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The story of two people who make decisions on the spur of the moment that have unforeseen and life-changing consequences. Not the Same River spans a period of eighteen months in the lives of two very successful, single people in their late 30s; Jack Millfield, an advertising agency executive; and...

Grandma’s Poetry Book charts the nostalgic journey from birth to teens as seen through the eyes of a grandmother. It captures the many facets of those fleeting, easily forgotten moments as the grandchildren grow. Touching and funny in turn, the poems resonate with a grandmother’s love for her...

The year is 1591 and nineteen-year old Edward Harry sails to Ireland as secretary to the famous poet Edmund Spenser. Confident of his own talents, Edward expects to make his fortune as the English impose their rule on the embittered Irish. His life is blown off-course when an excursion in a small...

By the age of eighteen, Clara finds herself a single mother to two sets of twins. With her own mother absent from early childhood and the death of her father in her late teens, food becomes Clara’s crutch. Several decades on, Clara has a new partner and a fifth child. She oozes love and pride towards...

Mary Cranson had done the walk many times before, but now had simply vanished from Dartmoor near the prominent landmark called Haytor. Her boyfriend raises the alarm when she doesn’t meet him as arranged in the local pub.  For the investigating officer, Detective Inspector Richard King,...

Lalla lives for Saturdays and her riding lesson, so she is dismayed to hear that not only will she be missing her visit to the stables this week, but she is being packed off to the west country to spend a week of the Easter hols with a great aunt and uncle she has never met before. She protests but...

Detective Inspector Charlie Moon is no stranger to murder, but the case at 17 Gooch Terrace is particularly gruesome. There is no clear motive, but Moon uncovers a further four almost identical murders – years apart and spread across hundreds of miles. With the help of his friend and journalist...

On a bitter day in January 1934 a young woman pays an unexpected visit to the occupant of the condemned cell in Armley Jail in Leeds. The man is Ernest Brown, who stands convicted of the murder of his employer, Frederick Morton, and is soon to be hanged. The woman is Florence Morton, the victim’s...

'This is a stunningly good read. It's beautifully written and the characters quickly became so real as I read on...I had a blast reading it and found I could easily relate to Amy's situation. Julia Myerscough's 51 Weeks is most highly recommended.' - J Magnus for Readers' Favorite. On a family day...

On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, WHEN SNOW FELL introduces us with passion, touching charm and a dose of humour to three generations of a family who fled from the horror to alien Oxfordshire, but whose Russian souls stayed behind in St Petersburg.

Chief Inspector Maigret’s brief May holiday in London serves up a tale of evil people planning wicked deeds: they’re definitely not the usual criminals he’s used to dealing with at Police Nationale headquarters in Paris! Oh no, this lot is a very different kettle of fish: most of them...

A fast-paced novel of revenge and rivalry where nothing is as it seems. Highlights themes such as the abuse of power in relationships, both personal and professional, and how easy it is ‘to live a lie’. All author’s earnings will be donated to the registered charity African Revival. Edgy...

Forbidden desires. A mind in fragments. A shocking act of violence... When Martin Darrow, the respected chaplain at Wharton public school, discovers that a new pupil is the son of his sadistic childhood abuser, he is tormented by a thirst for revenge. Buried passions begin to resurface as Martin confronts...

In the first part of the Message from Joshua series, a young Ralph Harington falls madly in love with his music-loving sweetheart, Annie Spencer – but the gathering storm clouds of war loom heavy in 1939 as our story moves from the playing fields of Cheltenham to war torn Burma. What is the significance...