Summer 1862 finds America in the grip of an increasingly bloody civil war. The Confederate Army of Virginia has invaded the North and now faces the enemy on their own ground, but tragedy stalks their every move.
Captain Joshua McAndrew finds himself promoted to lead his regiment only to face the spectre of defeat and surrender following his first engagement at their head. McAndrew's friends and family are inevitably sucked into the maelstrom. They will need courage, faith and determination if they are to survive the trials that await them in the long months ahead.
Sheriff Jud Harris sets out to find two kidnapped children and finds
himself heading deep into Mexico taking along his posse of four trusted men. He links up with another posse and a Texas Ranger, all on the trail of
the ruthless and deranged slaver, Stanley Cobb.
An action-packed story of bravery and brutality sprinkled with humour
and pathos.
Twisted River takes Sheriff Jud Harris back to the end of the American
Civil War and his first appointment as Sheriff of Twisted River. He has
to contend with an ongoing family feud as well as a gang of merciless
men who are murdering folks in the outlying ranches.
A western novel charged with a mixture of violence, tenderness and humour.
An engaging thriller set in London against
a corporate backdrop of high-tech and finance. Travis Connors, a talented software designer,
lands a promotion when his state-of-the-art Internet banking
system is bought by Europe's biggest bank. When a vicious bug is discovered in his software Travis is sucked
into a web of betrayal, violence and murder.
A bookkeeper of a multimillion dollar business is murdered before she
can tell who her accomplice has been in the systematic theft of corporate
funds. Unbeknownst to anyone, the bookkeeper is actually the third victim
of the killer. The diabolical killer plans the murder so that the police
are set up to arrest the President of the Company.
The Isle of Mull is one of the most beautiful places in the British Isles. Over the years many people have been drawn to the island, have fallen under its spell. Why then, does the Anthem of Mull contain the words: "But gone are now all those joys forever"?
The Grey Man is a supernatural horror story, which has been likened
to a modern version of 'Candyman'.
Archie Dyson was hanged in 1927 for the grotesque murders of several
young women. When a young couple buy his boarded-up shop fifty years
later and re-open it, the glass on an old sepia photograph of Archie
with his mother and brother is broken and the blood that drips onto
the photograph starts to bring him back to life.
Eventually Archie regains his human form and once again the bodies of young
women are found in the neighbourhood with horrific injuries.
Have you got the bottle to read this stomach-churning novel right
through to its nerve-shattering climax?
What is good? What is evil? Why should things that feel so good,
be so bad? Why are unpleasant things to do very often thought to be good?
Does the birth of a baby herald a new beginning or the beginning
of the end?
The Light and the Dark is a fast moving tale that explores the society
we have built for ourselves, the relationships we experience and the emotions
we suffer. The characters, seeking to separate good from evil, are brought
to a surprising conclusion.
6145479 Pte Peter Scott Janes had been in the army less than five months
when he was sent to France. Within weeks he was taken prisoner at St Valery.
Twelve days later he was rescued by two young French girls and for the
next sixteen months he lived a clandestine life among the ordinary people
of the Pas de Calais. Peter's son, Keith Janes, has combined his father's diaries with other
supporting documents to write Conscript Heroes.
In the chaos that followed the fall of France in 1940 many hundreds of
British soldiers escaped from their German captors - or evaded capture
altogether - and were helped to reach the unoccupied south of France.
Here, however, they were rounded up by the French authorities who were
forced to detain them. A clandestine escape network grew up with the object
of helping men to leave France and return to Britain. This book records
how the French military tried, with only limited success, to prevent escapes.
Up She Goes! - January 1942: at a London RAF recruiting office, three girls from diverse
backgrounds meet. All three become firm friends as together they train
as Balloon Operators.
The Breighton Twins - When the events of the Second World War change to the offensive, Basher is finally sent to Breighton 78 Squadron
belonging to Bomber Command 4 group. Within
days of being introduced to her new job in signals she meets up with a
telephonist who comes from the same part of London, and whose personality
and looks are like hers. The many intricacies of life beset the two friends
who are named by many as the Breighton Twins.