Set around a haunted house in a rural or small-town environment, the narrative tracks how ordinary family life and local routines come under threat from uncanny, element-linked forces.

A sweeping, literary account of cancer treated as a historical subject: how clinicians, researchers, and institutions have identified, named, studied, and attempted to treat cancer over decades and centuries.

A cleric from a monastery visits an abandoned imperial palace shortly after an empress's death and listens as the empress's former servant recounts the ruler's life.

Four disparate Englishwomen arrange a month-long holiday at a sunlit Italian castle to escape damp London and the pressures of their social lives.

Four very different people converge in an Italian villa during the later stages of World War II: a severely burned, anonymous patient; the Canadian nurse who tends him; a Sikh sapper; and a Canadian thief.

Set in 1893 Victorian England, the novel follows Cora Seaborne, newly widowed and pivoting toward amateur natural history, who leaves London for an Essex village where reports of a mythic sea-serpent unsettle the community.

A young girl experiences an escalating, violent form of possession that draws medical professionals and Catholic clergy into a struggle over diagnosis and deliverance.

A woman who has left a life tied to intelligence work is living overseas when a chain of events forces secrets from her past back into play, putting family and identity at risk.

A rural community is shattered by a violent incursion, pushing a group of young people onto the road under urgent threat. They become caught in a wider struggle involving an articulated system of magic, looming malevolent forces, and competing powers.