Daniel is one hundred years old. Elisabeth, was only born in 1984, and has her eye firmly on the future. Torn by an historic once-in-a-generation summer the UK is in pieces, Love is won and lost. Hope walks hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll on as always . .

In the hills overlooking the war torn streets of Sarajevo snipers lie in wait. Aware that a bullet could hit them at any moment, the people continue to go about their daily lives as much as they can. Kenan, has to cross the city to get the basic necessity of water for his family. Dragan, […]

A man is found on the steps of a Romanian hospital in the early 1950s. His name is unknown as he is deaf and mute and unable to communicate. Then Safta, a young nurse gives him some paper and pencils so he can draw. Slowly, he memories emerge on the page. The man is Augustin, […]

A daughter is born in the house of Helios, Sun God and the mightiest of the Titans. She is named Circe and is a strange child. She isn't like her parents and is scorned and rejected as a result. She isn't at home in the world of Gods or mortals and grows up in the […]

Arriving in the Ukraine a young man clutches a tattered photograph. Fifty years ago a woman saved his grandfather from the Nazis and he's searching for her. He has some strange helpers in his quest Alex, a translator who manages to convert English into wierd new forms; an old man who is "blind" and haunted […]

The roots of a sycamore tree had grown around the skeleton of a woman, aged somewhere between twenty-five and thirty. And she had carried a child . . .' Intelligence Officer Gus Clifton returns to London at the end of the Second World War, bringing with him Krista. His German wife who he secretly married […]

This beautifully written, dramatic and moving novel reveals the global refugee crisis from a child’s point of view. Another over-loaded, poorly equipped and maintained ship sinks under the weight of carrying too-many passengers. Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese and Palestinians fleeing untenable lives in their homelands perish leaving only one survivor, nine-year-old Amir. He is a […]

With the arrival of late summer steals and the gleaning of the final pearls of barley, a village is threatened. The arrival of three outsiders, two men and a dangerously charismatic woman, on the village’s woodland borders sets in motion a series of events that unmakes Walter Thirsk's village in just one week. The harvest […]

In April, 1943 a fisherman finds the body of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain. This is the start of a train of events that changed the course of the Second World War. Operation Mincemeat was a wartime deception - the most successful, and strangest, ever attempted. It fooled […]