Lewis Shepherd

The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can’t England’s men win at their own game? With the worst track record for penalties in the world, Gareth Southgate knows he needs to open his mind and face up to the years of hurt, to take team and country back to the promised land.

When Kal meets Molly it feels like love at first sight. Until he suspects it's not love that binds them, it's grief. Acclaimed artist Sukhminder Kaur hires Kal to write the catalogue copy for her new exhibition. She likes his cynicism and admires his meticulous and dispassionate style. She's photographing herself in tableaux recreating the Tarot's darkest cards. Death. The Hanged Man. The Devil. The Tower. As Kal is sucked into Molly's plight, he unravels and starts to believe someone or something may be scripting his life.

Haunted by decades of failures, Gareth Southgate becomes England manager and uses psychology to confront fear and pursue victory.

Tommy Lynley, an aristocratic detective, and Barbara Havers, a working-class maverick sergeant, share little in common; except a passion for justice. His intellect and her instincts make them an unlikely but formidable team.