Sammy Adams is always on the look-out for a new business opportunity.
Spreading Wings by Mary Jane Staples


Sammy Adams is always on the look-out for a new business opportunity.

A unique and devastating family memoir, My Brother the Killer examines the consequences of fear, lies, shame and silence, and the true costs of keeping dark family secrets.

Imagine standing over a bomb – you need to make a choice. Remember, your life depends on it.

With the young Queen now on the throne, times are changing for the Adams family.

As Gail took her first steps on the 2,200-mile trek through the wilderness of the USA, she had no idea what lay ahead of her…

London was a city on the front line in the Second World War. It suffered hits from nearly 12,000 tons of bombs, with nearly 30,000 civilians killed by enemy action.

Only a few are brave enough to fall . . .

The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England.

Born with a serious heart condition, Dara has been waiting for his Big Operation forever, and this summer it’s finally going to happen.

Excitement is running high in the Adams family. Mr Finch, after a long career in secret government work, is to be knighted

Nihilism is making a comeback, and for younger generations the idea that existence is meaningless is cause for celebration, not despair.

The code has been cracked. The secrets of the Casimir gates have been revealed. But humanity still isn’t safe.

Philomena McCarthy has defied the odds and become a promising young officer with the Metropolitan Police despite being the daughter of a notorious London gangster.

‘a life precious to some, or one… these men with dreams and hopes and plans of things to come’.

By the year 1949, life in Walworth has almost returned to normal…

Can you recognise the cheerful chirrups of the house sparrow? A song thrush singing out at winter’s darkest hour?

This book will empower parents by giving them the tools and strategies to deal with dyslexia, making them confident and knowledgeable in the process.

Torn between friendship and faith, Ven must decide how far he’s willing to go to save this new world, and how much he is willing to lose.

It is 1946, and with the war at last at an end, members of the Adams family who had been serving with the forces begin to come home.

Imagine living in a world in which you were routinely patronized by women.

What if you fell in love…and then he disappeared?

Everything creaks and bends in heavy seas – what will not bend will simply snap.

One warrior will bring an army to its knees…

When Vivian Howe, author of thirteen novels and mother of three grown-up children, is killed in a hit-and-run incident while jogging near her home, she ascends to the Beyond.

They were out of their depth, out of breath and out of time. Two men, trapped in a crippled submarine.

In Outlandish, acclaimed travel writer Nick Hunt takes us across landscapes that should not be there…

Ten years ago he killed my son. Today I married him.

Sick of things not going your way?

The seemingly endless war was at last coming to a conclusion.

It is September 1939. Shortly after war is declared, Anthony Rhodes is sent to France, serving with the British Army.

The past hunts them both, remorselessly, relentlessly, and neither can escape it for long.

Every end has a new beginning…

Such miserable weather by Dom Joly

It is 1944, and the Adams family, along with the rest of the people of the United Kingdom, are beginning to weary of the seemingly never-ending war against Hitler’s Germany.

His name was Michal Goleniewski and he remains one of the most important, yet least known and most misunderstood spies of the Cold War.

The story of slavery in America is not over. It lives on in how we speak to one another, in how we treat one another, in how our societies are organised.

It was not so much the war, however, as a succession of tragic domestic events that brought a sad and lonely little girl called Phoebe…

In a quaint seaside resort, a charming bakery holds the key to another world…

Old friends will clash, armies will collide… let there be blood.

The Holy Land – AD 1177…

Who really killed Julia Wallace? The final verdict.

In Venice, Frances Croy is working to leave the previous year behind: another novel published to little success, a scathing review she can’t quite manage to forget, and, most of all, the real reason behind her self-imposed exile from London: the incident at the Savoy.

It is too late for peace. Prepare for war.

His DREAM house is about to become her worst NIGHTMARE.

On a remote island, everyone is a suspect…

If you’d told 46-year old Laura Friedman Williams that in a few years she’d be having some of the best sex of her life with men who were not her husband, she’d have laughed in your face.

It is summer, 1941, and the country is still at war…

When Bella Younger spawned Deliciously Stella – her hilarious and daring social media alter ego – she wanted to prove once and for all that Instagram does not equal reality.

He prays for strength, he prays for courage but most of all, he prays for forgiveness for the vengeance he is about to unleash.

What she uncovers is beyond her wildest dreams…..and darkest nightmares