Books published by Atlantic Books

A gritty, realistic police procedural debut. Does for Brooklyn's 'Little Italy' what The Wire did for Baltimore

The first and only global social history of the world's most romantic, flamboyant, glamorous and politically influential art-form: opera. 'A mighty achievement, by far and away the best history of opera available.' Tim Blanning, Literary Review

Written by a highly decorated war veteran over the course of thirty years, Matterhorn is a spellbinding and unforgettable novel that brings to life an entire world - both its horrors and its thrills - and seems destined to become a classic of combat literature.

THOSE WHO DENY HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT Purge has become an international publishing sensation and is among the most hard-hitting thrillers of recent years.

Craig Raine's dazzlingly original second novel, The Divine Comedy is a gripping meditation on sex and death and God and the myriad ways in which the human body plays dirty tricks on us.

Moving from the gas-flares of Teesside, to marine adventures in the South Atlantic, Hemispheres is a salutary and searing debut novel for anyone who enjoyed Kes and The Northern Clemency.

From the author of The Hanging Shed, a bestseller totalling 200,000 copies, comes the third instalment in the Douglas Brodie series. As Glasgow is buried under snow, a killer is on the loose and a deadly secret threatens to take Brodie to the edge of sanity. 'The new Ian Rankin' - Daily Mail

The gripping eighth instalment of Anne Holt's bestselling Hanne Wilhelmsen series: a snowbound mountain pass, a derailed train, a locked, shuttered and heavily guarded carriage, an apocalyptic storm, an ancient hotel, old betrayals, murder and state secrets.

A magical, thrilling, time-travelling adventure trilogy for for 9-12 year old readers. 'Move over Harry Potter.' Evening Standard

In January 2007, the young and optimistic soldiers of the 2-16, the American infantry battalion known as the Rangers, were sent to Iraq as part of the surge. Their job would be to patrol one of the most dangerous areas of Baghdad. Telling the story of these soldiers, both the heroes and the ruined, this title portrays the face of modern war.

A killer stalks history's most famous friends in this thrilling retelling of one day in the life of James Boswell and Samuel Johnson

Now available in hardback at GBP16.99 and packed with over 125 integrated colour illustrations and paintings, The Rose is a very beautiful and desirable Christmas present.

Now available in paperback, a dark and dramatic memoir of an angler's life, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and William Hill Sports Book of Year. 'Jennings weaves a net to mesh human struggle to the peace of the riverbank.' Guardian

'Part glamorous travelogue, part slow-burn mystery, this full-bodied tale of a runaway is at once formally inventive and heartbreakingly familiar... (It's also insanely funny.)' Lena Dunham

In this provocative and passionately argued book, Roger Scruton proposes that the greatest harm and havoc has been wrought on the world by those who have presented themselves as optimists and idealists, whether of the left or of the right. Rejecting such ideals, we should instead seek to replace such irrational - and pernicious - exuberance with a humane pessimism.

This explosive, riveting, controversial novel about sex and sexuality is essential reading for fans of Alice Sebold, Lionel Shriver & M J Hyland. 'A shocking novel that grips from the first page.' Independent

The second instalment in the Merrily Watkins series: Merrily's new role as Diocesan Exorcist is not plain sailing, as signs of evil appear around the old city of Hereford...