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Sussex Tales
Winner of the Winchester Conference Slim Volume prize. Jan Edwards' prize-winning Sussex Tales runs a witty and thought-provoking gamut of village events and of its more curious characters. From fanged ferrets to bulls in lead masks; ancient hand grenades to exploding ginger beer; cricketing dogs to wassailing orchards, Sussex Tales weaves traditional country wines and recipes, folklore and local dialect, into stories of a farming childhood in the vanished world of 1950's and 60's rural life. "Superbly crafted ... creating sub-plots as it unfolds with purpose and fluidity... Whether you're from Sussex or not this is an appealing and often amusing collection of tales from a bygone age. I defy you not to like them." - Barry Lillie
The Larks
The Larks paints a sharply detailed in-the-cockpit picture of war's demands on an ordinary lad from north Birmingham. Painstakingly researched, this remarkable novel brings three-dimensional detail to the lives of everyday people set in barely imaginative circumstance - the First World War.
The First Book of Gabriel
Some very kind people (although they may be in serious need of psychiatric help) have described The First Book of Gabriel as being effortlessly funny. So then, how best to describe Gabriel? Explaining it to his mother the author struggled to find the right words and eventually resorted to the catch-all phrase: 'it's satire'. And with characters named Gabriel, Michael, Peter, Jershemal, Samael and a Beelzebub, she offered him the use of her Bible. For research. But no, Gabriel does not satirise religion at all. There are far better targets than that! It sends up, amongst other things (and in no particular order): the EU, regulations, bureaucracy, architects, engineers, builders, management co...
In Her Defence
Bunch Courtney's hopes for a quiet market-day lunch with her sister are shattered when a Dutch refugee dies a horribly painful death before their eyes. A few days later Bunch receives a letter from her old friend Cecile saying that her father, Professor Benoir, has been murdered in an eerily similar fashion. Two deaths by poisoning in a single week. Co-incidence? Bunch does not believe that any more than Chief Inspector William Wright. Set against a backdrop of escalating war and the massed internments of 1940, the pair are drawn together in a race to prevent the murderer from striking again.
The Hanging Tree: The Adventures of Letty Parker
Jebediah Hill is innocent. He has secrets he refuses to reveal, even though he knows he will pay a terrible price. Letty Parker sets out on a race to save Jeb from The Hanging Tree.
It Never Was Worthwhile
The Great War saw slaughter on an industrial scale. Millions died, countless more had their lives irrevocably blighted by injury, by mental destruction or by the loss of livelihood. Yet precious little was resolved by the greatest conflict the world had yet seen; perhaps its only measurable effect was to make inevitable the still greater atrocity that followed little more than twenty years later. This collection of stories by Jem Shaw (The Larks) and Malcolm Havard (Contrail, The Last Mountain and The First Book of Gabriel) looks at the war through the eyes of the ordinary people who lived through it, people with previously mundane, safe lives; bakers, draughtsmen and well brought-up young ladies fresh from finishing school, who each try to adjust to the inconceivable. By turns tragic, funny and occasionally unbelievable, it will make you re-think your view of World War 1.
Shadows on the Grass
Every family has its secrets. In the nineteen-sixties Bristol, seventeen-year-old Kate is torn between the new sexual freedom and her rigid Catholic upbringing. Her parents have high expectations of her. She, however, is determined to lead her own life. Mimi, her grandmother, is dying. In her final hours, Mimi's cousin, the Princess, keeps watch at her bedside. Born in the same month, in the same year, the two women are bound by their past and a terrible betrayal. Meanwhile, caught between the generations, Mimi's daughter Hannah struggles to come to come to terms with her relationship with her mother, and struggles to keep the peace between her daughter and her husband. She too must find her own way in a land foreign to her, in a new post-war world, where the old certainties have gone and everything she knows has been swept away.
Winter Downs
Bunch Courtney stumbles upon a body in a woodland clearing. Is this a case of suicide, or is it murder? Bunch is determined to discover the truth. In January 1940, a small rural community on the Sussex Downs finds itself deep in the grip of a snowy landscape with an ice-cold killer on the loose.
Bridge of Lies
Letty Parker & Associates Detective Agency is in business. Meanwhile, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's famous suspension bridge is blown up. Letty decides to investigate but getting hired is not easy when the Dark Ones have their own plans for her. Nothing goes right from the very start and one by one Letty's friends desert her.
