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*‘Blackmail by Michael Stokes is an unputdownable romp... the outstanding trial of the femme fatale is enough of a cliffhanger to leave the reader gagging for the next novel.” – Felicity Gerry QC, The Times * In this sequel to the successful Blackmail, Julia Hamilton, the scheming girlfriend...

Twelve year-old Ante (Antonia) Alganesh has a problem. It’s lunchbreak and Florence’s gang are after her. Desperate for a place to hide, she climbs the forbidden staircase to the old organ loft, where a hundred years ago a boy tumbled to his death. No one will think of looking for her there......

It is 1793... As Europe watches the French Revolution’s bloody progress, uneasy Scottish landowners struggle to secure their wealth and power. And, in Dalriada – the ancient Kingdom of Scotland – fractured truths, torn loyalties and bloody atrocities are rife. Can anyone ride the maelstrom of...

Have you ever dived into a mountain lake, in February?  You might ask “Why would I do that?”  - but you know in your heart that there is a friend of yours who wouldn’t be able to resist. “It just seemed like a good idea,” they’d say.   Have you ever been afraid of being...

When an Oxford University student decides to steal an intriguing object from the Pitt Rivers Museum to further his studies, he gets more than he bargained for. It’s 1497 and Albrecht Durer produces the four witches engraving. But there were really five women, not four, and they were sorceresses....

David Grey has been a patient of a mental hospital for the past four years, diagnosed with extreme anger management issues. Upon release, he struggles to adjust to a world that has passed him by. People he has known as children have grown up, married and had children of their own, including his younger...

An oddball group of sufferers on the fringes of society chaotically cope with their mysterious illness. The numbers are growing, the professionals haven’t got a clue, it’s time someone got to the bottom of it. Set In North London, the story follows the sometimes feckless, Joe, who spends...

In 2010 the journalist, Jon Drago, embarks on an extended sabbatical to Eastern Europe. His life at home appears to have reached a crossroads and he has taken to filling his days and nights with high living and fast romance. Then one drunken evening changes everything for Drago as he is catapulted...

Betty the Firefly will delight you with her light, which she shines on her friends. You will discover her adventures in these seven stories full of kindness, friendship and fun. Her friends are facing some difficulties and they don’t know how to deal with them. But here comes Betty the Firefly,...

‘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 African. That is all there is to it, and that is my tragedy.’ In Douala, Cameroon,...

When Suzanne Perry-Jackson is ditched by her husband of almost twenty years, her comfortable, uncomplicated world is turned upside down and inside out. Two months after the traumatic break-up, the sophisticated blonde meets Angelo Azzurro, a captivating stranger who takes full advantage of her vulnerability...

**The Clockmaker waits for you... ** A gripping supernatural novel set in post-blitz Scotland, the first of an upcoming series. “No man in this world may boast of his might, he is awake in the morning and dead at night.” Widowed in World War 2, Annette and her young son face...

Got a Chess set? Fancy a choice of ten spiced up versions of the game? Then Curried Chess is for you! From the easy but fun to play Knightspawn, or the very mobile Noble Wings Chess, to the no King, exotic moves territory battle that is Stratak. You might want to get to grips with Barbed Chess, where...

Sean Archer is a self-taught criminologist and profiler who has been obsessed with crime since his parents were found dead when he was 14 years old. A computer savant, who has developed digital profiling tools, that the police have come to depend on. Sean has acquired a reputation for being able to...