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3rd August 2023
Word Monkey
This is the memoir Christopher Fowler always wanted to write about ‘writing’. It’s the story of how a young bookworm growing up in a house... more »
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3rd March 2023
Bryant & May: Peculiar London
Thinking of a jaunt to England? Let Arthur Bryant and John May, London’s oldest police detectives, show you the oddities behind the city’s façades in... more »
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2nd July 2021
Bryant & May – London Bridge is Falling Down
It was the kind of story that barely made the news. When 91-year-old Amelia Hoffman died in her top-floor flat on a busy London road,... more »
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4th August 2020
Bryant & May – Oranges and Lemons
One Sunday morning, the outspoken Speaker of the House of Commons steps out of his front door only to be crushed under a mountain of... more »
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8th October 2019
Bryant & May – England’s Finest
The Peculiar Crimes Unit has solved many extraordinary cases over the years, but some were hushed up and hidden away. Until now. Arthur Bryant remembers... more »
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26th November 2018
Bryant & May – The Lonely Hour
On a rainy winter night outside a run-down nightclub in the wrong part of London, four strangers meet for the first time at 4:00am. A... more »
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25th May 2018
Bryant & May – Strange Tide
The river Thames is London’s most important yet neglected artery. When a young woman is found chained to a post in the tide, no-one can... more »
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25th May 2018
Bryant & May – Wild Chamber
Our story begins at the end of an investigation, as the members of London’s Peculiar Crimes Unit race to catch a killer near London Bridge... more »
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25th May 2018
Bryant & May – Hall of Mirrors
The year is 1969 and ten guests are about to enjoy a country house weekend at Tavistock Hall. But one amongst them is harbouring thoughts... more »
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3rd August 2017
Little Boy Found
One rainy morning, just after Nick drops off his young son Gabriel outside the crowded school gates, he has a minor collision with another car.... more »
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20th July 2017
The Book of Forgotten Authors
Absence doesn’t make the heart grow fonder. It makes people think you’re dead. So begins Christopher Fowler’s foray into the back catalogues and backstories of... more »
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22nd October 2015
Bryant & May – London’s Glory
In every detective’s life there are cases that can’t be discussed, and throughout the Bryant & May novels there have been mentions of some of... more »
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21st October 2015
The Sand Men
In Dubai there’s a new world of high-end, high-luxury resorts emerging for the super-rich – but at what price to everyone else? Lea, Roy and... more »
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16th October 2014
Bryant & May – Off The Rails
They’ve been given just one week to find a killer they’d caught once before . . . Arthur Bryant, John May and the Peculiar Crimes... more »
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16th October 2014
Bryant & May – White Corridor
The unthinkable has happened at London’s Peculiar Crimes Unit. In the bitter depths of winter, a member of the team has been murdered, and everyone... more »
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16th October 2014
Bryant & May – On The Loose
Long regarded an anachronism and a thorn in the side of its superiors, the Peculiar Crimes Unit is to be disbanded. For octogenarian detectives Arthur... more »
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16th October 2014
Bryant & May – Ten-Second Staircase
A controversial artist is found dead in her own art installation inside a riverside gallery with locked doors and windows – the only witness is... more »
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16th October 2014
Bryant & May – The Victoria Vanishes
One night, Arthur Bryant witnesses a drunk middle-aged lady coming out of a pub in a London backstreet. The next morning, she is found dead... more »
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16th October 2014
Bryant & May – The Memory of Blood
The defenestration of a ruthless theatre impresario’s young son was definitely not the best way to end the play’s first night party. And the crime... more »
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16th October 2014
Bryant & May – The Invisible Code
Two small children are playing a game called ‘Witch-Hunter’. They place a curse on a young woman taking lunch in a church courtyard and wait... more »
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16th October 2014
Bryant & May – Seventy-Seven Clocks
‘The newspapers referred to it as the case of the seventy-seven clocks. There was quite a fuss at the time. We got into terrible trouble.... more »
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16th October 2014
Bryant & May – The Water Room
Originally built to house the workers of Victorian London, Balaklava Street is now an oasis in the heart of Kentish Town and ripe for gentrification.... more »
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16th October 2014
Bryant & May – Full Dark House
When a bomb devastates the office of London’s most unusual police unit and claims the life of its oldest detective, Arthur Bryant, his surviving partner... more »
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13th October 2014
Bryant & May – The Burning Man
London is under siege. A banking scandal has filled the city with violent protests, and as the anger in the streets detonates, a young homeless... more »
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13th October 2014
Nyctophobia
There are two things you need to know about haunted houses. One, there’s never been an actual authenticated haunted house. Two, it’s not the house... more »
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4th July 2014
Bryant & May – The Bleeding Heart
It’s a fresh start for the Met’s oddest investigation team, the Peculiar Crimes Unit. Their first case involves two teenagers who see a dead man... more »
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