David Rose

• May-2025

Bumped from their intended destination, a young family finds themselves at a rather curious wellness spa with elderly, idiosyncratic hosts who eye the children with a little too much interest.Mila doesn't want to be there. Not with the husband all he...

• Nov-2024

Here is a story of the retaking of Fallujah, beginning with the discovery of who'd be fighting, and the deployment of Tyler Boggs - team leader - and his team of Recon Marines, soon hunted by the Alzilal; dreaded fighters plaguing the farmlands. It t...

• May-2024

When you are hanging about waiting for the end of the millennium, the last thing you need is for meaning to come and gatecrash your nihilists' party. And that was what happened to the new city orphans; four metrosexual, metroethnic, metrohedonist urb...

• Feb-2024

 Welcome to the human zoo, the future where we are never what we seem and the real is not real at all. In a future world not unlike our own, those who have everything and those who have nothing have been kept apart till now. But Sady, Charl...

• Oct-2020

• Sep-2020

The second book to expose further the sinister world of Mulgara: Loner, bumpkin, self-destructive teenager, Matina thought her life's adventures would reach no further than paddling under night cypress or falling through the parchment of a good b...

• Jul-2020

Almost eight decades after the seminal conference that gave us the G7, World Bank, IMF and J.M. Keynes' momentous 'money creation' process, the lethal unintended consequences are about to be unleashed. Just one man, driven by loathing of the entire b...

• Jul-2019

• Feb-2019

How three fingers belong to one gnarled hand, so here do the tales to be told:When Maecidion dies, the reading of the will is an outrage. Irion, the dead necromancer's kin, watches as coveted heirlooms are given to his enemies. Himself no stranger to...

• Sep-2016

Standing Orders is an inspirational, contemporary tale of hope and friendship in the face of overwhelming odds. While in his final year at university, Tom Kettlewell's relationship with his girlfriend ends tragically and changes the way he views the ...

• Nov-2015

Morgan Cooper has always found it difficult to balance her home life -- mother of two young children and wife of a workaholic civil rights lawyer -- with her work life as an undercover CIA officer. When Morgan gets stressed, anxious, or scared, wh...

• Oct-2014

Becky loves Sam, but there's a pretty young teacher who's moved into town, and Sam is charmed. So are all the other boys. Now what? This is a rather evil short story set in the context of a young adult romance....

• Jun-2014

A romantic drama set in London, this is a contemporary short story about the uncertain business of living. On the knife's edge between love and tragedy, Adam Reid is a young doctor who finds that mending broken lives is not a vocation for the faint-h...

• May-2014

This is a short story. Dragonfire is the name of the game, a new, totally immersive computer game set in a fantasy world. Figurative dragons lurk in hidden places, the stakes are high, and losing the game means losing your life - or does it? This is ...

• Apr-2014

Moonlight is a fantasy romance set in modern Japan. Two young teenagers, Tadao and Yuzuki, pledge their love in the face of imminent separation. Can they honour their promise to meet again as adults? Can they overcome an impossible challenge to achie...

• Nov-2013

<p>David Rose's debut novel <em>Vault</em> won high praise upon its publication in 2011. Now, Salt is pleased to present Rose's long-awaited collection of short stories â€" a series of captivating tales that showcase his exceptional...

• Apr-2013

The year is 1995 and Britain like the rest of Europe has been under German occupation for approaching 50 years. Since that fateful day back in 1945, when the Luftwaffe dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the island of Cyprus, the Nazi’s have...

• Apr-2011

<p>A pre-war amateur cycling career is cut short by call-up. Trained as a sniper, the man, whose name we never know for sure, embarks for war-torn Europe. Undecided how to resume his life at the war's close, and disturbed by what he has left be...

• May-2007

• Sep-2004

An Epic Novel, Where Legend Comes to Life
Bent on conquest, the great Scandinavian King Canute and his Viking legions invade England in 1016, cutting a bloody path across the peaceful countryside. In an overwhelming show of force, Canute...

• Apr-1999

Squire Gifford has a problem. His daughter Charity is dallying with a young lad from the village, a most unsuitable match. So he sends her to work as a chambermaid to the recently widowed Baroness Smallwood, Lady Ethel Philip. Secretly, he hopes that...