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Laura, a successful fashion journalist based in London, finds herself uprooted from the world she knows and loves after she moves with her husband and two small children to a dilapidated bungalow in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

After a botched spinal operation left her partially paralysed aged forty-five, Bizzie Frost found herself unable to enjoy the active lifestyle she loved in Saudi Arabia. That was remedied six years later when her airline captain husband, Frosty, proposed they buy a Harley-Davidson. An invitation to join friends on a 2,500km ride to Oman was irresistible and they bought a customised Road King. They named her Maridadi, meaning 'beautiful' in Swahili.Travels with Maridadi is an epic account of their adventures on Maridadi in Saudi Arabia, a country rarely visited by outsiders during the thirty years that Bizzie called it home. Riding pillion with Frosty, she travelled thousands of kilometres across the deserts and mountains of the Kingdom, as well as other Middle Eastern countries. Her stories and photographs breathe life into the scenery, people and culture of the Kingdom, and convey the freedom and healing power of motorcycling on the open road.

It's the end of the seventeenth century. Alix is a middle-class French girl, due to marry a nobleman. Vivien is a rebellious 'poor' girl from Delaware. Both have been dealt a bad hand in life. When unexpected events steer them away from the destiny chosen from them, their paths cross when they are swept away to join the crew of a pirate ship named for its figurehead, a Mermaid preparing for war with a sword in one hand and a knife in the other.Finding themselves in the middle of a quest for vengeance, can Alix and Vivien ever find peace?Together they will discover adventure, love and pain. Together they will discover their inner strength. Together, they will become Mermaids.

When Mike Key, a British PTSD sufferer, inherits a vast wasteland in Nevada he hopes it might provide catharsis to his demons and failed marriage.Unexpectedly it reawakens old challenges, renews conflict with old enemies, creates a new battle for justice and generates a challenge to the world's mightiest nation that could easily result in war between the United States and Britain.When the solution provided by the United Nations propels him to a leadership role in an independent state, it sets him on the path to join actions that seek to undo historic wrongs...

Pianist Max Silento has been murdered, but who did it? It wasn't Scarlet - she would have made it look like a death of natural causes, and then DI Ronnie Twist and her sergeant, Luke Carter, wouldn't be poking around.

TC is a hapless, middle-aged widower desperate to find his green-eyed angel. One day, he stumbles upon a lead, but after an unfortunate misunderstanding and an accidental death involving cutlery, he is sent on an ever-spiralling descent into the criminal underworld.

Lily is only four when she realises her family is headed for disaster. A cat-and-mouse game of escape and entrapment ensues, testing Lily's resilience, resourcefulness and family loyalty. Jack, an emotionally scarred war veteran, enlists the help of his mother to turn his children against the fragile Lauren, who he has successfully driven away.

Tessa is nine-years-old when a humiliating experience forever alters her naive perception of the society in which she lives. Nathan is twelve-years-old, dark haired and inscrutable. To Tessa, he is a dead-pan, distant ghost flitting into view and then dissolving in a blink... but an odd conversation with him changes it all.

In ancient times, epilepsy was a condition felt to be sacred. Early myths and mystique surrounding it led to persecution, demonisation, incarceration and social rejection.

When 19-year-old Zuzana flees from communist Czechoslovakia to England in 1972, she says she just wants freedom. She feels an overwhelming urge to discover more about her family's tragic history. So she embarks on a life-changing journey and tries to answer the question which haunts her: Why didn't they leave?

Prague. It's l942, and all Jews are being summoned to the Death Camps. Ernst's wife dies in childbirth, and he escapes to London with his two-year old daughter Sophie. Grieving and guilt ridden he believes the pain of their loss can only be dealt with by remaining silent about their past. A decision that determines Sophie's future.

Kabul 2005: the body of Waheed, a UN agency driver, is found in a vehicle riddled with bullet holes. Gil Moncrief searches for Waheed's killer in a city of intrigue and insecurity. In the centre of it all is a small plastic figure of Elvis that dangles from the windscreen; the key to unmasking the killer.

Emily, a down-on-her-luck intern, is recruited by the State Department to solve the Palestinian problem. Only this time they want it handled as a divorce settlement. To pull off the most acrimonious divorce of all time, she must let go of the family trauma that has tainted her whole life... but what if it won't stay in the past?

Summer of 1938 and Veronica and her fascist boyfriend Billy attend a pro-German event. Amid the evening's glamour and fervour, Veronica meets Sir Oswald Mosley and Diana Mitford, who invite her on a trip to Berlin. All over Europe, evil triumphs as good men do nothing, but for Veronica, doing nothing is no longer an option...

In the blink of an eye, Rachel Vincent can be anywhere. It's easy for her because she's dead. But what she can't do is join the others in the warmly lit room beyond the glass and be at peace, until she remembers what happened to her on the day she died. Who killed her, and why?

Tom Pearson, a socialist by virtue of his upbringing and a supporter of the Russian communist party. While at University he is recruited as a Russian sleeper agent. After suspicion of a Russian mole in MI5, Tom disappears into post-war Britain in a game of cat and mouse that Tom simply cannot afford to lose...

A Palmful of Sky captures the complexities of Pakistani culture. It paints its rich innocence as well as the powerful societal expectations for marriage, relationships and romance in a light-hearted but gripping tale of a young woman coming of age and breaking molds.

Boo the tabby cat is born on a Lincolnshire farm and seems destined for a simple life. Everything changes when she's put up for adoption and is taken in by Ellie Caldwell, an adventurous Cambridge graduate student who loves animals and is studying to become a wildlife conservationist.

A traveller and an autistic boy explore the ancient routes and glimpse humanity's restless heart. A journey that follows the general direction taken by anatomically modern humans who, some scientists conjecture, left the African nursery around 85000 years ago in search of survival, and whose descendants happened upon Australia 20000 years later. Along the way, they laid the genetic foundations for humanity's oldest civilisations, and ultimately inhabited every corner of the globe. The author travels this historic west-to-east route in the imagined company of his grandson, who serves as confidant and also as human archetype. What they find together is a tangle of new experience and emotional responses from which the links between ancient past and complex present gradually emerge. Here is a sweeping celebration of the human adventure.'A delight to read. This is a rare and staggering work of ambitious scope and literary depth. Readers will come away from the text immensely rewarded.' Wesley Thompson, Editor