Mp imprint: 249 books

The cry of an abandoned baby on the outskirts of an old Cuban town attracts the attention — and then cracks open the life — of a wandering tourist. Mia, an out-of-work actress whose life is adrift, finds herself filled with purpose as she looks for a place the baby can call home.As with any odyssey,...

When Yuvis wife finds him in his underwear, standing on top of his desk, she isnt particularly impressed with his writing habits. But Yuvi worries. He has a wife who wants things he cant give her, an editor who wants a book he cant deliver, a brother-in-law whose gastrointestinal disease may lead him...

DI Rick Cole and the psychologist Geoff Maynard to the unsuspecting criminals on the patch of the Metropolitan Police, Sheerham, Divisional and Area HQ. Now theyre back to contend with a serial slasher, someone who is throwing bombs around and a bunch of missing women. There is also the ubiquitous Mr Lawrence who has 'a little bit of previous' himself.

Martha Lackland dies in 1905. Her great-niece, Letty attends the funeral. Here she meets Luke O'Hare, an aspiring actor with plans to start a theatre for the poor of London. Letty falls under the spell of Luke and his circle of Bohemian friends. In an attempt to establish her independence from her domineering...

Maggy Dundas is a star jazz pianist with looks, style, and a keen business brain. And when her hated mother Dolly dies, she is free at last from the memories that mar it all - from the woman whose wanton selfishness threatened to keep her from success. Or is she?

This is the second in the medical mystery series, featuring Dr Frederica Barnabus, the forensic pathologist and police-surgeon at the Old East Hospital. In this story she is involved in investigating the harrowing case of suspicious deaths of small babies in the Maternity unit.

In this searing and beautiful novel, Rider Sonnenreich, a young poet, retrieves memories of wild acts of imagination that once bound his sister Leya and him together.Retracing the travels of long-dead poets in Europe, Rider looks for Leya, but cant be sure who or what he will find in the end. Among...

Stoop-shouldered and balding beneath a porkpie hat, Jonah Soloway is an old man before his time. Estranged from his astrophysicist father and effectively orphaned when an SUV took his mothers life, Jonah longs to make a human connection — even if it means lying to get it. When he calls the phone number...

It was a fire that could be seen for miles, a fire that split the community, a fire that turned families on each other, a fire that its still hard to get a straight answer about. A quarter of a century ago, someone held a match to Greenwood, Texass cotton. Stephen Graham Jones was twelve that year. What...

It is 1949, and 'The Smoke' remains tarnished with shattered, abandoned buildings and bombsites. Its the perfect backdrop for Jethro - honest Cockney cat burglar - to redistribute the wealth of the upper classes. The day after thieving jewels from a mansion, headlines scream that the very man Jethro...

The troubled '30s leading to the outbreak of the 2nd World War form the background for a further episode of The Performers' family saga. Harry Lackland meets Leah Landis, but because of their lack of children and the fact that she is his senior, the marriage begins to go awry. Being Jewish, Leah fears...

1951. The Festival of Britain announces a time of post-war optimism and hope in the future for the country as shortages come to an end. Poppy is beginning to have some success running her own business and she is enjoying her independence. She continues to be the anchor for her family and the support for their dreams and aspirations. Then the steadfast Poppy meets Peter Chantry...

Its black-marketriddled England, and MI5 has pushed cat burglar and jewel thief Jethro out onto the rooftops of London - again - in defense of the Realm. Ever looming in the background are the twin spectres of the growing communist menace and a resurgence of fascism. Things turn decidedly deadly when...

Where do you go at night, once you have turned out the light and snuggled down under the blankets? Abigail Crabtree's imaginary world is precious to her; escape from the waking world. That is until one wintry night when a sinister horseman appears and threatens to wrest it from her in the name of the...