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Set against the backdrop of 1920s colonial India are the mysteries that follow little Stephen Crow when he is smuggled from England, by his corrupt uncle Jeremy, into a wealthy Indian household. Why is he hastily renamed Tom Spicer? And why are his origins, an heir to a vast fortune, hidden from them?

Saída Abbas is a bounty hunter surviving in a galaxy controlled by the sinister Grand Design. She has spent a decade in pursuit of a single goal: rescuing her beloved Uncle Abbas from their colonised home planet of Sektor 47.

One summer, at the age of seventeen, Savannah‿s reckless behaviour results in her being sent to Liverpool, from her loving home in Cumbria, to stay with her brother. There, she meets the man of her dreams, a young Irishman whose attentions hide an ulterior motive.

Fresh out of medical school and coping with the loss of their mother, life is chaotic enough for Lils Howells. But when a little boy introduces himself as the powerful wizard Merlin, and tells Lils they're in fact the reincarnation of King Arthur, life for Lils and their group of friends is destined to change forever.

When recently widowed Kerry travels to St Ives, her main reason for visiting is to take the same boat trip that took her late husbandâEUR(TM)s life in a horrific accident. Accompanied by her fiercely protective teenage son, Dan, Kerry sees the boat trip as the start of her healing process.

An unnamed narrator wakes suddenly to find himself in the compartment of a train he cannot remember boarding. His fellow passengers are both strange and familiar. Together, they must work out the truth of their situation. Are they memories of long, forgotten souls, or something else? And what links them through the mists of time.

Jake and his friends are due to spend their first summer at Camp Terra; a self-proclaimed haven for teenagers that encourages eager campers to surrender their grip on technology in the hope they can 'reconnect with nature'.

Rutland 1998. When George Bowman, the publican of Leighton Parva‿s Old Volunteer Inn is found dead at the bottom of his cellar steps the police dismiss it as a tragic accident. But Frank McBride and Bernard Taylor aren‿t so sure.

On a medieval world called Wayan, where wondrous beings unravel their destiny through Tarot reading, a powerful sorceress commits a shocking act by abducting the queen‿s young children and spiriting them away through enchanted portals. Their memories erased, the children grow up on Earth, oblivious to their heritage.

His life‿s a mess, his wife‿s betrayed him and he‿s being framed for murder. Daniel Kendrick must find the killer before he loses everything‿

Muddleton is a comic novel about the Hogg-Marchmont family ‿ a dysfunctional and delusional aristocratic dynasty ‿ as they desperately try to save their beloved ancestral home from demolition.

"Don't touch - it's poisonous," Jess Ponder, the Schools' Secret Agency 'Double A-Star' agent, tells schoolmate and master of the forged sick-note, Leo Sleepwell, when he sees a trail of dried, gold saliva on the seal of an envelope. The letter it contained was sent to Jess by the notorious Nine-carat, aka 'The Man with the Golden Tongue'.

The lives of Vic Woods and Ruth Wolfe, working-class teenagers from Liverpool and London, are profoundly disrupted by the arrival of World War II. Ruth's journey leads her to aerial photographic interpretation, while Vic's wartime experiences with bomber command haunt him long after the war is over.

Tasked by Ben, an old friend, to locate a man in Turkey, private investigator Matt Quillan soon finds himself out of his depth when he has a flash drive thrust on him by a stranger who is arrested by armed officers shortly afterwards.

Why are extraordinary creatures disappearing from the Banana Sanctuary for Amazing Animals? When explorer Billy Banana mysteriously vanishes while on a mission to rescue the world's deadliest - and smelliest - Amazonian frog, his son Arthur is left home alone.

Reflecting on seventy years of voracious reading, All Booked Up invites you to reflect on the transformative power of literature on a life through fifteen captivating chapters, each focusing on a different book.

How James Bond Saved My Life is a unique self-help memoir. The author takes you on a journey through cinema, delving into the significance of cinematic role models and how cinematic characters can empower and inspire young minds, be it Bond, Batman or Wonder Woman.

September 1943. The world is at war. Leo Avery has been left with nothing. His home is gone, destroyed in the Blitz, and his only family - his father - has mysteriously vanished.

The designer luggage is packed. The bodily fuzz removed. It's time for Star Survivor.

It's January 1982, and Britain will soon be at war with Argentina. But that's not why Terry's life is falling apart. Forty-five and recently redundant from the only job he's ever had, he and his wife Pat are forced to sell their home and move into a static caravan.

When traumatised aid worker John Cousins arrives in north-east Africa he hopes to find a sense of personal peace among a gentle people rebuilding their lives following a bitter and prolonged war.

Architect Kate O'Connor appears to have it all. A lighthouse home, a successful politician husband and an eight-year-old daughter. Yet everything is not as it seems.

In a quiet Cornish town, secrets run as deep as the ocean. Meryan's confession to her husband's murder shocks the community and shatters her family. But all is not as it seems.

Cape Town, in the 1960s. Love across the colour bar is a criminal offence punishable by imprisonment.

In the perilous atmosphere of the Cold War, Adam Devon, a civilian pilot, becomes unwittingly embroiled in an MI6 covert operation to extract a Russian missile scientist from Berlin.

Edinburgh, 1920. Three children are missing, abducted from the poorhouses of the city.

Travel back in time to the vibrant 1960s, and join Bridget and her friends, students at the Hereford College of Education, as they dare to defy convention and hitchhike their way through an era of change.

Jumping up of a sudden, Wild Bill let fly:"Dang it if I ain't a snap-happy joy-jiggered delight-diddlin' son-of-a-gold-digger!""And we're off to America," announced Bertrand cheerfully. "We are going to visit the great United States."

Any Lengths to Please is a uniquely entertaining compendium by BAFTA-nominated screenwriter and acclaimed novelist Paul A. Mendelson. A short story, a novella, a medium-sized novel and a brief literary 'confection', designed to whet any appetite.

Recovering from injuries received in the desert, Luftwaffe fighter ace Jochen Murville dreams of playing the piano and living in Sweden with Gerda, the Jewish woman whose escape from Germany he engineered. However, his engagement to Lotte still stands - no matter how much her Nazi beliefs horrify him.