Fiction : Dramatic Fiction

Fifteen-year-old Meely LaBauve is growing up on Catahoula Bayou and living by his wits. His father is an alligator hunter, still unable to cope with the death of his wife eight years earlier. He finds comfort in bottles of hooch and with companionable women and disappears for days at a time. more...

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Compton Castle is a Victorian psychiatric hospital long overdue for demolition. Originally designed as a sanctuary for the mentally ill, it now provides a stalking ground for a serial killer. Sergeant Trevor Joseph is a temporary inmate, but the hospital loses all therapeutic benefit when a corpse is dug out of a flowerbed. more...

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On a rugged patch of Irish coast we meet Agatha and her daughter, Clodagh, who is determined to secure both her mother's love and the truth about her. Swept up into a relationship with a handsome, isolated man, Clodagh will confront two questions: 'Does a truth change love?' and 'What madness will come from chasing a secret?' more...

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"Hip deep in music, Never Mind Nirvana is a telling inside view that perfectly captures the rhythms and sights of late-nineties Seattle." — Peter Buck, guitarist of R.E.M. Pete Tyler is at a crossroads. Eight years ago he dropped out of a seminal Seattle grunge band to try his hand at a more grown-up calling. more...

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Claire's looking forward to getting back to St Ag's for the new term. Working in Accident and Emergency sounds so exciting - and of course, Jan will be back too. She can't wait to be with him again... But somehow the term doesn't work out quite as she'd planned. It's tough on the ward - and so easy to make mistakes. Jan seems cold and distant... and then there's her dashing cousin Patrick. He seems keen to pay her lots of attention - but what exactly is he up to? It's only a few months since Jan was among the tanks and soldiers in his country's civil war, so training as a nurse in England ought to be a soft option. If only he could leave behind those terrible memories... But the memories keep coming back. And when he's given a new placement in the Mental Health department, Jan knows this term won't be easy. How can he help the mental health patients when he's finding it so difficult to keep himself together? more...

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