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**A complete guide to all aspects of property development and investment. ** **Not only will this book help you to make a profit from property, it will also save you time and money. ** An insider’s guide from someone who’s been there and done it all. So, you want to become...

Every time he speaks others seem to die. He loves a woman but is terrified of the words he must say. He wants to be with her but is afraid of causing her death. If it were not for her smile he would not have taken the risk. ‘I saw the impact of those words.  'I saw the impact on you as those...

The Chronicle of Charles Weatherby is set in the early 1980s and tells the tale of Charles, who drifts into a job in the City for which he is wholly unsuited and, failing to read the politics at the long established Stones & Co., finds himself peremptorily fired. Unemployed and rusticated, Charles...

When Thomas Coates, Vicar of St Paul’s, Ellingwood, disappears from his vestry minutes before the Sunday morning service, subsequently to be found dead on the North Downs, reluctant amateur detective Gawaine St Clair is called in to investigate.  Gawaine and his companions assemble a list...

A sleepy Hampshire cathedral city, a remote cottage in central Wales and a small town in the forests of east Texas – these are not locations where one might expect to find social unrest, political intrigue, or calculated injustice. Set shortly in the future, in 2030, Courting Rendition takes the...

Constructed of stone and packed earth, the Great Wall of 10,000 li protects China’s northern borders from the threat of Mongol incursion. The wall is also home to a supernatural beast: the Old Dragon. The Old Dragon’s Head is the most easterly point of the wall, where it finally meets the sea.  In...

When Melody and her two children stagger into Sunshine Gardens, they build a new life, not only for themselves, but also for Chris. Their new life together grows into an adventure that branches out to include rescuing horses (one of whom is a great champion horse), and the man who lost him. They build...

Jan is a gripping thriller following the story of several lives and love affairs during a terrible period of European history spanning the years 1918-1940. It is also a tense, action-packed depiction of life in Nazi Germany and of desperate military and espionage activity behind enemy lines. After...

Vivienne Vermes' debut novel is a gripping read which will appeal to readers who enjoy historical fiction, thrillers and evocative themes. The book begins with a young woman found, emaciated and unconscious, in the mountains surrounding a village in Transylvania. When it is discovered that she is...

**Presenting the prequels to the well-received Philip Devalle series, Designs of a Gentleman: The Early Years and The Darker Years introduce the adventurous character we know and love right back at the beginning! ** The Early Years - 1662, and Charles 11 has been King for two years....

Martin is an assassin – or that is how he likes to think of himself. In reality, beneath a seemingly pleasant and unpretentious facade, lurks a ruthless predator ... a narcissistic sociopath! He killed his very first victim when he had only just turned sixteen. Fleeing to Belgium, he had been recruited...

Written as a fictional autobiography, in ‘Autobiography of an Assassin - The Family’, we are introduced to those unique individuals who make up the ‘Family’ - a collective of assassins and killers! The prequel, ‘The Here and the Now’, demonstrated the typical sheer conceited arrogance,...

An ordinary woman’s struggle to cope in extraordinary places, surrounded by power, greed, danger and lust... At only 16, Mary Hawke is married to the handsome Henry Crawford and goes to live with him in his Essex home. But her husband is a vicious brute who sees his innocent young wife as his...

Why is Rose transported back in time, to the London of 1666? What waits for her there? Will she ever be able to return back to the present day? Recovering from her father’s death, Rose books into a small London hotel. On one of her explorations, she meets and strikes up a friendship with...