May Bank Holiday, 1964. History records this as a weekend of mindless mayhem as Mods and Rockers fought on the beaches of various south coast towns. This is the story of one small group of them. Save it isn't really a story about fighting, though there is some. And whilst the lead players are fashion-conscious teenage hedonists - wrapped up in themselves, their music, their dancing and their reputation in the Mod world - that doesn't define what kind of people they are, their virtue. Jimmy is going down to Brighton with some friends from South London. It's a simple enough trip. A chance to...

This beguilingly strange and poetic novel offers a twenty-first century reimagining of the vampire myth, wrapped up in a poignant story of love and jealousy. Michael and Laura Sheridan are newly-wed New Englanders on honeymoon in Ireland, the land of his ancestors. More than that, the house they've taken sits on the edge of the idyllic village of Abington, County Limerick - the name also of the town where she grew up in Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Everything about the trip is just perfect. The house is wonderful, the people warm and friendly, and soon enough they find friends in another...