A Field Guide to Larking is a practical, interactive and inspiring guide to ‚larking‘ from the bestselling author of Mudlarking.

To lark is to get out and about, to explore the world around us and to discover the little treasures hiding in plain sight. We think, of course, of mudlarking b

Everyone knows the legends about the cursed girl, Isabel. They say she has green skin and she feeds on the poisonous plants that fill her family's Caribbean island garden. Some say she can grant wishes; some say her touch can kill. Seventeen-year-old Lucas has grown up hearing stories abou

As Sandro Cellini gets to grips with the dispiriting realities of life as a private detective, an old case comes back to haunt him. Loni Meadows, the subject of a routine investigation back in his police-officer days is found dead in circumstances Sandro cannot convince himself are acciden

In the heart of the Cotswolds a body is found. A teenage girl, probably local – somebody's daughter who went out one evening and didn't come back. It is not long before she is identified: fifteen-year-old Lynne Wills, who habitually drank underage in The Silver Bells pub and, on the night

Kate Kingsley remembers little of her early childhood, before being sent to live as the adopted daughter of Jack and Thea in Kenya. Now 20, she leaves Kenya for a new life in London. But this is 1936 – a time of decadence, but also turmoil. Kate confronts personal danger, faces conflicting

Martin Dean spent his entire life analyzing absolutely everything – from the benefits of suicide to the virtues of strip clubs – and passing on his self-taught knowledge to his son, Jasper. But now that his father's dead, Jasper can fully reflect on the man who raised him in intellectual c

Paparazzi darling Caroline Sullivan is hiding a secret behind her dazzling-yet-inscrutable smile

Her ex-flame, Russian businessman Roman Kazarov, is back on the scene – is he seeking revenge for her humiliating rejection or just to take possession of her troubled business? Sources confirm

Winner of The James Tait Black Memorial Prize Winner of the Book of the Year, the Irish Book Awards Winner of the Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year Nominated for the Rathbones Folio Prize, Desmond Elliot Prize and Republic of Consciousness Prize

A true original, this stunning prose debu