Nine year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a hous

A compelling quick read from the author of the international bestseller The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. At the start of his school holidays, Danny Delaney is looking forward to a trouble-free summer. But when his mother returns home one afternoon, flanked by two policemen, he knows that something terrible has happened. Mrs. Delaney has accidentally hit a small boy with her car. The boy is in a coma at the local hospital and nobody knows if he will ever wake up. Consumed by guilt, Danny's mother closes herself off, while Danny and his father are left to pick up the pieces of their fractured...

A story of innocence existing within the most terrible evil, this is the fictional tale of two young boys caught up in events beyond their control.

Pickpocket John Jacob Turnstile is on his way to be detained at His Majesty's Pleasure when he is offered a lifeline, what seems like a freedom of sorts - the job of personal valet to a departing naval captain. Little does he realise that it is anything but and by accepting the devil's bargain he will put his life in perilous danger.

September 1919: Twenty-years-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a clutch of letters to Marian Bancroft. The letters, however, are not the real reason for Tristan's visit. He holds a secret deep within him.

Russia 1915. Aged 16, Georgy Jachmenev steps in front of an assassin's bullet intended for a senior member of the Russian Imperial family. He is proclaimed a hero and soon becomes bodyguard to Tsar Nicholas II's son. 65 years later, visiting his dying wife in hospital, memories of the life they had together flood his mind.

William Cody is told stories about the legendary Buffalo Bill - his father's grandfather. William leaves for Japan in his 20s, but is summoned back to England by his father, who has a grand plan to re-introduce the legendary stage shows of Buffalo Bill.

It is 1936, and London is abuzz wth gossip about the affair between Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson. Meanwhile charismatic aristocrat Owen Montignac, heir to the vast Montignac fortune, is awaiting the reading of his Uncle Peter's will. For Owen has run up huge gambling debts and Peter's death has come not a moment too soon.

After the remains of music hall singer Cora Crippen are found buried in a cellar, her husband, Dr Hawley Crippen, and his mistress, Ethel Le Neve, disappear. Scotland Yard has soon launched a full scale hunt to find them.

Tells the story of a nine-year-old boy called Bruno. And sooner or later the reader arrives with Bruno at a 'fence', which is not meant to be crossed.