Peter Kenny

It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they’re not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship. Soon Allan and Julius are at the centre of a complex diplomatic crisis involving world figures from the Swedish foreign minister to Angela Merkel and President Trump. Things are about to get very complicated…

Set in the 1730s and 1740s, the narrative follows the life of the main protagonist and narrator, Roderick “Rory” Random, from childhood to adulthood as Roderick journeys through England, France, the Caribbean, Africa, and Latin America. It is partially based on Smollett's experience as a naval-surgeon’s mate in the Royal Navy, especially during the Battle of Cartagena de Indias in 1741.

One evening, Patrick discovers a polar bear - in his parents' freezer! How did Monty - official name, Wilbur Ambrose Cedric Barnaby Montague the Third - get there? He talks like he might have swallowed a dictionary as well as a library, he has read more books than Patrick knew existed... and his stomach is always rumbling. ALWAYS. But how on earth is Patrick going to feed him on pocket money that doesn't stretch much further than a few tins of sardines?

Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began. Nothing ever changes. Until now. As Harry nears the end of his eleventh life, a little girl appears at his bedside. 'I nearly missed you, Doctor August,' she says. 'I need to send a message.' This is the story of what Harry does next, and what he did before, and how he tries to save a past he cannot change and a future he cannot allow.

Lieutenant Commander Vyr Cossont is suspected of involvement after the Regimental High Command is destroyed, as they prepared to go to a new level of existence called Sublime. Now she must find a nine-thousand-year-old man to clear her name.

It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war. It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, 800 years later, the light from the first of those ancient mistakes has reached the Culture Orbital, Masaq. The light from the second may not.

When little spider Milton discovers he's been branded deadly on social media - and is targeted by pest-killers BugKILL - he fears for his life and the future of his species. He must clear his name, but is he mighty enough to achieve the impossible: convincing humankind?

Journalist Joe Oakes makes a living exposing supernatural hoaxes. But what he sees when he visits a secretive religious community on a remote Scottish island forces him to question everything he thought he knew. Why have the islanders been accused of Satanism? What has happened to their leader? And why will no one discuss the strange creature seen wandering the lonely beaches of Pig Island? Author, Mo Hayder, dares you to face your fears head on and to look at what lurks beneath the surface of everyday normality and the unspeakable things people do to each other.

Christmas in Barcelona, 1957. Daniel and Bea now have a son, Julian, and are living with Daniel's father at Sempere & Sons. Daniel is alone in the shop one morning when a mysterious figure with a pronounced limp enters. This visit leads back to a story of imprisonment, betrayal and the return of a deadly rival ... Volume 3 of 'The Cemetery of Forgotten Books'.

The Wopuld family have built their fortune around a board game called ‘Empire’. Now it has been computer generated an American corporation are keen to buy them out. Alban is suspicious of the yanks and has other things on his mind.

Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After five years in exile his presence is required at the funeral of patriarch Joe Murston. The last time Stu saw the Murstons he was running for his life, so staying away might be even more dangerous than turning up.

Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence. The drone Skaffen-Amtiskaw had once saved the woman's life and believed the man to be a lost cause. But not even its machine could see the horrors in his past.

A mysterious toymaker lives as a recluse in an old mansion, surrounded by the magical beings he has created. But when 14-year-old Irene's mother takes a job as a housekeeper for the toymaker, Lazarus, they find that his house contains more secrets than they have bargained for.

Prentice McHoan has returned to the bosom of his complex but enduring Scottish family. Full of questions about the McHoan past, present and future, he is also deeply preoccupied: mainly with death, sex, drink, God and illegal substances...