1552. Fifteen years after Henry VIII's brutal reformation of the monasteries, Catholics in England still live in fear. When...

What becomes of the broken-hearted?
Grace was just a teenager when Jimi broke her heart. But now she's moved on and is happy...

When the abandoned strays from a local dogs home are matched with brand new owners, it turns out it might not just be the dogs...

1803. Tensions are escalating again between England and France.

While the Royal Navy launches reconnaissance, rescue missions...

Thrilled at his first command, a little brig sloop called Teazer, Thomas Kydd must race to bring his ship to battle readiness he...

It's Easter in Reading – a bad time for eggs – and no one can remember the last sunny day. Humpty Dumpty, well-known nursery...

The Great War opened up an exciting new career for Vi in London. But that was yesterday. Now, the war's over, her husband is dead...

Dora Preston has guts but it will take more than that for her to break free from Hedderby and make a life for herself on the...

Gwynna had fallen from grace once, bearing a stillborn child out of wedlock. Determined to have a respectable future, she finds a...

Marjorie is the pretty one of the Preston sisters. So pretty that when a performer at her sister’s music room breaks her leg,...

Carrie Preston is used to hard work - oldest of ten, with an incompetent mother and a drunken father, she struggles to find food...

The Gingerbreadman - psychopath, sadist, convicted murderer and cake/biscuit - is loose on the streets of Reading.

It isn't...

Thomas Paine Kydd is in Halifax enjoying the recognition and favour of his fellow officers when Tenacious is summoned to join...

Calico Road runs through a tiny Lancashire hamlet up on the edge of the moors, miles from anywhere. Its folk are an independent...

Recently widowed, Hannah Firth is still young - young enough to dream of a new life. When her spiteful daughter-in-law uses her...

In 1863 the authorities send Irish orphans Ismay and Mara to Australia against their will. Worse, on arrival they're separated...

Fourteen years after her last adventure, Thursday Next, literary detective, finds herself in an unusual situation her job...

Thursday Next, literary detective and newlywed is back to embark on an adventure that begins, quite literally on her own...

When Mattie Harris's body is found drowned in the river, everyone in Lydmouth knows something is wrong. Mattie wasn't a swimmer -...

Lizzie Kershaw is an independent spirit; ever since her father's death she has had to be a survivor.

She makes an ill-advised...

Wealthy Richard Walker has just died, leaving behind his country house full of rooms packed with the detritus of a lifetime. His...

This actually is a love story, just not the one Sunny was looking for . . .

Sunny is the queen of living a double life. To her...

It is 1797 and Thomas Kydd is now master s mate on Achilles, a 64-gun ship-of-the-line, on his way back from the Caribbean. After...

The second in the exciting naval adventure series, following the life of Thomas Paine Kydd at sea. Artemis is based on dramatic...

In the early years of the last century, a desperate young girl changes her name and flees the confines of her brutal, dominating...

‘Who’re you working for then, Warshawski?’ ‘My cousin.’ ‘Boom Boom? He’s dead.’ ‘I know. That’s why I’m working for him.’

Boom...

Will Campbell longs to become a Knight Templar, but first he must serve as apprentice to the foul-tempered scholar Everard, a man...

An ordinary life. An extraordinary choice.
Adam Gabriel has always been a child of nature. Raised on his parents` remote...

A heart-warming animal tale of bravery and friendship between a lost boy, a daring girl and the dog next door - from an author...

The latest adventures of seaman Kydd in his journey from pressed man to Admiral in the Great Age of Sail.

It is two years...