Book three of the Sixties Trilogy.It’s the autumn of 1969. Steve has left university to work as a roadie for Epsilon, a moderately successful rock band, which includes Chas and Bud from The Sheriffs. Epsilon is led by Antoine DeMilo, the “enigmatic American organist” (New Musical Express). Hot shot flashy guitarist Mickey and ex-public school boy Julian complete the band.Epsilon have an album out, they’ve been on the John Peel Show. The band tours Scotland, England and Wale...

1966-1969, humorous short stories centred on a British university in the late 60s. Steve Bury is a bass playing English and Drama student at a Northern university. Tales of rock, romance, theatre. It's all here: ghostly events, savage dogs, the Six Days war, theatrical disaster, lots of hitch-hiking, burning cars, meeting great authors.Steve Bury features in Dart Travis's Sixties Trilogy of novels and this is the second volume of Short Stories. The earlier I’ll Tell Everything I Kn...

Graham Donaldson, the testy, irritable and world-famous author of “Intercourse” (it’s an ELT textbook), is off on a tour of Greece, bookended by conferences in Athens and Thessaloniki. The fierce lady who latches onto him on the flight out to Greece is the wife of a very important man. Why is her burly chauffeur following Graham around, watching his every move?By the wonders of coincidence, many of the characters from Foreign Affairs and Home Affairs are in Greece. Malcolm O’Reilly...

Part two of the Sixties Trilogy.It’s the Spring of 1968. Revolution is the air. It’s the time of the Vietnam War demo in Grosvenor Square, riots at the Sorbonne in Paris, students being clubbed and thrown into the River Seine, the assassination of Robert Kennedy and sit-ins at many British universities.We’re at the University of East Yorkshire. Humour comes from the interaction of the various groups: the hard-line political students, the “straight” students and the small bu...

Home Affairs takes place ten years after Foreign Affairs, in 1982. It’s a crisis point for language schools. The Iranian revolution left many with unpaid fees. Argentina has just invaded The Falklands and Britain is not that popular in Latin America.World English Centre (see Foreign Affairs ) is still in business, and Malcolm O’Reilly still runs the place, but Barry Grant and his Italian wife, Gabriella, have opened English Teaching Co-operative just down the road, at a fraction of...

Between 1970 and 2015, 400,000 and 700,000 foreigners per year studied English in England. English as a Foreign Language hovers somewhere between business and education. But …The story takes place at World English Centre, a large language school in Bournemouth in 1972. A bizarre collection of teachers wait for their monthly intake of fresh language students. Cosser is an ex-Marks & Spencer trainee manager. Hamish once played rugby for Dorset. Barry, the new arrival, has bookshelves...

It’s the summer of love. 1967. Sergeant Pepper, the Stones bust, the death of Brian Epstein, war in Biafra. But this is all a long way from this summer in sunny sedate seaside Sandbourne. Steve is a student who gets a holiday job doing lights at the Maxie Vincent Show. This is not a seedy end-of-the-pier show, but a full scale, successful all-star production filling a 2000 seat concert hall twice nightly for months. Steve spends his evenings shining limelight on the stars and the mornings ...

"Brilliantly plotted, beautifully paced, it gathers speed and dread until I could barely stand it. Peter Robinson writes with compassion, with depth, with the assurance of a writer at the top of his game and rewards us with a truly heart-pounding finale." —Louise PennyThe twenty-second installment of the internationally bestselling Inspector Banks seriesThe story begins with a series of criminal incidents: a stolen tractor; an apparent crim...

The twenty-fourth installment of the internationally bestselling Inspector Banks seriesDetective Superintendent Alan Banks is called in to lead the investigation after a shocking mass murder occurs during a wedding outside a small church in the Yorkshire Dales. An exhaustive manhunt ensues and the shooter is run to ground as the investigation follows its inevitable course.But Banks, his colleague DI Annie Cabbot, and the newest and youngest team member, DI ...

A brilliantly funny, gripping novel – and the bestselling hardback children’s debut of 2014 – from a born storyteller, The Parent Agency is an epic wish-fulfilment adventure for every child – and for the child in everyone.Barry said, a third time, “I wish I had better parents!” And then suddenly the entire room started to shake…Barry Bennett hates being called Barry. In fact it’s number 2 on the list of things he blames his parents for, along with 1) ‘being boring’ and 3) ‘...

'Another heart-warming read from Faith Hogan' Trisha Ashley.'Heart-warming, poignant and uplifting' Lucy Coleman, author of Snowflakes Over Holly Cove.***Two women. Two very different lives. One unexpected friendship.Amanda King and Tess Cuffe are strangers who share the same Georgian house, but their lives couldn't be more differen...