Brian Martin, a former teacher at Magdalen College School, Oxford, caused a stir with his debut novel North, which featured a pupil-teacher relationship. Now Mr Martin, who lives in North Oxford, has written a sequel, Latimer, an ebook which centres on the father of the dead student. Like his first book, the sequel features distrust, jealousy, sex and murder.

The novel opens with North's funeral, where the shadowy narrator meets the dead boy's father for the first time. The name Latimer conjures images of a burning martyr in Broad Street, and there are plenty of Oxford references in this racy story for local readers to enjoy.