Mar 2026 · Books
The Boy on the Train
A seventeen-year-old boy sits opposite a man on a train. No weapon is drawn. No threat is made. Yet by the time Tom Snelling reaches his destination, he has chosen his victim — and…
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Feb 2025 · Books
Letters from Cruising
“A ravishing collection, remarkably wide-ranging in subject, mood and tone, each story exquisitely crafted. A complicated young man embarked on a romantic adventure and diving into deeper water than he can safely navigate. A…
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My Head for a Tree
The Extraordinary Story of the Bishnoi, the World’s First Eco-Warriors Meet the Bishnois, the world’s oldest sustainable community – with a foreword from Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees ‘Sensitive and engaging…
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The Cellist of Dachau
The Cellist of Dachau takes music and the Holocaust as its theme. In 1938, Otto Schalmik, a 19-year-old musician from a Jewish family in Vienna, is arrested by Nazi police. Transported to Dachau, he…
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Forever Konrad: A Vampire’s Vampire
‘A Powerful & Disturbing Experience‘ – Ramsey Campbell One night in Hull, I woke from a dream of being a vampire. A later vision of a woman standing on the beach at Zeebrugge, staring out…
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Client Earth
Client Earth, written with my husband James Thornton, tells the tale of ecolawyers out to save the planet. Lawyers are great strategic thinkers. Back in 1970, when the Nixon administration brought in a raft…
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Ectopia
A modern teenage dystopia. The world has seen no girls born for sixteen years. Karen was the last girl and Steven her twin. Their Dad’s of the old school. He turns their garden into…
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Look Who’s Watching
As TV cameras roll, a Tibetan boy lama is assassinated in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The event is a coup for media mogul Mark Rider, a triumph for Chinese General Xi, and a tragedy…
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On Bended Knees
Life’s uncomfortable for Tomas Christie, an English boy with a German mother. He travels to Dresden and a divided Berlin to investigate the German side of his nature, his blind ex-Nazi uncle his guide…
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