Still LifeTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Over 500,000 copies sold internationally A BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime Winner of Dymocks Book of the Year 'Sheer joy' GRAHAM NORTON

The stories in Matthew Baker's collection portray a world within touching distance of our own

March tells Ruth that he killed four more women and that their bodies are buried near a village bordering the fens

or disease

Everything Spensa's been taught is a lie

What is Mathematics

But slowly

From the documented facts of real life

A flock of sweet ducklings are popping out

That cows grieve when their calves are taken away from them

Simms traces the way in which Hitler's ideology emerged after the First World War

You can barely see it and you've got to be swinging your bat before its halfway towards you

Their beauty has inspired some of the greatest works of art and literature