Quick Reads

Toddington FC defender Tom Horrocks is never happier than when he's on the football pitch, but when it comes to love, he's hiding a big secret. Worried about his young daughter and sick father - and with his team finally in the Premier League - he avoids all media.

Journalist Cosmo Roberts wants to change the world, so is angry when he's sent to a quiet northern town to cover a sport he sees as anti-gay. Then something about Tom catches his eye.

Cosmo hates football. Tom hates journalists. Perhaps this time they've both met their match.

India, 1919. A man is found dead. A note has been left in the dead man's mouth. It warns the English to leave India. If they don't, more blood will be spilled.

Two police officers, Captain Wyndham and Sergeant Banerjee must solve the crime quickly. But there are some people who will do anything to stop them.

Martin Watts, a bookseller, is captured by Royalists. Jane Afton's brother Nat is taken too. They suffer inhumane treatment as prisoners-of-war. In Oxford Castle jailor William Smith tortures, beats, starves and deprives his helpless victims. Can Jane rescue her sick brother before he dies of neglect? Will Martin dare to escape? Quick Reads.

Danny Wallace heard about a manhole cover, on a small street, in a small town, tucked away in a remote part of Idaho. The manhole cover had been declared the Centre of the Universe. And the name of the town? Wallace. It was a cosmic coincidence Danny couldn't resist... Quick Reads.

Caroline Luard is shot dead in broad daylight in the grounds of a large country estate. With few clues available, her husband soon becomes the suspect ... But is he guilty? Quick Reads.

Colin Burrows, recently sent to prison for burglary, knows that his four year sentence means that he will miss the birth of his first child. His cell-mate Barry hatches a plan to get Colin out of jail for the birth. It's a plan so crazy that either it will fail and get both men in deeper trouble, or it might just work. Quick Reads.

Gavin is an excellent writer; but he can never seem to come up with a credible plot. On meeting Natasha at a creative writing group he thinks he has met his soulmate. She is attractive and her plots are amazing. Combining their skills, their stories become internet sensations. But when tragedy strikes, will the stories survive?

It's a hot summer afternoon. Tension is in the air. A gang of youths on bikes gathers outside a chip shop. A teenage boy is stabbed and left bleeding on the street. The boy's motherwonders how this could have happened to her son. She is full of questions, but when the answers lie so close to home, are they really what she wants to hear?

When two women meet in a beauty salon, they soon find they have more in common than the colour of their nails. The discovery that they are sharing the same man is shocking. How can he be taught a lesson, or two, he won't forget?