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This book looks at the childhood experiences of a young boy living in Manchester during the late 1960s. It deals with issues of class, migration, poverty and racism.

If Judith decides to be your friend, she’ll make it happen. She’ll find out what you do and where you go. She’ll make sure she’s there too. 36-year-old Judith Dillon hasn’t found her place in society. She struggles to make and maintain relationships especially with women, and the two she tries to get close to in the book end in disaster.

Assariyah will stop at nothing to get what she wants, regardless of who she hurts.Her spoilt nature has come from a harsh past. Having experienced an impoverished life after the death of her father and dealing with broke guys, she refuses to settle for anyone who cannot provide her with the materialistic...

Trouble follows the story of old college friends (and one-time college sweethearts) Richard and Mina – as they meet again at a London party, four years after he deserted his social circle to make a new life in the country with his sculptress wife, Diana. Tentatively, then with increasing passion,...

Written over the course of 25 years, The Invitation to the Garden is a spiritual journey described in verse and prose. The books tells of Joanna’s struggle to make sense of her faith while suffering from recurring anorexia and severe depression. This heartfelt story of self-development begins in...

The Piltdown Picasso is a fast-moving, well-plotted thriller, peopled by compelling characters shot through with a strong thread of humour. Matthew (Fax) Fairfax, a man with a past, arrives back in London after spending some years travelling and is quickly drawn into the capital’s fine art community....

Young teacher John Chisholm is haunted by a past tragedy and, believing his wife no longer loves him, begins to experience a nervous breakdown. He is forcibly removed to Springwell, a harsh mental institution where he endures and witnesses abuse – some of this ‘in the name of treatment’ –...

A glorious, exciting and heart-wrenching tale, The Celestial Sea is the first book in a new series. This is the story of an English housewife and mother and an artistic Kiwi man; musician, woodsman and teacher, who find themselves embracing life in the Southern Hemisphere in the most unexpected and...

Dry Dock is the second novel by Marina da Nadous. It’s the sequel to the glorious, exciting and heart-wrenching tale, The Celestial Sea. Take a middle-class English mother, her husband and family from the contentment of a teaching life in the south of England, to the wild, green hills of a New Zealand...

In April 2010, the brutal murders of distillery owner, Duncan Fraser, and his wife Laura, shock the small rural community of Glenruthven in the Scottish Highlands. The ensuing police investigation unearths an ancient clan feud… and a mystery dating back to 1746 and the Battle of Culloden.

If he were still alive today, Robin Hood would be viewed as a threat to the government – a non-violent terrorist. The historical Robin acted within the context of Norman/Saxon Britain; the Robin in this book operates internationally and sees himself as acting for global justice, fairness, and against...

Catherine is celebrating her thirtieth birthday when her life takes a turn for the worse; her rival Anna, a woman with loose morals, triggers a quarrel between Catherine and her partner Alexander. Following the party, Alexander sexually assaults Catherine, propelling her on a journey in search of...

Katharina Stuart, nicknamed Kat, has a pretty normal life. She has a great job in London writing for a magazine and comes home every night to her beautiful apartment and her fiancé John. Most people would envy her, but Kat has always felt like something is missing from her life… After being assigned...

*“An absolute page-turner with a brilliant idea at its heart.” * Manchester architect Gabriel Meredith is plagued by a mysterious brain condition. Conventional medicine seems unable to find a cure and as a last resort, he agrees to be treated by experimental neuroscientist, Cairo Shore....