Collection: Fiction

This story is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West: lands where Treebeard once walked, but which were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World....

When a colleague of underwater archaeologist Jack Howard stumbles across a soldier's story of seeing gold and treasure in a Cairo sewer, the mention of a blinding shaft of light captures Jack's attention and resurrects the forgotten ramblings.

Falconer Connor O'Dwyer is proud to call County Mayo home. It's where his cousin has found true love, and where his childhood friends form a circle that can't be broken. A circle that is about to be stretched out of shape, by a long-awaited kiss.

Rome is in peril. The old order is changing - and Centurion Aurelius Castus has been summoned back from Britain, to find himself caught up in a treasonous conspiracy threatening to bring down the Emperor Constantine.

The man emerged from the mist, right in front of Cathy Weaver's car. He was running from killers who were closing in on him. Cathy had no choice - either pick him up or he dies. Victor Holland's story sounded like the ravings of a mad man...

Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed da...

Luc and Lisette Ravens - a former French resistance fighter and a one-time British spy - have somehow survived the war, but recovering from the horrors of those years is a challenge. Casting their fate to the winds, they sail to Tasmania...

An ex-boxer and ex-paratrooper, Joe once had meaning in his life. Then he lost everything, and now he is a hitman for London's most vicious criminals. Brenda was the only woman who ever loved him, and now Joe wants revenge on her killers.

Gilbertus Albans has founded the Mentat School, a place where humans can learn the efficient techniques of thinking machines. But Gilbertus walks an uneasy line between his own convictions and compromises in order to survive the Butlerian fanatics...

In a renovated Italian palace, the Junoesque figure of Mrs Aldwinkle moves among her guests. Deliciously satirical this story mocks those who dare to posture or feign sophistication [Jacket] Has an introduction by David Bradshaw.