Patricia Knight-Webb

A collection of very short stories by a variety of renowned authors including Ray Bradbury, Chekov, De la Mare, Dostoyevsky, Aldous Huxley, Poe, Steinbeck and Tolstoy

Having completed his life's work, the Dictionary of the English Language, Dr Johnson is prominent in 18th Century society, but his home life is chaotic. He develops a relationship with a friend's wife, which is observed by Mrs Thrale's daughter, Queeney.

A collection of 23 short stories, of which 14 are previously unpublished. Witty and dark, Owens' prose shocks and delights.

On a crisp winter morning, Ethan takes his young son, Nate, on a trip to explore the woods. When parking, Ethan sees a huge deer, and as Nate is asleep, he takes a closer look alone. A few moments later he returns, but Nate has vanished. Ethan and his neighbours mount a frantic search for the three year old. X rated, contains offensive language.

From the poorest and humblest of births, Anna Pavlova rose to become one of the most celebrated ballerinas of all time.

For seventeen years Aunt Margaret has cared for niece Saskia who is now off to Canada for a year. With the help of an unexpected legacy Aunt Margaret decides to kick up her heels and have some fun!

When Joe Davitch first saw Rebecca he wanted for himself some of the happiness that spilled from her. Once married she became the lynch pin of the Davitch family. After Joe's untimely death Rebecca realises that she feels like an imposter in her own life.

It is now eight years since Ave Maria Mulligan married Jack Chesney. Whilst she has thrown herself into life with a family, events from the past seem to throw a barrier between her and Jack. Whatever their problems they always have the support of the people of Big Stone Gap.  Book 2 of series

When a body is discovered in the hold of a cargo ship, Scarpetta and Marino believe it may be a stowaway. But an examination into a strange tattoo on the body leads them to Interpol's headquarters in Lyon. Contains offensive language.  Book 10 of series.

Once divorced and once widowed, Sydney is trying to put her life together again. As tutor to the daughter of a wealthy couple she finds herself caught in a web of destruction.

Anne Tyler's novel covers the events of a day in the lives of Maggie and Ira. The basic incompatibility of their marriage and the love that binds them together nevertheless are both revealed.

The updated autobiography of Lauren Bacall chronicling her life as a Hollywood legend, her marriage to Humphrey Bogart, and her many close lifelong relationships.

Two tree frogs are playing in the rain forest when huge orange machines appear. These machines threaten the existence of the rain forest. Can the tree frogs stop the devastation?

Chantal is exquisite, beguiling and volatile. Torn from the dazzling salons and glittering balls of aristocratic London, Chantal finds herself caught in a gathering maelstrom of wild and dangerous adventure.  Book 3 of series.

It is the summer of the Watergate scandal and 10-year-old Marsha's parents are divorcing. Then the murdered body of a local boy is found and suspicions and anxieties transform the once secure neighborhood. Orange/Baileys Prize.

Disaster threatens the school play. From somewhere in the past a ghost returns to haunt the actors.

Isolated in a ramshackle parsonage on the Yorkshire moors, the Brontë children created their own fantasy worlds. Charlotte, Emily, Anne and their brother Branwell spent their childhoods absorbed in creating miniature manuscripts that preserved the stories of their imaginative dreamworlds. How did three provincial sisters become household names? And what led to the ultimately tragic fate for this Dark Quartet…?

Young sleuth Frances Doughty is trying to discover who distributed dangerously feminist pamphlets to the girls of the Bayswater Academy for the Education of Young Ladies. Armed with only her wits, courage and determination, her enquiries expose lies, murders and a long-concealed scandal, and she makes a powerful new friend.

Violence spills onto the streets of Montreal and a nine-year-old girl is killed in crossfire between rival biker gangs. As Dr Temperence Brennan examines this, and an associated murder, she begins a perilous investigation into a lawless underworld of organised crime. Contains some scenes of graphic violence.

It's the Roaring Twenties. London's bright young things are partying, Soho's nightlife is buzzing and Augusta Peel is hiding in her basement.

She has a reason to hide there: it's home to her Bloomsbury workshop where she repairs old, neglected books. After a busy time during the war, all Augusta wants is peace and quiet - even if it is routinely disturbed by the tube trains beneath her feet.

But events take a turn when Augusta agrees to chaperone 19-year-old Harriet Jones on a date. Failing to get her home on time, she ends up in a riotous nightclub. She can't imagine the evening getting much worse when the police raid it. But then the murder happens.

Who shot Jean Taylor? An old acquaintance at Scotland Yard learns Augusta was near the murder scene and persuades her to help with his investigation. But how can a humble book repairer navigate Soho's world of actresses, gangsters and theatre impresarios to discover the truth?

Early one morning Guido Brunetti, commissario of the Venice Police, confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a Venetian canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the robbery motive seems altogether too convenient.  Book 2 of series.

The Commissario's visitor is a nun who has left her convent after the deaths of five patients. By asking him to investigate, has she put her life in danger?  Book 6 of series.

Alexander Ivanov had an early career amongst the political elite in 1950's Moscow, and then built a successful business in Boston. Over the past forty years he managed to bury the tragic memories surrounding his late wife Katya, until a young woman comes into his life and is determined to find out what really happened to Katya.

Simon's world is shattered by the discovery that he is adopted. He decides to run away to Wales to track down his real mother.

Nothing exceptional ever happens in Bridgestead... except for the day Joshua Braithwaite goes missing, never to be heard of again. Kate Shackleton has always loved solving puzzles, but as she taps in to the lives of the villagers, she opens cracks that some would kill to keep closed....

In the aftermath of the First World War, Walter Cox a young painter leaves Kent for London. At the Slade School of Art, where students and ex-soldiers mingle, Walter tries to rediscover his art in the wake of tragedy.

Whilst many people dream of leaving their jobs and starting a new life, Ann Vanderhoof and her husband did just that when they reached their mid-forties. Over ten years ago the two deadline driven professionals gave up their jobs, let out the house, and sailed a yacht from Canada to the Caribbean.

In February 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland. All 84 men aboard died. Helen O'Mara is widowed. Her story starts years after the disaster, but she is compelled to travel back to the 'February' that persists in her mind, and to that moment in 1982.

Sue Trinder is an orphan growing up among petty thieves in the house of Mrs Sucksby. In 1862 Richard Rivers, a confidence trickster, arrives with an elaborate plan to defraud a wealthy heiress, Maud Lilly. Sue is asked to help and goes to work for Maud, but she soon has doubts when a close relationship develops between the two girls. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

Poppy has more than her reckless daughter, Chloe, to worry about in 1926 - the year of the General Strike.  Book 3 of series.

On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman had promised to look after her but has disappeared without a trace. On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever.

Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler's luck. At seven years old he was earning money from odd jobs and by the time he was twenty-three, his ambition was in full flow and he was always looking to bigger and better games to play. For an ordinary working lad, he was doing well - until one day, his luck changed and suddenly, things did not go as smoothly as he was used to...

Annie is a loving young woman whose happy home is shattered by a tragic car crash. Whisked away by her mysterious great-grandfather she falls into despair until she unearths a mystery!  Book 4 of series.

Georgie faces a long struggle to walk again. With the help of her horse, the struggle isn't quite as hopeless as she imagines.

Sadie Appleby has never left rural Westmorland. But one night in the winter of 1661, she is woken by her sister, Ella, who has robbed her employer and is on the run. Together the girls flee for London. But the dead man's relatives are in pursuit.

Michelle Guiness is married to an Anglical clergyman who is a member of the famous Guiness family, She has researched their history spanning two hundred years from the founding father, Arthur Guiness - their ups and downs, and the tragedies that follow them.