Simon Wroe Books in Order

Unable to pay his rent, a literature graduate takes a junior kitchen job in a Camden gastropub. A sadistic head chef and unruly colleagues turn his attempt to survive into a darkly comic education in loyalty, ambition, and revenge.

Expelled from school, Ellis joins his father's struggling newspaper in a city where free expression is under attack. Police, revolutionaries, and a Russian billionaire threaten the paper while Ellis's attraction to the oligarch's daughter complicates his loyalties.

Each September, the dead return for a month, transforming haunting into an annual public holiday. Four strangers preparing for visits from lost loved ones must confront buried truths and the unresolved feelings that shape their lives among the living.