A 13-year-old girl is raped, and Neil is assigned to the case. Shortly afterwards, a university student is attacked in a similar way, though this time the rapist wore a mask. Could the two crimes be connected? Or is it just coincidence? Neil must get to the bottom of the case before the attacker strikes again. One of the hardest hitting Beat novels makes for a gripping read, full of twists. Also features the first appearances of series characters Inspector Paul Grace and Neil's new girlfri...

The classic best seller by the author of 'The Pretender' and the Bone & Cane novels remains as relevant as ever.'Affairs between teachers and pupils are incredibly common,' says the author. 'They're often treated as a joke. But this isn't a funny story.'Rachel has a crush on her new English teacher. Mike fancies Rachel too. Neither plans to do anything about it. Then a school play brings them closer together. Really Close.Romeo and Juliet is a very romantic play, bu...

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'I just howled. Bloomin' love you' Giovanna Fletcher'You're hilarious. Thank you for making me laugh every day' Mrs HinchWhen does Mary Effing Poppins arrive?Laura Belbin survived hitting her thirties (oh, to be wrinkle-free again), anxiety (just), motherhood (two adorable little shits) and the new body that went with it (a left tit that sags slightly mo...

'He tells you he loves you all the time. That he's going to get you out of the hostel, away from the drugs. He better not be lying to you.'Sarah Bone MP is one of New Labour's rising stars. Then she's pulled out of a debate by the police and accused of her lover's brutal murder. Her former lover, Nick Cane, has a vivacious new girlfriend. Then he gets too close to an intelligent and attractive student who he's tutoring in a care home – and someone tries to silence him. As Nick figh...

Bilal's sister, Nazia, is accused of having murdered her husband, Omar, because she's having an affair with old flame, Nick Cane. Nick is being investigated by journalist Pete Carlson. He's trying to prove that Cane is at the centre of a Nottingham drugs cartel.It's 2001 and there's a General Election. Sarah Bone MP is likely to lose her seat in parliament. The last thing she wants is to be dragged into a messy murder where her ex-boyfriend is under suspicion. But Omar's brother Fa...

Writing about Nick Drake leads seventeen-year-old David to Nottingham, where, in the late 1970s, he encounters the formidable singer/songwriter Kevin Coyne and, most weeks, goes to see local legends, Gaffa. This original, beguiling memoir weaves Belbin's story, from teenage depression to becoming a best-selling author, together with those of Drake, Coyne and Gaffa, drawing on interviews conducted over forty-four years. 'A very well written book about music and life'. Ian McMillan.'...

Sarah Bone, Labour MP for Nottingham West, has taken a temporary sabbatical from parliament to care for her sick mother. Sarah's ex, Nick Cane, is going straight having served 8 years for cannabis possession. While Sarah is contemplating a relationship with the local chief constable, Nick is seeing Chantelle, not realising she's really Deborah, an undercover cop targeting Nottingham's drug cartels. A phone call to Sarah Bone's mother hints at scandal long buried in the family's political p...

Aazim is fifteen. His family is about to be deported. When Immigration come for him he decides to hide in a city allotment. But nowhere is safe for long. Aazim meets Nadimah. People are after her too. Soon they have to go on the run and find work to survive. Their new country is full of secret gardens. Few of them are safe places. Will they find a way to stay? A small novel with a big reputation. 'A well written and thought-provoking story which raises serious questions about asylum seeker...

Nottingham, 1997. Sarah Bone is a Labour politician with a hidden radical past, about to face the election battle of her life. She also has a radical ex-boyfriend, Nick Cane, just released from prison for growing and selling cannabis. They're brought together again when Sarah campaigns successfully for the release of Ed Clarke, a wrongfully imprisoned 'murderer', only to be sexually assaulted on the night she celebrates his release with him. Is she responsible for a terrible injustice?

David Belbin's stories have appeared in many books and anthologies, including Heinemann's 'Best Short Stories of the Year'. Here, they are collected for the first time, together with four substantial new stories about contemporary life in the UK.I've no idea why David Belbin isn't a household name, but 'Provenance' deserves to make him one. Across 25 years of work his voice is unfailingly, painfully true to life, unshowily thoughtful and suffused with a flavour of the East Midlands...

From an early age, Mart Trace shows a remarkable talent for literary forgery. During a gap year in Paris Mark's skill at imitating Ernest Hemingway is exploited by an unscrupulous manuscript dealer, Paul Mercer. Mark returns to London, where he works part time at one of the UK's oldest literary magazines. Opportunities for forgery present themselves and Mark has a noble cause - and a girl - to pursue. But at least one of the authors whose work Mark forges, Graham Greene, is still alive. Fo...

'We have almost no university literature in the UK. David Belbin is ideally placed to help start it off, and this book is a valuable addition to the YA range. Anyone who has been or is at university will relate to the characters. The full range of experiences from that first year after leaving home are all here - isolation, friendship, sex, loyalty, heartbreak, happiness, despair. Some succeed, some fail; of them struggle. The book is full of honesty and insight, and you never know until t...