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An amusing late twentieth century take on PG Wodehouse and the (unknown to me) Preston Sturges set in New York, Blue Heaven is the tale of h...

When a disgraced investigative journalist, reduced to belting out filler stories for a local rag, is sent to cover a level crossing accident...

Subtitled A tale of magic and adventure , this reimagining of the Sleeping Beauty fable opens with an explanation of the magic of the unname...

Twenty-two years ago a vampire raped a young woman resulting in the birth of a daughter who has grown up with a lot of the vampire’s abiliti...

A British spymaster must enter France and bring back a brilliant, dangerous and elusive French spy who knows the details of Napoleon’s plans...

Five years after TWA flight 800 fell out of the sky, cop and Anti-Terrorist Task Force member John Corey is approached by his wife, an FBI a...

Blurb from the back of the book: The coded journal of Benjamin Franklin. A hidden map. A legendary gospel. These are the first pieces to an ...

Desperate for cash an exorcist takes on a seemingly insignificant case searching for a ‘missing’ ghost. But it soon becomes apparent that th...

Alan Desland, a dealer and lover of porcelain figurines, is middle aged and resigned to bachelorhood. Somewhat reclusive, his self-image is ...

After being dumped by her boyfriend for refusing to sleep with him, a woman overhears him making a bet with a handsome man that he will not ...

I just wrote a long and detailed review of this novel and my thoughts about it. Unfortunately the internet seems to have eaten it and I coul...

A Northern writer visits Savannah in the last 1970's and, over a period of months, gets to know some of the more colourful and influenti...

Jane Bond is tired of waking every morning with a vile hangover, lying next to some half-remembered pick up from the night before, but ever ...

A young woman with few prospects is surprised when a distant relative dies and leaves her the beneficiary of a large estate. She is even mor...

Emily Albright was born in the wrong age and on the wrong continent. Relationships with modern men have proved disastrous, and the only rel...

In this frequently engaging collection of articles Ripe discusses many aspects of food, opening with an exploration of ripeness and why so m...

The body of a dead seal attracts photographer Abby Mason’s attention as she walks along the beach. Pausing to photograph it, she takes her a...

Retiring by nature and the poor relative by circumstance a woman lives in the shadow of her exuberant cousin. When that cousin makes a fooli...

If you change the way you see the world, particularly how things affect you and how you interact with it, then you can change your life. The...

Liza left her career as a PR specialist in Hollywood, and her husband Michael, for her hometown. An incognito sudoku creator for the Oregon ...

In eighteenth century England a young woman whose mother died in childbirth is raised by her reclusive father on his isolated estate. An avi...

Forty-year-old Terry Painter has hopes that the son of her favourite patient might be interested in her as more than just his mother's n...

When debonair starting quarterback Dean Robillard, on a soul-searching road trip after a serious shoulder injury, happens across Blue Bailey...

It’s been almost a year since Garnet Lacey changed unimaginably, on that Halloween night a year ago when her coven was slain by six Vatican-...

Subtitled How to Overcome Social Anxiety and Reclaim Your Life , this book provides not only an academic overview of social anxiety, but als...

In the late 1870’s a string of meteors hit Earth, destroying cities, changing the environment and reversing the course of history. Acting on...

A woman bored by Heaven decides to join the Department of Good Intentions-a kind of afterlife outreach program that offers a helping hand to...

Jane Darlington is a lecturer, physicist, and genius. This last quality has made her life a misery – raised by a disapproving father, she wa...

A dowser, whose talent is refined enough to allow her to detect anything within the earth, is drilling for oil in the Nubian desert when she...

Alida Salter's life has been, to a great extent, on hold since the tragic death of her infant daughter Kizzy thirteen years ago. When sh...