Fortune's Favourite Child
When Robert Markham and his wife Grace see the advertisement for The Old Manor House in the idyllic village of Cypress Grove, buying the hotel seems a perfect way for them to achieve their dream of living in the Cotswolds.
Delighted to have some company of her own age, Laura is instantly drawn to Carmilla. But as their friendship grows, Carmilla's character changes and she becomes increasingly secretive and volatile.
' FREDERICK DOUGLASS arrived in Dublin in the summer of 1845, the start of a two-year lecture tour of Britain and Ireland, to champion freedom from slavery.
The foul sorcerer Avoch-Dar has slipped through his pursuers' grasp, taking the Book of Shadows with him. And once he has unlocked the book's mysteries, he will return to Delgarvo, invincible.
Outlaw's Woman
When Sarah Gannon's papa gambles away the family home, she is forced to open a herbalist's shop to survive.
Brian Hatton's dreams of pop stardom end one dark night when he is found floating face down in the canal.
The Tarnished Star
Dead Before Midnight
After tasting champagne for the first time in her life, Venetia is astounded to hear herself saying yes to the marriage proposal of Professor Duert ter Laan-Luitinga.
Since she was twelve years old, Belle has lived with a secret - a secret that cuts her off from her family and isolates her wherever she goes.
Shadows in the Afternoon
Chinese triads, "borrowed" millions, and a teenage runaway all land up on the patch of Superintendent Macrae.
After a failed marriage, Megan travels to the Australian outback to take up a new job.
It is 1892 and Lizzie Flintoff lives with her parents behind a small shop in Whitby, where her father makes and sells jewellery in the famous Whitby jet.
Man of Rock
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Winds of Evil
Pauline Macaulay's story 'Harolds bear', in which a teddy provides a valuable clue in a murder mystery; and Pat Rush's true stories of, among others, the bear who survived the sinking of the Titanic, and the bear who broke water and land ...