The Nickel BoysAuthor of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in 1960s Florida. Praise for Pulitzer Prize winning The Underground Railroad: 'My book of the year by some distance . . . luminous, furious, wildly inventive' Observer 'An engrossing and harrowing novel' Sunday Times 'Tells one of the most compelling stories I have ever read'

When Commander Joe Sandilands travelling companion

living Saints visit the towns to exact the Saviours' tithe from all those coming of age - a tithe often paid in blood

'No one does adventure quite like Smith' Daily Mirror

Just tremendous' LISA JEWELL

His uncle Crispin is broke and employs a butler who isn't all he seems

the mother who lost her

and that Whitney has been keeping secrets

Then its off to the races

Al Greenwood lives in a bungalow by the sea

My people were my children

homeland and belonging

but our ghosts have not