Failed crime-fiction writer, professional plagiarist and part-time private eye Dr. Jake Flintlock and his sidekick Dr. Bum Park are within a whisker of catching the killer of the Vice-Chancellor of the university that sacked Jake...But this is no ordinary murderer, as they are about to discover.

Doctor Quentin Trimble's inveterate hypochondria renders his temporary suspension from work—and relegation to "gardening duty"—all but inevitable. As he struggles to adjust to his new routine, the fairy Fion appears in Quentin's toolshed, ushering him into a world of life-changing possibilities, and making him the catalyst for a series of adventures involving his family, his colleagues and a motley crew of strangers, which unfold against the backdrop of a pandemic of global magnitude. Unde...

It's only rock 'n' roll but…Jeremy Crawford has had enough of his life as a megawealthy banker and is prepared to give up all its privileges for the sake of freedom. Why? Because he's suddenly realized he has never made any choices of his own and only ever been chosen. But that is about to change. With a little help from his friends, he finds a way to resolve both his own issues and those of a political world gone crazy.

Even when you can't move mountains, you might still create a few shock ripples…Appointed by Lizzie Leah to locate her lost lover, whom she knows by the name of Leo McGuire, PI (and ex-spy) Mervyn Vincent discovers that the object of his quest is not only a gigolo with a harem of "Mrs McGuires" across the continents, but also a valuable player (real name Leon Devine) in an international right-wing cartel. Realizing that there's more to Leon than meets the eye, Mervy...

Since birth, Professor Thaddeus Proctor has lacked any attractive qualities, his only asset being a formidable yawn capable of precipitating anyone who comes into contact with it into a state of soporific compliance. The yawn's power remains untapped until Thaddeus is offered the chance of competing in a TV game show, and becomes its champion.Not even then, however, is the yawn deployed to the utmost of its capacities. It takes Thaddeus's removal to Fairyland, and involvement in th...

Tricked into believing he is to be accused of a murder he hasn't committed, PI gofer Mole Smith is inveigled into the search for an ancient order and its famous diamond-studded pistol. What Mole doesn't know, as he undertakes the quest with his partner Oksana, is what powers lurk behind the scenes

To escape a floundering relationship and writer's block, Ambler leaves London for La Rochelle, where he stumbles into a tangle of corruption and revenge with a grisly murder at its centre: a crime which could cost Ambler his freedom — and his sanity.

Mankind profits from nothing more than war. Hence, rumours about the existence of a disk said to contain the formula to "peace on earth," obtained by a failed actor with a penchant for visions, pose a major threat to the planet. This unleashes a frantic hunt for the disk across continents, involving government agencies, master criminals, petty criminals, and would-be criminals, plus the local population of Pont-y-Pant: the tiny Welsh village on which disparate characters converge as the pu...

Twenty-twenty: a momentous year in global history with an unprecedented capacity to redefine the very concept of normality.Set against the baleful background of the Covid-19 pandemic, and tracing at each turn both its private and its collective vicissitudes, the story offers a factional chronicle of some of the darkest chapters in US and UK politics of recent decades, interweaving elements of farce, magic, romance and sleaze by means of a colourful cast of personas that range from ...

Posing as a papal nuncio, the troll Vilius "The Vile" Vilutis haunts the Cumbrian hills in search of the magical onyx with the potential to revolutionize smartphones worldwide, aiming to put his enemy, Silicon Valley gazillionaire Zingy Splitz, out of business forever. Suspicious, Zingy contacts Pope Benny in Rome, where rumour has it Vilius once worked, thus discovering the troll's current whereabouts.Meanwhile, in their bucolic farmstead in Cumbria, the elves Mordy and Hazchem te...

Following the accidental discovery of a "head" afloat on the Regent Canal, London, PI Dr Jake Flintlock is seduced into taking on a case which draws him to Northern Spain and its darker history. There, in the company of his sidekick Dr Bum Park, Jake faces a mystery wherein an ancient Basque legacy of vengeance and strife intersects with a private vendetta — one with Jake himself as its unwitting target.

In his wildest dreams, Afghanistan war veteran Noddy Stoddart fantasised about becoming king of Liverpool, even though his brother, Knobby, told him he was crazy. But shooting government minister St John Jaunston in the bottom with an air rifle on a visit to the city leads bizarrely to Noddy's dream coming true—with a little help from his friends, and the involvement of an elf and his dog.