Collection: Fiction

March, 1918. The Great War is grinding slowly to its bloody finale. Detective Inspector Ernest Hardcastle, head of the Whitehall Division of the Metropolitan Police, is called to a body is recovered from the Thames. His widow is a good-time girl....

A Faust-like and magical story of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope. This self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf can also be seen as a plea for rigorous self-examination

Environmental conservancy advocate Shayne and big city cop Tanner join forces to uncover the truth behind Tanner's uncle's death. When Shaye becomes a killer's target, Tanner realises he'd give up anything to protect her - including his life...

Once upon a time that was called 1828, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a convict in Van Dieman's Land who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safe...

A young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the most extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly visited a small Derbyshire village and the villagers, inspired by a charismatic preacher, elected to quarantine themselves...

Daisy can't believe her luck when her parents announce they're off on a midlife crisis gap year, leaving her in charge of their garden. Some peace and quiet in the countryside is just what she needs. Only, village life turns out to be anything but...

A mystery where the clues lurk in university libraries, old letters and dusty journals. Together with Roland Michell, a fellow academic and accidental sleuth, Maud Bailey discovers a love affair between two Victorian writers.....

White examines an artist's creativity, where it comes from, whether it can be controlled. As he traces the life of Hurtle Duffield from the age of four until his death as an elderly avant-garde artist, we see Duffield always as somehow different from his

In 1836 a woman leaving Australia for England believes she is leaving behind her a multitude of vices but the ship upon which she is sailing will never reach its destination, and there are ahead of her ordeals more trying than those she is leaving...

Twelve years ago, one fateful event drove three sisters apart. Now Cassie has returned to Washington with her daughter. Though her sisters don't live far away, she doesn't expect to see them. But one day, Cassie receives a letter from Karen...