The year is 1847 and the Irish potato crop has failed for the third year in succession. ‘Irish Jack’ Spellman a highly successful ganger on the vital West Coast railway line from the South of England to Scotland has decided he must go home to Cou...
The criminals in a northern English city are asking for it. A feeble law enforcement establishment is being run ragged. The family of a hospital pathologist, Jack Preston, is killed by a drunken criminal driving the wrong way up a motorway exit. The ...
Peter Scattergood now faces his ultimate test. he has been trained in survival skills and proper conduct by the eidolon, an immaterial being which is not a ghost or a spirit. His task is now revealed to him. He must travel back in time to the grim, w...
Peter Scattergood is a boy with serious problems and that was before he met the EIDOLON, a mysterious being who insists he is an entirely natural phenomenon like the trees and the hills. He claims not be involved with magic but knows how to manipulat...
Peter Scattergood is the kind of boy that everyone knows is going wrong, very wrong. He hasn't met anyone that he can't defy and insult or any rule that he can't ignore. Then he causes a nasty accident and seeking to escape hides in a deserted cellar...
Local author Frank Lean whose ‘Dave Cunane’ private eye novels set in Manchester and the North West were optioned for TV by Ian McShane has released an eighth book in the series as an e-book. The previous seven were published by Random House and ...
After 1945 the world was dominated by the USA in the west and the USSR in the East. The European powers were eclipsed. All this was decided on the outcome of a single battle: the Battle of France starting on 10th May, 1940. This alternative history c...
QUESTION Where are the Picts? Where are the 'missing' Anglo-Saxon kingdoms? Where are the ancient monasteries which represented the start of a new civilisation in Britain after the fall of Rome? ANSWER Those peoples, kingdoms and institutions of lear...
When student Meg Hands is found drowned in a Manchester canal, the authorities are only too anxious to classify her death as yet another sad result of alcoholic overindulgence. Her mother, Ruth, an internationally celebrated charity worker, is not so...