With Your Crooked Heart is bestselling author Helen Dunmore's sixth novel. Louise married Paul, brother to Johnnie . . . Yet she doesn't get one man with this union - she gets two. Born twelve years apart in a one-bedroom flat in Barking, Paul and Johnnie are close: they're good at making money and make taking power look easy. But while Paul deals on contaminated land, Johnnie is adept at dealing in crime. And when Louise's relationship with the brothers is further complicated by the birth of her daughter, Anna, it seems nothing can ever break this triangle. Until Johnnie's self-destructive...

Many of the poems in Sean O Brien s new collection take their emotional tenor and imaginative cue from his acclaimed translation of "Dante s Inferno," and occupy a dark, flooded, subterranean world, as dramatically compelling as it is disquieting. Circumstances have compelled O Brien to return repeatedly to the elegiac form, and "The Drowned Book" contains a number of powerfully moving poems written in memory of fellow poets and artists. "The Drowned Book" again shows O Brien as master of the authoritative line, and underscores his pre-eminence among contemporary English poets."

With Philip spending long hours on call, Isabel finds herself isolated and lonely as she strives to adjust to the realities of married life. Woken by intense cold one night, she discovers an old RAF greatcoat hidden in the back of a cupboard.