Upon reading about the death of actress Kate Considine, found dressed as Ophelia from Millais's painting, art history lecturer R.I. Penny feels complicit. But when he is questioned as a... Læs mere
Henry Bogget is an ordinary boy of just eight years old, and Henry has a secret. A secret that has been kept for many, many years. A secret about magic in London...
In 1973, Stella, a university student, took her own life by jumping from a high-rise building. Meanwhile, in the present, crime fiction writer Robert Cross is organising a fifty-year... Læs mere
Boomy the Bittern tells the story of a family of bitterns as they go about life in their wetland home: hiding in the reeds, bringing up their young, squelching through the mud and scooping up fish to eat. But when the wetlands are drained by humans, where will the bitterns go?
In this sequel to The Death of a Smoker, four years have passed since Quinton Bickley-Morris, a suspected spy, slipped out of the country undetected. After a chance sighting, Harry... Læs mere
Maggie is newly qualified, full of self-doubt and trying desperately to pretend that the dark tragedy in her past never happened. When a client, remarkably like her younger self, arrives for therapy, her carefully constructed defences are put to the test.
Steven Mason is six feet under. The only problem? He’s not dead.
A laugh-out-loud memoir by Parachute Regiment and 22 SAS veteran John Wick – the man who helped break the story of the 2009 MPs’ Expenses Scandal.
When he was just two and a half, Barrington Sowden's mother left him and his older sister in the care of his grandparents in Jamaica, joining the Windrush exodus from the island to seek work in the UK.
This book is the second in Mike Read's A Thousand Years on a London Street series, documenting a thousand years of selected London streets and their respective histories.
These tales will both entrance and terrify. Scared of the dark? Let Last Light guide you safely through these stories of the paranormal and terror that surrounds us all.
Soon to begin her freshman year, Nkechi, a young voodoo witch, is unsure what to expect. Alone in New York, and still coming to terms with the death of her mother, Nkechi worries that she... Læs mere