The powerful new novel from Susan Fletcher award-winning author of the bestselling EVE GREEN & OYSTERCATCHERS. A profound tale of love loss & the lore of the sea. The islanders of Parla are still mourning the loss of one of their own. Four years since that loss & a man
- un-named unclothed
- is washed onto their shores. Some say he is a mythical man from the sea
- potent kind & beautiful; others suspect him. For the bereft Maggie this stranger brings love back to the isle. But as the days pass he changes every one of them
- & the time comes for his story to be told... Tender lyrical & redemptive THE SILVER DARK SEA is the dazzling new novel from the author of EVE GREEN (winner of Whitbred First Novel award) & WITCH LIGHT. It is a story about what life can give & take from us when we least expect it
- & how love in all its forms is the greatest gift of all.




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This powerful novel from the award-winning author of Richard & Judy pick ' Eve Green' is a tale of love & the lore of the sea. The islanders of Parla are still mourning the loss of one of their own. Four years since that loss & a man
- un-named unclothed
- is washed onto their shores. Some say he is a mythical man from the sea
- potent kind & beautiful; others suspect him. For the bereft Maggie this stranger brings love back to the isle. But as the days pass he changes every one of them
- & the time comes for his story to be told... Tender lyrical & redemptive ' The Silver Dark Sea' is the dazzling new novel from the author of ' Eve Green' (winner of Whitbred First Novel award). It is a story about what life can give & take from us when we least expect it
- & how love in all its forms is the greatest gift of all.




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The Forgotten Legion fought against almighty odds at the very edge of the known world
- & lost. Now Brennus the Gaul Tarquinius
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With Nora away on a vitally important mission in Annwn Jack Brenin has to take sole responsibility for rescuing the last two Dragonettes left on earth from being roasted for a Spriggan feast. Using his trusty Book of Shadows for guidance & with his friends Camelin the raven & Timmery the bat (along with a cunningly captured Dorysk) Jack mounts a daring raid on the Spriggan stronghold inside Silver Hill. But his triumphant return is overshadowed by the discovery of a problem in Annwn that is too big for even Nora's magic. Can Jack help the Blessed Council to rescue the sleeping Druids? Read about Jack's continuing adventures in this third book in the magical Jack Brenin series following the international bestseller ' The Golden Acorn' winner of the 2010 Brit Writers' Award & its sequel ' Glasruhen Gate'. ...

Silver Ley" was first published in 1931 it is the second volume in Adrian Bells classic rural trilogy the other volumes being " Corduroy" & " The Cherry Tree". In Silver Ley the author moves from being a farm apprentice to a farm owner." ...

Pat Peoples has a theory that his life is actually a movie produced by God & that his God-given mission in life is to become emotionally literate whereupon God will ensure a happy ending -- which for Pat means the return of his estranged wife Nikki from whom he's currently having some 'apart time.' It might not come as any surprise to learn that Pat has spent several years in a mental health facility. When Pat leaves hospital & goes to live with his parents however everything seems changed: no one will talk to him about Nikki; his old friends now have families; his beloved football team keep losing; his new therapist seems to be recommending adultery as a form of therapy. & he's being haunted by Kenny G. There is a silver lining however in the form of tragically widowed physically fit & clinically depressed Tiffany who offers to act as a go-between for Pat & his wife if Pat will just agree to perform in this year's Dance Away Depression competition.. .' Utterly original & a real word-of mouth classic' Daily Mail ' Delightful.. .A smart touching quirky read' Scotland on Sunday ...

1854. As the Cardiff-bound train puffs out of Paddington Station young Hugh Kellow wraps a protective arm around his large valise. He has been entrusted with a priceless silver coffee pot designed in the shape of a locomotive by his elderly silversmith employer. But two of Hugh's fellow passengers are taking an enormous interest in the young man & his priceless cargo. When a dead body is discovered in a room at the Cardiff Railway Hotel beside an empty valise the great Railway Detective Robert Colbeck & his trusty sergeant Victor Leeming are called in to investigate; & face a whole host of unexpected problems. ...

The fifteenth & final novel in the celebrated Deverry series an epic fantasy rooted in Celtic mythology that intricately interweaves human & elven history over several hundred years. Spurred on by the priestesses of the false goddess Alshandra the Horsekin hordes are massing on the northern border of Prince Dar's holdings. Their leaders believe that the rich grasslands of the prince's domain belong to them by divine right no matter whom they must destroy to claim them. But Dar has powerful allies on his side including the dragon Arzosah who has hated the Horsekin for hundreds of years. She will vow to take a revenge worse than anything the Horsekin & their priestesses could possibly foresee. The prince's most powerful ally however is the one the Horsekin refuse to understand: the deep magic of the dweomer as wielded by the band of sorcerers sworn to protect him & especially by the elven master of magic Dallandra the silver mage. ...

The Six servants of the Light
- the Drew children Will Bran & the mysterious Merriman
- have reached their last desperate fight

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Discover one of the worlds favourite detectives as his first case leads him into conspiracy murder & adventure.. . In 1989 THE SILVER PIGS introduced the world to laid-back first-century detective Marcus Didius Falco his partner Helena Justina his law & order pal Petronius & his indomitable Mother
- who became some of the most celebrated characters in historical fiction. Now reissued in a special new edition to celebrate publication of Falcos twentieth investigation THE SILVER PIGS sees Falco cynically eyeing up the new Roman emperor Vespasian. Our hero a private informer rescues a young girl in trouble & is catapulted into a dangerous game involving stolen imperial ingots a dark political plot & most hazardous of all a senators daughter connected to the traitors Falco has sworn to expose.. .
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