Collection: Adult Fiction

Christopher Isherwood explores the character of a middle-aged Englishman living in California: a professor alienated from his students by differences in age and nationality and from the rest of society by his homosexuality.

It's spring again in the village, and with the changing of the seasons comes the change in the lives of many villagers.

There's consternation among the villagers of Prior's Ford when a firm is interested in re-opening an old granite quarry. It'll be disruptive, noisy and dusty, despite bringing in some new jobs. Publican Glen organises a protest group.

Grace Descanso is a young single mother working for CSI San Diego. When a routine crime scene turns into a bloodbath, Grace realises that someone is after her. After her daughter is kidnapped, Grace races against time to work out why and where she's been taken.

In the small inlaid wooden box, Matt's mother had kept all his childhood memories. Amongst them are many photos of Matt as a child, growing up. But something about the photos has always puzzled Matt. Was that really him? Why did he not remember those clothes? The toys? And where, in the photos, w...

When an eminent scholar is found murdered in his cell in the abbey of Lios Mor, fear spreads among his brethren; his door was secured from the inside, with no other means of exit. How did the murderer escape? Abbot Iarnla insists on sending for Sister Fidelma and her companion Brother Eadulf to i...

The short stories collected here are bizarre twists on the Batman mythos, created by artists not usually associated with the Batman comic, including Warren Ellis, Brian Azzarello, Dave Gibbons and Harlan Ellison.

A mad bomber is on the loose and Dee and Ryo are on the case. However, before they can catch their man, the bomber strikes at the 27th precinct. Personal feelings aside, the pair must work even harder to capture the culprit before things get really out of hand.

The open Texas range was the finest cattle-land in the world but when some men erected fences, others suffered the consequences as their cattle were deprived of water and the grassland. Some men turned night-riders, destroying the fence lines. Tom Midnight joined the ranks of fencers seeking to f...

'The Time of Our Singing' tells the story of a mixed-race American family and of the frictions that arise within it in the years following World War Two that reflect the tragedy of race in America.