The Midnight VerdictTranslated by Seamus Heaney Translations from the Irish of Brian Merriman (c. 1745 1805) and from the Metamorphoses of Ovid Each of the translations in this book can be read for its own sake or as part of a triptych. By setting excerpts of Brian Merriman's Cirt an Mhen Oche (The Midnight Court) within the acoustic of a classical myth (the story of Orpheus and Eurydice), Seamus Heaney provides a new and illuminating context for the eighteenth century

A passionate advocate for the avant-garde

there is humanity

leading them to suspect her death was related to unexplained and unusual aspects of her recent life

Something has murdered Sauls father

and the island is in the heat of the Emergency: the British are defending the colony against Cypriots - schoolboys and armed guerrillas alike - battling for enosis

bloody and brutal new series from Robert Fabbri

back-biters and petty thieves

but Mr Malik is head-over-heels in love with the leader of the local Tuesday-morning bird walk

When another man is found dead

So he tells his men's group in York that he's a private eye - it's better than admitting he's an unemployed alcoholic

'Fans of dark crime fiction that doesn't pull punches will be amply rewarded' Publishers Weekly

But before he leaves