Projects

State of Emergency by Richard Chambers In 2020 Ireland was launched into a state of turmoil, with the Government scrambling to handle the arrival of …

The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan Carmen has always worked in her local department store. So, when the gorgeous old building closes its doors for …

The Devils Cliff Killings by Simon McCleave A missing teenager. A web of prison corruption and human trafficking. Can DI Ruth Hunter blow the lid …

Flesh and Blood by Bill Kitson Stephen Pengelly, owner of Barton Manor, is detested by the local community. When he is found murdered, there are …

Sick Money by Billy Kenber The pharmaceutical industry is broken. From the American hedge fund manager who hiked the price of an AIDS pill from …

Returning Light by Robert Harris ‘On Skellig Michael, thousands of birds appear and disappear, erecting towers, coming together in wings of movement which build and …

Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree takes you on a journey to connect with trees through the sense most aligned to our emotions and memories.

The volcano – among the most familiar and perhaps the most terrifying of all geological phenomena.

A girl lies close to death in a dark, deserted lane. A driver drags her body to the side of the road. A shadowy figure hides in the trees, watching and waiting.

From bone-crunching injuries and alcohol-fuelled antics to the breakdown of his marriage, it unveils the true stories behind the lurid headlines.

As Jo and Bram circle closer to the truth, danger is closing in around them…

A marriage made in Heaven, or Hell?

A man is dead. The killer is a woman. But what secrets lie beneath the surface – so dark that a man has to die?

Francis Benali is a Southampton Football Club legend and a celebrated charity endurance athlete, and he’s ready to tell his story.

What happens when you swap ‘I do’ for pastures new?

In Strangers on a Pier, acclaimed author Tash Aw explores the panoramic cultural vitality of modern Asia through his own complicated family story of migration and adaptation, which is reflected in his own face.

A perfect toolkit for connecting with the world around us and the year ahead as it unfolds

Some people will stop at nothing to keep things buried . . .

Babes in the wood, babes in the wood, who will be next to be covered in blood?

10… 9… 8… 7… 6…
That’s about as far as you get, counting backwards, as you wait for surgery to begin – and that’s all most people know about what I do.

Turbocharge employee engagement through health and safety.

There are moments when we must talk, listen and be there for one another.

Sometimes darkness stalks the most beautiful places…

Tony Redmond is one of the few truly good people you will ever meet.

Speaking in front of other people can be a real worry if you’ve not had a lot of practice.

You’ve got a fantastic CV; now comes the big test.

Humans have identified just a fraction of the 2.2 million species living in the sea.

Young Maisie Gibbs is a conscientious young woman, though life is harder since both her parents passed away.

Thea, also known as Gytha, the elder daughter of King Harold II, travels with her brothers and grandmother into exile carrying revenge in her heart.

It’s 1959, and Boots Adams and his wife Polly are at their favourite Camberwell pub when they witness with horror a sudden and vicious attack on the barman, Joe, by a knife-wielding thug.

Times move on for the Adams family in south London, and as business prospers, there are new worries to deal with.

Cidermaking has been at the heart of country life for hundreds of years.

For the past twenty-five years, Belinda Kirk’s professional life has revolved around adventure.

There is one animal that is familiar to all of us, whoever we are, wherever we live.

Starting a new life in Snowdonia was always DI Ruth Hunter’s dream. Until a twisted killer turned it into her worst nightmare. 

From a short jog that lifts your mood to the closing stages of a marathon when you feel physically exhausted but emotionally invincible all at once, running delivers every time.

As the 1950s progress, several unexpected happenings ruffle the usually calm atmosphere of Adams family life.

The Rhine is one of the world’s greatest rivers.

Anneke has been in reading The Under Water Menace, Sleeper Agents, Planet of Bones and A Matter of Time.

‘I knew dogs could make a difference to the children’s lives. I knew it the moment I watched a little boy, exhausted by pain and sickness, stretch out his hand to touch my dog’s paw, and then…he smiled.’

The difference that being female makes to the diagnosis, life and experiences of a person with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has largely gone unresearched and unreported until recently.

When the mutilated body of a woman is discovered in her home, DCI Bishop from the Met murder squad is called in to oversee the case.

Stephen McGown was en route from London to South Africa, on a once-in-a-lifetime trip by motorbike, returning home to Johannesburg.

Boots Adams celebrates his 60th birthday in style with an old-fashioned Cockney knees-up, even if Gemma, James and the rest of the younger people insist that the music has to be rock and roll.

The 1950s are in full swing, and the Adams family is blessed with many new additions.

Stranded at Schiphol airport, Ben Coates called up a friendly Dutch girl he’d met some months earlier. He stayed for dinner. Actually, he stayed for good.

Sharing a body can be murder…

It may not be as grim up north as they say, but it wasn’t where amateur private investigators Natasha DuVivien and Miriam Birdseye intended to spend their Christmas.

Kris was living a totally normal life as a twenty-three-year-old: travelling the world, falling in love, making plans.

One last chance to reveal the truth…