Glen McCready

At a Christmas house party on Dartmoor in 1935, Raymond Gentry's dead body is discovered in a locked room. Obviously not a suicide, so how was the murder committed? One of the guests, crime writer Evadne Mount, is on hand to investigate.

Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where 'sharing' is valued above all, and privacy is considered a dangerous perversion.

Trafford wouldn't call himself a rebel, but he's daring to be different, to stand out from the crowd. In his own small ways, he wants to push against the system. But in this world, uniformity is everything. And even tiny defiances won't go unnoticed.

Ben Elton's dark, savagely comic novel imagines a post-apocalyptic society where religious intolerance combines with a sex-obsessed, utterly egocentric culture. In this world, nakedness is modesty, independent thought subversive, and ignorance is wisdom.

A chilling vision of what's to come? Or something rather closer to home?

1915: Ben Retallick is asked by a War Office friend to provide two traction engines for a secret expedition from Cape Town to Lake Tanganyika. But he is arrested on circumstantial evidence provided by a business rival and accused of being pro-German. Book 9 of the 'Retallick' series.

Joss Lambert was always a loner, but at school he becomes friendly with Guy Liddell, and through him the whole Liddell family. Their home is the only place he is happy, but with war looming this happiness can't last. Joss joins the RAF and fights for his life in the Battle of Britain and again in the heat of North Africa.

Thinking his life is going nowhere the author abandoned his wife and young children for a year, and set off for Alaska. He had to exist in one of the harshest environments in the world, miles from anyone. A gripping account of his adventures.

Chart Throb. The ultimate pop quest. Ninety-five thousand hopefuls. Three judges. Just one winner. And that's Calvin Simms, the genius behind the show.

Calvin always wins because Calvin writes the rules. But this year, as he sits smugly in judgement upon the mingers, clingers and blingers whom he has pre-selected in his carefully scripted 'search' for a star, he has no idea that the rules are changing. The 'real' is about to be put back into 'reality' television and Calvin and his fellow judges (the nation's favourite mum and the other bloke) are about to become ex-factors themselves.

Chart Throb. One winner. A whole bunch of losers.

Based on the true story of the 'chicken farm murder', which took place at Crowborough, East Sussex in December 1924. Norman Thorne was found guilty of the murder of Elsie Cameron, but even at the time of his execution there were doubts about his guilt. Still swearing his innocence, Norman Thorne was hanged on 22 April 1925.

As part of a radical social experiment, The Rearrangement, the UK population is divided into four quarters according to personality. Eight-year-old Thomas is taken from his parents and sent to the Red Quarter for the sanguine. Years later special privileges allow him to visit the Blue Quarter which starts Thomas on a voyage of self discovery. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

When Hereward finds a sword, he doesn't realise that it is Excalibur and that his life is now in danger. Others want Excalibur so they can claim the throne of England. Ursus and Gwyneth must persuade Hereward to return the treasured sword to its burial place.

Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence, charged with his murder.

Douglas Kingsley is a conscientious objector, previously a detective with the London police, now imprisoned for his beliefs. He is released and sent to France in order to secure a conviction. Forced to conduct his investigations amidst the hell of The Third Battle of Ypres, Kingsley soon discovers that both the evidence and the witnesses he needs are quite literally disappearing into the mud that surrounds him.

As the gap between legally-sanctioned and illegal murder becomes evermore blurred, Kingsley quickly learns that the first casualty when war comes is truth.

December 1669. The Thames freezes over and a frost fair is held on the thick ice. Architect Christopher Redmayne and puritanical constable Jonathan Bale are both visiting the fair when one of Bale's sons gets into trouble on the ice. They rescue the boy but in the process make a grim discovery - a frozen corpse...

When ghosts from all over the country suddenly start to vanish it is up to Tom, Grey Arthur and his new Invisible Friends-in-training to solve the mystery and save the world.

DCI Jack Finch searches for a missing girl whose disappearance may be linked to a new arrival in the neighbourhood.

Tobey is determined he will be famous. He even hangs around with the stars, getting autographs at film premieres. Tobey and his friend Georgia audition for a role in the local play - and to his huge disappointment, Georgia gets a part, but he doesn't. Can he turn this tragedy around and find a way to be famous after all?

Bosworth Hartie was sure his parents could not inflict any more mental torture on him. Until, that is, they decide to find him a wife to keep him on the straight and narrow.

Grey Arthur is a ghost. Tom Golden is a boy who doesn’t fit in at school. When Tom and Grey Arthur mutter the same three words, at exactly the same time, Grey Arthur knows he must become Tom’s invisible friend!

The year is 1946. An actress is murdered on a crowded film set where only six people had the opportunity to commit the crime. What's more all six have a motive.

An alienated young man decides to go hitchhiking around Europe, just to get his family off his back, only to find himself caught up in a confusing, threatening, and surreal world of inexplicable violence and dark secrets. X rated, contains graphic violence and explicit sex.

DCI Mark Lapslie and Sergeant Emma Bradbury are on the trail of a serial killer who moves from one victim to another stealing their possessions, their identities and their lives. X rated, contains graphic violence.

As a page to the future Charles II, Ralf rapidly learns about court intrigue. He manages to foil a Catholic plot to kidnap Charles, and in 1645, just after the defeat of Naseby he follows his master into exile. Years later he yearns to return to Cornwall but his dreams are shattered.

A son trying to understand his mother's past, travels to Prague where he discovers a tragic love affair, and the heroic story of the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi by the Czech resistance. Growing up in New York fragments of the past were ever present but he couldn't understand the truth. Richard & Judy Bookclub

Camul and Acco, Gauls of the Pyrenees, leave home to join the Roman army in the time of Julius Caesar. After a series of adventures en route they continue on with the doomed army into what is now Iraq, where they encounter Parthian horse-bowmen under their leader Surenas.