Multi-Period
The Promise
May Thorpe is 11 years old on the night of the air raid on Coventry. Her adored brother Jack is…
The Lost Book of Mala R.
MacDowell’s novel tells the story of three California women in the present, each affected in different ways by the journal…
Kinmer’s Lea
Twelve-year-old Edwin goes to stay with his Gran at Kinmers Lea, her old house near Hastings. Somehow he and Gran…
Tomorrow’s Guardian
“Time Travel is fun until you try it . . . ” Tom Oakley is 11. He can travel through…
Washed in the Blood
Washed in the Blood is a saga spanning three centuries of the (as one character terms it) “racially ambiguous” descendants…
Jane Austen Made Me Do It
Jane Austen continues her afterlife as the Scylla and Charybdis of women’s fiction, luring innocent writers ever closer until she…
Tales of the New World
In ten short stories, some as short as seven pages and others over seventy pages, Sabina Murray considers the motivations,…
The Lazarus Vault
Editors' choice
Out of the blue, Ellie Stanton is offered a job – posh flat and limitless credit included – at a…
Relic
Relic is unashamedly indebted to Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code, which it lists in its bibliography, along with The Holy…
Life: An Exploded Diagram
Life: An Exploded Diagram is an ambitious novel about the effects of war on three generations in the bleak countryside…
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