Mr Scobie's arrival at the nursing home of St Christopher and St Jude - and into the clutches of Matron Hyacinth Price - is accidental. Self-educated and still preserving the gift of idyllic memory and wish, Mr Scobie stands apart from the others. For long term resident and eccentric, Miss Hailey, he represents a kindred spirit; for Matron Price - a lady of questionable practices - the latest victim...

When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, shot up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame the usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all and that the site of the explosion would make a nice day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all.

The year: 2000. Adamus and Evemus, two young mice, set about trying to recreate society after a cosmic disaster has devastated the rest of Earth. Able to talk and reason, they follow the example of man, using the Bible and 4628 editions of the New York Times as their guide to life. And the result is an all too human chaos....

Nick Kaharchek senses danger the minute he sees Billie Pearce. Happy in her stable home life as a divorced mother of two, she represents everything the footloose Kaharchek's always avoided. But she is also irrestibly fascinating - in a car-crash sort of way. Billie, meanwhile, finds her instinctive response to Kaharcek's attention almost as frightening as the mysterious break-ins in her neighbourhood, and the spider invasions her pest-control man seems unable to beat. As fate brings Billie and Kaharchek ever closer, they are suddenly thrown into a world of mayhem, seduction and terror - but will it lead to love everlasting?

Jamie Swift has one priority in quiet Beaumont, South Carolina: running the local newspaper. Romance runs second. But with the arrival of her silent partner, the notoriously mysterious and sexy Maximillian Holt, Jamie's life gets shaken up. Max claims he's here to give his brother-in-law a vote of confidence. A former wrestler, Frankie Fontana's now taking his shots in the political ring.. Beaumont could use a mayor with scruples, but what it gets is a crime - and what Jamie gets is a story that's taking her for a ride on the wild side, complete with two assassins, a washed-up stripper and an insane poacher. Between a spray of bullets and a fast getaway, could it get any more romantic - or dangerous?

Left-wing academics, right-wing capitalists, true blue country gentry, workers, peasants, police and lawyers - all take custard pies full in the face in this boisterous knockabout farce

It’s high jinx when Wilt’s old adversary Inspector Flint suspects him of somehow being involved in drug dealing at Fenland College. But neither his wife nor his colleagues at the Tech have reckoned with Wilt’s unique talent for making new enemies.

Unlike most people Matt Beckford is actually looking forward to tuning thirty. After struggling through most of his twenties, he thinks his career, finances and love life are finally sorted. But when he splits up with his girlfriend, he realises that life has different plans for him and Matt temporarily moves back home to his parents.

Joey Perrone is a woman with a mission. She's just been pushed overboard from a cruise liner by Chaz, her scumbag husband, and survived to tell the tale. But rather than reporting him to the police, she decides to stay dead - with a little help from her friends and a few of Chaz's enemies - instead of getting mad, she's going to get even.

I have decided to permit the public yet another glimpse into my Uncle Oswald's life. (Uncle Oswald is, if you remember, the greatest rogue, bounder, connoisseur, bon vivant and fornicator of all time). The section chosen comes from Volume XX and many famous names are mentioned and there is obviously a grave risk that families and friends are going to take offence. Uncle Oswald discovers the electrifying properties of the Sudanese Blister Beetle and the gorgeous Yasmin How comely, a girl absolutely soaked in sex, and sets about seducing all the great men of the time for his own wicked, irreverent reasons.