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A Flock of Blackbirds is a selection of short stories and novellas written by Susan Noble, who died in 1974 at the age of 31. Susan's output of fiction and poetry in the final ten years of her life...

A Flock of Blackbirds is a selection of short stories and novellas written by Susan Noble, who died in 1974 at the age of 31. Susan's output of fiction and poetry in the final ten years of her life...

Before and After the Darkness is the third collection of poems by Susan Noble, following The Dream of Stairs: A Poem Cycle and Inside the Stretch of My Heart. To mark the fortieth anniversary of...

Hardback, revised, expanded, illustrated edition of Martin Noble's classic adaptation of the screenplay by Alan Shearman, Ron House and Diz White. England is in a spot of bother and only Bullshot...

When Henry Dobell, MI6 Head of Station in Bangkok, is kidnapped, Ken Lawson, an agent of WRU - World Research Unit, a shady subsidiary of MI6 - is brought out of retirement to investigate the...

Difficult Knitting: Memoir Of A Childhood Divided Between Two WorldsAuthor: Eve MachinPublisher: Aesop PublicationsPublication Date: July 14, 2021Number of Pages: 196 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Drifting Between Empty Tramlines focuses on the lives of a group of twenty-something women in the fictional town of Bridchester near Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire in the 1970s. It was written...

In this gripping sequel to David Brown's "East End Boys," we follow Wolfe, Asher and their partner Billy Reid and their families through the Second World War. In the early days of the war, after...

Happiness needs time - you need to know what the past was like and, even more inscrutable, what the future might entail. Torsten is an agent, travelling with the overbearing Manlio, a fixer, in South...

John Fraser's latest novel Happy Always concerns two journeys. In Here and Back Again, the young narrator escapes from his isolated village, lives poor in Paris, is involved in marginal schemes which...

Inside the Stretch of My Heart is the companion volume to the collection The Dream of Stairs: A Poem Cycle, which was privately printed as a posthumous memorial volume in 1975, a year after Susan...

All that is needed for evil men to triumph is for good men to do nothing.It Would Have Been Enough, Book 2 of Manny's War & Peace, is a novel combining truth with fiction about people living through...

Pete Murphy was a true original: a highly gifted writer steeped in the tradition of Hemingway, Chandler and Elmore Leonard, but with a voice distinctively his own - caustic, subtle, and with a...

All that is needed for evil men to triumph is for good men to do nothing.One Only Kid, Book 1 of Manny's War & Peace, is a novel combining truth with fiction about people living through a brutal war...

John Fraser's latest work of fiction consists of three thematically-linked trajectories. In the first, two Palestinians escape to humble, even humiliating work in Belgium. They manage to set...

The revised, expanded version of Martin Noble's black comic novel, adapted from Jack Pulman's much-loved and highly acclaimed Royal Television Society award-winning television series. A few weeks...

S' is a novel about what makes a person a person - and a 'good' person or 'bad' one - and poses the question: What do we become when we live in cities and improvise for ourselves something for us to...

Pete Murphy's Salamanders is a modern noirist thriller - a story of despair and redemption, exploring the dark edge of adult violence and its roots in childhood abandonment. They were the Salamander...

8 February 1601. The personal troops of a disgraced royal favourite mount up and ride on the City of London. Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex and his lieutenant, Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton...

Retired investigator Richard Palmer receives a letter from his goddaughter Miracle who is in love with William Davenant, an impecunious student who harbours a dream to make his name as a writer and...

The latest work of fiction by John Fraser ('the most original novelist of our time', John Fuller, Whitbread Award winner and Booker Prize nominee) consists of two stories about aspiration, and how...

What happens when you tidy your bedroom? Living in a mansion, Sapphire Empire and her family are about to find out. So before you tidy your bedroom, you need to read this book and discover just what...

A Dream of Stairs: A Poem Cycle was privately printed as a posthumous memorial volume in 1975, a year after Susan Angela Noble's untimely death in 1974 at the age of 31. Having announced with...

When Shakespeare's intensely personal sonnets are published, none in the triangle of author, male muse or dark lady is best pleased. Each has a score to settle. In the murky world of Jacobean...

A lawyer looks for the tiny rock of guilt in a sea of innocence. A lawyer looks for the tiny rock of innocence in a sea of guilt. That's their trade.' John Fraser has been described as 'the most...

Three Beauties is John Fraser's latest tour de force in speculative fiction. Beauty is an idea of perfection, moral, physical, social, political - and these three tales, with their beautiful questing...

The first volume of John Fraser's selected short stories and novellas features: The White Room (from Animal Tales) Sheep (from Happy Always) The Scorpions (from Enterprising Women) Lenin in the...

Windy Dryden, one of the most distinguished experts in the field of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT), shows how it is possible to work very briefly with people in both a therapy and coaching...