Richard Jenkins: 4 books

Ben, aged 10, is a lonely, sickly boy, mocked and bullied, reviled in the village for being a coward. The burden of a spiteful aunt, he lives and plays alone. In a derelict house overrun with the creatures, monsters and things that inhabit his everyday world, he discovers a hidden library....

Samuel Dean lives an isolated, peaceful existence; he is alone and happy to be so. The remote coastal area of England where he lives provides all he needs to survive. His daily routine is to hunt, forage and poach. Someone, however, is stalking him. One night, two officers from Special Branch...

A dark, comic thriller. After discovering the body of a woman he fears the police will suspect he murdered, panic drives social phobic Jon to make a decision that twists his life free of the control he had so carefully constructed to contain it. With the murder covered up, he pledges to investigate the crime and bring the murderer to justice.

Siavash has spent the last few years transforming his house into the world's first intergalactic space taxi. All he needs now is an intergalactic spaceship engine. As no such engine exists on Earth, he plots to acquire one from an advanced alien civilization. His children, Fairuza and Giovanni,...