Gibson Square: 57 books

"Helena Frith Powell noticed her first wrinkle when she accidentally caught sight of herself in her car's rear-view mirror. It set her off on an entertaining quest with herself as guineapig to try and test both the simplest and the most invasive weapons in the battle against the effects of time...

Heart-warming.' Mail on Sunday 'Funny, moving and really helpful.' Esther Rantzen Your first child will change your life. But what if you have three at the same time! Eleven years ago, Ian Mucklejohn had triplet sons as a single father and was outnumbered three to one from the very beginning. Ian...

Meet Tony Underwood, newly retired from MI5, and Arshile Grekov, oligarch, London expat, recluse and ex-colonel in the Russian secret service. Forced by lack of money, Tony has joined his former adversary to protect the billionaire and his scheming son from a suspicious Kremlin. Soon he is in over...

Following the success of her first four humorous poetry books, Liz Cowley now returns with a new and fresh collection on gardening, written in her inimitable, light-hearted style. Often clipping and pottering first thing in the morning, Liz turns her wicked wit on ants and weeds, early frost and slippery...

‘A masterwork.’ THE INDEPENDENT ‘Too juicy to ignore.’ THE TIMES ‘The grown-up way to love.’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘The recipe for happiness?’ TELEGRAPH ‘How we manage love and relationships.’ OBSERVER ‘Can having an affair save your marriage?’ Bel Mooney, DAILY MAIL Is the internet...

Chronic pain is associated with a host of conditions for which traditional medicine has no cure. Increasingly, medical practitioners look to acupuncture to manage pain and other conditions - with over 1 million people in the UK being helped every year, and an estimated 20 million in the USA. This...

In this new book, the first ever collection of letters from the legendary letters page of the Tunbridge Wells Advertiser, we are offered an insight into what makes complaining so much fun. Decrying everything from telephones to the excessive singing of Christmas carols, and providing unusual and often...

Julie, a young doctor, is running late. She is about to pick up her daughter from school close to the City of London when there is an explosion. Sirens shriek. A police van tells everyone to take cover from radiation. She huddles in a shop with strangers -City workers, an Asian girl, an American,...

‘Riveting and intriguing.’ Jung Chang, Wild Swans. A bloody insurrection in China’s turbulent New Silk Road province. The Guoanbu, the counter-intelligence agency, invites MI5 to interrogate a captured British gunrunner. The task falls to Tony Underwood, who finds himself sucked into an investigation...

Martin Peters finds himself in Berlin. Once a British spy involved in a controversial loyalist shooting in Belfast, he spent time in Berlin infiltrating the Punk scene just before the Wall came down. Now in his thirties, he is a detective in the local police force. He is struggling - two naked...

After being innocently embroiled in a school scandal, teacher Judith Hay decides there is only one thing she can do: leave Britain. The small village of Vevey in Languedoc near Montpellier seems the perfect answer. Life is cheap and the views are pretty. Vevey, however, may well be the French answer...

How does a mother become estranged from her daughter? Miriam Frank was born in Barcelona on the cusp of the Spanish Civil War among the many young, non-conformist people congregating from all over Europe wanting to fight fascism and social injustice - George Orwell, Willy Brandt, and many others....

Behind an unassuming door in the leafy Hampstead suburb of London, far far away from the flashing light-bulbs, is The Place -planet celebrity's best kept secret. When actors, sportsmen and TV presenters fall apart, The Place is where they are put back together. Where else can you have paparazzi therapy,...

‘Open with caution, funny and deeply disturbing.’ The Oldie. ‘Wicked, great comic characters.’ Anne Robinson. ‘Seductive.’ Lisa Segrave. This mischievous novel set in Lucca centres around an unexpectedly passionate affair and the delicate ripples caused around it. There is Patricia, a...