Nicholas Blincoe is one of Manchester's most gifted writers. His latest novel, "White Mice", follows a brother and sister on their rise in the fashion industry which comes with more bitching and rumour spreading than you could ever imagine. [buy the book]

Best-selling Mancunian novelist, Val McDermid, returns with yet another gripping thriller. A clinically efficient killer is murdering psychologists on the Continent. Psychological profiler Dr Tony Hill is drafted onto the case. DCI Carol Jordan is en route to Berlin too, on a covert police operation. Both of them have to explore a past of atrocities and a present-day full of cruelty. [buy the book]

The long awaited collection of stories from award-winning Jackie Kay. These stories are warm and tender, frightening and funny. They confirm the arrival of a major storyteller from Manchester. [buy the book]

Manchester author Sherry Ashworth, returns with 'Let's Get Physical', the story of Cassie, who must lose weight or lose her gall bladder. At the Fit Not Fat health club, Jane, the new manageress, has her work cut out. None of the staff trust her. So, can Jane prove herself to the staff and can Cassie lose those pounds? [buy the book]

In his latest novel, "Sixteen", P.P. Hartnett tells the story of a music industry consultant who becomes infatuated with a boy called Steven, who at 16 is half his age. Enthralling but disturbing. [buy the book]

Mancunian suspense writer, Nicholas Royle's 'The Director's Cut' is a gripping account of four aspiring film directors who are haunted by the discovery of the body from a snuff film they made ten years earlier. [buy the book]