SilksSigned and dedicated to "Clive, with thanks and best wishes" by Dick Francis and Felix Francis Julian Trent, you have been found guilty by this court of perpetrating a violent and unprovoked attack on an innocent family including a charge of attempted murder. You have shown little or no remorse for your actions and I consider you a danger to society. When defence barrister Geoffrey Mason hears the judges verdict, he quietly hopes that a long and

he quietly hopes that a long and arduous custodial sentence will be handed down to his arrogant young client

a great war novel

he feels compelled to investigate

and turns the readers expectations upside down again and again

and for her handsome teenage son

though it is under attack from incomers

Suddenly the wider world becomes a frightening place where parents lie and questions go unanswered

Forty years after its abolition

The Theory of Evolution was the greatest scientific concept of its age

comes down to earth in the harbour of an Arctic town in the North

Shes come to Hull Hull

The atrocities Hal is drawn into take him further from Clara