Take a walk down Birmingham's main street, at the heart of England, and experience 400 years of historical fiction, fantasy, time travel, crime and comedy.An unlikely threesome re-enact Jaws on the Brindley Place canals; a Polish immigrant escaping the 1980 Solidarity crackdown tries to find a new life; Parliamentarians battle with cavaliers in the Battle of Digbeth; an old man tries to solve a murder mystery from the 1970s; a secret paramilitary unit track down a monster that live...

Self-publishing authors have taken over the book world. The revolution is happening and more writers today earn a living by self-publishing than through traditional publishing.Punk Publishing not only takes you through the new digital landscape, it’s also a DIY guide for any writer planning to go indie.Andy and David - who’ve published over 40 books - show you the easy way to turn your writing into an ebook, how to make paperbacks, how to design your own book covers and set...

Three women spend Christmas in a remote cottage on Dartmoor to escape problems at home, but their long hike across the moor turns tragic as old ghosts return for vengeance...A chilling new short story (40 pages, 10,000 words) from the author of the haunting timeslip saga, Touchstone.

Tony is 15 and he's in trouble. It's not that he secretly reads James Joyce and his schoolmates would kill him if they found out what a freak he was. It's not that he's trying to write his story and can't find the right voice. It's that his girlfriend, Janine, is pregnant, and in a couple of months everyone will know and his life will be over. So he's decided to end it himself.Set in 1981, in the aftershock of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis's suicide, The Girl with the Bomb Inside ...

The former eastern bloc is open for business and a war is raging just over the border, but in a Hungarian campus town, a group of students and exiles escape into love and literature.Dylan, a washed up American lecturer with a Tom Waits fixation, has an affair with Erzsi, his teenage Hungarian student, and a mixed group of students and teachers spend a crazy spring falling in love with their town and each other.A postmodern campus novel that explore...

Ewan Glumie was born on the day Man City last won a trophy, and for 35 years it's been failure for both of them. City have won nothing since, and he's exiled in Birmingham, temping in a job he hates and living with an ex who hates him. But success might be on the horizon. City are heading for an FA Cup final and Ewan knows he has to get a ticket, get a career and get a girl before it happens or forever accept that he's the jinx, and that the gloating 35 Years banner at Old Trafford is more...

Can your love live up to the most romantic city in the world?Five couples try to find the answer on New Year’s Eve in the French capital. By morning they’ll know.English girl Sandy arrives for a blind date with her French pen friend, but is entertained by elderly barman Claude when her date stands her up.Old flames Marcus and Hélène reunite on the Eurostar train. Only problem is, they're both with their new flames.Jimmy and Celeste fall in love at first sigh...

English girl Sandy travels to Paris on New Year’s Eve for a blind date with her French penfriend, but ends up being entertained by elderly barman Claude when her date doesn’t show up.Meet Me in Montmartre is a delightfully romantic short story (10,000 words - 35 pages), which can also be found in the collection, Lovers in Paris (where it is given a bonus alternate ending).

**INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement, an “effortlessly seductive” novel (The New York Times) that masterfully entwines espionage and desire in an unforgettable story of intrigue, betrayal and love.One of the Best Books of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times**Cambridge student Serena Frome's beauty and intelligence make her the ideal recru...

A household name, an Australian rock icon, the elder statesman of Ozrock - there isn't an accolade or cliche that doesn't apply to Jimmy Barnes. But long before Cold Chisel and Barnesy, long before the tall tales of success and excess, there was the true story of James Dixon Swan - a working class boy whose family made the journey from Scotland to Australia in search of a better life.Working Class Boy is a powerful reflection on a traumatic and violent childhood, which fue...

“There are sharks out there in the literary waters… This Guide gives you all the skills and information you need to comparison shop — and if you are planning on self-publishing successfully, comparison shopping is essential.”~ Victoria Strauss of Writer Beware!This guide, compiled by the Watchdog team at The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), tells you all you need to know in order to choose the self-publishing pathway that’s right for you. Drawing on recommendations ...

On a mid-summer day in 1937, a car pulled up to the house of the Bibikov family in Chernigov in the heart of the Ukraine. Boris, the father, kissed his two daughters and wife goodbye and disappeared inside the car. His family never saw him again. His wife would later vanish, leaving the young Lyudmila and Lenina alone to drift across the vast Russian landscape as the Wehrmacht advanced in WWII. In the early 1960s Owen Matthews' father, Mervyn, moved to Moscow to work for the British embass...