Thom Scarfe

A failing magician who thinks all is lost finds a new beacon of motivation.

Follows married couple, Liam & Kerry and how they live their lives on the canal. Their fuel business has a huge impact on communities in the north-west of England.

Two criminals lay low in a shady pub after a heist. One has botched the job and thinks the other one doesn’t know. The other one knows.

A grandmother reads Shakespeare to her grandson while his parents' marriage falls apart downstairs. In the fairy-tale kingdom of Messina, Beatrice and Benedict wage war with words both too proud to admit they're in love, too scared to be the first to say it. Their friends trick them into confessing, but when the deception is revealed, both retreat behind their sharpest defenses. It takes one honest moment in a grand garden to realise the trick didn't create their love, it only made them brave enough to speak it. Upstairs, eight-year-old Jamie watches his own walls crumble. By the time the book closes, he's learned what Beatrice learned: that being vulnerable isn't weakness. It's the bravest thing you can do. A dual-narrative Shakespeare adaptation about wit as armor, love as risk, and the stories that teach us how to be honest when the world is breaking.

Deaf scientist Agnes Harding is forced to create a sound that can kill or face the wrath of her military captors.