Fiona Campbell
Death of a Salaryman

When Kenji, a Japanese salaryman, loses his job at a TV corporation on his 40th birthday. he slips through to a different layer of society. In this shadowy world he meets a curious collection of characters - a travelling salesman with a passion for Elvis, a pachinko pro with dreams of returning to Hawaii, and a TV producer who will stop at nothing to get his big break. With their help, Kejni sets off on a roller-coaster ride of misadventures in this wonderfully surreal, yet painfully real, story.

Edward Charles
In The Shadow of Lady Jane

In 1553 Richard Stocker's unwavering loyalty to his patrons, the Grey family, is tested when Lady Jane Grey is imprisoned in the Tower of London, having had her claim to the throne overturned by the ferociously Catholic Queen, Mary Tudor. The bright but unassuming young man is caught up in a tide of religious and social conflict and a passionate and volatile romance in this atmospheric account of conflict on both national and intimate levels.

When an old man strikes up a conversation with her on the steps of St Paul's and makes a mystifying allusion to a murder and an oddly familiar comment about her grandmother, Kate Murphy is intrigued. But she never gets to hear the rest of Andrew Deacon's tale. Shocked by his unexpected death, with her interest piqued by a story never told, Kate becomes drawn into an investigation uncovering secrets about the grandmother she thought she knew and the man she never did. And she soon realises her questions are putting lives in danger....