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Red Joan
Joan Stanley has a secret. She is a loving mother, a doting grandmother, and leads a quiet, unremarkable life in the suburbs. Then one morning there is a knock on the door, and suddenly the past she has been so keen to hide for the last fifty years threatens to overturn her comfortable world. Read more...
We Are Here
An intelligent and page-turning thriller from the international bestselling author of THE STRAW MEN. Read more...
Banjo Songs
Sam Stone, a retired Assistant U.S. Attorney in Birmingham, AL, defends a Pakistani-America physician who is accused of murdering his brother due to an attempted honor killing in the family. Read more...
Elizabeth I: the people’s queen?
A different window on the first half of the famous Queen's life. Elizabeth I is a historical novel narrated by the three women who knew her best. Read more...
Stoning the Devil
A novel set in the United Arab Emirates, a country of paradoxes, of seediness and glamour, of desert grandeur and Disneyland vulgarity, where public executions and other barbaric customs are winked at by the western expats who run the economy. Read more...
Caposcripti
A novel about shrunken heads and dropouts, language and voyeurism, set in London and the Amazon basin. Winner of the £10,000 Kidwell eBook Prize. Read more...
The Banker Who Turned to Voodoo
The story of a young man going for a banking job in Brazil in the 60s, only to become fascinated by the voodoo priests and their apparent ability to heal. Read more...
Sworn Secret
Anna, Lizzie Thorne's charismatic sister, is killed in a tragic fall from the roof of her school, her family is plunged into shock and despair. One year on and grief still has a suffocating hold on them. Her mother, consumed by loss and desperate to find someone to blame for Anna's death. Read more...
Crack Scam
This is a fast-paced action thriller set in an authentic background in which two ordinary people become unwittingly caught up in the harsh world of illegal drug dealing. Read more...
The Art Thief
The disappearance of a priceless Caravaggio in Rome and the famous 'White on White' by Russian painter Kasimir Malevich in Paris heralds the start of a series of seemingly unconnected art crimes across Europe. Read more...
Deadly Consignment
Gripping, realistic terrorist thriller from a man who knows the countries involved. Read more...
More Please No More
More Please No More is a novel of voices circling like a cyclone in a traumatic event in the life of a child. Read more...
Sex and Drugs and Squash’n’Roll
Teenager Jolyon Jacks comes of age on the PSA tour. A chance game of squash against a girl at school leads fifteen year old Jacks to Manchester, and the iron-hard coach, ‘Sailor’ McCann. Read more...
Wicked Autumn
Max Tudor has adapted well to his post as vicar of St. Edwold’s in the idyllic village of Nether Monkslip. The quiet village seems the perfect home for Max, who has fled a harrowing past as an MI5 agent. Read more...
The Treachery at Nether Stowey
Autumn 1797. Britain stands alone after the capitulation of its last ally. Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion force lies encamped just across the English Channel. An embattled government resolves to do whatever it takes to protect the nation's shoreline. Read more...
Banjo Method
Ride with Mark Twain and his fellow Masonic travellers on the Panama Railroad in July 1868 as a precursor to the present adventures of Sam Stone, a banjo playing Assistant U.S. Attorney from Alabama, who goes back to the Republic of Panama for a reconciliation with his Brazilian ex-wife, Regina Jones Oliveria. Read more...
Fizz
Fizz is a novel telling the story of the history of physics—mankind unraveling the universe—from the perspective of a young woman. Read more...
Out of Sight
Patrick Hinde is a loving husband and caring father, but when his parents come to stay for a few fateful days one July he simply wants to flee from the difficult memories they provoke. Read more...
Sworn Sword
January 1069. Less than three years have passed since Hastings and the death of the usurper, Harold Godwineson. In the depths of winter, two thousand Normans march to subdue the troublesome province of Northumbria. Read more...
Angel's Fury
One fallen angel walks the earth to bring mankind to its destruction... Turning love into hate, forgiveness into blame, hope into despair. Read more...
The Opposite of Falling
At Niagara Falls, one of the attractions is a red and blue striped hot air balloon offering rides over the rushing water. The balloon is a day-job for Toby O'Hara, a young man whose night-work is to continue to perfect his father's design for a flying machine. Read more...
Of Faith and Fidelity
As the papal wars of the Western Schism rage across Europe, a young man takes his first step on the journey of a lifetime. Read more...
The Short, the Long, and the Tall
The Short, the Long, and the Tall is a collection of 34 stories published during the last 10 years, many of the stories sections that follow on from one another to constitute single narratives. Read more...
The Partridge and the Pelican
In the summer of 1983, Olivia and Eve find a baby abandoned in a phone box. Read more...
Two For Sorrow
London, 1903. Two women are hanged in Holloway Prison for killing babies. Read more...
Anatomy of Ghosts
1786, Jerusalem College Cambridge. The ghost of Sylvia Whichcote is rumoured to be haunting Jerusalem since disturbed fellow-commoner, Frank Oldershaw, claims to have seen the dead woman prowling the grounds. Read more...
Love, Gudrun Ensslin
One banker will be assassinated each month unless the government takes practical steps to reduce the gap between rich and poor… Read more...
Children of the Sun
1970: Fourteen-year-old Tony becomes seduced by the skinhead movement, sucked into a world of brutal racist violence and bizarre ritual. Read more...
The Quiet Twin
A tale of political paranoia, dangerous liaisons and defiant compassion, The Quiet Twin is an unforgettable journey into a cityscape of totalitarian dread and deception. Read more...
The Company of Shadows
Flicking through her friends' holiday snaps, Kate Benson receives a sudden shock. Read more...
Washington Square
Washington Square is one of the most instantly appealing of Henry James's early masterpieces, a tale of a trapped daughter and domineering father that has to do with money and love and innocence betrayed. Read more...
Sex, Spies and Rock and Roll
The year is 1972; British Empire assets and Israel are threatened by a new and deadly weapon of mass destruction. Read more...
The Fan Tan Players
The Fan Tan Players opens in 1928 in Macao on a cyclone-drenched Quasimodo Sunday. Read more...
Rude Boy
Expelled from boarding school, Punk Rock rebel Kenny Silvers returns to early 1980s London to renew his friendship with former `partner in crime', Eddie. Read more...
A Fine and Private Place
As Sandro gets to grips with the dispiriting realities of life as a private detective, touting for business among old contacts and following errant teenagers, an old case comes back to haunt him... Read more...
A Time of Mourning
When a young English girl goes missing from among Florence's hard-drinking, high-living community of foreign art students, at first ex-policeman, good husband and newly private detective Sandro Cellini is unwilling to see any connection with his investigation of the suicide of an elderly Jewish architect. Read more...
The Buzzards of Zinn
As Jason approaches the city of Zinn he is aware that something very strange lies ahead, though in the end just another adventure in his restless travels around the globe. Read more...
Blood Lily
Scott is facing bankruptcy amid the turmoil that grips the financial markets of 2008. Read more...
Bolt Action
Since 9/11, the door between the pilots and the passengers on an airliner must be locked and impossible to break down. Read more...
Foolish Lessons in Life & Love
23 year-old Taras Krohe is wedged between the two women in his life: his Russian girlfriend, Katya, who is struggling to fund her way through college; and his overbearing Bukovinian mother. Read more...
Sardinian Silver
How many young people have dreamt of self and sexual discovery in a far off, exotic place? Read more...
Twisted Wing
The claustrophobic environment of Ariel College, Cambridge, has become the hunting ground of a serial killer. Read more...
The Children's Book
Olive Wellwood is a famous writer, interviewed with her children gathered at her knee. Read more...
The Bad Book Affair
Israel Armstrong—the hapless duffle coat wearing, navel-gazing librarian who solves crimes and domestic problems whilst driving a mobile library around the north coast of Ireland—finds himself on the brink of thirty. Read more...
Aaaargh!
Simon Hamartian PhD, Boadicea University's Egregius Professor of History, is on his deathbed in Heaven’s Waiting Room Private Hospital, Nursing Home, Mortuary and Crematorium (The One-Stop Mortality Service). Read more...
Inside the Whale
Stephanie Sandford, recently widowed, must tell her family the truth. But the past is indistinct and it's complicated. First, there was her mum, who developed an anxious streak after marrying the wrong Reg. And then there was the young man from the dairy who gave Stevie swimming lessons before he broke her heart. Read more...
First Contact
In the heart of the jungle lies a powerful secret. A secret thousands die for every year. A secret that men will kill for. They hoped for the trip of a lifetime. Now they are minutes from death. Read more...
The Gropes
It is one of the more surprising facts about old England that one can still find families living in the same houses their ancestors built centuries before and on land that has belonged to them since before the Norman Conquest. Read more...
BabyBarista and the Art of War
It is BabyBarista’s first day as a pupil barrister in chambers. Read more...
City of Thieves
Nic Lamparelli works for a leading US investment bank in London. Starting at the bottom, he rises rapidly through the ranks to reach the pinnacle of his profession. Read more...
In Restoration
In this compelling drama of love, loss and reconciliation, the tragic death of their child precipitates Olivia and art restorer Paul into the unfamiliar world of a Tuscan hill town. Read more...
Death and the Lit Chick
As the wildly successful darling of the publishing industry, chick lit mystery writer Kimberlee Kalder is the guest of honour at an exclusive writers' conference at Dalmorton Castle in Scotland. Read more...
Under Running Laughter: Burma- The Hidden Heart
Under Running Laughter is a fictionalised biography of Charles Garrad. Read more...
Almost Home
Ten years ago, American Jordan Weiss's idyllic experience as a graduate student and coxswain at Cambridge was shattered when her boyfriend and fellow crewmember, Jared Short, drowned in the River Cam the night before the biggest race of the year. Read more...
Crossed Wires
This is the story of Mina, a girl at a Sheffield call centre, whose next customer in the queue is Peter, a Cambridge geography don, who has crashed his car into a tree stump. Read more...
Second Coming
Dr Miles Wallace is a thirty-something biology lecturer and a leading - if rather undervalued - expert on the Urodela - that's salamanders and newts. Read more...
A Short Gentleman
How did Robert Purcell, distinguished barrister and perfect specimen of the British Establishment, end up in prison? Read more...
The Blackstone Key
'The footsteps grew louder, and now Mary could make out the dim figure of a man advancing towards her. Read more...
