Literary / Contemporary
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How the Dice Fell
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Set in London and the north of England, How the Dice Fell is a powerful story about terrorism, love and revenge set within the tensions of a multi-racial Britain. Chance brings three people together in a London Underground train on...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/06/2012
Crawling Round South Oakwood
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Crawling Round?South Oakwood follows five friends - Malcolm, Alasdair, Tarquin, Joss and Blake - on a series of pub crawls round their home town. Alasdair is an ambulance driver who spends his spare time writing screenplays. Tarquin, a recently divorced...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/04/2012
Middle Watch
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Middle Watch is a time when a man alone on a lighthouse in those wee small hours feels he's the only person in the world. A man awake and alone in the darkness of the night has time to think,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2012
To the Great Sea A Story for Christmas
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What is this man afraid of? What is he fleeing from? Where is he going? Who, indeed, is he? Having crossed the great river, he has vague notions of heading westwards towards the Great Sea - until chance intervenes. On...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2011
Setting the Record Straight
Set in Los Angeles, New York and rural Texas, Setting the Record Straight is a complex evaluation of relationships and love. Aged 12, Geoff Dealer was involved in a tragic incident that led to the death of two people, one...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2011
Ursula's Arm
Why does Ursula's right arm hang limply by her side? The doctors can find nothing wrong - is she faking it or is it all in the mind? Her husband, Leo, wants Ursula to see Mrs Moberley, a psychoanalyst, but...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2011
Harry Cocque That's Reet Boy!
A gentle satire on Olde England as seen through the eyes of fictional pensioner Harry Cocque, a very old gentleman currently residing in the Piddlewell Moorhen Rest Home for the faintly bewildered (but non-violent). That's Reet Boy! is a collection...
Format: Paperback - Released: 22/09/2011
Tell a Good Tale
The writer uses his considerable experience of life, including two interesting careers, to present a number of short stories and shorter diverting pieces. In one, a pilot thinks he may have caused his navigator’s death and, after ten years of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
A Matter of Degree
Colin Andrews has drawn on his long experience as a teacher, folk performer and Morris dancer to produce a highly original novel that will leave readers with a sense of satisfaction - and a warm smile on their face. No...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2011
After the Rains
Jayne grows up on a farm in the mountains of Zimbabwe, where her closest friend is Enoch, the young African son of one of the farm workers. Following a devastating terrorist attack, during which Jayne defends the farm with her...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2011
Football is a Funny Old Game
Laurie Top is a talented footballer with a wayward personality. He loves women and has disastrous dalliances with a Page 3 girl and a Miss World. Risk is Laurie's buzzword, gambling is his personal philosophy and he is up to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/07/2011
A Disturbed Girl's Guide to Curing Boredom
Hannah Harker is bored. Her tedious job as a local newspaper reporter is grinding her soul to dust and she cannot find anything to interest or excite her. Refusing to accept an average life of anonymity, she decides to tear...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/06/2011
Burglar Boy
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Not your typical black-hearted burglar, Dean is a neglected 11-year-old, free to roam the streets, day and night, and encouraged to steal by his older brother in a secret life of crime. Then, one day, during a break-in, Dean meets...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/05/2011
A Woman of Africa If You Run from Both the Sun and the Moon You Must One Day Confront Your Shadow
'I am an African woman. That's not a political statement. I am not a Whoopee Goldberg or an Oprah Winfrey, a middle-class American in search of an identity or asserting a political right. I am a woman and I am...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2011
Only the Whores Wore Watches
Morgan yearns to escape from his tedious 9 to 5 job at a third-rate travel company. When they send him to The Caribbean on the trail of 17th century pirates, he dreams of discovering buried loot. After being seduced by...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2011
Water Under the Bridge And Other Poems
The poems have been inspired by Mary's work, travels and experiences and some have won prizes in competitions - To My Love won 1st prize in the 2009 Annual Poetry Competition of The Lancashire Authors Association.Her book is split into...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2011
Botolph
A young father, the last survivor or a defeated Saxon dynasty leads his pregnant wife and family to the safety of a new life in an ironworks. His son Botolph is born in humble but happy surroundings. Some years later...
Format: Paperback - Released: 15/12/2010
Silent Bombs Falling On Green Grass
The man with the stolen identity who finds it a little too close to his own…An office manager forced to face his past at the worlds most unpleasant B&B…The stranger in the eye of a supernatural storm who just wants...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2010
Karoo Plainsong
This vivid novel, set against a backdrop of apartheid, tells the story of Ada, an illegitimate, unschooled but brilliant pianist who grows up in service to a family of Irish immigrants. As apartheid tightens its grip, she is seduced into...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2010
Between Cups of Coffee
A middle-aged university lecturer has an established single man's life. He lives alone in a small flat, has daily work aggravations and affairs. While he continues to be in a relationship with a woman with little common interests, he enjoys...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/11/2010
Some Better Days Poems and Stories Mostly of the Scottish Highlands
A collection of poetry and short stories, in three parts, that celebrates the author's life in the Scottish Highlands and how observantly he worked with nature's varied wildlife there. Part One is a collection of poems about his early years...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2010
Without
Without is the story of a time when everyone has to be 'green'; they have no choice. Against a background of unpredictable weather, we watch events unfold through the eyes of Celia, wife of Robin, Recycling Technician and full time...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2010
The Elephant Tree
Reminiscent of Irvine Walsh's Trainspotting, this debut novel, The Elephant Tree challenges the reader's sense of morality with shocking plot twists and vivid characters. Mark Fallon is an overworked detective investigating a spate of attacks at a string of high...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2010
The Secret Five and the Stunt Nun Legacy
The Secret Five and the Stunt Nun Legacy is a quirky parody of children’s adventure stories in which our young-adult heroes – Betty (bossy), Daniel (unstable), Ricky (hungry), Amy (naïve) and their dog Whatshisname (fat) – think that they live...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2010
When We Were Lovers All Irish Stories of Love, Loss and Laughter
Set in Portnabawd, an Irish town suffering in the dismal 1950s and 60s, When We Were Lovers All is about people in all their maddening complexity. The stories capture the zeitgeist of mid-twentieth century Ireland and illustrate the capacity of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2010
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A Case of Wild Justice?
The 'silver bees' are fighting back against crime and vandalism by turning themselves into walking booby traps. "If we can't save ourselves from attack," they say, "then at least the criminals won't escape either!"Hannah Meadows, a kindly old lady with...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 22/09/2008
Smoke
Edward Faulkner is the embattled new prime minister of Great Britain. Elected in a surprise snap election he leads a minority government. Shortly after taking post, his DTI secretary, Helen Steele, discovers a secret plan by the Chinese to take...
Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/2008
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
Netherhall Gardens
First visit to Netherhall Gardens? Let me introduce you to some of the neighbours. Meet handsome trainee accountant Mark… who’s friends with beautiful petite Stella… whose sister Iris can’t abide Stella's lawyer boyfriend Hugh… who doesn’t at all like the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/06/2008
Dark Glasses
Lizzie Beckman craves fame at any price but when her idea for a fake but very public suicide is totally ignored by the press, the 20 year old ‘wannabe’ reluctantly turns to the publicity consultant who regularly grabs the headlines...
Format: Paperback - Released: 12/05/2008
The Big Story
With the nation’s most respected broadcaster now exposed for cheating, The Big Story comes as a timely and highly topical satire on the television industry, where the words 'truth' and 'reality' can have quite different meanings. Written by an insider,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/12/2007
And All The Rest Of It
An elderly writer, driven by fear, guilt and loneliness, seeks an alternative existence to that which he fails to understand. At odds with an ever-changing world, and unsure of his place within that world, he sets out on a journey...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/12/2007
Ten A Penny
Marcus Friend, now fully recovered from his operation, and ready to read and write again, has launched his big idea, the Beliefs Club. After six months it appears to be going rather well so why does he need extra-terrestrial assistance...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 12/11/2007
Breath of Corruption
The seventh in the highly popular Caper Court series of novels recounting the lives and loves of a group of London barristers. An absorbing blend of romance and professional intrigue with fascinating insights into London's legal world.
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 01/11/2007
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
Chekyl and Ide
What to do if you turn out to have a doppelganger? Psychologist Clive ‘Rab’ Mewles, first curator of the Psychologists’ Hall of Fame Museum, is about to find out. Just remember: never ever clap eyes on your doppo for it...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 21/12/2006
Days Of Abandonment
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This compelling novel that shocked audiences in Europe with its unsentimental and unyielding depiction of motherhood, marriage and solitude, tells the story of one woman’s headlong descent into what she calls an “absence of sense” after being abandoned by her...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2006
Silent People: Hearing The Call of The Dodder
Silent People is about the silent people who wander among us looking lost, as if they don't quite belong, but don't know how to leave; who 'struggle all their lives to fit into a world... that feels entirely alien to...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 03/04/2006
School Story
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1941Seven apprehensive thirteen-year-olds enter a famous Public School as members of Ansell’s, the most prestigious House. The reader is inducted with them into claustrophobic, arcane, degenerated traditions which educate them intellectually, morally and sexually into ruined senior boys...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/11/2005
Pushing Envelopes
People want to know how they are doing -- or rather they have been told that is what they want. What they need is feedback. Once inducted into the arcane arts of feedbackery by the diverse bunch of psychologists who...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 15/04/2005
dunno
'dunno' looks at six months in the life of Jon who is fifteen and lives alone with his mother. His situation is increasingly common; “feral” is the term currently used. Life for both him and his mother is wretchedly miserable....
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2004
Ashgrove
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Eight ash trees were planted in 1921 as a memorial to the men from the village of CharltonAmbrose who were killed in World War One. Now the Ashgrove is under threat from developers,and the village is torn between...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/08/2004
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