Collection: Fiction

The island of Mus lies in the Adriatic off the coast of Yugoslavia. There Tito's partisans maintained a precarious base while the Germans ruled over almost all the country.

Six strangers, a sorcerer, a witch, a shape-shifter, scholar, warrior and vampire - find danger, friendship and the chance of love, as they unite in battle against an ancient evil.....

Julianna Wayland is running for her life! She hides in a crate on London's dock, only to be loaded onto a ship bound for America. During the voyage she meets Captain Daniel Sundberg...

Gareth Ford, with a cloud still hanging over him because of his involvement in the Gwardar Gold Heist, makes a new beginning in the iron mines of Newman. But when he returns home from night shift to find his flatmate murdered, suspicion falls upon him.

Social worker Alison Taylor has a passion for protecting children and seeing that justice is served on their behalf, but when she starts getting harassing phone calls and bizarre gifts, it seems she may be the one in need of protection

U.S. Marshal Jake Taylor has seen plenty of action during his years in law enforcement. But he'd rather go back to Iraq than face his next assignment: protection detail for federal judge Liz Michaels.

This collection includes The Granton Star Cause, The Acid House and A Soft Touch. All three stories come from the badlands of the schemes of north Edinburgh and take us into a dark world of drugs, deviant sex and football hooliganism.

The first story, Rain, was written in 1920 in Hong Kong and the last story was written in New York in 1945. Maugham indicates that he has grouped the stories in one particular country so the reader can take his bearings in the land he chose to lead him to

Two children meet the fairy Puck who enables them to witness events from English history

Only nine when she is orphaned and sent to live with an unloving aunt, Jane spends miserable, lonely years at boarding school before becoming a governess in the home of a mysterious man. A classic story.