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When the Grey Men arrive to cleanse Earth of the human race, a new dominant species is required to maintain the equilibrium of life on the planet. Gifted higher consciousness and the power of speech, the Canidae struggle to fulfil that role..

This is the gripping tale of one such struggle, as Garth, a much-abused mastiff, leads his pack of strays...

That the gun was kept in a drawer of the old Singer sewing machine was never a secret; although, when his father died, its significance as a reminder of the old man’s mysterious occupation was quickly overshadowed by the discovery of a fortune in banknotes in the loft.

There was, too, the emergence of some alarming connections with an extreme...

Frustrated equally by misrule at Westminster and the Scottish government’s failure to progress the independence agenda, a reinvigorated Scottish National Liberation Army seizes power from Scotland’s ruling party, the SNP, after a campaign of attrition during the 2020s. This tale follows the adventures of two young revolutionaries as they pursue...

Frank is any one of us, and like each of us he is unique. This series of tales, drawn from actual and imagined events, threads together seven episodes from the life of an ordinary man. But by no measure are those episodes anything but extraordinary.

To be Frank, he has constantly to reconcile acquired principles with his natural impulse, until...

A priest searching for God at the centre of the galaxy, a young man looking for his lost first love, three old men trying to reprise their youth, and a female slave pondering her identity. Each of them will discover that what they wished for was in fact something entirely different. But do any of them recognise their moment of epiphany?

Make Hay is a story about love. It is not a romance, its principal character does not walk in beauty like a night of starry skies. It is the tale of Ryan, a youth of seventeen going on eighteen, and his edifying adventures with his two fascinating neighbours. In this book, in the words of James Baldwin, ‘love is a growing up’.

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