Derek Smith

• Apr-2026
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• Mar-2025
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 When Emily Gillon kills her abusive husband - making it appear to be suicide - she hopes the shotgun blast will free her finally to find the happiness and normalcy she never knew in rural Pierpont, Georgia.      Ag...

• Apr-2020
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Lucy-Anne's world is a magical place where a blanket on the washing line becomes a hungry elephant, where buses fly, where snowmen talk, where you might find yourself as small as a doll, or invisible, or turned into a runner bean.'Half a dozen gently...

• Feb-2020
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You mustn't step on a crack or the Pavement Bears will get you! Sure, sure, says Lucy-Anne, but it's not a game when an angry family of bears turn up. Then there's the time she becomes a firework and goes blasting off into the night, or when Lucy-Ann...

• Feb-2020
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It's the slowest race on record when Lucy-Anne becomes a tortoise and has a race with a snail. She becomes a statue and doesn't like pigeons at all. In another tale, she's a cat on the rooftops trying to stop the howling cats keeping her awake. And t...

• Jul-2015
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The Washington Post calls Come to Paddington Fair "a masterpiece." The death scene of a West End play goes horribly wrong in front of a matinee audience to which someone has invited a Scotland Yard inspector and his detective friend. But was the hero...

• Jul-2015
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The Washington Post calls Whistle Up the Devil "dazzling" and "a masterpiece." Publisher's Weekly's starred review calls it "one of the most intelligent and crafty impossible murder novels of all time." Roger Querrin died alone in a locked and guarde...

• Aug-2014
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Roy wants a bike more than anything, and dreams of wearing the yellow jersey in the Tour de France and beating the best cyclists in the world up in the mountains. But the reality is that Mum is broke, and having trouble coping. So Roy gets an early m...

• Jun-2014
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At the beginning of the Korean War, Jimmy McLeod is called up for national service, and this has far reaching effects on the rest of his life.

The story shows how an ordinary man, through circumstances not all of his making, can find his wh...

• Jan-2014
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Jim Price is out of his depth. In pursuit of a job, he wakes up in a luxurious room next to the naked corpse of an unknown woman. His DNA is everywhere, his fingerprints on the gun. Quickly he finds he's been bought. The new job promises money, love ...

• Jul-2013
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A Fantasy, thriller and romance. Cadd thinks he'll spend his life working in the family bakery until the soldiers come for him. The Court Sorceress has foretold that he will escape the siege that tortures the town. Instead, he is captured. A lucky ac...

• Feb-2013
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Young and emboldened by feeling of first time love, Anne and her fiancé Jeremy paid little heed to the superstitious villagers who told them that the beautiful farmhouse nestled halfway up the picturesque hillside was cursed. Ignoring the warnings o...

• Jun-2012
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What's a normal girl to do when moments before her planet is destroyed she's yanked to another universe, dropped on a nearly identical eaRth, given a new condo, car, girlfriend, more money than she knows what to do with, and a year off with nothing t...

• Jun-2010
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A fantasy that begins with Toby in a dungeon, due to be executed for murdering his father, the king. His escape results in a hue and cry, instigated by his step-mother, the Queen. Toby must be caught and executed along with any who assist him. While ...

• Jan-2010
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When the baker's boy kills a dragon who attacks his village, he is called to the king's palace. On the way he encounters a bear, witches, giants, and picks up a talkative cat. At the palace the king refuses to believe he ever slayed a dragon and send...

• Jan-2010
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Billy hates running, but his brother is a champion and Mum's golden boy. Dad's too busy to care. Luckily he's got Grandad on his side, who is going to run in the London Marathon dressed as a giant peanut, but no way is Billy. Not with all the media o...

• Oct-2001
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In 1864 the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley made naval history--it became the first underwater vessel ever to blow up an enemy ship. Then, in 1994, unsolved murders in Charleston, S.C., involve the U.S. Coast Guard in a search for answers to clues...

• Feb-1992
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When Shorty Roberts and his friend Warby find a suitcase full of cash in an abandoned building, they try to keep the money, only to discover that it isn't so easy, especially when other people come looking for the source of their unexplained wealth, ...