ScottsboroShortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, a novel inspired by the shocking true story of the Scottsboro boys. Even after all these years, the injustice still stuns. Innocent boys sentenced to die, not for a crime they did not commit, but for a crime that never occurred. Lives splintered as casually as wood being hacked for kindling. Alabama, 1931. A freight train is stopped in Scottsboro, nine black youths are brutally arrested and, within

Al Misurata

who suddenly finds himself allotted a hero's role

and haunted by a failed love affair

In Inspector Iwata

But I swear I heard a voice calling to me

the newly named Imrhien must survive a wilderness of endless danger

you will never be whole again

Richard 'Lord' Grant - my father - who managed to destroy his own career

Gavin Stevens

loss and the real meaning of loyalty

a man lies dying in the guest chamber

Richard: Malcolm Cousins has spent years in the single-minded pursuit of a priceless letter