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When Emily and Peter Stanchester retire to Lyme Regis, they both struggle to adapt to their new life. Peter misses his routine and the feeling of being important and useful; Emily misses her freedom and her friends at work. The happy retirement they had been looking forward to seems out of reach and...

“The crowd clapped as Tungtang sipped the tea elegantly from a tiny porcelain cup. They sighed as she gently swirled the tea in her mouth. They applauded as she rolled her eyes, and they cheered as she rocked from side to side, trilling  “Why, this is toad-ily tea-licious!” What...

After the Second World War, Ernst Frick, one of the most senior war criminals in Himmler’s SS, becomes an international fugitive. At first he flees to the Austrian Tyrol but as the net tightens, he looks for a safer refuge thousands of miles from Europe. Argentina? Brazil? South West Africa? He chooses Australia.

Ragnarock is a young Nature-god sent from the eternal kingdom of Summerland to free a race of wolf hybrids, known as Gorags, from a terrible curse. In the guise of an innocent Gorag cub, Ragnarock is adopted by the wise she-Gorag Osmunda and settles in Cuckdown Wood in Sussex. From there he begins...

Things are looking desperate for Kyp Finnegan, as his adventure in Chimera reaches its thrilling conclusion; Madame Chartreuse’s collection of lost children is in the hands of a murderous mannequin and a cult of human-hating metamorphs want to recruit Kyp to their cause! Even his friends aren’t...

An action-packed, high concept, time-travelling adventure Full of animal magic and with an epic wolf character Linked to a website with ‘Meet the Character’ profiles, book excerpt and background stories Jack Tideswell’s parents died in a tragic diving accident while exploring...

In a dystopian world ravaged by infection, society as we know it has fallen to the mouths of the dead. The remaining fragments of civilisation survive in walled compounds, scattered in the depths of the countryside. When her little brother becomes sick with a suspected flu virus, Alyx Silverthorne...

This second book in the blistering thriller series featuring Hardington Tachman (aka Hardtack) sees him and his wife Mei Li in Karindu, West Africa, at the start of a new life following their first adventure. Their world is blown apart when they are caught up in a violent, student-led jihadist...

Mistaken identity... It happens. In Return to Camlann, the third book in the fast-paced thriller series featuring Hardington Tachman (aka Hardtack), Hardtack is repeatedly mistaken for an identical twin brother he doesn’t even know exists. Following horrifying events in Africa and India, Hardtack...

Deadly Diamonds carries forward the adventures (and misadventures) of Massoud Anssari, formerly dean and now professor at a midwestern law school that attracts trouble like a magnet attracts iron filings. The registrar dies under mysterious circumstances; a stupendously rich foreign benefactor withdraws...

Mark Roland Langdale’s third children’s book is a wacky and wonderful read that debunks the stigma of dyslexia. Hester, Huckleberry and the Sugar House Hauntings is a coming of age tale between Hester and Huckleberry who encounter a haunted sugar house, a haunted steamboat named the grey lady...

The BOY Who IMAGINED ... And Found He Could DRAW! follows Vapi, a ten-year-old boy. Vapi is a misfit in school because he struggles in lessons and he is taunted by a bully. But this young boy has an exciting escape route when life becomes too unbearable: his imagination which takes him on all kinds...

The bond between a man and his dog is unique. For Peter, a boy of 15, it is so strong that he risks his own life to save that of his dog, Wolfi. It is 1942. Peter is Jewish, and with his parents he is escaping the Nazis. A decision to jump into the icy waters of the River Spree to rescue Wolfi ultimately...

The unbidden guest is ever a pest... Frank Grinder has retired from practice as a solicitor in Hong Kong and is now living in Cheltenham with his attractive, much younger Chinese wife, Winnie. He realises that he is bored and decides to write a book, recording the things that he finds irritating....