All Books

Sheldon’s sweeping saga of greed and betrayal, sabotage and danger, and the ties that can kill… roffe and sons is a family firm, an international empire filled with desperate, cash-hungry family members. at its head was one of the wealthiest men in the world, a man who has just died in a mysterious accident and left his only daughter, elizabeth, in control of the company. now as this intelligent, tough, and beautiful young woman dares to save — not sell — roffe and sons, she will have to outwit those who secretly want her power, and the unknown assassin who wants her life.

‘an epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world’ the times a young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. many years later she tells her story from a hotel in new york, opening a window into an extraordinary half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation and summoning up a quarter of a century of japan’s dramatic history. ‘intimate and brutal, written in cool, lucid prose it is a novel whose psychological empathy and historical truths are outstanding’ mail on sunday

The sunday times top ten bestseller she will change your life forever…

If you think your family relationships are complicated, think again: you haven’t seen anything like the ones in bon temps, louisiana. sookie stackhouse is dealing with a whole host of family problems, ranging from her own kin (a non-human fairy and a telepathic second cousin) demanding a place in her life, to her lover eric’s vampire sire, an ancient being, who arrives with eric’s ‘brother’ in tow at a most inopportune moment. and sookie’s tracking down a distant relation of her ailing neighbour (and ex), vampire bill compton. in addition to the multitude of family issues complicating her life, the werewolf pack of shreveport has asked sookie for a special favour, and since sookie is an obliging young woman, she agrees. but this favour for the wolves has dire results for sookie, who is still recovering from the trauma of her abduction during the fairy war.

A lethal new drug with devastating side effects, known as meltdown, is threatening to destabilize society. dudley knows that the security services have to act fast, and when his 4 x 4 arrives at their remote hideout in the canadian lakes, eighteen-year-old danny and his grandfather, ex-sas hero fergus watts, are once again sucked into a deadly undercover operation and a race against time. their search for the mastermind behind a pair of murderous gangland twins takes them from the clubs of manchester to spain and germany, and danny needs all his newly learned expertise when he comes up against an old adversary – someone he hoped never to encounter again. and this time, when the battle is joined, it is a battle to the end.

Fantasy-roman.