Ronan Bennett

San Petersburgo, 1914. Un solo movimiento en falso podría destruirlo todo. Un respetado periodista es asesinado en San Petersburgo durante el campeonato de ajedrez más importante de la historia. Sin saber por qué el psicoanalista Otto Spethmann resulta involucrado en el crimen y , peor aún , en una conspiración para acabar con la vida del zar. Spethmann es judío y sin darse apenas cuenta pasa a formar parte del movimiento revolucionario, y deberá decidir cuál será su suiguiente jugada en la partida por su propia vida.

St Petersburg, 1914. Dr Otto Spethmann, a famous psychoanalyst, is implicated in a murder. But he is preoccupied with Avrom Rozental, the brilliant chess master who is due to play the most important competition of his life but is on the verge of a breakdown. With the city rife with speculation and alarm, Spethmann broods over his own chessboard, its pieces frozen mid-battle, and contemplates the forces - political, historical, sexual - that are holding him in their grasp.

A rhyming picture book the second in the series about a hare called Hattie written by bestselling poet Pam Ayres and illustrated by award winning artist Nicola O Byrne

England in the 1630s - a difficult country in turbulent times John Brigge is a governor,a man who has kept away from intrigues to work on his farm and be with his wife, now expecting their first child. He is also - secretly - a Catholic. When he is called to settle the murder of a new-born child, Brigge finds himself drawn into matters he wants to avoid. Katherine Shay, an Irishwoman, is accused of killing her baby. Brigge wants to wait for more evidence. The ascendant Puritan faction, however, demand her immediate hanging. Brigge suspects their haste has little to do with their talk of justice. What are they hiding? And does he really want to know? In the background, a rebellion is brewing. Only Brigge - and his investigation - can change the tide. Torn between home and the world, haunted by the mystery of Katharine Shay, he must finally make a stand.

Un thriller ambientado en St. Petersburgo, donde se celebra un campeonato internacional de ajedrez y donde se están cometiendo una serie de misteriosos asesinatos.Zugzwang: [del alemán Zug («movimien

Unthriller ambientado en St. Petersburgo, donde se celebra un campeonato internacional de ajedrez y donde se están cometiendo una serie de misteriosos asesinatos.Zugzwang: [del alemán Zug («movimien

Original novel by Ronan Bennett set in the London portrayed by Bennett within his celebrated and award-winning TV drama Top Boy