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A man wakes up terrified. He does not know what has happened to scare him, but he feels as if he has been through a dreadful experience.

Set in the depressed areas of Tyneside during and after World War One, this novel highlights the difficulties experienced by participants of mixed marriages.

Del Curb, interstellar courier and self-styled hero, has in his possession a sleeping 21st century astronaut whom he intends to use to gain undreamed of wealth.

On a dark night in early 1944, a 055 agent, Craig, floated helplessly in the sea off the Brittany coast.

James McBride grew up one of twelve siblings in an all-black housing project in Brooklyn, the son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white.

Story of damaged, vulnerable women, a police force, and a desperate hunt for a vicious serial killer who chooses his victims from Los Angeles' demi-mondaine.

Could the Soviet Union really get their own man elected president of the United States of America? Originally published in 1981 as 'The twentieth day of January'.

Arriving in Australia to meet her brother, Rachel finds he has disappeared.

Gail has lived in council houses all her life - not as bad as a large orphanage but even so...However, she has a skill in gymnastics and through it she feels she can, and must, succeed.

A young Welsh clerk arrives at the seaside town of Penmadoc to work in the local bank.

A poignant story of an autumn love affair. Owen returns to Britain after 30 years in the East and meets again the woman he had once loved.

A tale of the glittering promise of the early mining towns of America's West. Val and Grita Redway head West to find their fortune and their destiny.

Ex-champion jockey turned investigator, Sid Halley, first seen in Odds Against and Whip Hand, uncovers an obnoxious crime committed by a friend.

The handsome Earl of Droxford relished all the privileges of being wealthy - and a bachelor. Now, because of King William's decree, he must be married within a month.

Contemporary saga depicting the terrible consequences of obsessional love and the happiness which can come from eventual maturity.