Books

Meredith Hawkes is on the move again, to Woodbridge in Suffolk. After he’s found a bed for the night, he searches for a town-centre pub serving food, and goes inside. There’s a striking young woman propping up the bar, laptop, tablet, and newspaper spread out before her.

Hawkes buys a drink and orders food. The girl ignores him. A broad man...

In a small Hampshire town, teenager Adam Goodchild witnesses his mother’s brutal murder, shot dead by security police in the back garden of their cute cottage, an event that will one day return to haunt the government itself.

Adam goes on the run and discovers he isn’t alone, for there’s a whole underclass of malcontents out there with similar...

England in the near future - though you may not like what you see.

The Cazenoves and the Wilsons don’t get along, leastways the parents don’t – the teenage kids adore each other, most of the time, but when the oldest Wilson girl, Tracey, falls pregnant, sparks fly.

Donald Cazenove just happens to be Freddie Wilson’s boss, but Fred isn’t without...

This is a story for children and the young at heart (of any age!) It features lots of fab characters, beginning of course with the Bunny and the Bear, both of whom are desperately seeking good new homes.

Follow the story of the Bunny and the Bear, as they set out on their quest to find a suitable new place to live, and ultimately find true...

Gringo Greene is a philandering man and he doesn’t treat his women well, but it all comes back to haunt him.

Let me ask you a question.

When were you last in love? Was it good for you? Would you recommend it? And if you had the choice, would you do it again?

Gringo Greene has never been in love. That’s half his problem.

But when a young lady gives...

Johnny Vergette is repairing an old motorbike in the garage when his mother calls him into the house.

Grist Vergette, his grandfather, passed away a few weeks before, and Johnny’s inheritance has just arrived.
It’s a key. The key to Grist’s old garden shed down on the allotments.

Johnny goes outside where he meets Seri, the German neighbour’s...

“Down into the Darkness” is David Carter’s tenth book and something of a departure from his usual English murder mysteries (“The Murder Diaries – Seven Times Over” and “The Sound of Sirens”). It’s also a lot shorter than most of his books, running to around 140 pages.

One early reviewer described it as “intelligent humorous horror” – quite some...

David Carter’s charming new book “”Drift and Badger and the Search for Uncle Mo”” is out now. Drift is a red deer fawn, born unseasonably late, and will always struggle against his bigger, brasher brethren. His mother travelled deep into the forest to give birth as the herds moved on far to the north.

A tragic accident leaves Drift to fend for...

In the early years of World War II, as bombs threatened London, Operation Pied Piper sends millions of children fleeing the capital.

Sisters Mary and Daisy Fissleborough, 14 and 12, are among a tide of evacuees. They clamber aboard a heaving third‑class train at Paddington Station. Their over-dressed mother’s strained, fingertip waves fade...