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It is 1990. Annie is a 31 year old Scottish lawyer living in Edinburgh’s New Town and at the centre of a tight group of friends: Kirsty, from Galloway farming stock and her husband Duncan, a bordering alcoholic lawyer, who never quite measures up in his father’s eyes, and Virginia and her husband...

From the deserts of North Africa to the fever wards back home, this wartime love story charts the distant courtship between a young Wellington Bomber pilot and a probationer nurse. He sees action above the skies of Egypt in one of the most hazardous missions of the Desert Airforce, while she cares...

Introducing a heart-wrenching tale of death, betrayal and love in all of its glorious aspects, Another Life, Another Love follows a young woman called Suzanne who struggles to come to terms with all that life throws at her. Written in an intimate manner to bring the reader closer into her world,...

Snow Blind is a viciously funny novel with a moral. It lifts the lid on male relationships and asks whether men ever truly grow up. More importantly, what impact is this having on the legacy we leave our kids? Dan Greenhenge is sliding uncontrollably towards the dual dangers of a gaping ice-blue crevasse...

Everyone’s journey in this World begins at the beginning of life, and ends when life ends. Since ancient times the quest of life and the fear of death has confronted mankind. Why after millennia, is the Human race bewildered by the question why life exists, and why does it apparently end?

Since his rise to power, Russian President Alexander Volkov has increasingly engaged in hostile activities as he attempts to rebuild the Russian Empire. In support of his tactics, the Russian FSB has forged a Concordat dated 1939 in which the Vatican supposedly agreed to cease all opposition to the...

At the start of Why I Started a Small School: A nurturing, human scale, approach to education and parenting, we see the emotional turmoil Rosalyn experienced when she received a letter indicating that her son's difficulties in school were more likely to be the result of her parenting skills, and life...

The Shaping of Water is a character-driven story, following the different but overlapping lives of those who are connected to a ramshackle cottage by a man-made lake in Central Africa during the Liberation wars across its region. The characters are connected in ways they can't imagine by past secrets...

With Hitler at the height of his power, suave, wealthy and aristocratic, Carl von Menen, a high-flying servant of the German Foreign Office, lives a duplicitous and dangerous life in Nazi Germany: he abhors the Nazi party and wants Hitler dead. But his hopes of seeing a Nazi-free Germany are scuppered...

The Godfather meets Pretty Woman – without the humour. The Prodigal Daughters is a gritty tale that combines the best elements of The Godfather – a powerful crime-family saga – and the attraction of Pretty Woman – down-trodden young women in search of their dreams in the City of Dreams. Weave...

Dhong Xiang is an island ready for rebellion. Shi is a country ready for revolution. Archibald Wincaster finds himself in the middle of it all; the only problem is his addiction to opium. Suddenly, he finds himself in the midst of a rebellion as those known as the Black Dragon rise up against his...

What if you fell in love with your guardian angel? In this original thriller, unseen things become frighteningly real to an ordinary man with an average life as he searches for the answers to what may lie beyond the 'normal'...

Angel Child is the forth in the series by Mark Garrett which examines the consequences of falling in love with a guardian angel. Five years have passed since Paul Sayers returned from Casserhan, the realm of lost souls. He raises his daughter, Ruth, with Rebecca, the guardian angel he fell in love...

A sequel to Angels Cry Too and Golden Dawn Paul Sayers’ unique relationship with his guardian angel, Rebecca, continues under difficult circumstances. After discovering that she’s pregnant, Rebecca returns to the Guardian realm and is summarily banished for breaking Guardian law. She finds herself...