The Witching TideTHERE IS POWER IN SILENCE East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer and servant, has lived for more than four decades in her beloved coastal village of Cleftwater. Everyone knows Martha, but no one has ever heard her speak. One Autumn morning, the peaceful atmosphere of Cleftwater is shattered by a sinister arrival and Martha becomes a silent witness to a witch hunt. As a trusted member of the community, she is enlisted to search the

just a vicious battle between the hawks of Heaven and Hell

The Fallen Star - Claudia Gray

The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third voice: a woman who wields power through the ruthless accumulation and deployment of secrets

Stuck at sea and surrounded by powerful people

should something go wrong

from being convicted

he knows he's witnessed more than an innocent encounter

until he gets a message from a dead man

sees the dawn of New Labour in the Hartscombe constituency

with which she writes of the trauma of history' AMIT CHAUDHURI WINNER OF THE BATH NOVEL AWARD

'This is a book that takes you to the dark heart of the criminal justice system

her lover before she met Lemaster