The GiftThe Gift is the phantasmal autobiography of Fyodor Godunov Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First World War. This gorgeous tapestry of literature and butterflies tells the story of Fyodor's pursuits as a writer. Its heroine is not Fyodor's elusive and beloved Zina, however, but Russian prose and poetry themselves.

her sidekick Mike Korpanski is filling in his insurance form after his wife has had a minor prang in the car

An experience like no other

But Erasmus Salt wants Lilly not as an actress

the Jack Russell terrier she’s looking after for a friend in hospital

A woman determined to make her mark

One night Mich drags them out of the house and orders Eily to drive to the forest

Thirty Days of Darkness is a darkly funny

On the hallowed ground of Ravenswood

Their murders were linked and ascribed to the spectre of the well-dressed

author of The Salt Road and The Tenth Gift

and urges to kill

CAN YOU STOP A MURDER WHEN IT'S ALREADY HAPPENED