Quercus
All Their Minds in Tandem
October 1879, New Georgetown, West Virginia. A man called “The Maker” arrives in this small town. He has a gift:…
Ice Cold
It’s October 1939, and Josef Kalteis, “an ethnic German, an Aryan, and in addition a member of the National Socialist…
Echoes from Afar
London, 1936. After spiteful rumours force her out of her nursing job, Annabelle Blake flees to Paris to stay with…
Fair Helen
In the late 16th century, Harry Langdon returns home to the Scottish Borders to aid Adam Fleming, his distressed best…
The Food of Love: Book One, Laura’s Story
England before the Second World War, and we follow Laura, the youngest of three siblings with two brothers each born…
Smoke and Mirrors: A Stephens and Mephisto Mystery
In this novel Detective Inspector Stephens and magician, Max Mephisto, who previously appeared in Elly Griffith’s novel The Zigzag Girl,…
The Seeker
Editors' choice
Oliver Cromwell’s London in 1654 is a place of distrust, censorship, spies and murder. Covert royalists plot to return the…
Women Who Ruled: History’s 50 Most Remarkable Women
This broad survey of women and power from Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt in the 15th century BCE to Benazir Bhutto,…
Fall of Man in Wilmslow: The Death and Life of Alan Turing
The focus of this novel is the life and death of Alan Turing, the mathematician who was instrumental in cracking…
The Zigzag Girl
When a young woman is discovered sliced into three precise pieces, Brighton’s Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens believes she is the…
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