Books

THE POISONOUS SOLICITOR by Stephen Bates   A classic 1920s murder mystery. It’s straight out of an Agatha Christie thriller: a meek-mannered country solicitor poisons his domineering wife, then sets about dosing a rival solicitor over a cream tea with a scone laced with arsenic. The man subsequently falls ill with symptoms similar to the…

TOO BIG TO JAIL by Chris Blackhurst   HSBC is one of the biggest banks in the world with over 40 million customers. In the first decade of the 21st century those customers included El Chapo and the Sinaloa cartel, one of the most notorious criminal organisations in the world. Too Big To Jail tells the extraordinary…

THE SOUL HUNTERS by Chris Bradford   Have you ever experienced dreams so vivid it seems like you have lived them? Or had déjà vu so strong you’re convinced you must have been there before? The explosive first book in a brand-new action-packed series from bestselling author Chris Bradford. Late one night a schoolgirl is…

THE SOUL PROPHECY by Chris Bradford   ‘I saw him die right in front of my eyes.’ ‘That you did,’ replies Damien. ‘But you underestimated his power. Tanas is back and stronger than ever . . .’   When Genna’s parents are murdered, the police put the tragedy down to a burglary gone wrong. But…

BLITZKRIEG by Lloyd Clark   ‘This genuinely revisionist account of the Battle of France in 1940 proves a deeply shocking factwe are essentially still in thrall to the view of Blitzkrieg tactics that Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels wanted us to have, even over three-quarters of a century later. Lloyd Clark s brilliant analysis proves…

OPERATION DRAGOON by Robin Cross   A dramatic and expertly rendered narrative of the Allied liberation of the South of France during Operation Dragoon in 1944. Operation Dragoon is the story of the Allied invasion of the South of France on August 15, 1944. It was, in effect, the second D-Day, launched two months after “Overlord”,…

BOOTS ON THE GROUND by Richard Dannatt   On Lüneberg Heath in 1945, the German High Command surrendered to Field Marshall Montgomery; in 2015, seventy years after this historic triumph, the last units of the British Army finally left their garrisons next to Lüneberg Heath. Boots on the Ground is the story of those years, following…

WEDDING STATION by David Downing   The prequel to David Downing’s bestselling Station series introduces John Russell, an Englishman with a political past who must keep his head down as the Nazis solidify their power. February 27, 1933. In this stunning prequel to the John Russell espionage novels, the Reichstag parliament building in Berlin is set ablaze.…

THE GREAT REVOLT by Paul Dowswell   A thrilling historical adventure set during the English peasants’ revolt of 1381. It’s 1381 and the king, Richard II, has imposed a new tax on the people. In the village of Aylesford, Tilda and her ploughman father were already struggling to make ends meet. As serfs they have…

FAKE by Ele Fountain   Failing antibiotics have shifted society online. As big tech companies begin to dominate life, the boundaries between real and virutal have blurred. At 14, Jess is attending school for the first time. Meeting other childrten and making real friends is something shes dreamed of for years. But Jess misses her…