Collection: Fiction

When Bill Masen wakes up in his hospital bed, he has reason to be grateful for the bandages that covered his eyes the night before. For he finds a population rendered helpless by blindness, a population at the mercy of the Triffids...

To the masses he's a folk hero, but to the establishment he's the most wanted man in the British Empire. When the authorities bring in an army of police to catch him, Ned plans a showdown at Glenrowan, making him a hero to the Australian underclass

Inevitably, the two young men are drawn to the war, and into the mud and horror of the trenches of Armentieres. Alone on the beach, their friend Imogen, wildlife photographer, must acknowledge for all three of them that the past cannot be held...

Told with robust humour and rollicking satire, Rudd's stories are as fresh and entertaining now as they were at the turn of the century.

Sally was living in an idyllic South African farmstead with her teenage daughter Gigi. When Sally is murdered, Gigi is alone in the world. But as Sally watches over Gigi, events take a darker turn when a cousin develops an obsession with black magic.

1859. St Mary's Church, Spondon. A little girl playing hide-and-seek jumps into a freshly-dug grave to find a dead man already occupying it. It is the body of a senior director of the Midland Railway. Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming investigate.

Mrs Moses, the only survivor of a Cossack raid on her village, takes with her a big cast-iron frying pan. From this frying pan Mrs Moses manages to feed the various refugees who are travelling with her across Russia to freedom...

On the eve of the First World War, Fleurette, the only daughter of the wealthy Delacroix perfume dynasty, is being forced to marry a man she loathes, Aimery De Lasset, head of the pre-eminent perfume manufacturer in France.

In 1890s Texas when two very different men enter Jessica's life, will she choose to pursue her dreams of adventure or follow the gentle urgings of her heart?

After Inspector Kurt Wallander moves into a new house, he makes an upsetting discovery: there is an entire corpse buried in a shallow grave in the garden. Wallander is soon drawn into the search for the truth about his new home, and its previous owner.