Danny Leigh

Lizbeth Greene is a celebrated crime novelist with writer's block. Wilson Velez is the imprisoned leader of the Sacred Incan Royals, a Latino gang, who has just emerged from five years spent in solitary confinement. When Lizbeth decides to write a book about Wilson, she begins to visit him in prison and, as the relationship grows, they both find themselves becoming increasingly dependent on each other. The Monsters of Gramercy Park is a fantastically original and spellbinding novel at the centre of which is a wholly compelling and electrifying relationship. Full of twists and turns, it leaves the reader guessing until the very last page.

A dazzling tale, told with great humour, of the last seconds of a man's life as he leaps from a nine-storey building. Matthew Viss works for the city's premier concierge service. Whatever you need, he can provide. And he'll do it with a smile. He just wants to help - that's all he's ever wanted to do. The Greatest Gift is the story of his downfall. 'Leigh's prose is discomforting, his free-form style a reflection of Matthew's free-falling life, and there are echoes of Chuck 'Fight-Club' Palahniuk ... A complex, affecting debut, suggesting the emergence of an exciting talent.' Daily Mail 'The Greatest Gift, a withering report on the emptiness and narcissism of the corporate world ... Leigh has steered away from the familiar territory of the first-time novelist ... and delivered something more distinctive. What looks like a satire on contemporary office life becomes an allegory about loftier themes - friendship, compulsion, identity and desire.' Daily Telegraph