Bella Wallis is a respectable society woman with a secret identity: in an office buried deep within the seedy backstreets of London, she writes sensationalist novels exposing the scoundrels that litter high society under the pen name Henry Ellis Margam.So when a crested cigar case is found near the body of a murdered prostitute, Bella and her friends are determined to trace the murderer and write a mystery that will avenge the poor girl's untimely death. But the owner of the cigar ...

In 1973, Brian Thompson kissed the impossibly glamorous Elizabeth North for the first time, in a busy supermarket car park along the Leeds ring road. This is the story of the unexpectedly joyous consequences – ones to baffle many, not least themselves – until her death, aged 78.Both were writers, though they came from opposite ends of the social register – she an Admiral’s daughter, he the descendant of unruly Cockney eccentrics. She was by nature a solitary, while he was loud, inc...

A true story of empire set in the Crimea, Sudan, Ceylon and Egypt – beautifully written and shot through with real psychological and historical insight.'Victorian Britain, that seemingly most conformist of ages, was in fact teeming with eccentrics. The fabulous Baker Brothers were eccentric in a conformist way for the time: Sir Samuel searched for the source of the Nile; Baker Pasha became leader of the Ottoman army. But it was that epitome of empire, and epitome of the Christian E...

Anger is eternal. In the afterlife, it takes shape.Stephen was a husband, a father, and a friend until betrayal and murder twisted him into something darker. Now he walks the spirit world as a Demon, cursed to carry an anger that never dies. Revenge drives him, but vengeance doesn't satisfy. Every act of retribution only fuels the fire until his fury threatens to consume not just himself, but the fragile balance of the afterlife.As Demons, Observers, Tricks...

A Lost Soul. A Hidden War. A Destiny Beyond Death.Frank Hess is dead, yet he's never been more alive. Awakening as a spirit with no memory, he's plunged into a complex afterlife brimming with enigmatic "Observers," cunning "Tricksters," and dangerous "Demons." Guided by Michael, a 4000-year-old mentor with a teenager's wit, Frank discovers he's an "Observer," destined to aid humanity, but first, he must untangle the devastating secrets of his own past.What ...

Born to fanatically snobbish Victorian parents, Georgina Weldon grew up to wreak havoc on almost everyone she met. She was supposed to marry well and restore the family fortune, but soon proved to have other ideas. Her scandalous affair with a married man and her defiant marriage to the less-than-prosperous young hussar officer Harry Weldon were just the first signs that she was no ordinary girl. In a plot that could have been constructed by Dickens himself, Georgina acquired a string of l...

This Edition does not include illustrations.A hilariously funny history of a bizarre 19th-century life of the woman who was a proto-type Pankhurst. The non-fiction debut of one of the most talented comic historians of social manners.Georgina Weldon was born in 1837 and, although almost no one will have heard of her, the only talent she really had was for self-advertisement. She is one of the great undiscovered and unsung eccentrics of the 19th-century.Her ego was mo...

London is alive with gossip about the thrilling new book by sensationalist author Henry Ellis Margam, but only a select group of people know that the real author is beautiful widow, and member of high society, Bella Wallis.One of her confidantes is the dashing Philip Westland, who comes to Bella now with a problem: his best friend Kennet is smitten with the heiress Mary Skillane but Mary's father, Sir William, has promised her to Robert Judd, a vulgar treasure-seeker. Mary is due t...

Death wasn't the end for Stephen. It was only the beginning of an eternal curse, fueled by unquenchable rage. Betrayed by those he loved, he awakens as a Demon with one goal: brutal, calculated revenge. But his journey will not only drag you through a world of betrayal and justice but also through the dark side of the afterlife, where ancient grudges dictate devastating new realities. Are you ready to witness the cunning unraveling of lives, meticulously orchestrated by a ...

A NEW NORMALMonths after absorbing a nuclear explosion, Jason Champion is recuperating in a hospital when he is attacked by a shape-shifter with an agenda. She wants to harvest Jason’s radioactive blood to keep his enemy, David King, alive. King had almost died at Jason’s hands, but he now wants revenge.Following a narrow escape, Jason is joined by his new girlfriend Rhapsody, his ex Sasha, and a new friend, Esteban. While the provenance emerald, scarlet emerald, goshenite,...

A Lost Soul. A Hidden War. A Destiny Beyond Death.Frank Hess is dead, yet he's never been more alive. Awakening as a spirit with no memory, he's plunged into a complex afterlife brimming with enigmatic "Observers," cunning "Tricksters," and dangerous "Demons." Guided by Michael, a 4000-year-old mentor with a teenager's wit, Frank discovers he's an "Observer," destined to aid humanity, but first, he must untangle the devastating secrets of his own past.What ...

Bella Wallis – respectable society widow with a secret identity as a writer of sensationalist novels – is now happily engaged to the love of her life, Philip Westland. But Westland’s shadowy job, working for the British government, continually takes him abroad and away from the charismatic, impatient Bella. And then there is the matter of Westland’s sister’s incarceration in a French nunnery, a mystery about which he refuses to say a word.Bella is convinced that their future togeth...