Collection: Fiction

Catharine Howard recounts the events in her life that led to her being groomed for marriage at the age of fifteen to King Henry VIII, her failure to produce an heir to the throne and her quick execution.

Professionally sidelined, away from his wife, and partnered up with a young rookie named Tess, maverick Federal Agent John Corey is running surveillance on a group of Russian U.N. delegates in New York City. But then his subjects slip the net...

Contains selections from the Jungle books and Soldiers three. More than twenty stories, fifty poems and three essays.

In a spaceship that can travel at the speed of light, Ulysse, a journalist, sets off from Earth for the nearest solar system. He finds there a planet which resembles his own, but on Soror humans are hunted by a civilised race of primates.

In The Doll, a waterlogged notebook is washed ashore. Its pages tell a dark story of obsession and jealousy. But the fate of its narrator is a mystery. Many of the stories in this haunting collection have only recently been discovered.

Craig Gisto has promised Eliza Moss that his elite team at Private Sydney will investigate the disappearance of her father. After all, as CEO of a high-profile research company, Eric Moss shouldn't be difficult to find...

Mr. Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his job as the owner of a regional gentleman's outfitters. He concludes that the only way to escape is by burning his shop to the ground and killing himself

Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. Things get suddenly worse, and he discovers that the galaxy is big and bewildering. Most things that happen in it are staggeringly unfair...

It's New York in the 1940's, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't, except Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires.

As Briony studies an old photo album from her mother's new home, a letter falls out. Reading the words that follow, Briony is seized with a stunning realisation: her mother lied about what happened to her beloved grandmother Tessa all those years ago...