Creative Content: 51 books

Useful tips to help you climb the corporate ladder. In today’s competitive job market, you need to find an edge. In an effective but light-hearted Q&A, Richard Charkin (Executive Director of Bloomsbury PLC, publisher of the phenomenally successful Harry Potter novels) gives the lowdown on how to climb...

Fifteen years old…brutalised, dumped in a park, throat slashed - schoolgirl prostitute Michelle Lucas died in agony and terror, utterly alone The sight breaks the heart of Sergeant Bev Morriss of West Midlands Police. She thought she was hardened, but gazing at Michelle’s pale, broken body she is...

Seattle, May 1988: Why would up and coming musician Craig Adler OD on heroin just days before signing a major record deal? Craig's band was the first of the new Seattle music scene to break out of the Northwest and they were about to hit the big time. With everything to live for, Craig had been clean...

Music may be the food of love… But it doesn’t fill an empty belly. Winter is not a good time for jobbing musicians in early 18th century Newcastle. An organ builder thinks his life is in danger. The offer of a large fee persuades harpsichordist Charles Patterson to investigate. Can the dead help?

A widow kills herself. A father jumps to his death. A teenager’s body is callously dumped in a derelict school. Are there links with the menacing caller who’s playing a macabre game of cat and mouse with a reporter? All in all, Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss has more than enough on her professional...

His wife murdered, his baby abducted who’s making media personality Nathan Rayne suffer? And how much closer to home can the criminal get? The police inquiry is going nowhere . . . and Birmingham’s kick-ass cop Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss is on sick leave after witnessing a colleague’s murder....

A body with multiple stab wounds and four tiny puncture marks is found lying in a pool of blood, the victim beaten beyond recognition. Even seasoned detectives regard the damage inflicted as overkill. With a faceless, nameless victim, the inquiry’s on the back foot from the start. Stakes...

Tips and Tools for managing life after maternity leave. Based on the popular blog “The Babyjuggler: Three kids, Two jobs, One life; winner of the December 2008 “Best of the British Mummy Blogger Carnival”, this book gives you the lowdown on how to survive the return to the world of work after the...

This book is about four things: Voltaire, happiness, writing and us. In this book, Paul Kent sets off in search of happiness, with Voltaire as his guide: en route, he discusses some massively awkward questions, including: What exactly is happiness? Can we achieve it? Can any one era or society be said...

It's 1994 - and in West Seattle, new mom Laura Benton is busy juggling work as a freelance music journalist with the constant demands of a young baby. Life is crazy enough, but it takes a darker turn when she interviews Carson Mack, a down-on-his-luck country music star who's looking to make a comeback....

101 Short Essays on Shakespeare is an accessible and jargon-free guide, whether you're new to Shakespeare, or a seasoned playgoer. Contents include: General introductions to the comedies, tragedies & histories. Essays on all 38 plays, as well as the poems. Information about Shakespeare's life and times....

Humility's a low-tech woman in a hi-tech world - but she's not going to give up until she knows who killed the guy everyone said was harmless. The mystery leads her to the cruellest parts of the city where people kill for the cost of a meal. It's a world where she's not sure anyone is who they claim to be, and where one death leads to another... and the next one could be hers!

Follow-up to A Kind of Puritan, Deacon’s acclaimed first futurecrime novel: Humility’s back at Midway Port and ruthless patriarch Morgan Vinci wants her to find out why a man’s hanged himself on board one of the boats in his new marina. Just to complicate things, Humility’s mother wants her to...

A sword, a book of music, and a murdered girl… Musician-sleuth Charles Patterson is called to a murder late one night and is horrified to find he is acquainted with the victim, a young street-girl. There is little Patterson can do; his patron has arranged an engagement for him at a fashionable house...