Collection: Adult Fiction

Set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed, this novel follows the life of July, a slave girl, who lives upon a sugar plantation named Amity.

The dragon keepers and the fledgling dragons are forging a passage up the treacherous Rain Wild River. They are in search of the mythical Elderling city of Kelsingra, and are accompanied by the liveship Tarman, its captain, Leftrin, and a group of hunters who must search the forests for game with...

Special Agent Bobby Dees knows what grief feels like. He understands the pain of losing a child. And he'll do whatever he can to prevent it from happening again. The phone call that comes on a Sunday morning will take him away from his insular world of grief and sleepless nights - and into a far ...

A tale of high adventure and derring-do set in the same Victorian-style world as the acclaimed 'The Court of the Air' and 'The Rise of the Iron Moon'.

This is a heart-stopping story of war and of peace; of love, passion and betrayal; of druids and warring gods, where each life is sacred and each death even more so; and where Breaca and Ban learn the terrible distances they must travel to fulfil their own destinies.

Lord Francis Powerscourt turns his superior talents to murder at a Fenland society wedding. The finger of suspicion points at Cosmo Colville, found with a smoking gun beside the body of his brother and father of the groom, wine merchant Randolph Colville.

When a professional jury foreman goes missing, the FBI puts Holland Byron on the case with a lead agent introduced as Wyatt Ert. Soon other jurors go missing and turn up dead - as do their wives and husbands. Is the entire programme under attack or is it just guilty defendants exacting their reve...

Rachel Jones wasn't looking for trouble, much less a man, but in Kell Sabin she found both. On a hot summer's night Kell is washed up, barely alive, on a Florida beach and into Rachel's life. But by falling in love with Kell, Rachel has put her own life in danger from the forces that want him dead.

Using all the expertise and knowledge gleaned from his political journalism, Matthew D'Ancona (awarded Political Journalist of the Year 2004) delivers a fast-paced thriller which takes the reader through a roller-coaster ride of global politics and personal betrayals.

As World War One rumbles to a close and Russia is wracked by bloody civil war, ex-Tsarist agent Pyotr Ryzhkov is picked up by the Bolshevik secret police. He has two choices: find the Russian Royal Family, or face the firing squad. But it soon becomes clear that one choice is little better than t...