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Thirty-five years ago, a boy died on the moor above Skelderby. A frightened young man went to prison for it. Everyone was satisfied. Everyone was wrong. Acting DCI Tom Shearer didn't ask for a cold case unit, and he didn't ask for this one — a stroke, a divorce, and a quiet posting back to the county he grew up in were supposed to be the end of the story, not the start of a new one. But a single overlooked line in a thirty-five-year-old file is enough. Somebody knew more than they said. Somebody has been living comfortably on it ever since.

Queen Sealyn’s failure to break Glatania’s curse is etched in the lives lost, the relentless uncertainty shadowing her people, and her own imprisonment. Sealyn must endure brutal torture and confront the ominous beast lurking in her prison cell, yet her greatest challenge may be holding on to hope amid the darkness. King Jace’s grief-stricken army of Elysians and Glatanian rebels finally embarks on a perilous quest to discover Sealyn’s fate. Their journey hits a crisis when the ship carrying Queen Sealyn’s mother is forced to seek refuge in enemy waters.

British politics faces its extinction event. Political satire for a country that has forgotten how to laugh together. For fans of The Thick of It. Disgraced MPs saving the country. Yep, seriously. The Right Members Club has existed for over four hundred years to protect British politics from one thing: competence. Membership is reserved for disgraced MPs. Mark Fallow fits perfectly. Newly elected, immediately ruined, nationally humiliated. Then everything breaks.

Tom Shearer is sixty-one, recovering from a stroke, and working in a sub-basement nobody visits. The Cold Case Unit is where the Metropolitan Police puts the files it has given up on, and the officers it hasn't quite given up on yet. For Shearer, it is somewhere to be useful while the clock runs down. Until he finds three files that shouldn't look alike — and do. Three deaths, three verdicts, three psychiatric assessments written in language so certain, so clean, that no honest clinician could have produced them. And one name at the bottom of each.

Christmas: the most wonderful, overhyped, aggressively jolly time of the year. Meet Phil, a man who loves Christmas almost as much as he loves tearing it to shreds. As The twelve days count down, so does he, one chapter, one day, one festive absurdity at a time. From carols that make no sense, to the baffling origins of tinsel, he’s got opinions, facts, and a hangover to back them up.

Meet the Barman, always smiling, eager to please. He has no past, no future, perpetually in the present, waiting to serve. But behind that barman mask, things have gone very wrong, and he has just twenty two pills to tell his story. This is a story of love, laughter, loss, sex, anger and hopelessness, each served up in a shot glass waiting for you to sling it back down your throat ready for the next. The story of the Barman, told from then and now, is a cocktail of confusion and a mirage of misleading mistakes. So pull up a pew and get comfy. Now what y‘avin?

1066 changed history. But it didn't kill the darkness. In an England where Harold Godwinson killed William the Conqueror and the Anglish Commonwealth has stood for a thousand years, one oath holds the realm together: No man or householder shall be yoked.

The tiny Scottish fishing town of Hillmyre is isolated and dying. It’s the perfect hideaway for the jaded and cynical academic Dr John Watson. All Watson wants is to write his novel but when the bodies appear and his help is sought all hopes of a quiet life start to unravel. Will it be the making or breaking of him?

The journey for Len Nove begins. Elysium is still recovering from the bloody Battle of the Betrayals from the kingdom of Stoltland. Queen Sealyn unlocked access to the old magic, so all seven kingdoms are adjusting to the enchanting new world. On the quest of breaking the curse for the kingdom of Len Nove, Queen Sealyn and recently crowned King Jace encounter a new evil nemesis, and now they and their friends have to battle for their lives.

Born deaf and discovering encroaching blindness at the age of 16, Anthony Lawton’s future appeared to be full of locked doors. Prejudice. Delayed education. Distorted speech. Limited sight. But when benign strangers intercede and inner gifts reveal themselves the opportunity to pursue a childhood dream of speaking and participating in mainstream society become a realisable vision. He would need to do this before the consequences of dual sensory loss would again close the doors.

Even though he’s worked his way to the top of the West Midlands criminal heap as right-hand man to crime boss Veronica Gaines, ex-cop Eoin Miller still has to deal with the dregs of the underworld to earn his pay. That’s why he’s dispatched to a low-end hotel to work damage control after a hooker kills a local lowlife. But when one of his comrades is mysteriously murdered at the scene, and a suspicious fire claims two more victims, a simple clean-up job turns absolutely filthy.

Now settled in Lincolnshire with his family, having given up his private investigator business, Randolph Landon believes he is done with the job. That is until Norman Parker comes along. Shortly after losing his wife, Norman’s son, Oliver, goes missing. Randolph decides to take on the case to help the grieving widower and discovers a strange symbol on the back of a photograph.

Welcome to Alos–a world torn between the thriving, magic-free lands of the North and the untamed, mystical realms of the South. Under the vigilant guidance of Sartum, the Unsundered, the North flourishes, protected from the dark corruption of magic by the Anchors–an ancient order with the power to absorb and eradicate malevolent forces.

Guy believed he’d found the answer to overcoming that bleak dysfunctional fatalism they all felt. Bottling up emotions isn’t good, he reasoned. So, he would do what ordinary people did and he would set up an emotional support group. It was only when the newest member joined the group that things started to happen. The tables were turning and the assassins found themselves being targeted. This wasn’t good, but at least it gave an opportunity to get away from the hotel that served the worst tea imaginable.

Generations ago, a fateful decision was made that set events in motion that could destroy everything. Now, the unsundered god Sartum is determined to undo that choice, and it's up to an unlikely group of heroes to stop him.

Faithless Street is a collection of four short stories that set the scene for the novel Old Gold, the first book in the Eoin Miller Trilogy. Each story is set in the Black Country, in the English Midlands, and shows glimpses of people's lives as they try to make ends meet amidst gang life, drugs deals, and Roma camp evictions.

In a world where the gods hold all the power, Layten and his friends thought they understood the rules. But after being captured by the most powerful caster in Alos, Calmar, they find themselves trapped in a land where magic reigns supreme. With Vilom still plotting to carry out Sartum's task, Layten and his friends must navigate a world they never knew existed.

After narrowly surviving a vicious knife attack, gangland detective Eoin Miller thinks he’s earned a break from hunting down thieves, runaways, and stolen drug money. But when crime boss Veronica Gaines tips him off to a particularly sensitive new case, his Romani blood won’t let him say no.

Shunned for their connection to the evil that is magic, Anchors are not welcome anywhere in north for long. The ability to absorb magic, to destroy magical creatures, and even "see" magic will eventually drive them mad, and lead to their entering the descent, a place where they all eventually must go.

Layten and his friends Hopwell and Wix are somehow still alive, though not anywhere they want to be. After the battle of the Guardians in the House of Knowledge everything Layten thought was upended, as the Priest Vilom, the "Voice of Sartum" has started a crusade. A crusade to end the threat of magic, once and for all.