself compelled to investigate, but what secrets are hidden in Maidsfell?

Having unexpectedly inherited an Elizabethan manor house, the new owner Quentin Rivers has asked Phineas Fox to investigate the house's history. As Phin delves into The Tabor's dark and mysterious past, the terrible secrets of the house and the Rivers family ancestors begin to reveal themselves, secrets stretching back more than six hundred years.

A dark and incisive collection of speculative short stories set in an alternate future of interstellar space travel, robots, mythical creatures and the uncanny

November, 1471. The newly-widowed Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond, is alone, without protectors. The discovery of the body of an unexpected visitor, found murdered in a locked room in her London townhouse, heralds the start of a series of increasingly menacing incidents which threaten Margaret and her household. Is there an enemy within?

It's been four years since four-year-old Johnny Clearwater disappeared without trace one afternoon. On the night a new TV documentary series revisiting the case is broadcast, detectives Anderson and Costello are called to investigate the murder of a female police officer, and a link is discovered between the dead woman and the missing young boy .

1399, London. The prioress at St. Frideswide wants to hire Crispin Guest, Tracker of London, to investigate murders at the priory. Two of Prioress Drueta's nuns have been killed in a way that signifies two of the Seven Deadly Sins, and she's at her wits end. Meanwhile, trouble is brewing when the exiled Henry Bolingbroke returns to England's shores.

Eco-obsessed ex-cop Charlie Waldo doesn't want to live in LA, and he doesn't want to work as PI. But to his dismay, when his PI girlfriend Lorena needs help with a client, he finds himself doing both. At least he's a fan of Judge Ida Mudge - but the controversial TV star is hiding something, and Waldo might not live long enough to find out what.

Elizabeth Brown's world has fallen apart and she's thinking about her newly ex-fiance. Until she locks eyes with a teenage girl while waiting for the train doors to open, and a bundle is thrust into her arms as she leaves the subway. A baby, wrapped in a dirty coat. Elizabeth phones the number she finds in the coat pocket. Then wishes she hadn't .

Widowed mom Bella Jordan has a lot on her plate: young son Max and their two kitties, a budding relationship, a guesthouse to run . not to mention this month's book club pick to read. But when she begins to have suspicions about one of her new guests - visiting relatives of a friend - she's determined to get to the bottom of it . whatever it takes.

A man lies dead on his kitchen floor, his body punctured by multiple stab wounds. Beside him sits his silent, traumatised wife. DCI David Vogel reckons he's seen it all before - an abused wife snaps after years of suffering within a deeply tormented marriage - but he comes to realize that nothing about this case is as straightforward as it seems.

Leeds, June 1913. Deputy Chief Constable Tom Harper is overseeing a national suffragist pilgrimage due in Leeds. Then Davey Mullen, an American gangster, returns from New York to his city of birth and seemingly triggers a series of chilling events. Is Davey responsible for the sudden surge in crime, violence and murder on Leeds's streets?

To keep their family mansion standing tall on the coast of Maine, the Calhouns have hired architect Sloan O'Riley to perform long-needed repairs. Amanda Calhoun is responsible for overseeing Sloan's work, and while he's easy on the eyes, Amanda finds Sloan's easy-going attitude infuriating. But his irresistible smile just might change her mind .

1920s. Cork, Ireland. Constantly accosted by ambitious, would-be politicians invited by the bishop, the Reverend Mother is finding the week-long sojourn at a convent anything but peaceful. Then a body is discovered in the cemetery, blown to pieces by a makeshift bomb. Was one of the candidates so desperate to win the election they turned to murder?