A F Mckeating: 10 books

The godmother has never fitted in and no-one really wanted her at Dawn's christening. But all she wanted was to show her that there's more to life than pink...

Ethan is the first human child created on Earth in 500 years. Is he the answer to the current labor shortage or will his creation change life for the synthetics forever?

Monsters come in all shapes and sizes… Two people: five years apart, but connected by their fight to keep the bad things at bay. "The young man looked up in his direction and their eyes met. Carson had a fleeting presentiment of something terrible." As Carson rebuilds his...

A modern fairytale about a talking, giant-killing cat with ambitions. The farmyard animals are eager to imitate his example by learning to speak and throwing off the yolk of servitude. All except for silent Mr Simpkins, the grey cat who is as plump as an overstuffed cushion but not so dumb as he looks...

Editors everywhere take note. Be nice to your writers. They don't always take criticism well. When a student in a writing class is snubbed by her tutor, who also happens to be the editor of the edgy magazine which keeps rejecting her stories, she takes it very personally. She wants him to see the real her, so it's time to rewrite some of the rules...

Audrey's lifelong haunting by a mysterious shapeless shadow is revealed after her death as her cousin reads her diary entries. First appearing to her during her childhood, it became her lifelong companion, but only she could see it. Was it a sign haunting arising from things past, or a shadowy warning of what was to come?

"Hi! How are you? My name is Maddy Kaa and I live on Samtara. Even though it's so far away, right across the other side of the galaxy from Earth, it's pretty much the same as your planet, only a bit smaller and a bit warmer. Maybe you knew that already."Meet Maddy and George, friends...

Dragons don't exist. Do they? Claire North: twenty-two years old, museum dogsbody, looking for meaning in her life after a bad patch. An ages-old race of people who claim to be descended from mythical creatures. A chance encounter with a stranger, which catapults Claire into a...

The longer Hilary, the reluctant temp, spends in the civil service, the more distant her dreams of becoming a bestselling author seem to become. At the bottom of the pile and faced with an endless stream of admin, her future looks pretty bleak. But then one day Rosamund Brown, her bullying...

"OK, we'll play it your way," she told the darkened screen. "If you want inspiration, I'll give it to you. Both barrels. And then some." When Hilary discovers that one of her novels has been plagiarized online, she decides there isn't a moment to waste tracking down the...