Brown Dog: 93 books

Lola has tamed the serpents in the Forest Castle's well and lifted an evil enchantment cursing The Three Valleys. Yet serpents still whisper in other wells, but there is no Forest Queen to calm them. The Three Valleys and the world beyond are fragile without a Forest Queen to keep the balance, and only...

Ravi is a journalist in Delhi who starts to investigate government complicity in the controversial demolition of a mosque. Peggy is an American researcher who finds a mysterious antique in a Delhi museum - a possible Indian 'Rosetta Stone'. They meet, fall in love and then find themselves caught up...

This is a romp around a university campus beset with business pressures and political chicanery centred on third world riches. The stakes are high and penalties dire. Even so, many are prepared to chance their arm, or for that matter their body, and do! Coincidentally Zombek, an emergent mineral-rich...

Lizzie, who became pregnanct while at Oxford and refused to tell the father, sets up a snail farm in Bath to make her dysfunctional family's fortune. But because snails take three years to reproduce and provide a return on the investment, there's a struggle to make ends meet in the meantime.

These poems have at their heart the use of the tranquilliser Serenid D, but this deadening benzodiazepine is also an image of cultural negativity: something in family, society or state that wants to suppress, control and nullify. The wandering narrator of these poems, leading a hand-to-mouth existence...

More tales from the Birmingham-born man who moved to Scotland and spent four-and-a-half yeas driving a taxi in a small, tight-knit rural community. There are also some motorcycling stories that will make you laugh, cry, shake your head in disbelief and probably a lot more. Is it possible to find a...

Why is it that our human brains have such extraordinary powers of research and communication compared with any other known form of life on earth or anywhere in our universe?How is it that our physical make-up has evolved to enable us to turn our thoughts into amazingly complex constructions?How is it...

Every picture tells a story; every story carries a hundred interpretations. The Waiting Game is the story of three very different women, born in three very different epochs with unique challenges and outcomes that reflect the worlds they live in. It is also the story of three very different men, born...

Confused by the changing world at home, a young boy escapes and as he travels, he meets with unexpected help. Learning how to fend for himself, he begins to realize that he's not the only one trying to overcome adversity and fear. Meet the characters he meets and discover how they deal with their new...

Around 410CE when the English migrated overseas from Northern Europe, they were still heathen and brought their own traditions with them. They still worshipped Nerthus, the Earth Mother and their traditions stir our imaginations even today. Originally they believed in Wyrd, the all-inclusive, Great Cosmic...

The year: 2058. The substance: Turanga, a peculiar pill that gives people the power to read minds. One lone scientist working to unlock the drug's secrets becomes involved in a fight to save the human race from aliens and their collaborators on Earth. His search for the drug's origin and purpose takes...

This is a comprehensive guide to the many aspects of meads and honey wines available for the mead vintner, written by a leading authority on the topic. The author describes every aspect of the process from the varieties of honeys, their characteristics and qualities for the production of a superior...

Oxford history graduate, Tony Elder, taught at boys' Grammar schools and mixed Comprehensives and became a head of two Community Colleges. He was also one of the country's leading athletics coaches. This is his story. He has strong views on many topics and some fascinating insights into aspects of coaching, teaching and learning, and the management

Historical views are considered, together with what science can tell us. There are some surprising conclusions, with implications for how we should view the world and our place in it.