Peter Marinker

When disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon unexpectedly finds himself travelling across America by train, to get to LA by Christmas, he begins a journey of self-discovery, escapades, adventures and rude awakenings.

Echoing Socrates' statement that the unexamined life not worth living, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws on his twenty-five years of work and more than 50,000 hours of conversations to form a collection of beautifully rendered tales that illuminate the human experience.

These are stories about everyday lives: from a woman who finds herself daydreaming as she returns home from a business trip to a young man loses his wallet, to the more extreme examples: the patient who points an unloaded gun at a police officer and the compulsive liar who convinces his wife he's dying of cancer. The resulting journey will spark new ideas about who we are and why we do what we do.

Jack makes a living discovering other people’s secrets, there’s also one of his own. Moving to England with his new love, Kate, forces him to confront the horrors of the past.

1865: The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship ‘Star of the Sea’ docked at New York, the daughter of two of its passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Eliza Duane Mooney is searching for her younger brother who she has not seen in four years. It's a walk that will have consequences for many…

Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor husband Guy move into an old New York City apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbours and strange occurrences. When Rosemary becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins controlling her life.

This book chronicles four generations of the remarkable Anning family. Their losses, sacrifices and betrayals through the twentieth century.

When Secret Service agent, Sean King’s attention wanders briefly a presidential candidate dies. Now retired in disgrace, King hears of a similar case eight years later. This time the disgraced agent is Michelle Maxwell. The two form an uneasy alliance in their search for answers.

From the First World War, the French Riviera was a popular haunt for rich Americans. The most fashionable people are Dick and Nicole Divers who hold court at their villa. When Rosemary Hoyt enters their circle, she blows apart the delicate structure of their marriage.