Rachael Lebens violently possessive ex-husband Eric hideously mangled in a freak accident is dead. But his body has disappeared from the city morgue. Now someone or something is watching Rachael. Calling her. Stalking her. & though no one will believe her she knows who it is; that his walking corpse is a grotesque mockery of life & his brilliant warped mind once again alive is seething with jealous rage seeking an unspeakable revenge. ...

Barrick Eddon prince of Southmarch is no longer entirely human. He has vowed to safeguard the legacy of the dark Qar race & must now decide where his loyalties lie. His twin sister Briony has a difficult choice of her own. Her father King Olin is held captive by the Autarch a mad god-king who plans to use Olins blood to gain unlimited power. & the castle of Southmarch still remains in the possession of Hendon Tolly Brionys murderous relative. As time runs out will Briony decide to save her fathers kingdom.. .or her father? As the foretold Great Defeat draws near history is stripped of its costume of lies. Poets & players mortals & fairies warriors & gods
- all will have their roles to play as the fate of the known world hangs in the balance.
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This title presents unmissable new horror! Black Annis smiles. Her pointed teeth do not gleam; they are black with age & the bloodstains of her countless victims. She looks up at the human child
- surely meant to be in bed & asleep at this time of night. Some things dont change. Every hundred years the gateway opens between their world & ours. A human coven has joined forces with the dark beings of the Netherworld. A flesh-eating witch is on the loose. Evil is growing. & Callum is caught in the middle. The Shadowing has begun...
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The eagerly-awaited sequel to Shadowmagic. Having returned to the real world from Tir Na Nog at the end of the last book our hero Conor finds himself arrested for the murder of his father. When he explains to the cops that his dad is safe & well & enjoying life as king of a land of elves imps & banshees they understandably think he is a nutcase. That is until he is rescued by Celtic warriors on horseback & taken back to Tir Na Nog accidentally bringing a policeman with him. Once safely back in The Land Conor finds that all is not well. His father is dying the girl he loves is betrothed to another & a rather confused American cop is wandering around causing havoc. It falls to our young hero & his band of friends to find a cure for the king. On their epic journey they encounter one of the most mystical & dangerous races in The Land the shapeshifting Pooka & find their fates linked in ways they could never have imagined. The Prince of Hazel & Oak is a stunning fantasy adventure that takes fans of Shadowmagic further in to the land & brings back many of the favourite characters from the first book. ...

Shadowmancer" takes you into a world of superstition magic & witchcraft where the ultimate sacrifice might even be life itself. Obadiah Demurral is a sorcerer who is seeking to control the highest power in the Universe. He will stop at nothing. The only people in his way are Raphah Kate Thomas & the mysterious Jacob Crane. Packed full of history folklore & smuggling this tale of their epic battle will grip both young & old. The thrills suspense & danger & guaranteed to grab the attention & stretch imaginations to the limit." ...

Darkness has fallen on the lands of the sun as an army of misshapen fey spill out from beyond the Shadowline. At their head is Yasammez dark creature of nightmare. A furtive bargain was struck at the gates of Southmarch & the castle was spared but centuries of enmity will not be so easily appeased. Meanwhile Barrick heir to Southmarch & cursed with madness has crossed the Shadowline into the realm of his peoples ancient enemy. There are stranger things than death here
- stranger & older. Much further south shadow is also falling over the reign of the Autarch god-king & supreme ruler. Quinnitan junior wife must flee the royal household or die her greatest secret as yet hidden even from herself. Ancient blood flows through her veins & she will become a unique weapon in the fight against her greatest terror. & beyond the ken of all but a chosen few the gods are awakening & the world is changing.. .
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You are a police officer. This is what you do. You speak for the dead & the desperate living. When Anna Cameron is promoted to Chief Inspector & moved to a new division it should be a turning point for her. But if she thought having a female boss would make things easier shed reckoned without the fearsome JC Hamilton. Then her mother goes into a coma in a foreign country & an old woman disappears from a Glasgow care home under suspicious circumstances & Annas career & personal life both threaten to implode. The gang-related murder of a young Asian boy & an assault on one of her officers only serve to turn the screws tighter
- can Anna be both a good cop & a good person?
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Photographer Christabel is drawn to psychic phenomena & dark liasons. When she is persuaded by her husband to take a holiday at a mysterious mansion house in the country she foresees only long days of boredom. But Nicholas her deviously sensual husband has a hand in the unexpected events that begin to unravel. He is keen to ensure that Christabel's holiday is eventful & erotic & she is soon drawn into a web of eroticism with Nicholas's young male PA. Within this unusual & kinky threesome Christabel learns some lessons the jaded city could never teach her. ...

In 1978 a ' Factory for Sale' sign gave Alan Erasmus & Tony Wilson a name for their fledgling Manchester club night. Though they couldn't have known it at the time this was the launch of one of the most significant musical & cultural legacies of the late twentieth century. The club's electrifying live scene soon translated to vinyl & Factory Records went on to become the most innovative & celebrated record label of the next thirty years. Always breaking new musical ground Factory introduced the listening public to bands such as Joy Division whose Unknown Pleasures was the label's first album release New Order Durutti Column & Happy Mondays. Propelled onwards by the inspirational cultural entrepreneur Tony Wilson Factory always sought new ways to energise the popular consciousness such as the infamous Hacienda nightclub which enjoyed a chequered 15-year history after opening in 1982. Shadowplayers is the most complete authoritative & thoroughly researched account of how a group of provincial anarchists & entrepreneurs saw off bankers journalists & gun-toting gangsters to create the most influential record label of modern times. Based on both archive & contemporary sources the book tells the full story of Factory's heroic struggles its complex web of inventive idiosyncratic & tragic personalities & ultimately the acclaimed & much-loved music it produced. ...

As shadows threaten to consume the kingdom of Southmarch Barrick Eddon heir to March throne battles his way across the sinister Shadowlands. He must journey through this dangerous inhuman realm to fulfil a pact
- as this may be all that can prevent the atrocities of a full-scale war with the Twilight people of Qul-na-Qar. Meanwhile the assault upon Southmarch has truly begun. Yasammez the formidable head of the Qar army has ordered the attack believing that the pact between humans & Qar has been broken. Unless Ferras Vansen Captain of the Southmarch Royal Guard can convince her otherwise the humans are sure to meet the dark end that has been promised to them.. .
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