Books published by The Book Guild Ltd

Who were the victims of Jack the Ripper? And what was the impact of his killings on women at the time, and over the last 150 years?

Max Stafford-Clark, former artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre and founder of the award-winning company Out Of Joint, touches on the highs and lows of a fascinating fifty-four-year career in a series of letters, both professional and personal.

Kabul 2005: the body of Waheed, a UN agency driver, is found in a vehicle riddled with bullet holes. Gil Moncrief searches for Waheed's killer in a city of intrigue and insecurity. In the centre of it all is a small plastic figure of Elvis that dangles from the windscreen; the key to unmasking the killer.

For the Love of a Life is an intimate and searching novel that explores the deepest emotions of a girl who wants both success and true love, but at what cost?

Would you risk everything for a single wish? Nelson Hitchcock's life is forever changed when a stranger begs for help during a school trip to the museum. The reward is his heart's desire and Nelson's only wish is the return of his father, who mysteriously disappeared three years before.

Begins with the auctions of Babylon and ancient Rome and goes on to describe the slave auctions of the 17th and 18th centuries, then on to the rise of the giant auction houses. This second edition takes the story from there to the decades that have followed, including the emergence of China, Japan and Russia and their influence.

Back Stories is a collection of more than thirty, highly personal traveller's tales, embracing adventure, comedy, disaster, romance, stupidity and a miscellany of mishaps, spanning more than five decades on the road.

Set in the Indonesian rainforest, Blind Eye is a fast-paced political environmental thriller exploring moral predicaments and personal choices.

Sarah Braintree is the best Chief of Police that Jersey has ever had, but someone starts killing people. Cryptic notes left on the victims' pique Sarah's interest, and she breaks all protocols by deciding to lead the investigation herself. Will Sarah ever catch this killer and find out why they are doing it?

Summer of 1938 and Veronica and her fascist boyfriend Billy attend a pro-German event. Amid the evening's glamour and fervour, Veronica meets Sir Oswald Mosley and Diana Mitford, who invite her on a trip to Berlin. All over Europe, evil triumphs as good men do nothing, but for Veronica, doing nothing is no longer an option...

In the blink of an eye, Rachel Vincent can be anywhere. It's easy for her because she's dead. But what she can't do is join the others in the warmly lit room beyond the glass and be at peace, until she remembers what happened to her on the day she died. Who killed her, and why?

This novel revolves around Thomas (an English fisherman), his flatmate Roderigo and a mysterious woman, Mariella. Thomas and Roderigo both fall under Mariella's spell, but as their relationships strengthen, friendships are destroyed, falsehoods are told, and dark pasts are revealed.

A dead body is discovered at the Cape by a local volunteer coastguard Watchkeeper who decides in a spirit of Cornish self-reliance to pursue his own investigation of the affair, which is baffling the local police. With the Cornish police now closing in on the investigation, can the couple escape before the conspiracy can take effect?

BOND is a charming, if somewhat self-obsessed, horse who describes his and HIS HUMAN'S journey, charting the highs and lows of equine and human life with humour throughout.

Whether it is the resuscitated corpse that visits a hotel gust in The House of the Dead or the maleficent returning warlock cocooning a tomb robber in Mad Allen, Bell knows that what we fear most is the sensation of being afraid and that it is the reader's imagination which conjures up the true phantoms of terror.