Literary / Contemporary
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Crump
Kevin Crump is happy – he’s just got his dream job as a lecturer at a British university and is looking forward to introducing his new students to a first class education. Yet, as the academic year progresses, all is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/03/2010
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Sea Creatures
A young family struggle to come to terms with the sudden disappearance of their mother from their home on the Cornish coast. Twenty-two years later the estranged Moon family, siblings Jenna, Charlie and Olivia, along with their father Brendan, are...
Format: Paperback - Released: 20/10/2009
Chronicles of a Soldier
After five million years of peace there is a war that shatters the peace that people had enjoyed and taken for granted. Bombit and Mombit find themselves escaping the war. Their marriage is destroyed and the couple become displaced. Bombit...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
War on the Margins
France has fallen to the Nazis. Britain is under siege. As BBC bulletins grow bleak, residents of Jersey abandon their homes in their thousands. When the Germans take over, Marlene Zimmer, a shy clerk at the Aliens Office, must register...
Format: Hardback - Released: 23/07/2009
Bad Things Happen
Aengus lived in a vibrant new city, among charming new friends, with a thriving career. There was never any hint that, just a scratch below the surface of his world, lurked desolate emptiness. When his wife, Caitríona, is killed in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2010
Black Shoes
Meet successful London property developer Daniel Martins. He has everything a man could want: his own booming business, a luxury pad, an expensive sports car... all at the tender age of twenty-five. But should he appreciate this more because he...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2009
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In Sparta
In London, any time soon, a bomb maker goes to work, with a fierce, Spartan creed to deliver destruction. Someone buried so deep in everyday life, no one can guess their moves. For a man adrift in a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2009
A Dangerous Man
Michael Jones, a young gay artist and part-time prostitute will do anything to stage his first exhibition. When he falls in love with rich financier, Jack Hutchinson, he seems set to achieve his goal. But as Mikey becomes caught between...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/02/2007
Maloney's Law
Paul Maloney, a small-time private investigator from London, reluctantly accepts a case from his married ex-lover, Dominic Allen. Before he knows it, Paul finds himself embroiled in the dark dealings of big business and the sordid world of international crime....
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/06/2008
The Balaclava Boy
‘I can honestly say that I was so scared I thought my legs had fallen off with fear. That thing was just too close, too big and too repulsive. And as for the smell… I’m Jack - a farmer’s...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/11/2008
Surreal-ism
A varied collection of fiction, short stories and poetry in four parts.Catch-22-SAS is set in the summer of 1987. With the fictitious John Parker having upset everyone in the village in East Anglia, where he lives and works,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 13/04/2009
Facing It
The voyage in this story of courage and adventure is loosely based on the route of the British Steel Challenge. It’s set slightly into the future to facilitate a little social comment. The characters are entirely fictitious, chosen to illustrate...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 17/11/2008
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