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“Now alone on the slope before the great castle, the sound of Venain’s evil laugh reached Virdil and that very sound sapped his spirit. He knew there was no escape...” John Timmis’ Deathling of Dorn explores the fantasy genre in a new, exciting way. From the outset, John contrasts themes of...

A national newspaper publishes a crossword, a catastrophic event that reveals covert intelligence known only to the security services. And a defected CIA officer, long thought dead, suddenly reappears in London, passing an envelope to a total stranger in St. James’s Park. An envelope which is completely...

The brand spanking new poetry book from comedic poet Ian Vannoey. Featuring 28 laugh-out-loud poems to be enjoyed alone or read out loud. Relatable humour – poems such as "The Beast from the East" and Donald Trump anagrams. Stupid Poems 14 is a collection of comic...

Set partly in late 1950’s London, Waiting for Walter follows the fortunes of two people over a forty-year time span, crisscrossing between countries. Days before his son’s marriage to an Asian girl, Martin is obsessed by a chance sighting of a familiar young woman on the other side of the street....

lmogen Tomlinson has always been proud of her stable upbringing and longs for a family of her own. But just as she finds herself falling in love and begins to revel in the happiness she has craved for so long, her hopes are shattered by something in a diary written by her mother, Joanna, over twenty...

In the Greater Scheme of Things is the page-turning sequel which reintroduces us to some of the characters we first encountered in A Voice From the Past. When Francine Martin applies for the position of nanny with the popular Leclerc family, she is looking for much more than a new job. She wants a...

Here Casts No Shadow explores the impact of war, exile and trauma on a family and the consequences of a single act of revenge. **This is a story of war and refuge, told from a woman’s perspective. ** Fifteen year old Mira lives a quiet life in the small town of Zazour. Her country...

In the far distant past, two mighty forces clashed in the first Great Wizard War. It was a battle of good against evil! A Golden Army against a Dark Army! The Great Wizard Wars is an exciting tale of the wars between good and evil armies of wizards and witches, which is ideal for fans of fantasy stories...

An autobiographical romance from a Scottish writer– set over seven decades from the 1950s to 2015. Covers a wide range of emotions from the ecstatic to despair. A positive and uplifting book about the endurance of true love. Long Shadows is an autobiographical romance spanning...

At the start of Missing Dad Book 4: Mission, Joe is in the darkest place he has ever been. He has lost all hope of finding his father alive, failed his exams and is self-harming. But girlfriend Becks is always at his side, and Monsieur Le Comte – ‘like a father to me, all the time I was looking...

In Missing Dad 2: Twisted, Joe and girlfriend Becks are precipitated back into the criminal underworld where his secret agent father disappeared. And where Monsieur, the one man who could lead Joe to his father, has vanished. On a half term trip to the South of France, Joe and Becks have a terrifying...

Joe St Aubin and girlfriend Becks Bowman have the awful suspicion that his secret agent father could be working for the wrong side – a drugs gang leader and poisoner, the Contessa Palestrina. Worse still, they have discovered that this lethal woman hates Monsieur le Comte de la Rochelle, who has...

Former classmates Edward and Marianne, now fifty-five, have experienced a turbulent few years having lost contact with each other and suffered painful disruption to their home lives. Reunited again, this time through Twitter, they set about a search for personal fulfilment, but once again there are...

‘Catch The Moment with me…luckiest of men’   Author Gerry Wells is a veteran of the dizzy days of the Second World War and Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour. In Catching the Moment he tells about a well lived and well loved life.   He writes eloquently about growing up...