Series

The Rooks

The bickering but loving Rook family run a little family business. Ghost hunting. A fresh, fun, supernatural comedy by acclaimed TV scriptwriter and author of the 'Darkwood' series. 

The Company of Fools

This charming series by Batch Magna author Peter Maughan transports the reader to a lost post-war world of touring rep theatre and once-grand people who have fallen on harder times, smoggy streets, and shared bonhomie over a steaming kettle.

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.

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 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!  

The Bandy Papers

Donald Jack’s blackly humorous Bandy Papers are classics of their kind. Opening with Bartholomew Bandy’s life in Canada shortly before leaving for Europe and the First World War, the “memoirs” follow his adventures through the war as a flying ace and into the 20s and 30s, with the last books carrying him into World War Two. When not busy avoiding death, winning medals, or oscillating through ranks like a yo-yo, Bandy spends his time driving his superior officers into apoplectic fits.