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John O’Driscoll is madly in love with Karen Black but is so mesmerised by her beauty that in her presence his brain refuses to function. He walks in fear of school governor Father Kennedy, a man with nasal hair so terrifying it gives grown men nightmares and sends small animals scurrying for cover. And all O’Driscoll’s efforts to impress Karen seem to end in disaster and public humiliation at the hands of the cantankerous cleric. Will O’Driscoll stay out of the pub long enough to win Karen over? Will he stay out of Father Kennedy’s reach for long enough to have his teaching contract renewed?

The Maze divides up the land, isolating communities and loved ones, and hated ones. On the Outside, the League of Monasteries rules supreme. On the Inside, the Kingdom rules in ignorance of its own isolation, free of all Gods. At its centre, the Village struggles to survive. This is a story of confusion, conflict, deception and double-crossing between members of a dysfunctional Royal Family. It is also the story of a despotic Chief Monk, and the story of an orphaned village girl wishing for a better life. By the end the emotional complexity, hurt and betrayals overwhelms all.

1914. Ranveer, the eldest son of a wealthy Indian family, joins the British Indian Army and is sent to fight on the Western Front. Wounded and in hospital, he falls in love with Eve, an Englishwoman. But the conventions of the time mean they will never find a home in England. They travel to India but there it is no better and Ranveer gets drawn into the struggle for Indian independence. Now he must choose between family and his country on the one hand and the woman he loves on the other.

HARD PASSAGE NORTH continues the story of Irish immigrant Daniel Ryan, who has left his adopted Georgia home to serve in Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. It is the summer of 1862 and, following the campaign to save their capital city of Richmond, Lee and his men are moving north to confront the threat posed by the Union army of General John Pope.

Eddie Jacobs lies in the Peruvian Jungle bleeding from a gunshot wound. He has gone to Machu Picchu to find his girlfriend Julia who has disappeared. Sam Jones, an undercover policewoman in the Drug's Squad saves his life. Now both their lives are in danger from a ruthless drug trafficking gang as the plot twists and turns in Peru and back in England as they search for the truth about Julia.

Liam, a quiet, unassuming accountant, depressed with marriage difficulties and recently made redundant, impulsively rescues two people from a knife attack. The consequences change his life forever.

A young Jewish engineer is called to be one of the elite End Time group of 144,000 evangelists during the Tribulation Period. The story traces his experiences from the final war with the Arabs, which was prophesied in Psalm 83, until the eve of the battles of Armageddon.

A collection of short medical stories about medical misadventures in the daily life of medical professionals.

There must be someone else out there. In the cold, in the dark, in the vastness of space there can't be just one lonely species peering out into the void; but if there's others, where are they? Now an alien probe has been found and its point of origin calculated, so a state of the art ship has been sent to take the first step, to make first contact.

What drives a man to obsession? In a secret laboratory, funded by the military, one man is about to break the shackles of linear time and go back. Back to his past, to his youth and to his love. Back with the intention to make things right, but can the flow of time be altered so easily?

The Stewart family clashes with the shady Weiss family at a local rugby match. However, matters get out of hand and Jim Stewart’s police complaint is mysteriously dismissed through high level influencers. This prompts Jim to investigate the background of the Weiss family and he discovers that Johannes Weiss and his shady partner, Dr. Elise Murthen, operate a Swiss clinic where 25 rich patients died under suspicious circumstances.

Arabella’s life was boring until strange things began to happen to her. One day, she is out eating pizza and then suddenly she finds herself with her brother, Tom, in the middle of the Great Siege of Malta in 1565 when the Knights of St. John showed great courage and fortitude in fighting off an invasion from the Turkish Empire. Will they join Grandmaster Valette in battle?

Arabella’s life was very boring until strange things began to happen to her. She found herself transported back in time into her homework. It happened when she was learning about The Celts. How does the Celtic festival of Samhain link with Hallowe’en? How did Arabella and Tom escape punishment when they broke the rules? How did they manage to get home?

Summonsed to the sleepy village of Hingemont, Imogen slowly unravels the secrets that led to the untimely death of her grandmother. Relationships are strained and mysteries abound as suspicion falls on some innocent and incredulous locals.

Arabella Twigg is a very ordinary girl–the sort of girl no-one really notices. She lives with her peculiar family and her horrid brother, Tom. Strange things happen to her when Mrs.Osborne, her teacher, gives her homework. She has to find out all she can about the Aztecs.

It’s been almost a year since Isla found herself in the magical land of Atalan. Now she must return there, after a wizard called Steve mysteriously appears at her house and asks for Isla’s help.

Arabella Twigg is a very ordinary girl, living in an extremely peculiar family. She is the sort of girl that no-one notices but somehow strange things begin to happen to her.

Arabella Twigg is a very ordinary girl living with her extraordinary family. She loves her Gran, but tries to avoid her brother, Tom, who is always trying to get her into trouble.

The Nazis of World War Two were fascinated with the occult and the supernatural, seeking advantage from holy relics of all description. As the war came to an end, many of the leaders and their artefacts disappeared. Now, their descendants have re-emerged, and are taking over where the Third Reich left off—only this time, they not only have the occult, but modern technology to advance their cause. The only thing standing in the way of the new world order is ex-SAS major Hugh Grantham and a 900 year old secret society that the world thought had disappeared centuries ago.

One minute, she is home with her family, and the next, Arabella and Tom find themselves sailing in a fleet with Christopher Columbus, exploring the Americas. When the ship they are on runs aground and begins to sink, will they be able to escape?