The Money Makers is Harry Bingham's first novel. Yet were it not for a severe illness which suddenly afflicted his wife, he might never have written at all. Bingham, an Oxford graduate with a highly successful career in the City, abandoned his high-flying lifestyle in order to care for his wife.
Bingham's life was dramatically altered in 1997 when his wife, Nuala, developed a complex viral illness. Bingham had first met his wife, at the age of 21, in New York, at a J.P. Morgan training programme, where they discovered a strange number of coincidences: they had been born on the exact same evening, and at hospitals just a mile or two apart in London. Unbeknown to them both they had been exact contemporaries at Oxford, even sharing mutual friends.
Bingham went on to a distinguished career in the City, working in the world of corporate tax dodging, and in Mergers and Acquisitions. His deals included the &45 million take-over of The Park Lane Hotel pie for ITT Shannon, the first attempt at the &20 billion merger of Guinness pie and Grand Metropolitan pie, and the refinancing of Eurotunnel. All of which has proved to be invaluable for his novel.

The Money Makers are three sons vying to attain their father's massive inheritance. Their father, a wealthy industrialist, has died leaving them nothing.....Except the chance of winning the entire inheritance for the son who has one million pounds in the bank by the end of the year. Startled out of their indulgent lives, the sons begin to compete madly against each other. Two of them go into the City, the eldest buys a run-down factory. The race to be the first to make &1,000,000 is on.....

In 1998 the British Government issued a public warning to all ports and airports of a possible terrorist threat. It was withdrawn almost as quickly as it was issued, but it was enough to form the starting point for Murray Davies's second blockbusting novel after The Drumbeat of Jimmy Sands. Davies is himself a famed investigative journalist and he has built a stunning scenario in which an Iraqi terrorist - himself under threat of a terrifying reprisal of Saddam Hussein - attempts to bring into the UK a flask of almost unimaginably destructive bacteria. Working to counter the threat is a small team of experts, soldiers and spooks in Whitehall. But even here somebody seems to be leaking information.

In his first new paperback for HarperCollins, master storyteller Jack Higgins displays all his customary skills in a heart-pounding adventure with a less familiar setting - 19thcentury Ireland - and featuring a swashbuckling new hero.

At the end of the American Civil War, Confederate Colonel Clay Fitzgerald escapes to Ireland, where his grandfather has left him an estate, only to find that Ireland is caught up in a civil war of its own. The struggle between the wealthy landlords and the impoverished tenant farmers is growing in intensity, and having just fought and lost a terrible war, Clay wants to avoid the coming conflict. But after witnessing the atrocities that the landowners visit upon their own people, Clay is unable to stand by. Taking the guise of a legendary night-riding outlaw, he joins the fight against the landlords - and wages a rebellion of his own...

The incomparable Jack Higgins returns to HarperCollins with a terrific new thriller, featuring his enigmatic hero Sean Dillon and a battle to defeat a Mafia don. 'HIGGINS IS THE MASTER' TOM CLANCY It's all action and suspense as Sean Dillon and his secret intelligence colleagues seek to help American White House security insider Blake Johnson avenge the death of his ex-wife, a reporter murdered for getting too close to a Mafia story. In London, Beirut and Ireland, the daredevil friends are prepared to risk everything as they combine to thwart the ever more desperate ambition of Mafia frontman Jack Fox. * Here in his eighth adventure, former IRA terrorist turned British Government enforcer Sean Dillon is established as one of the great characters in modern fiction, while Jack Higgins has an unrivalled position as the biggest name in thriller writing around the world. * Fast-paced and relentlessly gripping, Day of Reckoning is one of his finest works, destined to become yet another in a long line of international bestsellers.

Jack Higgins was solider and then a teacher before becoming a full-time writer. The Eagle Has Landed turned him into an internationally best-selling author and his novels have since sold over 250 million copies and been translated into 55 languages. Many of them have also been made into successful films.

Joe Sixsmith is going west. But only as far as Wales, where they keep a welcome in the hillside and the Boyling Corner Choir has been invited to compete in the Llanffugiol Choral Festival.
Trouble is, no one seems to have heard of Llanffugiol. And instead of a welcome, all they find on the hillside is a burning house with a mysterious woman trapped inside. Not a great start, but it gets worse: an aggressive policeman, a patronizing headmaster, a drug-dealing student and a gang of disaffected locals bent on sabotaging the festival.
Surrounded by criminous confusion, Joe begins to uncover crimes that have been buried for years, finding himself in a new dimension where morality is blurred and even the light of truth is a faint glimmer on a very dark hillside.

The new Kate Mattinelli novel from the award-winning Laurie King: 'One of the most literate and gifted writers the mystery world has seen for some time.' Val Mcdermid

From the author of Ferney comes a haunting novel about time and identity set in post-war Britain.

At the age of thirteen, Miles Malan witnesses a horrifying fatal accident, which will never fade from his memory.
Ten years later, in an old trunk in a street market, Mile, as he now likes to be called, catches sight of a photograph that takes him back to that tragic day and will plunge him into an extraordinary story. Going through the contents of the trunk, Mile begins to piece together the life-story of its owner, Max Owen, from the extravagant Thirties in Monaco and St Moritz, through the Second World War, to the shady underworld of post-war London.
Mile has good reason for hiding from the present, but the past, it soon becomes clear, is far from dead. Knowing Max will change Mile's life for ever.

At the beginning of the 21st century, only one institution stands above the sea of corruption into which most governments have fallen. The College, subject only to the control of its Master, is the most powerful and secretive organisation in the world. Five fellows of the College are offered what they most desire - the Mastership. But they must take part in the Game and there can only be one winner.
The Game turns out to be the opposite of what they expect. They have to understand the nature of the context - and quickly if they want to stay alive. Their only clue is an old Chinese puzzle box whose secret has never been revealed. The Game is played all over the world and the players require all their skills to survive. The winner is uncertain until the surprise ending.
Scott McBain's novel is a fascinating puzzle, a rich political thriller, a philosophical debate and a remarkable debut.