Collection: Adult fiction

Comprising Baltic Mission, In Distant Water and A Private Revenge, this Nathaniel Drinkwater omnibus edition captures the excitement and danger of being an officer in the Royal Navy during Nelson's time.

For the body snatchers, death is a lucrative business. But it's the corpse they leave behind, horribly mutilated and nailed to a tree, which sets Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood on their trail.

Tommy Moran fights for the underprivileged on the floor of the United States Senate. He's determined to restore civility and compassion to American politics. But his opponents don't share his scruples. Almost from the beginning, Tommy and his family find themselves besieged by vicious personal at...

In a small Scottish parish, an English priest is stalked by the fear of scandal, class hatred and lost ideals. As he looks back on his childhood, Father David begins to reconsider the central events of his life, and to see what may have happened to the political hopes of his generation.

Nick Scott's daughter is a scientist who has cracked one of the scientific secrets of the age. Now she has vanished. Her lover, Jed Bradley, is one of SAS's toughest young agents. Caught in a global power play, Nick and Jed find themselves in a desperate race to find the woman they both love and ...

From the author of 'The Plot Against America', 'Everyman' is a painful human story of the regret and stoicism of a man who becomes what he does not want to be. The terrain of this savagely sad novel is the human body, and its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all - death.

There is no finer detective in Victorian London than Thomas Pitt. During a party at the Spanish Embassy, a policeman breaks into Pitt's conversation with Rawdon Quixwood to break the news that Quixwood's wife, Catherine, has been assaulted at their home and left for dead.