LUTHER'S AMBASSADORS by Jay Margrave
In this, the second of the Priedeux mysteries, we rediscover Tom Priedeux, now serving the young Anne Boleyn. However, Tom is more than just a servant; at different times, he is her mentor, her confidante and sometimes her critic. Anne has one overriding ambition: to reform the Catholic Church. The only way she can achieve her aim is to marry a powerful man and use her wiles to influence him to make the changes she wants. This man, of course, is Henry VIII. Priedeux helps her in this aim and when her schemes are going awry he is there to fight her battles; when her life is threatened, he saves her; when she needs a ally, he is there at her side. But for how long can he survive the political battles of the Court without himself becoming a target for powerful men?
'This is a good book, a story well told ... I love the subplot outlining Priedeux's background ...' (Rebecca Tope, Membership Secretary of the Crime Writers' Association)
DARSHAN by Irene Black
A young woman struggles through a morass of unsuitable relationships, involving betrayal, danger and heartbreak, in order to find her cultural identity. Her journey takes her from India to Britain to American and back to India. Is she destined to live her life on the fringes of the communities where she grew up? Or will she finally come to terms with who she is?
TAINTED TREE by Jacquelynn Luben
A surprise bequest from an unknown benefactor leads American adoptee, Addie Russell, to Surrey on a journey to discover more about her mysterious English family. She does not know that her search will uncover secrets that will both shock and thrill her. Nor can she imagine the emotions and events which await her.
'... an engaging narrative voice ... I was immediately drawn into the story.' [Donna Condon, editor, Piatkus Books]
'The atmosphere is skilfully built, humming with suspense ... evocative images and well-chosen vocabulary ... a page-turner' [Adrienne Dines, author]
THORN IN THE FLESH by Anne Brooke
Kate Harris, a lecturer in her late thirties, is attacked in her Surrey home and left for dead. Continuing threats hinder her recovery, and these life changing events force her to journey into her past to search for the child she gave away. Can she overcome the demons of her own personal history before time runs out?
SOLD ... TO THE LADY WITH THE LIME-GREEN LAPTOP! by Irene Black
The author, based in the UK, has used the experience gained over five years of trading on eBay to describe one hundred of her most interesting, entertaining, sometimes lucrative and occasionally disastrous sales. Each page is devoted to one item and carries a photograph, a description, the purchase and sale price, and, as the author says in her foreword "some additional trivia". The "trivia" consists of hilarious, fascinating and sometimes useful observations.
THE GAWAIN QUEST by Jay Margrave
Priedeux is a medieval hitman. He is sent to kill the writer of the poem, Gawain and the Green Knight, to stop further seditious texts against the King, Richard II. As he follows the clues in the poem, Priedeux finds himself questioning the very purpose of his vocation. Can he discover the identity of the mysterious author in time to stop rebellion and save his own life? And what will he report to his master, John of Gaunt?
PINK CHAMPAGNE AND APPLE JUICE by Anne Brooke
Angie Howard has one ambition - to escape from her home in the idyllic Essex countryside and set up her own cafe in London. Once there, she seeks out her long-lost Uncle John, whose lifestyle is not at all what she expected. Before she can achieve her goal, she has to juggle the needs of a glamorous French waiter, a grouchy German chef and her exuberant, transvestite uncle. What's more, if she manages to keep the lid on all that, what will she do about the other hidden secrets of her family?
A BOTTLE OF PLONK by Jacquelynn Luben
It's 1989 - a time when Liebfraumilch, Black Forest gateau and avocado bathrooms are all the rage, and nobody uses mobile phones. When Julie Stanton moves in with Richard Webb one Saturday night in May, everything is looking rosy. She certainly doesn't expect their romantic evening together to end with her walking out of the flat clutching the bottle of wine with which they were to toast their new relationship. But then Julie and the wine part company, and the bottle takes the reader on a journey through a series of events revealing love, laughter and conflict.
THE MOON'S COMPLEXION by Irene Black
Bangalore, India 1991. Ashok Rao, a young doctor, has returned home from England to choose a bride. But who is the intriguing Englishwoman who seeks him out? Why is she afraid and what is the secret that binds them together? The lives of two strangers are turned upside down when they meet and the past comes to haunt them. The Moon's Complexion is a tale of love across cultural boundaries. It is also a breath-taking adventure tale played out in the mystical lands of Southern India and Sri Lanka and in the icy countryside of winter England.
ON THE EDGE by Esme Ashford
Tramps with bad feet, a sheep rustler, a busker invited to dinner; a weird monster who devours a nasty husband, and a child who learns from a visit to the fun fair; stories, limericks and blank verse: it is all here in this magical collection of short stories and poems!
FORTHCOMING BOOKS:
Publication 2009:
THE NINE LIVES OF KIT MARLOWE by Jay Margrave
In the third book of the exciting Priedeux trilogy, jumping through history as a fictional character is allowed to do, Priedeux travels with Christopher Marlowe through Europe, after the latter's supposed death in Deptford.
