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With a brutal hand, up-and-coming gangster Gordon Cutter and his associates are making a good living doing bad things. Cutter has big ambitions to expand his firm's operations in the north-east of England, and heaven help anyone who gets in his way. The Armstrong family's lives collide with Cutter's illicit dealings when he sets his sights on young Livvy. Flattered by the attention of this charming and successful older man, she doesn't see what seems clear only to her brother Jack - that Gordon Cutter is a very bad man indeed. With Cutter prepared to go to any lengths necessary to build and...

All Johnny Burns ever wanted was to be in a band. When he and his best friend Tom Watson founded Heartbreaker, they realised their wildest dreams a hundred times over. If the Sixties was a naive and charming flower child, then the Seventies was her big, bad older brother; darker, more worldly, less giving ... and the Eighties was his garishly-painted and promiscuous girlfriend. It's no wonder against such a backdrop that things could become confused - and that dreams could turn to heartbreak. When Alex Weston is hired to ghostwrite a book about the life of Johnny Burns and his band - from...

What if you only had as many days left to live as there are letters in your name?

What if an invisible hand shaped your destiny?

What if your night terrors were real?

These and other questions are posed in The Writing on the Wall, a collection of what might loosely be described as 'weird fiction' strange happenings, dangerous artefacts, curses, cannibals, and witches. The stories tell of a world where no one is quite who you think they are and nothing is quite what it seems.

The collection comprises six short stories - including the prize-winning 'The Black Dog', a ghost story...

A stolen child. A family devastated by loss. A man of God. When 12-year-old Tina Snowdon and her little sister Annie gratefully accept a lift from a helpful stranger, she has no way of knowing that only one of them will make it home. As days turn into weeks with no news of Annie, Tina must face her mother's anger; she would do anything to turn back the clock. As her life is torn apart by pain and recrimination, the only evidence the police have points to George Cotter, a respected pillar of the local church. But as the investigation continues, it seems that perhaps a deeper and more...