Series

A Dover Mystery

Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is the most idle and avaricious hero in all of crime fiction. Why should he even be bothered to solve the case? Despite – or because of – all his faults, Inspector Dover remains one of the most memorable detectives in print.

The Wentworth Papers

A comic study in blinkered English manners, the Wentworth Papers will delight fans of P.G. Wodehouse or Grossmiths' Mr Pooter. First introduced to readers in the pages of Punch magazine, it was later dramatized for both BBC Radio and ITV drama.

A Cherry PI Mystery

Brentwood, Essex, is no ordinary town: it's the home of Britain's most famous - or infamous - reality TV stars. In The Cherry PI Mysteries, Cherry Hinton uncovers (often literally) the truth about all sorts of seedy TV goings-on. It's Miss Marple meets TOWIE, a mystery as compulsive as Love Island, with a hilarious sleuth you won’t be able to forget.

Classic Canning

Victor Canning had a runaway success at a young age with his first book, Mr Finchley Discovers His England, and lost no time in writing more. Prior to the Second World War, he wrote half a dozen life-affirming novels, including two further Mr Finchley adventures, each of which retains a timeless appeal today.

The Darkwood Series

Magic is forbidden in Myrsina, along with various other abominations, such as girls doing maths. This is bad news for Gretel Mudd, who doesn’t perform magic, but does know a lot of maths. When the sinister masked Huntsmen accuse Gretel of witchcraft, she is forced to flee into the neighbouring Darkwood, where witches and monsters dwell.

The Batch Magna Chronicles

Welcome to Batch Magna, a village in the borderlands of the Welsh Marches, in a river valley lost among its ancient wooded hillsides and twisting high-banked lanes on a road to nowhere in particular, and in no particular hurry to get there. Peopled with eccentric characters, Peter Maughan’s Batch Magna is a unforgettable place where seemingly almost anything is possible…

The Stockwell Park Orchestra Series

Meet the Stockwell Park Orchestra: when they're not rehearsing for their next concert, they grapple with complex issues such as a priceless stolen cello, how to sweet-talk a disgruntled donor, and who ate all the Rich Tea biscuits. Join them for their next performance!  

Seasons by the Sea

Travel to the wild and windswept Dorset coast with these captivating humorous tales of romance from award-winning author Jane Lovering.

A Mathematical Mystery

Welcome to a murky and unpredictable world of murder, mystery and complex equations, involving internet conspiracy theorists, hedge fund managers, the Belarusian mafia, one very disaster-prone disgraced PR executive and a cat called µ.

Battlestar Suburbia

When Darren Stubbs accidentally short-circuited a robot with his signet ring he expected to go to prison. He never expected a chance encounter with a talking lamppost and a backstreet technician called Kelly to topple machine rule and bring the Internet back into the real world. Welcome to Battlestar Suburbia, a uniquely subversive science fiction series that will delight fans of Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and Jasper Fforde.