Collection 1

R. G Rankine

Three short stories letting you into the lives of ordinary people. A brief glimpse into Peter and Juliet's evening together, a day of musing for Jerry, and a chance encounter for Gerard that says more about Victoria than it does Alex. Three different slices of experiences that shows us we should perhaps take more from what we see as 'ordinary'.

The Disappearance Club or a Polish Detective in London

Rufus Garlic

Janek Lipsz sets up a business to help people run away from intolerable and frustrating lives and to set up new ones elsewhere. Unfortunately he cannot escape his own past or the guilt he carries within. After thirty years a woman arrives at his Disappearance Club door and she forces this past and this guilt to the surface. Fate cannot be avoided, not even in the suburbs of south-east London, but is forgiveness possible? The woman comes armed for revenge. She does warm towards Janek and he falls in love with her, but is this enough for her to let fall the knife she has sharpened for him?

Warspite: The Godling

Alfred Duff

A new Era begins... welcome to the Epic World of the Warspite: a place of hard choices. Dark forces sweep across the land, bringing carnage by the sword; threatening to tip the balance of the Old Globe onto a path of prevailing darkness. As the Warspite’s greatest general, Lord Hasler has the daunting task of defeating the city of Hoth, whose enormous slave army now threatens to destroy Ironia, home city of the Warspite. His task is made more difficult as the Warspite’s greatest warrior, Henry Artorius is consumed with his personal quest to root out and destroy the cruel menace of the Fearnaught. War and peace upon the old globe can prove equally deadly, as a grab for power within, and a shift in alliances, leave the Warspite forced to choose a new destiny. Perhaps the arrival of The Godling is a sign of the gods unwavering bond with Ironia’s Warspite, or perhaps darker times now lay ahead... let the story begin...

Sari Sari Shining Bright

Rufus Garlic

A British Army officer in 1840s India is asked to hunt down a man-eating tiger. Nothing will persuade him to do so – nothing but the supernatural…

Betting

Rufus Garlic

Arthur’s 1000:1 long shots keep on coming off. He must have inside information – but is he prepared to kill when his winning streak is threatened?

The Skeleton in the Closet

Rufus Garlic

Laurence Collier is a bloodthirsty thief who is good with a gun, but can he protect himself as well as persecute others? Sometimes vengeance crafts itself an unexpected path…

Sacked

Rufus Garlic

Victor English is treated like dirt at work. Will he keep taking it on the chin? Is he a dogsbody or a top dog?

The Legacy

Rufus Garlic

When Samuel Stuyvesant dies he leaves a complex will with very interesting preconditions. Watch and laugh as his heirs struggle to satisfy them…