Clive Mantle

Nick Stone is sent to south-east Asia to assassinate one of Al-Qaeda's most dangerous biochemists. When Nick is given a female partner the mission takes unexpected turns. Back in the US he discovers a nest of terrorists and his involvement becomes very personal. X rated, contains offensive language.

1913 Athens, and the Greeks are growing tired of their Ottoman overlords. When the cat of an exiled sultan is poisoned rumours abound that the Sultan was the actual target. Given the volatile nature of the Balkans this is a dangerous situation.The British Foreign Office decides to take low-key action, but for this they need Seymour of C.I.D.

Nick Stone has lost the only person he has ever loved, and his future seems bleak. He is offered a second chance with a visit to Baghdad. He soon realises that second chances don't exist and that he is being used as bait.

In the year AD 406 Rome is on the defensive and a single Roman legion stands guard on the Rhine frontier. Maximus, the legion’s commander, is urged to proclaim himself emperor but, bound by an oath of duty, he refuses. Then fate intervenes…

A funny and revealing memoir about the flawed nature of the universe - by way of a mid-life male obsession, tiny expensive bits of paper and love.

Doctor Charles Gair was found hanged but that was not how he died. This was the first of the many surprises awaiting those who penetrated the home of the head of the Martindale Research establishment.

This is the tale of Hugo Pepper and his exploits. Hugo arrives home in Firefly Square, after being raised in the frozen North by reindeer herders, to discover a group of very special friends, a dastardly enemy, with snowmen, and buried treasure.

Jack McColl is a part-time spy for the fledgling Secret Service on the eve of the First World War. Caitlin Hanley is a young Irish-American journalist and McColl is captivated. But the pair become involved in a plot that threatens the Empire in its hour of greatest need...  Book 1 of series.

In Rome, Augustus is ill and rumour and conspiracy abound. When a legate is murdered and his daughter kidnapped off the North African coast, a disgraced (and expendable) centurion is sent on a mission to recover the girl. Too late he finds he has been betrayed…

During the Berlin Air Lift an RAF officer from the British Sector meets, and falls in love with, a German woman who lives in the Russian sector, and is struggling to keep her family alive.

Marcus Chown reveals the wonders of modern physics - and explains why the faster you travel, the slimmer you get.

Tom Trueheart's brothers are employed by the 'Story Bureau' to lead in a number of thrilling tales, but this time none of the stories have been finished and the Trueheart brothers have not returned home. Now Tom must set off to find them.

After 20 years as a parish priest, Simon Parke had had enough, but the only place he could find a job was on a supermarket shopfloor. From this unpromising and potentially gloomy starting point, Parke manages to craft a book that is full of insight, humour, wisdom, and poignancy. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

This beginner's guide to cricket is a love letter addressed both to those who utterly fail to understand it and to those who need reminding why they fell in love in the first place. What unfolds is wonderfully observed, very funny and as much about fathers and daughters, and love and life, as it is about cricket.

Having moved to the Somerset countryside from Bath after his Jaguar dealership has crashed making him bankrupt, Jim Palmer is reduced to working in a men’s outfitters in Wells. His wife, Margaret, tries her best but seven year old Sarah doesn’t like her new school and Billy, eleven, is picked on by the local bully.

Tim Frazer's ex-business partner Harry Denston has gone missing. That's not all - he owes money and there are several people desperate to track him down. Frazer's pursuit involves cars and boats and various characters, but he manages to survive while others around him perish.