U ntil recently, the toughest part of Henrietta ‘Harry’ Martinez’s life was hiding her troubled past. But now the former hacker turned security expert is in danger. Someone wants her dead. Her father Sal taught her everything he knew about taking risks, but he made a bad gamble with an anonymous trader known as the ‘Prophet’. Sal was jailed for fraud; now the Prophet wants Harry to pay up. The ch... More >

Approached to crack a safe by the owner’s suspicious wife, reformed hacker Henrietta ‘Harry’ Martinez can’t resist the challenge. Now her client’s absconded with a fortune in diamonds, leaving Harry sole witness to a brutal murder. The police are unconvinced, suspicious of Harry’s past. It’s up to Harry to track down her mystery client. The trail leads from a top racing yard to a smuggling operati... More >

When Susan Tate’s 17-year-old daughter, Lily, announces she is pregnant, Susan is stunned. A single mother, she has struggled to do everything right. Then comes word of two more pregnancies who happen to be Lily’s best friends – and the town turns to talk of a pact. As fingers start pointing, the most ardent criticism is directed at Susan. As Susan struggles with the implications of her daughter’s... More >

A bi, a recently-ordained priest of the Church of England, is appointed to the parish of the charismatic but fundamentalist Kier. He objects to her mysticism, her practice of healing in particular. When she sees a vision, Kier accuses her of witchcraft, but Abi soon sees more visions; an entire Roman family history, dark with betrayal and a promise of bloody revenge. With foreboding forces buildi... More >

Set in London and Tuscany, Someone Wonderful casts a magical net around the lives of six people: Grace Teape; her orphaned niece Lily; her young lover, sculptor Johnny Cochrane; her photographer brother, Oliver Cary; his journalist wife, Melissa; and their blind son, Sebastian. With irony, elegance and insight, Barbara Neil explores the limits of our capacity to protect our own in this joyous and ... More >

Following a terrifying encounter in the quiet English countryside, a young woman flees to New York in search of a new life. Reinventing herself as M, she embarks on a journey that will lead her to the catwalks of Paris. When M meets the charming actor Larry Vaughan in New York, they fall in love and marry. M believes she has put the demons of her past behind her. But the dark figure from M’s past ... More >

When Barney Bardsley’s husband died of cancer, she felt anxious, alone and exhausted. But she had to stay strong for their young daughter, Molly, so she steeled herself to cope by taking one day at a time. During this dark time she took to tending her small, scruffy allotment and she slowly began to find comfort in nature. This is the diary of her year in the garden, and as the seasons unfold, she... More >

Within an unconventional artists’ neighbourhood, DCI David Brock and DS Kathy Kolla need to find six-year-old Tracey Rudd, the third child to be abducted in recent weeks. Tracey is the daughter of controversial artist Gabriel Rudd, who Tracey’s grandparents blame for the suicide of Tracey’s mother and hint at his complicity in their granddaughter’s disappearance. As Kathy tries to decipher motives... More >

The debauched celebration of the cabaret era. The magical ascent of cinema. The deprivations of World War I and the build up to World War II. Set against the rise and fall of Berlin and the innovations in art that accompanied it, The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite brilliantly weaves together the story of orphan girl Lilly Nelly Aphrodite’s remarkable journey from poverty to film stardom.... More >

In the last years of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex is in failing health, and his heir is an untested youth. The Danes, who have failed so many times to conquer Wessex, smell opportunities ... First comes Harald Bloodhair, a savage warrior leading a Viking horde, who is encouraged to cruelty by his woman, Skade. But Alfred still has the services of Uhtred, his unwilling warlord, who lead... More >

Agincourt is one of the epic battles of history. It was fought between two badly matched armies that met in atrocious conditions on St Crispin’s Day 1415. It has always been held to be the triumph of the longbow against the armoured knight, the common man against the feudal aristocrats. But these are myths. Bernard Cornwell depicts the reality behind these myths, culminating in the battle seen fro... More >

In the depths of an unmapped cave, forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon makes an astonishing discovery: a decades-old skeleton. Soon, the remains of two more bodies are found – one in an old car submerged in the waters of an abandoned quarry, another buried in the Georgia woods.With nothing to link the victims except desiccated bones, Diane can’t figure the connection. But someone in the shadows ... More >

In the shadow of Diane Fallon’s new forensic lab in Georgia, a land survey crew has discovered three bodies hanging in an isolated patch of woods. The sensational case has aroused the interest of the media, unnerved the locals – and inspired a gruesome game between the killer and Diane. It begins with taunting e-mails and chilling phone calls. Where it leads is a dangerously personal investigation... More >

Richard and Bookey Peek hadn’t planned on adopting a warthog, any more than one would plan a tidal wave or a tornado, but at Stone Hills, natural disasters have a way of happening when you least expect them. Through Zimbabwe’s darkest days, Stone Hills has become a world in itself. A place where you might share your shower with an owl. A place where a warthog relinquishes her place on the sofa to ... More >

A Rosemary & Thyme Mystery Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme have been commissioned to restore the Elizabethan garden at Abbotslea, ancestral home of the Frazers. But when Rosemary witnesses an 'accident' which leads to the death of one of the family, she is forced to tell the inquest there is some impossibly conflicting evidence. Then when a second Lyvedon resident is found dead, Rosemary and Laura... More >