Books published by publisher Charnwood

This Regency drawing-room comedy follows the development of sweet, honest and courageous Fanny Price from the shy little poor girl into the woman who marries her cousin, the goody-goody clergyman Edmund Bertram. Fanny could be looked upon as almost insufferably good, virtuous and dull, if she were not presented with such imagination and placed among the many diverse and interesting people who frequent the house of Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram at Mansfield Park.

In this classic novel full of spirit and wit, Jane Austen introduces the delightfully gullible Catherine Morland. Catherine arrives into eighteenth century Bath society bursting with freshness, integrity and a passion for wildly fantastic and macabre Gothic novels. When Henry Tilney invites her to his ancestral home, Northanger Abbey, Catherine sees a mystery unfold before her very eyes. With her head full of defenceless maidens, sinister castles and heroes charging on white horses, Catherine is convinced her fantasies are coming true. Will her chance of love be destroyed?

Emma Woodhouse, spoilt and self-willed, is convinced she knows what is right for other people, especially in matters of the heart. She is, of course, invariably wrong. Wrong about Robert Martin and the pretty, empty-headed Harriet; about Harriet and the young vicar; about rich Frank Churchill and poor Jane Fairfax. While scheming and flirting, Emma nearly loses the one person who has always loved her, and it is a very contrite heroine who thankfully accepts his proposal.

January 1970. Lieutenant Ross Blackwood is grieving for his distinguished father, Lieutenant-Colonel Mike Blackwood, who has been murdered in Cyprus. Ross is also disillusioned, believing there is no future for him in the Royal Marines, whose role has been diminished to policing and paperwork. But the loyalty and dedication of a Blackwood to the Corps sustain Ross from vicious guerrilla warfare in Malaysia, through the moral and political minefields of Northern Ireland, to the South Atlantic, and a conflict as bloody as it is unpredictable. And he learns, as every Blackwood has before him, that mere courage is not enough. Survival and victory balance on the knife edge of destiny.

A small plane carrying four passengers takes off from revolution-torn Baskul. But instead of heading for Peshawur and safety, its mysterious pilot flies even deeper into the Himalayas, finally crash-landing in the unexplored Tibetan wilderness. Met by an elderly Chinese the travelers are conducted to the lamasery of Shangri-la and the hidden valley of Blue Moon. Their strange adventure has only begun....

Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn't been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she'd never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn't believe in doctors or hospitals. According to the state and federal governments, she didn't exist. As she grew older, her father became more radical, and her brother more violent. At sixteen, Tara decided to educate herself. Her struggle for knowledge would take her far from her Idaho mountains, over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far. If there was still a way home.

In rural Mississippi, in the nineteen-seventies, Larry Ott and Silas Jones are boyhood pals, despite their different backgrounds. Larry, the child of lower middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother. For a few months the boys share a special bond. But tragedy strikes when Larry takes a girl to a drive-in movie - she's never heard from or seen again. Larry never confesses, but suspicion surrounds him. Silas's friendship with Larry is broken and then he leaves town... Twenty years later Larry, amid the whispers of suspicion, lives a solitary existence, and Silas returns. Then another girl disappears and Larry is blamed again. And now the two men who were friends must confront the past they've buried and ignored for decades.

As Charles Redfern lies motionless in hospital, his wife, Anne, and daughter, Charlotte, are forced to confront their relationships with him - and with each other. Anne, once beautiful and clever, has paled beside her husband's harsh brilliance. She mechanically attends endless rounds of drinks parties, trying to ignore the guilt that trails behind her like a shadow. Charlotte, battling with an inner darkness, is desperate to prevent her relationship with not-yet-divorced Gabriel from disintegrating. Both women must face the full truth of Charles's hold over them, and the uncertainty of a future without the figure that has dominated them for so long.

Dylan goes to the same park every day on his lunch break. He enjoys the quiet solitude of the boating lake, passing the time, watching the people come and go. He has also noticed another visitor to the lake: a young boy, playing at the water's edge; a boy who is always alone. Slowly, Dylan can see that something is terribly wrong with the child. He seems troubled and unhappy. And when bruises start to appear on his arms, Dylan knows he must act. As his obsession with the boy takes hold, he embarks upon a dark, intense and terrifying journey, where nothing is as it seems, and the truth is much worse than anything he could have imagined...

The sequel to the number one bestselling JURASSIC PARK. The fourteenth novel from a master storyteller. It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since that extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end - the dinosaurs destroyed, the Park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. There are rumours that something has survived...