1967
We are in a square hall lined on one side with elongated Victorian windows, their mean square buckled panes running with condensation. The windows are set high in the wall, cunningly designed to prevent inattentive schoolchildren from looking outside. Not that there's much to see; just flat, barren countryside where sparse clumps of stunted trees keel to and fro in the force of the wind, like shrivelled old, drunk men coming home from the pub.
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Tonight is the first of a 3-part series about servants on BBC 2 at 9pm - to which Judith Flanders is a contributor. Wonderful exposure for our author on the eve of publication of...
So about two years ago, I sat down to write a novel. I was deep into a wonderfully clarifying kind of rage.
The rage had been a long time coming. By this point, I’d spent years being frustrated by two...
VESPASIAN: TRIBUNE OF ROME was 2011's bestselling historical debut novel. Here's the first chapter from the sequel VESPASIAN: ROME'S EXECUTIONER. Roman history as the Gods intended!
VESPASIAN
ROME’S EXECUTIONER
by Robert Fabbri
VESPASIAN EASED HIS weight cautiously onto his left foot,...
Special Agent Vin Cooper is hunting for a kidnap victim.
The CIA is hunting for a missing thermonuclear warhead.
One man has all the answers
WARLORD
Read the first chapter here!
WARLORD
by David Rollins
The lavender sea rolled slow and languid beneath the white hull of the Medusa, the über-luxurious Mangusta 130...
We're delighted to release this sneak preview of MELTWATER, the third title in Michael Ridpath's bestselling FIRE & ICE series. Here's chapter 1, enjoy!
MELTWATER
by Michael Ridpath
THEY PASSED THROUGH the newly built suburbs of Reykjavík into the city centre, a warren of small, brightly coloured houses with corrugated iron roofs. Ásta drove...
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