Simon Corn: 3 books

It was the summer of 1976 and England baked under the scorching sun, but James Fisher was hoping for rain. School holidays had just begun and James wanted nothing more than to hang around the house. He had no friends in the crescent, no one to hang around or make a joke with. His brother had friends,...

Alex Black lifted his bruised face as he heard his brother groan when Lord Sirap’s blade penetrated Gideon’s defences and implanted itself in Gideon’s stomach. Their eyes met and Gideon smiled and slowly nodded as his blood spilled onto the black and white marble dance floor inside of the great...

Lucinda Millhaven, scarred for life by a rogue assassin's blade, clings desperately to the memory of her time with Alex Black, the man she'd come to love. Endless nightmares of the blade slicing through her flesh and down her face from eye to mouth played out as the seconds of the hospital clock ticked...