The good, the bad and the bookish

From a young age, Orb Kaftan could see sprites and hear the ethereal music of the Song of the Morning. Encouraged by her loving father Pacia...

An earthquake in Paris uncovers priceless artefacts that a museum curator becomes obsessed with when she starts to get psychometric impressi...

Orb is a singer in a travelling show, seeking the Llano, a mythical song with tremendous power. She has the most beautiful voice that Mym ha...

The second instalment in the five book Pendragon Cycle, Merlin , is a kind of autobiography of the famous wizard told in retrospect. He tell...

Cameron Beekman’s life changed when her parents paid for a rhinoplasty the same summer her family moved a hundred and twenty-five miles, fro...

Niobe was beautiful, self-possessed, and too good for the men her father offered her in marriage. After two rejections, her father stood fir...

Norton is very happy with his life – accountable to no one, he treks through Earth’s many wilderness areas, picking up after himself as he g...

A sorcerer summons a dragon to his kingdom to divert the populace’s attention from his other evil schemes. To appease the dragon the people ...

Broke, without prospects and dispirited, Zane enters Mess o’ Pottage, a spelled stone shop in Kilvarough, and changes his life. After the pr...

This book briefly examines what feminism has achieved for women thus far (acknowledging that there is still more to be done) and how those a...

Dedicated, professional and daring, Max Bhagat has risen from the ranks to become the head of the FBI’s most respected counter-terrorist uni...

At the tender age of twenty, doctoral candidate Sapolsky, an ardent primatologist from a very early age, set out to Africa to study a commun...

Anita Bell and her husband Jim paid off their first mortgage in three years, and this book explains how the prepared reader can do the same ...

Adopted teen Miranda Popescu has always fantasised that she is special, different. And she’s right – in an alternate universe, Roumania is t...

When sixteen-year-old Davy’s alcoholic father goes to hit him with the buckle end of the belt, Davy flinches and finds himself in the safest...

Cassie O’Carroll was forty-three when she lost her orgasm. Between work (as a primary school teacher, where she was embroiled in a steeplech...

Duke and Earl are on a road trip in a rusty grey truck that’s seen better days – limp spools of a Hank Williams cassette are all that remain...

This collection of four paranormal romances covers the spectrum from vampires and demons to werewolves and other shape shifters. These stori...

Blue’s lepidopterist mother, Natasha Alicia Bridges van Meer (Blue was named for her favourite species - and the only kind her mother could ...

Goody Goblin is an outcast. Son of one of the meanest goblin chiefs Xanth has ever known, Goody was fed powdered reverse wood as an infant a...

This is a collection of three supernatural romance novellas. I say supernatural rather than paranormal because the main characters are all h...

Parker's aim is to provide the kind of information that will immediately improve people’s lives, by discussing ways that we can not just...

Frannie has two good girl friends, Belina and Jenn, but her best friend is Marcus – a would-be film director, he’s out and proud to everyone...

It’s cold and rainy, and I’ve just finished reading something Literary, so despite all my vows to read the unread, I turned to something kno...

It’s 1855 and the scientific world is consumed with the question of race – are other races inherently inferior to whites? It is obvious that...

This collection of three paranormal/fantasy romance novellas tells the stories of three shape shifting brothers and the women that fall into...

Sandra Foster is a sociologist who studies fads; her current research focuses on what triggered the mania for hair bobbing in the 1920’s “de...

Tim is six, but has already lived through more tragedy than most people ten times his age – coming home with his nanny, Mona, from an after-...

Rebelling against his conservative politician father, Jack Swyteck became a defence lawyer. The night before his execution, Jack is shown de...

Tradition has it that if a knight slays a dragon, the beautiful princess of the kingdom is his. Although nobody knows it, Sir Terry and the ...