500 years ago: eight martyrs were burnt to death30 years ago: two teenagers vanished without traceTwo months ago: the vicar committed suicideWelcome to Chapel Croft.– The Burning Girls [ About the Book ] For Rev Jack Brooks and teenage daughter Flo it’s supposed to be a fresh start. New job, new home. But, as Jack…
‘The hall was empty and dark. She felt for the switch on the wall, but another noise caused her to pause. Was it from upstairs? That’s when she heard the whoosh of sound. The flutter of material. Right before she felt the push between her shoulder blades.‘– Silent Voices [ About the Book ] When…
London 1858, John Ruskin is an eccentric genius famed cross Britain.An obsession with a young student changes the course of his life forever– Unto This Last [ About the Book ] “Men ought to be severely exercised and disciplined in daily life, they should learn to lie on stone beds and eat black soup, but…
‘The women in this family, we’re different . . .’– The Push [ About The Book ] “We expect to have good mothers, and to marry, and to be good mothers. The arrival of baby Violet was meant to be the happiest day of my life. I would be different. I would be like other…
A Caesar Stiles Mystery [ About the Book ] Black Irish Blues is the return-to-origin story of Caesar Stiles, an erstwhile runaway who returns to his hometown with plans to buy the town’s only tavern and end his family’s Sicilian curse. Caesar’s attempt for redemption is complicated by the spectral presence of his estranged father, reparation…
“I was the eldest, I should have stopped it. It wasn’t my idea but I still feel like it was my fault. There’s a difference and the difference is guilt”– Captain Jesus Well folks we are almost to the end of a year that has been like no other in recent times, a year when…
‘First in a new series of supernatural thrillers centred around a struggling Manchester-based weekly newspaper dedicated to investigating the weird, the unexplained and the inexplicable’– The Stranger Times [ About the Book ] There are Dark Forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular) and so thank God The Stranger Times is on hand…
‘In the dying days of the Raj, can paths divided by time and circumstance ever find each other again?‘– The Sapphire Child [ About the Book ] In 1930s Northern India, childhood friends Stella and Andrew have grown up together in the orbit of the majestic Raj Hotel. Spirited Stella has always had a soft…
‘Those who are confined have the very best imaginations’– Saving Lucia [ About the Book ] How would it be if four silenced women went on a tremendous adventure, reshaping their pasts and futures as they went? What if one of those people were a fascinating, forgotten aristocratic assassin and another a fellow patient of…
‘Denied her real identity,she will find the truth…’ – The Blue Washing Bag [ About the Book ] 1940The Payton twins, born to an unmarried mother in a small town in rural Ireland, are brought to the children’s home by the Parish Priest. Constantly reminded of their mother’s unforgivable fall from grace, they suffer the…