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It's Halloween, and against their parents' advice, three teenage friends decide to hold a séance. At first, it seems the dead don't want to talk, but slowly, shadows of the past start to emerge. The contact begins - a Roman legionnaire, a Polish boy, and a famous cellist all come through with messages. As the teenagers concentrate on the process, keyed up with excitement, exhilaration, and fear, aspects of the three teenagers' personalities start to appear.

Following the death of his wife, Paul moves with his young daughter Hope to the Peak District. When he finds a menu card from a past family holiday to the Caribbean he is immediately haunted by visions of a young girl. As memories are stirred, Paul discovers that the menu from the cruise ship Oriana is covered in personal messages from the ghosts of his childhood...and one particular address catches his eye.

Postcards from Pimlico is a novel about belonging, loyalty, and the fragility of friendship.

Marc Madison is a loveable rogue, with a flawed addictive personality but no one ever got sacked for smoking a little too much weed or nursing the hangover from hell. He is, unbeknown to others, also one of the Mets best undercover cops and his current assignment is to bring down the drug Kingpin of south London. With the help of bad boy dealer Christian, Marc has successfully infiltrated a local maintenance firm and is getting ever closer to the Duke Of York, the head of the OCG.

The Award winning short story 'The Cellist ' follows the story of a young musical protege Adolphina, as she attempts to evade the the clutches of the Gestapo in war torn Paris. Is she part of the resistance? Can she trust her mentor, lover and confidante Claudia? What dark family secrets has her Uncle kept from her?