Collection: Fiction

Many of Ian Fleming's short stories have been the inspiration for the extremely successful James Bond film franchise, and included in this collection are such stories as Octopussy, The Living Daylights, and Quantum of Solace...

Neva Bradley, a third-generation midwife, is determined to keep the details surrounding her own pregnancy hidden from her family and co-workers for as long as possible. Her mother, Grace, finds it impossible to let this secret rest...

Mr Bensington and Professor Redwood were amongst that new breed of men - or 'scientists' as they had become known. Their new discovery - Herakleophorbia. The first three variants were rather unremarkable, but was Herakleophorbia IV the very food of gods?

Rosie Hopkins is looking forward to Christmas in the little Derbyshire village of Lipton, buried under a thick blanket of snow. She's going to be spending it with her boyfriend, Stephen, and her family, flying in from Australia. She can't wait....

Tom Chaney shoots his boss Frank Ross down in the street for a horse, 150 cash, and two Californian gold pieces. Ross's young daughter Mattie finds that nothing is being done to find Chaney. Then she hears of Rooster - a man, she's told, who has grit..

The deep blue sea has been an endless source of inspiration, wonder and imagination to explorers and writers alike. Australia's history and national character have been defined by the fact that we live on an isolated island continent girt by sea

Ingrid Olsson returns home from a Stockholm hospital to discover a man in her kitchen. But he's no threat - he's dead. They link the case to another - apparently random - killing. And discover they face a serial killer on a terrible vendetta.

Global warming has opened a new avenue for shipping and trade in the Arctic Circle. Anika Duncan, who works for the United Nations Polar Guard, uncovers a conspiracy that involves a seemingly benevolent green-energy corporation with a sinister agenda.

Scientist Peter Bernhardt is on the cusp of revolutionising brain therapies with microscopic nanorobots that will make certain degenerative diseases become a thing of the past. But then his research is stolen by an unknown enemy...

It is 1913 and ex-soldier turned professional big game hunter, Leon Courtney, is in British East Africa. One of his clients is Count Otto Von Meerbach. But Leon had not bargained for falling in love with Eva, the Count's beautiful mistress....