Collection: Adult Fiction

On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel, where she will spend the rest of her days. She encounters the handsome young writer, Ludo, and learns that even the old can fall in love.

Four different people are named in a will - Delia, an opera singer robbed of her voice by illness; George, an idealistic scientist; Marjorie, desperately poor & unable to dislodge her writer's block; & Lucius, whose personal life is in chaos. This is a tale of four strangers summoned to a grand b...

First published in France in 1967, this book consists of three short novellas on the theme of women's vulnerability - the first, to the process of ageing, in the second the loneliness, and, in the third, to the growing indifference of a loved one.

Napoleon's invasion of Russia forms the backdrop for Tolstoy's literary masterpiece. Often considered the greatest novel in any language, 'War and Peace' is also a philosophical meditation on the tension between free will and fate.

Possessed of an extraordinary telekinetic gift, Dahlia Le Blanc has spent her life isolated from other people. Just when she thinks she's finally achieved some semblance of peace, her well-orchestrated world comes crashing down. For a reason she cannot guess, she has become the target of deadly a...

Josef Vadassy decides to break his journey from Nice to Paris at the coastal town of St Gatien. His nightmare begins when a film he takes to the chemist turn out to hold top secret military information.

Patrick Kelly is a hard man - the most feared in London. His one soft spot is for his daughter, Mandy. And when she falls victim to the sadistic rapist nicknamed the Grantley Ripper, Kelly wants revenge - with or without police help.

When Kenton travels to Nuremberg to investigate a story about Nazi officials, he inadvertently finds himself on a train bound for Austria. Stranded with no money, Kenton jumps at the chance to earn a fee helping a refugee smuggle securities across the border. Yet he soon discovers that the docume...

Terry Lennox's very rich wife is found with her brains all over the floor. Murderer or no murderer, Lennox is shaping up to cause plenty of trouble and trouble just happens to be Marlowe's line of work.

On a mission to rescue hostages in Mexico, the last thing GhostWalker Kane Cannon expects to find is Rose Patterson - fellow GhostWalker, fugitive, and pregnant with his child.