City of Last Chances - December 2022 GSFFArthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fantasy with a darkly inventive portrait of a city under occupation and on the verge of revolution. There has always been a darkness to Ilmar, but never more so than now. The city chafes under the heavy hand of the Palleseen occupation, the choke hold of its criminal underworld, the boot of its factory owners, the weight of its wretched poor and the burden of

August 2006

As he writes the official history of Blake's

but little do they know that inside the lamp

or fly on an owl's back

their shade cool on even the hottest day

and scrabble of claws

their relationships deepen and darken

The next can't come soon enough for me' Daily Mail

Colson Whitehead writes about a city that runs on cronyism

Confessing a Murder

First published in 1960

But to Coward there are worse things than war