Books published by publisher Charnwood

Milton is a sooty, noisy northern town centred around the cotton mills that employ most of its inhabitants. Arriving from a rural idyll in the south, Margaret Hale is initially shocked by the social unrest and poverty she finds in her new hometown. However, as she begins to befriend her neighbors, and her stormy relationship with the mill-owner John Thornton develops, she starts to see Milton in a different light.

'That George Barnabas is a woman is just the first twist in this taut and fraught investigation.' - SUNDAY EXPRESS 'A terrific mystery thriller' - PRIMA Another in this successful series featuring Dr. George Barnabas. The gossipmongers at London's Royal Eastern Hospital are working overtime. Three suicides in as many days among the staff? Something must be very wrong. Dr George Barnabas, female forensic pathologist, could have told them that the deaths were certainly not all suicides - but accidental death is so much less interesting for the rumour mill...Yet when a fourth person nearly dies - one of George's own lab staff - it's attempted murder, and George herself, unbelievably, comes under suspicion. George has never needed much incentive to do some sleuthing; this time she has the strongest reason of all...

"Amid the degradation Sandra Gregory found redemption, and the strength to rebuild the life she had thrown away." MAIL ON SUNDAY "...This is an extraordinary story, and Sandra Gregory's resillience and spirit make her book oddily uplifting at times, even though the circumstances she describes are about as dark as it gets." WATERSTONES.CO.UK Sandra Gregory was living a life in Bangkok that many only dream of - until illness, unemployment and political unrest turned it into a nightmare. Desperate to get home, she agreed to smuggle an addict's personal supply of heroin. She didn't even make it on to the plane. In this memoir, she tells of the events leading up to her arrest, the horrific conditions in Lard Yao prison, her trial and how it feels to be sentenced to death. Four and a half years later, she was transferred to the British prison system and an equally harsh regime. Following relentless campaigning by her parents, she was pardoned by the King of Thailand and released in 2000.

NOW A MAJOR, SUCCESFUL TV SERIES STARRING AMANDA BURTON When forensic pathologist Dr Sam Ryan is called out to a murder scene, she is far from pleased. Tramping around a graveyard is not how she'd planned to spend her day off. But then she finds herself fascinated by the case. The evidence seems to point to a ritualistic killing linked to the black arts. And the murder bears an uncanny resemblance to a local crime committed many years ago. Then another, related, death is discovered, and Sam is under pressure to come up with evidence the police desperately need. By now, though, the killer has decided that Sam is a threat that had far better be removed...

Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself in Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose six-inch height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the abstracted scientists of Laputa, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behaviour.