RoomMAJOR FILM HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR 3 GOLDEN GLOBES. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2010 MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2011 ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners.

A real page-turner’ Mandy Robotham

disguised as Madame Doubtfire

like dishpans and fire rings

secrets kept and exposed

The Deptford Mice are worried: the mystical bats have fled from the attic

Hansen is an effective cop

Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's loss

the revived Hitler unquestionably has a spring in his step

The style of each chapter should spring naturally from its subject matter

starving foundling is discovered outside their gates

where he is unexpectedly recruited by Queen Elizabeth I and is sent undercover to Oxford University on the pretext of a royal visitation

From this moment his attempts to have a holiday are interrupted by one unexpected happening after another