Troubador Publishing

Otto Brandt is not Otto Brandt. He is Ernst Frick, an indicted Nazi war criminal who has changed his identity and fled to Australia. On the Snowy Mountains Scheme he secures highly paid work and is able to buy a run-down farm, which is snow covered during four months of the year.

Lahore, 2018: In a city teeming with gossip and rumours, where the spoken word is as sharp as a whip, five women lead extraordinary lives.

This travelogue moves along by Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way, by the Burren, a land of strange beauty that inspired Tolkien, by the ruins of remotely-placed monastic shrines and chanting monks.

Two candles flaring at a Christmas crib. A nurse who steps inside a church to light them. A gunshot emptied in a man's head in the creaking stillness before dawn, that the nurse says she didn't hear.

A fascinating insight into Japanese life and society from an author who knows the country extraordinarily well. An understanding of that most elusive of concepts: "Japanese-ness." The author brings a detachment, from being an outsider, to dissect the country's society and culture

George is a recently widowed seventy-nine-year-old. He nearly made it as a rock star in the 1960s and he's not happy. Tara is his teenage granddaughter and she's taken refuge from her bickering parents by living with George. Toby is George's son-in-law and he wants George in a care home.

Field Lane is a book about a place where the literary worlds created by Charles Dickens and Mark Twain collide. A place where real-world people cross over with established fictional characters and newly imagined ones. It tells a story of revenge, redemption and rights.

We've all been taught about kings and queens, great battles and the rise and fall of empires. The term historians have coined for this is 'history from above'. But what about the ordinary folk? What about almost everybody who ever existed? What about the places where no earth-shattering events have ever occurred?

A woman gives birth in a dingy upstairs room. Her baby is bought illegally by a wealthy couple. Thirty-five years later, Dominic Walker, a teacher, is arrested for murder - but his story is too fantastic for the police to believe...