Les Broad: 20 books

The Simkins family was more or less normal – mother, father, two teenage children – until the father met an attractive American. Then came divorce, followed by the errant father being the beneficiary of a remarkable stroke of luck. As a result, the Simkins tribe grew to include mother's new boyfriend,...

In a similar style to the earlier 'Two Galaxies', this trio of unconnected but funny science fiction stories have been well received by those who have read them. The first tells the story of Gordon Swift and his financial benefactor, a master criminal of violent tendencies, and how things go very...

England in the early 1990s – a prosperous land where unscrupulous financial cowboys could become rich by ignoring rules. One group of those cowboys hit on a really bright idea when they realised that by professing devout Christianity they could set themselves up as investment managers to a large...

When a multinational corporation becomes so big and so powerful that it is effectively impossible for any Government to regulate or control that corporation can anyone be sure that its activities are legal and ethical? In this third book in the author's commonly themed 'first contact' series, such...

Books set in the world of motor racing offer suffer from one problem: written by people who have a deep understanding of the sport, they just become too technical for most readers. This one avoids that pitfall because it's written from the perspective of a team sponsor, one who freely admits he doesn't...

After a global chemical war most of humanity has perished. Those who remain exist in isolated communities, not knowing if any other such communities survive. But the situation is getting worse: in one community its leaders know that if they don't leave they'll all be dead in a few years. There is...