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Ben Cartwright possessed courage and a big heart. He refused his neighbours nothing, treated his friends like family.

Joseph Heller, author of the cult classic Catch-22 died in December 1999. This is his last novel, coincidently a novel about a man struggling to write what will be the last novel of his career.

From a very early age Chloe always got what she wanted. At the age of eighteen the northern town of her birth was definitely not what she wanted.

When Spanish power declined in the West Indies, France and Britain schemed to fill the vacuum. A young English officer is sent to stir rebellion against France in her islands.

What does a robot have to do to prove its humanity?

A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedrooms.

Ikey, his brothel mistress wife Hannah and Mary his sometime mistress, are transported to Van Dieman's Land where the two women raise separate families.

A novel of a small boy's triumph over cruelty and loneliness. Set in the turbulent 1940's in Southern Africa. An epic of survival in the best of dramatic traditions.

Sequel to "The Burning Shore".

Dr Clare Burtonall could not have forseen how the death of a young patient would throw her once more into the dangerous and sordid crime underworld of Manchester.

In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticals-microrobots-has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing.

Narnia has been at peace since Peter, Susan, Lucy and Edmund helped rid the kingdom of the evil White Witch.

Set in a hospital, this is the story of Joanna Anthony and the three men in her life. A serious illness causes her to face reality.

Modest, reliable and decorous throughout his life, George Bland faces retirement with unease.

Weaves together three stories of human love against the larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.