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A collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories from a master of the genre.

On the eve of the Second World War, a young Chinese man is sent to his family's summer home in Japan to recover from tuberculosis.

Simon, a prisoner in Greece, is offered the chance to escape and thus begins one of the greatest thrillers of our time.

Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather set up a catering business together in Dublin. A great story with the wonderful characters and Irish atmosphere that have made Maeve Binchy famous.

The author moves into Stephen Baxter territory with a wide screen, far future SF epic.

It is a house on the beach. Honora doesn't mind renting-despite its age and all its flaws, the old house is the perfect place for a new marriage.

Jessica Jones is on a job protecting cabinet minister Margaret Lewton when events take an extraordinary turn. Seconds before a bomb blast occurs she spots terrorist Robert Korman.

Clare Hanrahan has nothing left to lose the day she stumbles into the arms of Lew Earnshaw.

American television foreign correspondent, Bill Fitzgerald, is war-weary and exhausted after a long stint in Bosnia.

Having returned home to deal with her mother's funeral, Kate Rivers is taking stock of her life. She has never married nor had the children she has always wanted.

Contemporary romantic family saga, focusing on the secrets of three women; a mother of a teenage girl who has been raped; the mother of the boy who is the culprit; and a young girl who grows up to

As fourteen year old Leslie sheds the weight she imagines makes her imperfect, she finds it harder and harder to ask for the psychological help she needs - a study in anorexia.

Perry Stuart, TV meteorologist lives a calm and ordered life. That is, until a fellow forecaster offers him a Caribbean hurricane-chasing ride in a small aeroplane as a holiday diversion.

When the copper mines of Cornwall began to close down at the end of the 1870's many men left for the golden land of Australia, intending to earn enough money to bring their families out.

The fourth and final book in the series which began with `Flowers in the attic' - a compelling conclusion.