Alphabet Helen Giltrow From the author of the

From the author of the successful The Greenway comes an atmospheric tale of a young woman's search to uncover the demons haunting her grandfather - images of a woman hanging from a tree

an agent working at the British Embassy

The Alphas are the elite

The follow-up to The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen

Soon she is caught between two warring sides: on one

Alphabet Helen Giltrow From the author of theIn Thatcher's Britain, barely out of his teens, highly intelligent but illiterate and with a childhood of care homes and fostering behind him, Simon Austen is sent down for life for murdering his girlfriend. He did it but he doesn't know why or maybe doesn't want to know why. Or both . . . Then Simon makes an important decision to rehabilitate himself on his own terms. He learns to read and write; then, daringly, from his high security prison, begins