`Wistful, touching and funny’ Mail on Sunday`Hilarious and tear-jerking in turns’ Express`Sharp, witty and wise’ Daily Mail Harry Silver has it all. A successful job in TV, a gorgeous wife, a lovely child. And in one moment of madness, he chucks it all away. Man and Boy is the story of how he comes to terms with his life and achieves a degree of self-respect, bringing up his son alone and, gradually, learning what words like love and family really mean. It is very w...
Meet Detective William Lorimer, the star of author Alex Gray's bestselling Glasgow-set crime series. The Bank Job is a gripping 3,000 word short story that reveals the dramatic event that inspired the young William Lorimer to become a policeman. Alex Gray's acclaimed series brings Glasgow to vivid life in all its grit and glory and this story is the perfect introduction to her winsome detective, as well as a treat for all fans of the series.Praise for Alex Gray's Lorimer series:'Brings Glasgow t...
As Serious As Death (Primavera Blackstone series, Book 5) (Primavera Blackstone)
by Quintin Jardine
A blast from the present... Primavera Blackstone faces problems from both her past and her present in Quintin Jardine's gripping mystery As Serious as Death. Perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and Peter Robinson.Primavera Blackstone has found a hard-earned contentment in a small Spanish village by the sea. A fiercely protective single mother, she doesn't appreciate an offer of marriage. Nor does she welcome the arrival of a blast from her murky Scottish past, retired cop Ricky Ross, now a private d...
Stay of Execution (Bob Skinner series, Book 14) (Bob Skinner)
by Quintin Jardine
Can you fight evil with evil...? As international terrorism stalks the City of Edinburgh, DCC Bob Skinner confronts his darkest demons in Quintin Jardine's gripping crime thriller Stay of Execution. Perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and Peter May. Evil stalks the city of Edinburgh. This time the threat is bigger than the crooks, scam-artists or drug dealers who find their prey in the shadows of the streets. Some people are looking for a big-time hit. The body of a respectable businessman is found...
The Bastard of Istanbul (Platinum Readers Circle (Center Point))
by Elif Shafak
One rainy afternoon in Istanbul a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion,' she announces. She is nineteen years old, and unmarried. What happens that afternoon is to change her life, and the lives of everyone around her. Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse all the Kazanci men die early in their forties, so it is a house of women, among them Asya's beautiful, rebellious mother, Zeliha, who runs a...
Recently divorced New Zealander Sam Nola returns to London, where he spent two years in his early twenties. It is early 2003, and on both sides of Atlantic the case for military intervention in Iraq is being made - or fabricated. But life for Sam has never been better: a grown-up, half-French daughter from a long ago affair has recently got in touch, and he has walked into a lucrative role in the booming banking sector. It is only when he learns of the deaths of two friends within a week that in...
Bruno Dante, aspirant playwright, part-time depressive and long-time drunk has hitch-hiked cross country. Escaping the sunshine, have-a-nice-day culture of LA, for the more cynical climate of New York. He should fit right in. But if there's money for beer he's sure to fuck up. A rut of deadbeat tempting jobs follow. But Dante won't play office politics or kiss ass. So they don't last long. Longer stints as the night manager of a run-down hotel, a window cleaner and, finally, a cabbie, are punctu...
Tycoon Riley Ellis finally has the leverage to destroy his half-brother - it's Kalissa Smith, the long-lost identical twin of his brother's wife. Their union would cause the scandal Riley's been waiting for...but he didn't plan on falling for beautiful Kalissa for real...
Regency Surrender: Passion And Rebellion
by Annie Burrows, Anne Herries, Sophia James, Bronwyn Scott, Georgie Lee, and Louise Allen
Twelve addictive and scandalous Regency stories from your favourite Mills & Boon Historical authors! Featuring: Lord Havelock’s List by Annie BurrowsPortrait of a Scandal by Annie BurrowsHis Unusual Governess by Anne HerriesClaiming the Chaperon’s Heart by Anne HerriesMarriage Made in Rebellion by Sophia JamesMarriage Made in Hope by Sophia JamesRake Most Likely To Seduce by Bronwyn ScottRake Most Likely To Sin by Bronwyn ScottA Debt Paid in Marriage by Georgie LeeA Too Conve...
