Collection: Adult Fiction

These seven short stories take you on a trip through the twilight world of the supernatural including the terrifying universe where men fall in love with monsters.

30 carers of different ages, backgrounds and circumstances share their experiences of looking after a parent, partner or friend with dementia. Their stories reveal that the quality of diagnosis, treatment and care in the UK is, in many cases, unsatisfactory.

Over five decades ago, General MacArthur permitted General Tomayuki Yamashita to be executed for alleged war crimes. Now Yamashita's granddaughter is determined to clear his name, even if it means unravelling a web of deceit and corruption that may stretch back to a secret pact between Hirohito a...

The first tie-in novel to the hugely successful computer game. It is a high-octane, all-action story of beleagued humanity, facing a powerful alien species bent on their destruction.

Social studies teacher Reuben St Clair assigns his class homework that involves them implementing a plan that will change the world. He could never have imagined that one of his pupils would achieve such a goal, but that's what happens in this tale.

With his trusty Sancho Panza, a deposed communist mayor, Rocinante, an old motor car and a terrific sense of his own righteousness, Monsignor Quixote sets off on his adventures through modern Spain, echoing his forerunner's footsteps.

Author, dramatist and satirist, Gogol deeply influenced Russian literature with his powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty bureaucracy and base corruption. This volume includes his most admired short fiction, 'The Diary of a Madman', and his most famous drama, 'The Government Inspect...

Stanley and Rose live in Rawlinson Road, Islington, surrounded by younger, smarter families like the Orams. Encroached on by age and affluence, the only answer to their problems, in spite of everything, lies in their fierce and prickly devotion to each other.