The Variations by Patrick Langley

The Variations by Patrick LangleySelda Heddle, a famously reclusive composer, is found dead in a snowy field near her Cornish home. She was educated at Agnes's Hospice for Acoustically Gifted Children, which for centuries has offered its young wards a grounding in the gift an inherited ability to tune into the voices and sounds of the past. When she dies, Selda's gift passes down to her grandson Wolf, who must make sense of her legacy, and learn to live with the newly unleashed

These stories centre around the theme of identity and the idea of sonder – the realisation that passersby have a mind as vivid and complex as your own

A fantasy romance

A poignant novel about the best of humanity occurring in the worst circumstances

Welcome to the brutal and elite world of Basgiath War College

He faces a terrible moral choice in a village in Sri Lanka as part of the East Indian Army

'Seriously good' Louise Nealon

At a single touch

have ruled Ireland since the end of the civil war

it becomes all-absorbing

Both are not the men they used to be

a race of warriors who are sworn to kill Fomorians

including Bobby Sands