Colin Saville grows up in a mining village in South Yorkshire, against the backdrop of war, an industrialised countryside, town, coalmine and village.

The war is finally over and in the aftermath of the Blitz England has sent out a call for help from the colonies. Jazz musician Lawrie Matthews answers the call and arriving on the Empire Windrush takes a tiny room in south London lodgings. He falls for the girl next door and pours his heart […]

In the early 1960’s equality in the research community was anything but scientific. Elizabeth Zott is a chemist working with an all-male team. Forced to resign, and needing an income, she reluctantly signs on to host Supper at six, a cooking show. But her version is no ordinary cooking show, hers is fuelled by science […]

Dementia is a cruel and devastating disease and Wendy Mitchell tells it from the sufferer’s side. How can you live your life when everything you know is changing? What does love mean when you stop being able to recognise your family and friends? Wendy’s memoir is a tribute to the woman she once was and […]

At 83 1/4 years Hendrik Groen considers himself old but far from dead and isn't planning to be any time soon either. His daily walks are shorter and he sees his doctor more than he'd like but thinks that there must be more to life than tea and pot plants.  So he starts writing an […]

Duneen is a remote Irish village with little drama but the villagers are troubled. Sergeant PJ Collins hasn't always been so overweight; Brid Riordan, mother of two, hasn't always been an alcoholic; and elegant Evelyn Ross hasn't always felt that her life was a total waste. When human remains are discovered at an old farm, […]

Gustav grows up in a small Swiss town, where Second World War horrors are a distant echo. His father dies mysteriously, and Emilie, the mother Gustav adores, is strangely cold and indifferent to him. Until he meets Anton Gustav's life is a lonely one They develop an intense and lifelong friendship but Anton doesn’t understand […]

It’s 334 BC and Alexander the Great is just 21 when he and his small army set out to challenge the largest, most powerful empire in the world - Persia. He and his army march East winning against huge odds and storming  fortresses from the Aegean to India. The other Alexander is Prince of the […]

Molly Gray is a maid cleaning the luxury rooms at the Regency Grand Hotel. When she reaches suite 401 she has a nasty shock, finding an infamous guest dead in his bed. The mystery is a very messy one with Molly at the heart of things. 

n 1627 pirates raided the Icelandic coast, kidnapped 400 people and sold them into slavery in Algiers. Among them were a pastor, his wife, and their children. The book imagines the story of Asta, the pastor’s wife, who uses the stories she’s bought with her from home to help her cope with her losses as […]