The Conrad Press imprint: 12 books

Written with charm and humour, Mary Essinger's page-turning memoir takes the reader on a highly entertaining journey from her pre-war life of spirited poverty in a Leicestershire village to a career as a lecturer in Spoken English, novelist and stand-up comedian. With a sharp eye for tragedy and a warm...

Shamila is a Muslim student at Marseille University at a time when the city is under threat from terrorism. Ethnic tensions are rising. Then one day while jogging, she meets a fellow student, Victor. It is the beginning of a friendship that rapidly grows into something more. But Victor is not a Muslim...

Will Lucy ever be able to put her own happiness first? Lucy Shaw, sure by name but not by nature, wants to make her marriage work. In her head, that is. Her heart has other ideas as she embarks on a bittersweet journey to try and find true happiness. To the outside world, Lucy's life looks close to...

After reading Film and Drama at London University, Gillian Lee trained as a film editor with the BBC, then worked as a drama teacher. She lives in Cheshire with her husband, Christian. They have four children. In December 2015, Gillian was diagnosed with a stage four, glioblastoma multiforme tumour;...

Auctioning babies makes sense, at least that's what Market World thinks. After all the baby goes to someone who can give them a good start in life, and the parents get a return for their pain and trouble.For Ed and Matt, the Baby Auction sums up everything that's wrong with a society based on profit....

This first collection of poems introduces Bridget Nolan's deeply moving, wonderfully evocative, verbally inventive and highly varied voice. From the title poem 'A Walk With Charles Dickens', which makes you feel that Bridget really met him, to her beautiful ode 'Romney Marsh', and dozens of poems...

Bribed with 500 euros, seventeen-year-old Caylin agrees to go with her parents on a package holiday to Tuscany. She soon regrets her decision, leaves Mum and Dad behind at the hotel and hitchhikes alone to the city of Siena in search of something more exciting. But Caylin's big adventure in Siena soon...

Smart and sexy divorcee Lucy Shaw, Shaw by name but unsure by nature, wants to find something - or someone - to bring her lasting happiness. But she keeps looking in all the wrong places: including the chocolate aisle of her local supermarket, the occasional bottle of vodka and her complex and troubled...

Two teenage girls, Beetlebrow and Pook, living in a desperate world, are trying to end the hunger aching in their streets. But first they must find their way through sinister palaces, dank dungeons, and winding mazes of alleyways, encountering kings, prostitutes, scholars and cut-throats, and delving...

I knew this girl, you see. A sort of a friend. No one thought she really mattered much, but that turned out to be a mistake. Because she blew a hole through my life - and the lives of everyone I knew. Anna's found the perfect friend in Zoe: she's cool, she's smart, she's goth, she's gorgeous....

In 1969, the first two men landed on the moon. There were five other landings, leading to a total of twelve astronauts standing on the moon. A further six circled above while the world watched. Also in 1969, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston was the first man to sail solo non-stop around the world south...

Heera Watson is like any ordinary fifteen-year-old girl... not! Torn between the British way of life and her Indian heritage, she's the target of catty comments at school in Birmingham from Laura Foster, the 'It' girl at St Claire's, and her gang. Heera is constantly pressured at school to look and dress...