Colonel's Daughter

In Blackwater in the early 1990s, three women - Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen - have come together after years of strife and reached an uneasy truce. Helen's adored brother Declan is dying. Two friends join him and the women in an old house, where the six of them must listen and come to terms with one another.

When their ship is blown off course, Sister Fidelma and Brother Eadulf land on the coast of the Welsh kingdom of Dyfed. They are given hospitality and are asked to solve the mystery of how the entire monastic community of the Abbey could vanish into thin air.

A young Italian clockmaker contrives a magical means, not only of repairing time, but also of unlocking the mechanism of sexual happiness.

Anna has been everything a priest's wife should be. But when her husband, Peter, fails to gain promotion to Archdeacon, Anna rebels, and tastes independence for the first time since she left university.

Lizzie and Frances are twins, together forming part of a unit. Lizzie is the twin who has everything, husband, children, a flourishing career and a beautiful house and worries about Frances who seems to lead a solitary life in London ricocheting from one disastrous man to the next. Lizzie just wants Frances to share in her own satisfying life.

This retelling of the story of Mary Queen of Scot is in the form of a saga and complex political thriller.

It is January 1895 and Henry James's play, Guy Domville, from which he hoped to make his fortune, has failed on the London stage. Opening with this disaster, The Master spans the next five years of James's life, during which time he moves to Rye in Sussex, having found his dream retreat.

Young girls were slaughtered on the nights of three consecutive full moons in the Kingdom of Muman. Suspicion falls on three strangers from the land of Aksum. Sister Fidelma and Brother Eadulf are called in to restore order and find the killer. Can Fidelma uncover the truth before the killer strikes again on the next night of the full moon?

Contains pieces which cover various things from hosepipe bans and Spanish restaurants to writer's block and a posh middle-aged woman the author met who'd never heard of Winnie-the-Pooh.

Richard Garay lives alone with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from those around him. Stifled by a job he despises, he finds himself willing to take considerable risks. Set in Argentina in a time of great change, this is a novel about a man who, as the Falklands War is fought and lost, finds his own way to emerge into the world.