Collection: Adult Fiction

'Jonathan Livingston Seagull' is a bird determined to be more than ordinary - to have a reason for living. This is a story for people who follow their dreams and make their own rules, taking flight as a metaphor.

Ageing Indianapolis private detective Deets Shanahan is asked by an old enemy to investigate a murder - one to which his old adversary could be linked.

'Distant Horizons' continues the story of Alice Chase and her family in the days leading up to the Second World War. It is the early days of the Phoney War and Alice is awaiting the birth of a fifth child. With the arrival of two young evacuees it seems that the war is finally changing life in th...

As personal assistant to successful banker Richard Lorival, Margaret Gates has a job that is the envy of her colleagues in the typing-pool. But Margaret's mother disapproves of this unusual working arrangement; for she guesses, rightly, that Margaret is in love with her boss.

His Majesty's frigate Phalarope is ordered to the assistance of the hard-pressed squadrons in the Caribbean. Aboard is her new commander, Richard Bolitho.

When Cedric Tremain is charged with murdering his father by booby-trapping his fishing boat, all the locals are agreed that he is an unlikely murderer. The case against him is strong - he has the motive, the opportunity and know-how, but Chief Superintendent Wycliffe has a strong sense that somet...

Warren Howe is surprised by a hooded visitor whilst working in a garden in Old Sawrey. Soon he is dead - murdered with his own scythe. As the years pass, the culprit has yet to be found. However, after an anonymous tip-off, DCI Hannah Scarlett is soon on the case. Then there is yet another horrif...

In 1979 Jack Sheffield returns for his third year as headmaster of the village school. Jack and his staff struggle to keep a semblance of normality throughout the turbulence of the school terms, as once again the official school log fails to record what is really going on beneath the seemingly qu...

When rebellious teenager Misty Sullivan falls pregnant to a local wannabe gangster, she soon becomes a prisoner in her own home. Despite the betrayal of her best friend, she eventually recovers her self-belief and plots revenge on her abusive boyfriend with spectacular consequences.

When John Bold decides to challenge corruption in the Church of England he sets the whole town of Barchester ablaze with the consequences. This book is the study of conflicting loyalties and principles in a cathedral city where the gentle warden becomes an unwilling focus of national controversy.