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Sophie Dempsey wants a quiet life - between her con artist father and younger siblings in need of a substitute mother, her childhood ended f...

King's Rider Justin has been sent to investigate events at Coralinda Gesseltess's convent, where the increasingly fanatical Daughter...

When Killashandra Ree fails her music exam she's initially shattered - being a singer is the only thing that's occupied her life. Bu...

When a junior female reporter stumbles onto the story of a lifetime (a cult of blood-drinkers is stalking the poor of the city) she finds he...

Every year Portia and her space-mad younger brother Foster spend the summer with their aunt, uncle and cousin in Creston - Julian's a ye...

David Cleveland is an official of the Racecourse Committee, sent to investigate the disappearance of English jockey Bob Sherman, along with ...

When the Romar Brendyn, the king's regent, is kidnapped, King Baryn sends his trusted band of mystics and warriors to retrieve him. It f...

Dee, Lizzie and Mare Fortune have been dubiously blessed with magical powers - powers that are unschooled, poorly controlled and unpredictab...

Gillengaria has long been peacefully ruled by the royal family, assisted by the marlords of each of the Twelve Houses, each of which has its...

On Samaria angels intercede with Jovah, asking his for rain, to stop storms, and to favour the people of the land. Archangel Alleluiah was h...

Maddie Faraday was relatively content with her life – though the gossip mill grew a little tiresome, she liked the small town she’d lived in...

There Are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union The title story in this six-novella collection is contemporary (for publication) - the USSR in the l...

Daisy Bowman has managed to pass through three London seasons without attracting a husband, much to the disgust of her self-made father. He ...

When a prominent freemason is kidnapped, his friend’s only hope of saving him is to find and unravel the code on an ancient Masonic icon, wh...

When newly-divorced car salesman Tim Blake's seventeen year old daughter, Sydney, doesn't come home form her summer job at the Just ...

In an alternate Victorian London a girl is found with no memory of who she is. Obviously of privileged heritage, and suspected insane, her s...

In this collection of seventeen short stories, mystery writer Barnard unifies a diverse range of characters, over a hundred and fifty years,...

Gracie Landon knew returning to her home town of Los Lobos would be difficult - at age fourteen, half a lifetime ago, she was sent to live w...

Diana Dunn's life is at first glance ordinary enough - growing up in Tupelo Mississippi (whose claim to fame is being the birthplace of ...

After the disaster that ensued when he tried to protect his family by moving them out of the dangers of urban life, SF writer Zack Walker an...

Jockey Kelly Hughes thought the Steward's Enquiry was a formality - that's what Cranfield, Squelch's trainer, said and as Kelly ...

Rita Morrell lost her sightwhen she was young, in the car accident that killed her mother. Almost twenty years later she still suffers from ...

Evyn and her brother Mackie are used to their life the way it is, just them and their dad, Birdie. She's shocked when, over dinner in a ...

Toseland’s used to being alone – his father and step-mother are far away in Burma, and last holidays he stayed at boarding school with the h...

From the time he was fifteen, the angel Gabriel knew he’d been chosen by Jovah to be the next Archangel. But, although he knew that this mea...

From the back of the book: Do aspects of our personality survive our physical body? The fruit of many years research and experience by a wor...

The subtitle tells you all you need to know: Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffs, His Cult of Fear, and the Women Who Fought Back . Indeed, When ...

Notorious, experimental chef Heston Blumenthal, renown for creations like snail porridge and bacon & egg ice-cream, has turned his hand ...

Elizabeth is a foster child in New York – she and her foster sister Alexi live with and work for Sandra, who ensures they generate an income...

When Sylvia Compton, owner of Elm Creek Manor and lifelong quilter, is shown a quilt that may have been part of the Underground Railway, she...