Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Rick Drummond is a music lover without ...
A gripping thriller from a former policeman - The Blue Knights are ‘Black & Decker’, aka Steve Decker and Dave Black: 'the blunt instrument of modern day policing'. White Cross is the rough Yorkshire estate where they are set upon by a pave...
A dark and gritty Yorkshire-set thriller from a former policeman Vince McNulty was thrown out of the Leeds Vice Squad for attacking a suspect in a child abuse case. Unable to adjust to life outside the force, he whiles away his time visiting ill...
And then the heaven’s opened up and said, “The Adventures of Jesus Christ is fun, hilarious, and unlike any Second Coming tale you’ve ever read before. This story is loaded with foul language and radical thinking that may not be suitable for â€...
English cop Jim Grant is in Boston on a temporary assignment, and his instructions are simple: keep out of trouble. But for Jim Grant, keeping out of trouble is not an option, even if he doesn’t carry a gun. First thing Jim Grant does when he la...
An old fashioned tale of marvelous adventure based around the return of Jesus Christ, which is to be taken with a grain of salt, broken bread and a bottle of wine. Do with it as you wish. The Stranger and Lyle travel to Creationfest to find the right...
Christ’s time to save the world is up. It’s Dooms Day. Or Revelations. Oh, whatever. It’s the end of the world as you know it. There. Will the Stranger be able to fulfill his father’s request before it’s too late?In this last and final book...
Sin City. Alcohol. Debauchery. Fast marriages and Jesus F’n Christ.The Stranger and Lyle travel from Creationfest to Kansas and beyond. Kicking off their adventure in Kansas, Jeremiah, Lyle and the Stranger travel off into the great American west w...
Saving a senator’s daughter from LA’s porn industry is one gig that needs serious discretion . . . but discretion is not Jim Grant’s specialty. Before long, Grant finds himself busting a robbery on live television, spreading his arms wide to sh...
On a personal mission to return an heirloom to the father of his former colleague and lover, Jim Grant isn’t sure what to expect in the dusty flatlands of Texas. He isn’t expecting trouble from the local cowboys ... but trouble is what he gets. ...
Two fantastic shorts show that Jim Grant is a hard man who's not to be messed with. Chasing Tail Jim Grant teams up with San Francisco bounty hunter Julius Posey to deliver some bad news to a retired drug dealer. Sounds easy enough, until a couple m...
Former cop Jim Grant doesn't carry a gun. These terrific shorts will convince you that he's more dangerous without one. Boquillas Crossing Jim Grant rarely goes on vacation because when he does, it usually turns into just another day on the job...
Jim Grant is one of the best cops in Yorkshire, but the tactics that earn him respect from his fellow officers have drawn the scrutiny of the brass. And when a discipline and complaints inspector feels he’s gone too far after a particularly righteo...
Former British cop Jim Grant is back in Boston, now a fully-fledged member of the Boston PD based at Jamaica Plain. Working the nightshift for fellow detective Sam Kincaid should have been an easy job but after saving a kidnapped child from a blazing...
Pacifica, California. Trouble comes in threes. Always has and always will. If Cole Thornton had recognized that he might have avoided much of what was to come. If he'd realised that the car crash was the start of his personal trifecta he could have m...
When Jim Grant's flight home to give evidence about Snake Pass is cancelled he is diverted via Charlotte NC. But missing that flight too he is forced to spend a 3-day layover at a seedy motel on the outskirts of town.All Grant wants is a good night's...
Before Jim Grant became The Resurrection Man he was just a Yorkshire cop with a short fuse... Yorkshire, Los Angeles, Boston, Texas, Mexico and much more. Helping an old lady get her stolen glasses back and dangling the thief over a cliff is just the...
In real movies. When you're dead you're dead. McNulty looked at his producer. You don't make real movies Larry. Larry Unger looked offended. More real than all that sci-fi bullshit. McNulty shook his head. I've seen dead. And it's nothing like the mo...
These aren't actors we're looking for. It's mug shots not auditions. McNulty tried not to sound impatient. It's local extras. Head and shoulders to see what they look like. If you're casting cowboys you don't want to be hiring Indians. The producer w...
In hindsight I think we should have stayed in Boston. Thought you always wanted to be Mr. Hollywood. Larry Unger looked at McNulty. Do you know how much they charge for location services in Los Angeles? Los Angeles, California Titanic Productions has...
I know cops who twisted their ankle took longer off work than you. Being dead for fifteen minutes is still dead. And now I'm alive. You just said so. So what's your point? Sam Kincaid looked at Jim Grant. Here's my point. Getting resurrected takes a ...
You do know this whole cops and donuts things is a fiction, right? Larry Unger gave his technical advisor a sideways glance. Is this where you tell me that John Wayne Syndrome's not about liking westerns? Vince McNulty returned the look. It's not abo...
Mick Habergham enjoys working the nightshift; patrolling the midnight hours when the world is asleep and police work is simple. Sunday night should be quiet but, as his mind wrestles with divorcing Angela, it will prove to be anything but. From the m...
You could well be the worst typist in the Corps. Which is a shame because you could have been one of the best soldiers I ever trained. Sgt Hopkins looked at Pte Grant. Being good at weapons drills and unarmed combat isn't everything. But what you've ...
YOU CAN FIND HOPE IN ALL SORTS OF PLACES BUT REDEMPTION ONLY COMES FROM WITHIN The Christmas flight to Lapland for orphans from Delph Hill Children's Home is an annual event intended to bring good cheer and season's greetings. The subsequen...