Remember the Fifth of November, the story you were told was just that. Robert Cecil was a master manipulator and master storyteller. He could not have succeeded if it had not been for the help of his consummate companion, Markham. This is the real story of the plot hatched by Cecil to ingratiate himself with King James.

A fascinating collection of people arrive in Uganda for the coronation of the Kabaka. They have adventures in Lake Victoria and the islands there, they go on safari but they are no match for Africa. An amusing account of people forced into cynicism and facetiousness by the weather, the people and the mosquitoes.

Mark O'Donaghue works for his former partner's wife. No problem there, but with an attractive boss in a prime location, what started as a private investigation firm, soon begins to resemble the centre for London's espionage.

A fast paced thriller pits Finn McHugh against Didier Pourchaire, the most violent and sadistic villain and smuggler. Using Carrom board cases to hide drugs and smuggle stolen art, he leaves a trail of bodies. He has to be stopped. Morac Carom is a thriller introducing Finn McHugh and his glamorous and sexy team as they try to track down an art smuggler and drug dealer who has fatally dispatched others who have stood in his way. Through Helsinki, London, Paris, Prague and St Petersburg, the team chase Didier, racing to reach him before three gorgeous Cubans who are intent on revenge. Finn's...

An updated version of Plato's Symposium where the comedy is provided by a parody of modern man and Severine and her friends discuss the many facets of love.

Preparations for a coronation lead to a family visiting Uganda. The family, travelling to Africa as a group for the first time, know that adventures and disasters await. It is not what life throws at you but how you deal with it that counts. This is a humorous and warm account of a family's frustration and bewilderment. From being stranded in Lake Victoria with no fuel to being buffeted in a tropical storm near Murchinson Falls, the Bruton family embraced adversity with humour and tenacity. This book is probably the funniest account of travels abroad that you will ever read. With laughter...

Haunted by sinister and brutal nightmares, Joe Ederer, an American in London, recalls his voracious sexual past. Reality starts to mirror his dreams and Joe is thrust into a twilight existence where only the fittest will survive. This is a graphic and tasteful, erotic thriller, which follows Joe's thoughts and deeds in excruciating detail. For readers who will appreciate an enjoyable bagatelle that twists and turns as 'Jive-talking Joe' fights for survival. Dark, sinister, graphic and grown up, this is not for the faint-hearted.

Cecil was a consummate plotter who undermined enemies and helped his supporters, he himself wrote: "I spend my time in sowing so much seed as my poor wretched fingers can scatter, in such a season as may bring forth a plentiful harvest. This was written just a fortnight before the discovery of poor Guy Fawkes. What does it mean? It is ambiguous, which is probably what Cecil wanted.I think it is a coded message proclaiming that nothing could stop his plot from succeeding except if those in his service, in the Midlands bungled their part; that is failed to kill all the Catholics hiding in the...

Waterwitch was once a a 'Thirty-Square-Metre' racing yacht built in 1937 by Uffa Fox to a design by Knud Reimers. Two brothers are determined to sail her to Ibiza for the summer despite losing her engine. Fox used his experience in Waterwitch to develop his design for Sea Swallow in 1938. The brothers used the experience to tell stories of horror and daring escapades The boat is recorded in Uffa Fox's 1937 book: 'Racing, Cruising and Design'. 'Thirty-Square-Metre' yachts are featured in Fox's 1938 book: 'Thoughts on Yachts and Yachting'. This is a record of two people taking on the elements...

One boy, one bully, one accident and one act of revenge. Stephen Inglis thought running away would help but that was not the solution. The bullies at his school teased him for sleeping with a teddy bear. Stephen was not at all sporty, at a prep school where sport was a key popularity; he had joined a whole term late and he had found it hard to make friends, he missed his family. He was nine and his father had said he would be fine. That was not what Stephen felt, he felt like an outsider, a stranger without a friend. Stephen had an opportunity to get revenge on one of his tormentors. He had...