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14 December 2011
Your book "Don't get me started"
needs a level 8 now 4 years have elapsed, including "APOPLEXY" as beyond raging fury Candidates are Mr and Mrs Balls for automaton speak, Chris Evans for babbling and Charlie Stait for multiple questions of interviewees. Dave Wood
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29 November 2011
What happened to historical fiction?
Transposing current issues into a historical context in order illuminate the detail through context and distance appears to be a dying art.
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21 September 2011
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Latest Blog Entries
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15 January 2012
Publication Day looms
In less than a month, my Tudor historical The Queen's Secret will be published. I now have some launch events lined up and will be posting up details as soon as they are finalised. Meanwhile, I've set...
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15 January 2012
Is it true that breast-fed babies are less happy than bottle-fed babies?
A study in Cambridge has found that breastfed babies cry more, laugh less, and generally have "more challenging temperaments" than formula-fed infants. But such behaviour is normal, and mothers should...
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10 January 2012
Slow trains can be better than High Speed ones
Slow trains can be better than High Speed Rail, says author of new book Modern travel has become a speed trap for all of us. We expect to travel faster and faster and have become obsessed with sp...
Featured Books
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Q & A
Former tiffinboy Ram Mohammad Thomas has just got twelve questions correct on a TV quiz-show to win...
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TIM Defender of the Earth
TIM is Tyrannosaurus Improved Model. He's a genetically modified dinosaur that the government have b...
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Aphrodite's War
THE ISLAND IS DIVIDED, BUT ONE MAN'S LOVE WILL NEVER BE COMPROMISED...Cyprus, 1955 - a guerrilla war...
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Chastened: No More Sex in the City
For the last year Hephzibah Anderson has flirted, dated, swooned, and sighed. She has been tantalize...
Sortable Authors (86)
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Adele Geras
ADELE GERAS was born in Jerusalem and travelled widely as a child. She started writing over thirty years ago and is the author of more than ninety books for young readers, including Happy Ever After,...
The Tower Room : Egerton Hall Trilogy 1
Megan, Bella and Alice inhabit the isolated world of a girl's boarding school, Egerton Hall, buried...
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Andrea Busfield
Andrea Busfield was born in Warrington in 1970. During her fifteen years as a journalist she worked for The Western Gazette in Yeovil, Somerset; News Team International in Birmingham; The Sun in Londo...
Born Under a Million Shadows
The Taliban have disappeared from Kabul's streets, but the long shadows of their brutal regime remai...
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Andrew Parker
Born in 1967 in England, Professor Andrew Parker moved to Australia in 1990 where he spent ten years studying marine biology and physics. On returning to the UK as a Royal Society University Resear...
The Genesis Enigma
'Why is the Bible's creation story written as it is?'The first page of Genesis features no humans at...
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Andrew Rosenheim
Andrew Rosenheim came to England from America as a Rhodes Scholar in 1977 and has lived near Oxford ever since. He is the author of Stillriver, Keeping Secrets, and most recently Without Prejudice. H...
Fear Itself
It's the late 1930s in an America slowly pulling itself out of the Depression. War is threatening in...
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Anna Shepard
Anna Shepard is a writer for The Times, contributing features, interviews, book reviews and comment pieces. She wrote the Eco-Worrier column in the Saturday edition for four years. She has also writte...
How green Are My Wellies?: Small Steps And Giant Leaps To Green Living With Style
Do you think 'turning green' means becoming dull? Anna Shepard doesn't. Part personal experience, pa...
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Anthony McGowan
Anthony McGowan was born in Manchester in 1965. He went to school in Leeds. He has an M.Phil in philosophy and a PhD on the history of the concept of beauty He has worked as a nightclub bouncer, civ...
The Knife That Killed Me
He is coming to kill me.Now would be a good time to run.I cannot run. I am too afraid to run.Paul Va...
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Ariana Franklin
Transworld Publishers is greatly saddened to announce the passing of Diana Norman, who wrote the Mistress of the Art of Death novels under the pseudonym Ariana Franklin. She was a talented, much-love...
Relics of the Dead: Mistress of the Art of Death 3
On hearing of this momentous discovery, King Henry II demands evidence that the legendary Arthur is...
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Barbara Bloomfield
'I love writing and I love the subtle dance of relationships.' For the last year, Barbara has been researching The Relate Guide to Finding Love, distilling the experiences of both romance-seekers and...
The Relate Guide to Finding Love
Why are you looking for love right now? What kind of relationship do you want? How will you know whe...
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Candy Gourlay
Candy Gourlay was a journalist writing about dictators in the Third World before she took up a full time position battling dictators of the nappy-clad variety. She inadvertently became a web designer...
Tall Story
Be careful what you wish for . . . Andi is short. And she has lots of wishes. She wishes she could p...
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Catherine Ryan Hyde
Catherine Ryan Hyde is the author of several highly acclaimed novels including Pay it Forward, which was made into a film starring Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt. In 2007 her novel Love in the Present Te...
The Hardest Part of Love
There's a split second between having it all, and losing everything.Hayden briefly has it all: a wif...
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Cathy Marie Buchanan
CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN’s debut novel, The Day the Falls Stood Still, is a Barnes & Noble Recommends Selection, a Barnes & Noble Best of 2009 book, an American Booksellers Association IndieNext pick, and...
The Day the Falls Stood Still
Niagara Falls, 1915When Bess Heath returns to her family home near the picturesque falls, it is to a...
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Chris Eakin
Chris is a presenter on the BBC News Channel. He has been a journalist on newspapers and in broadcasting for more than 25 years. He is a qualified Offshore Yachtmaster. He lives in London.
A Race Too Far
In 1968, the Sunday Times organised the Golden Globe race - an incredible test of endurance never be...
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Christine Hill
I live in London with my husband. We have three grown up children and a small grandchild who I am lucky enough to look after one day a week.I trained as a physiotherapist at St. Mary’s Hospital, Londo...
Christine Hill's Pregnancy Guide: The essential handbook for all expectant mothers
Having spent the last 25 years taking ante- and post-natal classes, Christine Hill knows what questi...
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Christopher Fowler
Christopher Fowler writes novels, short story collections and screenplays, and has had around thirty books published to date. His story The Master Builder became a movie starring Tippi Hendren. Anothe...
Seventy-Seven Clocks
'The newspapers referred to it as the case of the seventy-seven clocks. There was quite a fuss at th...
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Christopher Stocks
An award-winning journalist, editor and copywriter, Christopher has written for, among others, the Daily Telegraph, ES, Patek Philippe magazine and Wallpaper, reporting on everything from Uruguayan b...
Forgotten Fruits: The stories behind Britain's traditional fruit and vegetables
In Forgotten Fruits, Christopher Stocks tells the fascinating - often rather bizarre - stories behin...
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Clare Byam-Cook
Clare Byam-Cook trained as a nurse and midwife. She has worked as a breast-feeding specialist in Christine Hill's private antenatal practice in Chiswick since 1989 and previously worked as a midwife a...
What To Expect When You're Breast-feeding... And What If You Can't?
While some mothers take to breast-feeding like a duck to water, others just can't seem to get the ha...
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Craig Russell
Craig Russell is the author of the Jan Fabel novels set in contemporary Hamburg and the Lennox series in 1950s Glasgow. His novels have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. The seco...
Blood Eagle
The first woman had her lungs ripped out. When the same gruesome ritualistic method was used again,...
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Craig Simpson
Born in the New Forest in 1962, Craig Simpson spent his childhood in southern England. At eighteen he packed his bags and headed off to veterinary school in Bristol. Soon realizing the study of anatom...
Special Operations: Wolf Squadron
HOLLAND, MAY 1941A traitor has struck at the heart of Special Ops, jeopardising the entire Dutch Res...
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Danny Kelly
Here's the raw truth. Danny Baker and I have been working together for years. We win all the big prizes for our radio broadcasts, newspaper columns and podcasts. Then we are unceremoniously sacked. We...
Classic Football Debates Settled Once and For All, Vol.1
At last, at long, long last - the award-winning Baker & Kelly bring you the most entertaining, radic...
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Dee Shulman
Dee Shulman has written and /or illustrated about fifty books for children, ranging from board books to teenage fiction. Her books have been translated into many languages, including Japanese, Italian...
Polly Price's Totally Secret Diary: Reality TV Nightmare
Polly Price didn't think it was possible for her actress mother, Arabella Diamonte, to be any more e...
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Doug Jackson
I was born in Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders in the summer of 1956. Educated at Parkside Primary School and Jedburgh Grammar School, I left three weeks before my 16th birthday with six O levels and...
Caligula
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, the third Roman Emperor, is better known by another name: C...
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Ewan Morrison
Ewan Morrison is the author of the novels Ménage, Swung and Distance and the collection of short stories, The Last Book You Read. He was recently made the recipient of Scottish Arts Council writers bu...
Swung
It started as a joke.From the moment she first meets him Alice is aware that David is impotent. 'I'm...
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Fiona Mountain
Fiona Mountain was a press officer at BBC Radio 1 for ten years. She is the author of three previous novels, but only returned to writing after the birth of her four children. She lives in the Cotswol...
Isabella
Fletcher Christian and Isabella Curwen are first cousins who grow up together in the Lake District;...
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Fred Pearce
Fred Pearce was recently described by The Times as one of Britain's finest science writers. Based in London, he has reported on environmental, popular science and development issues from over 60 count...
The Last Generation: How Nature Will Take Her Revenge for Climate Change
Climate change is not a matter of gradually increasing temperatures. New scientific findings about h...
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Giles Kristian
Having Viking ancestors himself,Giles Kristian believes that the story of Raven has always been in his blood waiting, like the Norsemen, for the right time to burst upon the world. Inspired by both h...
Raven: Odin's Wolves
We lusted for an even greater prize...the one prize that can never be lost or stolen or burnt. And w...
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Grant McKenzie
Born in Scotland, living in Canada and writing American fiction, I like to cover all the bases. My debut novel, SWITCH, will be published on July 2, 2009. My short stories have been featured in Out...
Switch
How far would you go to save the ones you love? Would you run five traffic lights in a row? Would yo...
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James Patterson
James Patterson is one of the best-known and bestselling writers of all time. He is the author of the two bestselling detective series of the past decade, the Alex Cross novels and the Womens Murder C...
Torn Apart: The True Story of a Childhood Lost
Cory Friedman was an ordinary fun-loving little boy. But one fateful March morning in 1989, the cour...
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Jane Casey
Jane Casey was born and brought up in Dublin. She then studied English at Jesus College, Oxford, followed by an mPhil in Anglo-Irish Literature at Trinity College, Dublin. Married to a criminal barris...
The Burning
A serial killer who wants to watch you burn...The media call him The Burning Man, a brutal murderer...
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Jason Webster
Jason Webster is a leading Anglo-American writer on Spain, author of DUENDE and the crime novel OR THE BULL KILLS YOU. Born near San Francisco in 1970, he grew up in England and Germany. After studyin...
Guerra
After twelve years in Spain, Jason Webster had developed a deep love for his adopted homeland; his l...
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Jo Rees
Jo Rees published her first novel when she was 26. She went on to write several screenplays and internationally successful novels with her husband, Emlyn Rees, including the number one bestseller, Co...
Forbidden Pleasures
From Las Vegas to Dubai, from Shanghai to London, the fatal pull of the gambling world stretches...S...
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Joanne Harris
Joanne Harris is the author of a number of books, including "Chocolat", "Five Quarters of the Orange", "Gentlemen & Players", "The Lollipop Shoes". You can find out more about Joanne's books on her we...
The Lollipop Shoes
'Who died?' I said. 'Or is it a secret?''My mother, Vianne Rocher.'Seeking refuge and anonymity in t...
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John Macken
John Macken works as a research scientist in a large windowless building. He is married with two children.
Control
Two murders, days apart but clearly linked.Each victim has had the tips of their fingers removed wit...
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John Man
John Man is a historian and writer with special interests in Central Asia and the history of written communication. He takes particular pleasure in combining historical narrative with personal experi...
Attila The Hun
The name Attila the Hun has become a byword for barbarism, savagery and violence. His is a truly hou...
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Jonathan Hayes
Hayes Bio Jonathan Hayes attended medical school at the University of London. Graduating with honors, he did internships in medicine and surgery before moving to the United States. He trained in an...
A Hard Death
Jenner, the brilliant forensic pathologist hero of A PRECIOUS BLOOD, has survived the horrific final...
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Judi James
Judi James is a leading television expert in body language, social behaviour, image, workplace culture and communication skills and has her own four-part body language series on Channel Five called Na...
The Body Language Bible: The hidden meaning behind people's gestures and expressions
We live in an image-conscious society where looking the best tends to win over being the best. Human...
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Judith Allnatt
Judith writes fiction and poetry, sometimes drawing on the landscape, history and fascinating characters of rural Northamptonshire, where she lives. Her first novel, 'A Mile of River', was shortlisted...
A Mile of River
It is 1976 and England is suffocating. The long, dry spring has given way to a summer of severe drou...
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Julia Widdows
Julia Widdows was born in London and now lives in Brighton. She is a prize-winning short story writer, and has run creative writing groups in a variety of settings, including with recovering addicts a...
Living In Perhaps
Carol has always resented her family - her mother, endlessly knitting, her father and his obsession...
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Julian Thompson
Julian Thompson served in the Royal Marines for 34 years in many places and campaigns round the world, retiring as Major General. He commanded 3 Commando Brigade, which carried out the initial landing...
Forgotten Voices Desert Victory
For Britain in the first half of the World War Two, the importance of defending the Middle East agai...
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Ken Howard
Ken Howard was educated at University College School, London and Edinburgh University. He trained with Granada TV and for several years in the Drama department of BBC TV. His directing career has span...
The Young Chieftain
Has life ever ganged up on you, hit you from behind and forced you to become a totally new person?It...
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Linda Newbery
Linda Newbery, winner of the Costa Children's Book Prize 2006 with SET IN STONE, has published more than thirty books for children and young adults. She writes for a wide age-range, from her first pic...
The Shell House
The Shell House is a beautifully written and sensitive portrayal of love, sexuality and spirituality...
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Lisa Unger
LISA UNGER is an award winning New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling author. Her novels have been published in over 26 countries around the world. She was born in New Haven, Connecti...
Black Out
HER LIFE IS FALLING APART. PICKING UP THE PIECES COULD KILL HER...On the surface, Annie Powers' life...
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Lucy Edge
Lucy worked in advertising for many years; spending her days debating whether the Jolly Green Giant should extend his vocabulary beyong 'ho ho ho' and her evenings eating M&S ready meals for one. One...
Yoga School Dropout
A sharply funny travelogue from a fantastic new writer. Lucy Edge tells the story of her personal qu...
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Luisa Plaja
Luisa Plaja (pronounced 'playa' like the Spanish for 'beach') is a Glasgow-born, Sicily-and-London-bred Extreme Reader. She has two young children and lives in Devon.
Extreme Kissing
Carlota and Bethany are best friends. Bethany is the sensible one with a long-term boyfriend, Carlot...
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Marc Morris
Marc Morris is an historian and broadcaster. He studied and taught history at the universities of London and Oxford, and his doctorate on the thirteenth-century earls of Norfolk was published in 2005....
A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king. Edward I is familiar...
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Mark Pearson
For the last fifteen years Mark Pearson has worked as a full-time television scriptwriter on a variety of shows for the BBC and ITV, including Doctors, Holby City and The Bill. He lives in Norfolk. HA...
Hard Evidence
Jackie Malone has been murdered. Her body lies in a pool of blood in the north London flat where she...
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Melissa Wareham
Melissa Wareham spent fifteen years at Battersea Dogs Home, from February 1988 to September 2004. Her first job was as a kennel maid at the age of eighteen. She went on to become their rehoming manage...
Take Me Home: Tales of Battersea Dogs
Melissa Wareham always wanted to work with dogs - and got her first job at the Battersea Dogs & Cats...
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Michael Booth
Hello. I am a food and travel writer, journalist, father and cook. I write for Condé Nast Traveller, The Independent on Sunday, Esquire, Monocle and quite a few other publications. I once had somethin...
Sushi and Beyond: What the Japanese Know About Cooking
Japan is the pre-eminent food nation on earth. The Japanese go to the most extraordinary lengths and...
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Michael Simkins
Michael Simkins is a familiar face on the west end stage and TV screens, usually playing experts, policemen or unsuspecting husbands. Most recently he's played Billy Flynn in the musical Chicago and t...
Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education
Though happy enough with his lot, Michael Simkins has never truly shaken the nagging doubt - helpful...
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Michael Williams
Michael Williams is a national newspaper and magazine journalist. When he's not travelling around the country on slow trains, he commutes at speed on the 440-mile round rail trip between his home in L...
On the Slow Train Again
Michael Williams has spent the past year travelling along the fascinating rail byways of Britain for...
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Mike Carter
Mike Carter grew up in Birmingham and now lives in south-west London. He works for the Guardian as a travel writer and subeditor, although he considers his spell as a dancer at the Halikarnas nightclu...
Uneasy Rider: Travels Through a Mid-Life Crisis
A broken heart and a moment of drunken bravado inspires middle-aged, and typically rather cautious,...
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Mikkel Birkegaard
Mikkel Birkegaard lives in Copenhagen. The Library of Shadows is his first novel. It was first published in his native Denmark where it was a national bestseller, and has now gone on to be published i...
The Library of Shadows
Imagine that some people have the power to affect your thoughts and feelings when you read, or they...
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Mimi Spencer
Mimi Spencer is a prizewinning fashion and beauty journalist. She has a column in You magazine and writes for Observer Woman, Grazia and many other magazines and newspapers. She was editor of ES Magaz...
101 Things to Do Before You Diet
Ways to eat,ways to cheat: what to wear, what to ditch -Discover the secrets that will truly make a...
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Miranda Glover
Miranda Glover read English at Oxford before embarking on a publishing career, specialising in art, design and the web. She has edited several well-received books set in the art field as well as writi...
Meanwhile Street
It's early morning and Meanwhile Street thinks it's waking to a regular Wednesday in May. Soon a dis...
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Mitchell Symons
Mitchell Symons was born in 1957 in London and educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE, where he studied law. Since leaving BBC TV, where he was a researcher and then a director, he has worked as a w...
Why Does Ear Wax Taste So Gross?
DID YOU KNOW?Stinky ear wax has been hanging around in the ear canal for nearly a month before it is...
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Muriel Zagha
Muriel Zagha was born and grew up in France. She studied English literature at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. A lifelong Anglophile, she first came to Britain aged 21 as a French lectrice at C...
Finding Monsieur Right
A tale of two cities...Two girls...And a life-altering swap.Daisy's just landed the perfect job: spe...
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Natasha Farrant
Natasha Farrant previously worked in publishing and now runs her own children's literary scouting agency. She grew up in the heart of the French community in London, and has therefore never considered...
Diving Into Light
Every summer throughout her childhood, Florence would return to her family home on the west coast of...
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Niamh O’Connor
Niamh O'Connor is the True Crime editor of Ireland's leading Sunday newspaper, the Sunday World. Her first novel, 'If I Never See You Again' was nominated for an Irish Book Award in the Best Newcomer...
Taken
It's a cold wet winter night when a car pulls into a service station on Dublin quays.Strapped on to...
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Nick Drake
Nick Drake was born in 1961. He is an award-winning poet and screenwriter. He is also Literary Associate at the National Theatre. His first collection of poems, THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT (Bloodaxe), w...
Tutankhamun
For Rahotep, chief detective, life is about to get very complicated. On the shadowy city streets the...
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Pam Hobbs
Pam Hobbs in an award-winning travel writer, who has written for Canada's Globe and Mail amongst other papers and magazines.
Don't Forget to Write: The true story of an evacuee and her family
'Dad walked determinedly down the path, joined by two neighbours with five children between them. As...
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Patricia Scanlan
Patricia Scanlan was born in Dublin, where she still lives. Her books have sold world wide and been translated into many languages. She has always been interested in publishing and worked part time as...
Love and Marriage
When love flies out the window married life can be hell.With an unplanned baby on the way, a newly-w...
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Patrick Woodhead
Patrick Woodhead spent 8 years exploring some of the most remote places on the planet, from the Amazon jungle to the cold deserts of Antarctica, before settling down to write his first thriller novel,...
The Secret Chamber
People have been disappearing in what the explorer Stanley called the black heart of Africa - the im...
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Pete Johnson
Pete Johnson has now written over forty books, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. He is best known for his award-winning comedies such as ‘How To Train Your Parents,’ ‘Help! I...
Rescuing Dad
Joe and Claire can see why Mum chucked Dad out. He looks a mess, he can't cook and he's useless arou...
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Peter Ward
Peter Ward was born in 1958 and grew up in different places all over the Far East, England and Germany. In between Bristol University and finally graduating from Leeds University with a degree in Engl...
Dragon Horse
Set in ancient China, two brothers fight the classic battle between good and evil as the Shadow-with...
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Philip Augar
Philip Augar worked in investment banking for over twenty years. He led NatWests global equity and bond business before becoming a Group Managing Director at Schroders. Since 2000 he has combined cons...
Reckless: The Rise and Fall of the City
In 1997 it seemed that things in the City could only get better. For ten years everything went accor...
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Rebecca Farnworth
Rebecca Farnworth is a highly successful ghostwriter for one of Britain's most famous celebrities. She lives in Brighton with her husband and three children. Valentine is her first novel.
Valentine
Will a shocking secret cause a rising star to fall?Valentine Fleming dreams of making it as an actre...
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Rhys Thomas
Rhys Thomas' first novel, THE SUICIDE CLUB, was released in 2009 and his second, ON THE THIRD DAY, in July 2010.
On The Third Day
Society is on the brink of collapse. The Old World is vanishing, the New World is taking over. There...
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Richard Branson
Sir Richard Branson is a hugely successful international entrepreneur and icon, and is chairman of the Virgin Group.
Losing My Virginity
This is the bestselling autobiography of iconic entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, featuring his take...
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Rick Stroud
Rick Stroud is a film director and writer. After Oxford University he joined Granada TV where he directed Coronation Street and was an Associate Producer on Brideshead Revisited. Since then he has dir...
The Book of the Moon
On July 20th 1969, in one of the most iconic moments of the twentieth century, Neil Armstrong took h...
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Rod MacDonald
Rod Macdonald has been diving for 25 years almost exclusively researching, tracking and identifying lost or forgotten shipwrecks. During that time there has however been the odd special scenic dive -...
Dive Scotland's Greatest Wrecks
The allure for divers of Scapa Flow, site of the scuttling of Von Tirpitz's High Seas Fleet followin...
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Rosemary Clement-Moore
Rosemary Clement-Moore lives and writes in Arlington, Texas. THE SPLENDOR FALLS is the fourth book she has had published in the US for young readers.
Texas Gothic
A spooky, electrifying love story.Amy Goodnight's family are far from normal. She comes from a long...
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Rowan Coleman
Rowan Coleman lives in Hertfordshire with her daughter. Before becoming a writing she worked in both bookselling and publishing for seven years. In 2000 she won the Company magazine Young Writer of th...
Lessons in Laughing Out Loud
Willow and Holly are identical twins. They are everything to each other. Holly calls Willow her ro...
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Rupert James
Rupert James is a celebrity and fashion journalist. He lives in London and is married to a barrister. "Sexy, funny, compelling. Silk sizzles!" TILLY BAGSHAWE Author photo by Jonathan Dredge www.jo...
Stepsisters
Hell hath no fury like a stepsister scorned...Elizabeth Miller has brains, a trust fund and an unrel...
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Sam Enthoven
For ten years Sam Enthoven worked in a big London bookshop, helping people find the most thrilling books in the world while chasing his dream of becoming a published author himself. In 2006 that dream...
Crawlers
Ben is on a school trip. So is Jasmine. What they don't know is that not everybody in the theatre is...
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Sasha Blake
Sasha Blake leads an amazing double life. She spends every morning with her characters, wafting around the pool of a Hollywood mansion or sunbathing on a private beach in the Maldives. The afternoons...
The Wish
We all have our dreams. But how far would we go to protect them?Lulu longs for a loving man and fath...
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Sebastian Faulks
Sebastian Faulks worked as a journalist for 14 years before taking up writing books full time in 1991. He is the author of A Trick of Light, The Girl at the Lion D'Or, A Fool's Alphabet, The Fatal Eng...
The Vintage Book Of War Stories
In this unique and compelling anthology, Sebastian Faulks has collected the best fiction about war i...
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Shappi Khorsandi
Shappi Khorsandi was born in 1973 in Tehran and moved to London with her family in 1976 who were exiled after the revolution of 1979. She studied drama at university and has now been a stand-up for ov...
A Beginner's Guide To Acting English
It's 1977 and life in Iran is becoming unpredictable. The Shah will be overthrown and events are ab...
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Steven Carroll
Born in Melbourne, Steven Carroll taught at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and at the Victoria College of Arts. He is the Theatre Critic for Australia’s The Sunday Age and is the author...
The Gift of Speed
In 1960 the West Indies arrive in Australia and Michael, who is sixteen, is enthralled. If, like his...
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Stuart Neville
Stuart Neville has been a musician, a composer, a teacher, a salesman, a film extra, a baker and a hand double for a well-known Irish comedian, but is currently a partner in a successful multimedia de...
The Twelve
Sooner or later, everybody pays - and the dead will set the price...Gerry Fegan, a former paramilita...
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Tahir Shah
Born in 1966 into a distinguished Afghan family (his father was the philosopher Idries Shah), Tahir Shah is the author of 10 books including Sorcerer's Apprentice, In Search of King Solomon's Mines an...
In Arabian Nights
Shortly after the 2005 London bombings, Tahir Shah was thrown into a Pakistani prison on suspicion o...
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Tessa Hainsworth
Tessa Hainsworth worked as a marketing manager at The Body Shop. She now lives in Cornwall with her husband and two children. To see collection of photos and video link check out: www.upwiththelarks....
Seagulls in the Attic
Having given up a high-powered job and the lifestyle to match, Tessa Hainsworth had no idea how hard...
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Tom Cain
Tom Cain is the pseudonym for an award-winning journalist, with 25 years experience working for Fleet Street newspapers, as well as major magazines in Britain and the US. During the course of his care...
Dictator
Africa has had more than its share of dictators, but Henderson Gushungo may be the worst. Millions s...
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Tom Chatfield
Tom Chatfield is an author, essayist, game writer and theorist, and sometime thinker. His first book, on the culture of video games, “Fun Inc.”, was published by Virgin Books in the UK and Pegasus in...
Fun Inc.: Why games are the 21st Century's most serious business
'Tom Chatfield's Fun Inc. is the most elegant and comprehensive defence of the status of computer ga...
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Tony Black
Tony Black lives in Edinburgh. An award-winning journalist, he has written for most of the national newspapers. He is the author of the Gus Dury novels, PAYING FOR IT and GUTTED. Visit his website at...
Long Time Dead
Gus Dury is back on the drink. While in hospital after a hit-and-run accident, his best friend, Hod,...
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Tony Wrighton
Tony Wrighton is one of the UK's top self-development experts. With a background in NLP, his audiobooks have sold over 100,000 copies and have been Top 10 bestsellers on iTunes in many countries arou...
Relax in a Minute
Do you feel stressed out?Want to relax quickly and let go of unhelpful tension in your life? These s...
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Vikas Swarup
Vikas Swarup is a member of the Indian Foreign Service. Q&A was his first novel. An international sensation, it has been translated into over forty languages, and was recently made into the multiple O...
Six Suspects
Vicky Rai, the son of a high-profile Minister, has been shot dead by one of the guests at his own pa...