Maybe it appeared to be a little unorthodox for Jayne to take the job as a courier, but then at the time she had not expected to find herself embroiled with either drug trafficking or indeed Luc Mathieu. But then Luc had problems of his own which revolved around his inheritance of Priory Manor and relatives who would dearly have loved to have relieved him of this and more especially the land which had also passed to him and which was currently at the centre for the exploration of shale gas. As this location happened to be close to Jayne's home address it seemed to be inevitable that the two would be thrown together, more especially when Detective Inspector Bennett offered a helping hand in this by keeping the pair of them together. Yet before true romance could blossom there were still many skeletons in the cupboard that needed to be disarmed, including Luc's own biological father and Jayne's former fiance, a person that her parents thought the world about but who nevertheless had his own self-interests at heart. .

A cat with attitude, green-fingered garden gnomes, a Roman helmet and two fiercely protective ghosts feature in this delightful anthology. Each tale has been written to accompany a cup of tea and a biscuit, whilst pleasantly disorientating the reader and challenging what they believe to be 'real' for a few moments. When finished, the book will be lovingly replaced on the coffee table leaving the reader smiling to themselves and wondering, 'could that actually happen?'

Tony Gareth Smith takes readers on another trip down memory lane to the Norfolk Coast's Brightest Seaside Resort - Great Yarmouth. The Golden Sands Theatre plays host to the summer season show of 1970. Once more Don Stevens brings together a variety of acts with the much loved Derinda Daniels topping the bill. Meet a galaxy of new artistes including The Olanzos, Jonny Adams, Ricky Drew and the return of old favourite Ted Ricer. Say hello again to Maud Bennett, the box office queen and keen knitter. Find out if Jim Donnell's daughter Debbie presents him with a grandson or granddaughter. Discover if Dave and his partner Dan are still together. Will Enid ever get to grips with decimal currency? Who is the new theatre cleaner with her trusty mop and bucket? Meet theatrical agent Audrey Audley. Secrets, Memories, Laughs, Loves and Losses are all within the pages of the sequel to "Twice Nightly" "To Catch a Falling Star". With an eye for detail, Tony's characters come alive on the page as the sounds of the seaside play gently in the background. Tying up some loose ends that readers were eager to have answers to, return to a gentler time, where computers and mobiles were something only talked about on "Tomorrows World". Also included is the short story "The Landladies Convention". The Annual Dinner Dance is on the horizon and Muriel, Freda and Lucinda all have their eye on the coveted prize of the Silver Cup and Sash for the Guest House Landlady of the Year Award 1969. Who wins, who loses? The results are bound to cause upset and surprises for all three.

'All Because of a Horse' is the story of a young woman veterinary surgeon and her adventures after moving to North Yorkshire to practice her profession. Her clients include a local zoo, racing stables and private animal owners. There is a great variety of work and personalities she has to deal with.

Eviscerated Panda - Back In Bamboo is a book that meanders around the topics of heavy metal, happiness, sex, morality, love and biscuits. It follows the lives of keen for success metal band Eviscerated Panda and their friends, families and lovers over a four month period. There are chance meetings with old band mates, birthday celebrations and career aspirations. Eviscerated Panda play loud gigs in Camden, in Coventry, in their home town of Reading and in Torquay. They have to cope with the temporary closure of their favourite pub, the Green Man, which is the scene of much of their carousing. Ian has trouble in his life of love while Dean and Lucy are getting started on theirs, if only his Mum would give them a minute of privacy. Suzi does a rude thing in a dressing room suitable only for mature readers. They go to see the inspiring kings of metal, Manowar. They play an April Fool's day joke on their fans. Some of them wake up in a room that smells of onions. The book ends with the Pandas playing on the same bill as Nightshade Milkshake, the band that lead guitarist Phil was in before he made the Pandas happen.

A young Englishman is posted to an infantry battalion in France late in the winter of 1917-1918. After some months in the trenches he is attached to the Royal Flying Corps. He is wounded and falls in love with his nurse. Once fit again he returns to France where he briefly encounters a German pilot - a prisoner. By chance they meet again in the 1920s, at a time of desperate chaos for Germany. In 1940 their paths cross once more. The Battle of Britain is over but the Nazis still entertain hopes of invading and defeating Britain. The Englishman is now a civilian police inspector. He stumbles on a German plan to prepare the way for invasion. Its organisation and execution has been entrusted to his former acquaintance - the prisoner of 1918.

Sixteen residents from the fantasy Caribbean island of St Christopher & the Barracudas describe their lives and preoccupations. Each characterisation, richly drawn in humour and melancholy, is enriched by visionary artwork to depict a place where not everything is quite as it seems.

The pyramids and the magnificent Sphinx built over two thousand years before the birth of Jesus Christ have fascinated people for years. And when information is uncovered suggesting a queen's pyramid deliberately constructed at her wish in a place where the sands of the desert would hide it forever, the search is on. And later the intrepid searchers would turn their attention to the mysterious Sphinx and what could really lay beneath those giant paws.

The mighty silverback gazed through his heavy brow with intelligent eyes. Lips tightly closed with an uncompromising pout. He just looked and breathed purposefully. It seemed clear to both that neither of them could make any further move without showing weakness, stalemate. Oakwood looked on, the King looked back...Follow Dr. Oakwood's team for fifteen years as they help to save a species. Which in turn creates something that none of them could ever have dreamed of...

Teddy certainly was no ordinary bear! A story for younger children illustrated by Howard Barton in which Teddy goes to London and meets the Queen.

Part II - Kat Severn had no choice about growing up rich and privileged. When she did have a choice, she joined the Fleet of the early 22nd century Federation of American, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Her current assignment is more tha dull, but when a suggestion on how to fix an engineering problem puts her ship into dock for a few weeks, Kat is forced to return to the social scene she had grown to hate. Then a friend urgently calls for help from halfway around the world, and with a military heritage pumping through her veins, Kat is quick to come to the rescue, boarding the next available transport to St Petersburg, Russia. Despuite being fully aware she is rushing into a highly elaborate trap, it soon becomes apparent that there is considerably more to this rescue than she initially thought. Unable to escape the city due to the imposing of a travel restricting quarantine, followed by the sudden and suspicious loss of all external communications, Katis subjected to a series of extreme events as unknown enemies strive to acheive their twisted objectives.

When Tanya Illingworth had a desire to visit Norway, she never intended to become involved with Norse Mythology; neither as a matter of fact did she intend to become involved with Gareth Preston, for as far as she was concerned all men now remained in a 'no go' area for her. Perhaps however there was more to Gareth Preston than the plastic troll he insisted on buying her for in future years it was Nadia their daughter who was to entice them on that further voyage in which Garethwas destined to play a key role. But could love survive when there were others seemingly anxious to tear the couple apart? Maybe Gareth still had something to prove but the fact is can one really trust the Trolls?

An interest in ancient stone circles keeps James, a financial trader in the City of London, well grounded. When visiting a little-known stone circle in North Wales, on the summer solstice, he is transported back to the time of the circle's construction. James lives amongst the Late Bronze Age villagers, befriending the architect of the stone circle, Barnaby, and a young widow called Eira. James rejoins the present, quickly realising he was far happier in the past than in his current, shallow London life. He returns to the past only to find it under siege by the Hunllef, a warring, wandering tribe. Following a bloody battle he and Eira escape to the present. Beth, a PhD student studying the history of stone circles, befriends James and Eira and becomes entangled in their lives spanning two time zones.

Stepping off the plane from Hong Kong with a head full of schemes and dreams, Len Russell launches into the seventies. It's a world of clever businessmen, conmen, victims, and fools and Len's on a winning streak. New businesses are formed, franchised and sold on at a dizzying pace and if not entirely 'clean', it's all good fun. Things changes as Len and his partner Ray move into the sauna parlour, nightclub and boxing business. the entertaining characters are increasingly replaced by career criminals. A parade of celebrities from Elton John to Joe Frazier pass through the Auckland of the 1970s and they all seem to need assistance of one sort or another from Len and his underworld contacts. However, times are changing with the growth of the international drug trade. Ruthless criminals band together and the rise of the Mr Asia Syndicate begins. Len is given an opportunity to establish a bath house sauna in Sydney and he's on the first available plane to put his skills to use in this bigger, wilder and more dangerous arena. The book ends in 1982 with Len's world a very different place a decade on and the reader eager to get hold of the final book in the trilogy. If you likes A Man Who Cast Two Shadows, you're going to love Dancing in the Shadows.

The first book of the smash-hit Wayward Pines trilogy, from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter, Recursion, and Upgrade Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a mission: locate two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is involved in a violent accident. He comes to in a hospital, with no ID, no cell phone, and no briefcase. As the days pass, Ethan's investigation turns up more questions than answers: Why can't he get any phone calls through to his wife and son in the outside world? Why doesn't anyone believe he is who he says he is? And what is the purpose of the electrified fences surrounding the town? Are they meant to keep the residents in? Or something else out? Each step closer to the truth takes Ethan farther from the world he knew, from the man he was, until he must face a horrifying fact - he may never get out of Wayward Pines alive. The nail-bitingly suspenseful opening installment in Blake Crouch's blockbuster Wayward Pines trilogy, Pines is at once a brilliant mystery tale and the first step into a genre-bending saga of suspense, science fiction, and horror.

Things are running smoothly at Torreston Police Station, especially for DCI Harriet Love, who is beginning to enjoy the company of DI Ed Harrington. But their relationship goes on hold when a woman is found dead in the park and a second murder is deemed to be connected. The Team set about finding the link between the two dead women and turn their investigation to the local comprehensive school, where one was a student and the other a teacher. When a third body is found, no link can be discovered to the first murders and Harry, Ed and DS Charlie Marlow once again find themselves involved in a hunt for a killer.

Only a handful of people knew that the Mona Lisa hanging in the Louvre was a fake. It had hung there since 1913 when the painting was found after the original had been stolen two years before. When twins, Vicky and Josh, find out the truth, they ask their uncle Julius, a time-shifter, to take them back in time to make sure that the original painting is restored to its proper place. Once back in Paris in 1911, they find out what really happened on the night the Mona Lisa was stolen and the part played in the theft by Picasso and his friend, Apollinaire. Along the way they get caught up with The Black Hand, the secret organisation responsible for the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand and the start of the First World War! This fast-paced adventure will interest all those who want to find out more about the greatest theft of the 20th century as well as those who are fans of time-travel. Julius and the Mona Lisa is the second book in the Julius series

Sergeant Jack Hardman of 45 Commando Royal Marines has reached the end of his twelve-year engagement and has resisted the suggestion from his colonel to sign on for further service. To Hardman's surprise he is offered an interview in London for a position in Government security, which turns out to be in MI6 and is the start of a very exciting chapter in his life. We follow his adventures in Pakistan and the Middle East, where life is cheap and often short. A dramatic situation arises when an unconfirmed report suggests Pakistan has lost one of its many nuclear ear heads. Either London or the United States is thought to be the target of terrorists in possession of this war head. Hardman finds he is working with some strange people and in some very dangerous situations. Two women both very different, assist him in these duties, leading to a dramatic conclusion when London and the South East of England come under threat.