Fiction - English

The seventh scroll is nearly 4000 years old. Within it lie the clues to a fabulous treasure from an almost forgotten time. Duraid Al Simmu and his wife, Royan, discovered the scroll and made research notes on it. But Duraid is murdered, and Royan has to flee to England to seek refuge.

Its 1952. Bitterly divided by the struggles of their native land, the Courtney family empire has come to dominate the lives of all South Africans, white and black alike. But revolution is in the air and Shasa Courtney finds he must choose between his ideals and the quest for power.

Across four generations and two world wars, the epci novel of a powerful and ambitious Italian-American family whose lives and fortunes are cught up in the monumental events of the century.

A novel about the world of movie-making recounts the struggle of maverick director Steve Wayland to create a complex film, with the help of three people whose own dreams have been shattered.

Under crystaline skies, in the pale winter beauty of Arrowhead country in Minnesota, Harvey and Paul Perry set out on a cross-country skiing expidition. Harvey “The Bull” is jubilant, boisterous; his brother Paul struggles to keep pace behind.
But adventure turns to nightmare when a blizzard strikes. Forced into dependence on each other, the two men are pitted against the deadly malice of a frozen wilderness and must prove their courage, honour and love if they are to survive their ordeal…

Amy Parry is bereft of her best friend who died in childbirth, unable to marry Val Gwyn who is seriously ill with TB, and determined not to choose poverty and struggle with her former lover Pen Lewis. So she marries John Cilydd More, but her peace is soon shattered by strikes and then Pen returns.

In the autumn of 1993, American special forces were dispatched to the famine-stricken land of Somalia. Their intervention in this war-torn country was the most dramatic US military action since Vietnam. A route mission went horribly wrong when Michael Durant’s Black Hawk helicopter was shot down over Mogadishu and he was quickly surrounded by Somali troops and taken captive. The brutal torture he underwent was made all too clear to the world when his coerced statements were broadcast on live television and his battered face appeared on the cover of magazines around the globe.

The sequel to “Presumed Innocent”, in which the same main character appears. Alejandro “Sandy” Stern, the most celebrated defence lawyer in the Mid-western city where he lives, comes home from a business trip to find that Clara, his wife of 30 years, has committed suicide.

Follows six Harvard Medical School students from the crucible of Harvard Med’s training, through demanding internships and residencies, to the loves, triumphs, testings–and for some, tragedies–that confront them as doctors.

By the author of the bestselling Deliverance, this spellbinding novel of survival confirmed the late James Dickey as the successor to Ernest Hemingway John Updike described legendary Southern poet and novelist James Dickey as ‘the high-flyer of American poets’. This was literally true: he flew over 100 missions in WWII, developing his reputation as a tough-guy, and his dark poetic insights into the human instinct to survive. Of his three novels, To the White Sea is the truest to his experience. An American airforce gunner is blasted from the sky over Tokyo in the 1945 firestorms which seem end civilization. And he is glad of it. Left with only his army survival kit, his own knife and his upbringing as a hunter in the lower Arctic, the airman makes his way through the burning city under cover of chaos, and across the alien country to the northern snows, where he can live alone, on his instincts. This is a haunting and starkly beautiful book of fire and ice, blood and snow, stripping back layers of humanity to reveal man as both hunter and hunted, an unequivocal part of nature.