Garry Linahan: 4 books

In his memoirs, Dr Alan Robertson recalls the devastating few days he spent at a friend's beach house high on the Dorset cliffs. At the time, he was a young London medical student and the year was 1900. By the time the book is written more than a decade has passed, but the events of those few days...

A young artist begins a series of portraits and starts with the German serial killer, Peter Kurten. As the painting develops he becomes increasingly disturbed, the work becoming ever more lifelike and seemingly taking on a persona of its own. The artist and his friend become more and more unsettled...

Jake Stevens is a successful and reclusive author living a somewhat retired life on his secluded bush block. A mysterious neighbour moves in nearby, a woman clearly intent on building a relationship with him. Jake soon begins to experience bizarre encounters of a seemingly psychic or paranormal nature and learns, through a friend, of his true connection to Isabella.

A young couple walking through the snow happen upon the frozen body of an old man, a discovery which sets the scene for this beautiful and tragic tale. After his return from Africa, George Hargreaves finds himself living in a vague mental haze, and with a body wracked with pain. Under the watchful...