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Despite his relatively young age, John McDaid, a young Gardai officer, has risen to the rank of Detective Inspector in the serious crimes squad based in Dublin. Then he is asked to lead in what again appears to be nothing but a simple and routine enquiry, that of a runaway teenager, albeit the son of the US Ambassador.

Begins with the auctions of Babylon and ancient Rome and goes on to describe the slave auctions of the 17th and 18th centuries, then on to the rise of the giant auction houses. This second edition takes the story from there to the decades that have followed, including the emergence of China, Japan and Russia and their influence.

The London Gay Teenage Group was a unique and ground-breaking youth group. It emerged in the heady days of the late 1970s and achieved registration as an official youth club catering mainly for gay and lesbian young people, at a time when gay male sex was still totally illegal for anyone aged under 21.

White Scar is the story of 14-year-old twins, Ralph and Alba Milway who find themselves battling with dark forces to secure a wand and the safety of the world. It is a coming-of-age novel as the twins forge their place in an uncertain world.

It's 1970, and Lucy is lonely. Stuck in a boring job, at 23 she's never had a boyfriend and is beginning to despair of ever finding the husband she so yearns for. A story about love, life, relationships and forging your own path in a society that's so set in its ways.

Ollie & Ada cross paths in a bereavement support class. There's an instant attraction but both are lost broken souls who need to find the road to recovery.

Back Stories is a collection of more than thirty, highly personal traveller's tales, embracing adventure, comedy, disaster, romance, stupidity and a miscellany of mishaps, spanning more than five decades on the road.

10 years ago, Ches was left on a Cheltenham doorstep in a plastic bag, with a letter from his birth mother. The letter is his to read tomorrow, on his birthday. Ches panics, not ready to face his fears, and runs away from his unusual but fiercely loving adoptive family.

Longhorne lived alone and understood that he would die alone. Only behind the walls of his isolation could he attain the order and calm he required; find the peace that made his existence bearable. Insulated also from his feelings and memories, he hoped for nothing, demanded nothing, expected nothing. Until his thirty-first birthday...

Anna Ogilvie lives in a Scottish castle surrounded by a deep forest. She's just celebrated her 10th birthday - a birthday like no other for she is visited by a live piece of tree bark whose name is Lyric. He says he is her Sixth Sense. How could this be?

Follows a dragon family's journey through loss and grief following the death of the youngest sibling, Little Dragon. Covering life before Little Dragon dies, his death, and then the period of time after his death, the book supports children preparing for or coping with the death of a sibling, including those with rare or undiagnosed conditions.

Everything that is going to happen already has. During a disruption in the timeline of a sleepy Lake District village, the erratic and strung-out artist Haruki Kensagi cannot help but feel that he's been here before, either in his past or in his future.

When the body of Timothy Wall, a Private Detective, is found in his office, the querulous Inspector Carmichael discovers some surprising revelations and curious contradictions about the dead man. Loved by many and seemingly despised by others in equal measure, Timothy Wall's whole world seems to be strewn with paradoxes.

Charting Derfal's illustrious career, leading to his appointment as a squadron commander as a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps (RFC), this tale traces the growth of a young boy into a man against the background of the First World War. Alongside the action is a tender love story between Derfal and the Stationmaster's daughter, Ruby.

Emily, a down-on-her-luck intern, is recruited by the State Department to solve the Palestinian problem. Only this time they want it handled as a divorce settlement. To pull off the most acrimonious divorce of all time, she must let go of the family trauma that has tainted her whole life... but what if it won't stay in the past?

Set in the Indonesian rainforest, Blind Eye is a fast-paced political environmental thriller exploring moral predicaments and personal choices.

Sarah Braintree is the best Chief of Police that Jersey has ever had, but someone starts killing people. Cryptic notes left on the victims' pique Sarah's interest, and she breaks all protocols by deciding to lead the investigation herself. Will Sarah ever catch this killer and find out why they are doing it?

Summer of 1938 and Veronica and her fascist boyfriend Billy attend a pro-German event. Amid the evening's glamour and fervour, Veronica meets Sir Oswald Mosley and Diana Mitford, who invite her on a trip to Berlin. All over Europe, evil triumphs as good men do nothing, but for Veronica, doing nothing is no longer an option...

In the blink of an eye, Rachel Vincent can be anywhere. It's easy for her because she's dead. But what she can't do is join the others in the warmly lit room beyond the glass and be at peace, until she remembers what happened to her on the day she died. Who killed her, and why?

This novel revolves around Thomas (an English fisherman), his flatmate Roderigo and a mysterious woman, Mariella. Thomas and Roderigo both fall under Mariella's spell, but as their relationships strengthen, friendships are destroyed, falsehoods are told, and dark pasts are revealed.

Daughter of newspaper baron Michael Berry, later Lord Hartwell, Eleanor was born into a life of privilege, but joined the Communist Party, going to Moscow alone at the age of 17, against her parents' wishes. She taught herself fluent Russian, and later befriended rival newspaper proprietor, Robert Maxwell, and became privy to his household.

A dead body is discovered at the Cape by a local volunteer coastguard Watchkeeper who decides in a spirit of Cornish self-reliance to pursue his own investigation of the affair, which is baffling the local police. With the Cornish police now closing in on the investigation, can the couple escape before the conspiracy can take effect?

BOND is a charming, if somewhat self-obsessed, horse who describes his and HIS HUMAN'S journey, charting the highs and lows of equine and human life with humour throughout.

Whether it is the resuscitated corpse that visits a hotel gust in The House of the Dead or the maleficent returning warlock cocooning a tomb robber in Mad Allen, Bell knows that what we fear most is the sensation of being afraid and that it is the reader's imagination which conjures up the true phantoms of terror.

This is my story of first love, but it is told through the eyes of two fictional characters, Freddie and Jo-Jo. My life, like Freddie's, was fractured by my dad's death when I was seven years of age. As a teenager, at the end of the 1970s, I had a first love relationship that I dreamed would last a lifetime.

Ed & Lily have a problem. It's the day before Christmas Eve and the relationship everyone believed was rock solid is in trouble. It's not just the past getting in the way, it's the present too. A story about love, loss and chasing your dreams.

Too Small for Physiotherapy is a frank and, at times, humorous account of Grace Dorey's childhood, which was overshadowed by a very controlling mother and a wonderfully laid-back father, whom she adored. This book is the prequel to Rubbed Up the Wrong Way: A Physiotherapist's Story.

After experiencing a passionate summer of love, two young people part after making a Covenant which haunts them for a lifetime until they are drawn back to where it began. Idealism battles pragmatism in an era of political and historical turmoil including some of the greatest tragedies and scandals to rock the late 20th and early 21st Centuries.

Jack Gillcrest is a skilful painter who succumbs to the dangerous attractions of art forgery, descending through increasingly challenging fakes to an active role in the art heist of the century.