Escape the Everyday with Sykes Holiday Cottages and Gillian McAllister’s Famous Last Words! Just like Camilla’s world is thrown into chaos when her husband Luke disappears, only to become the centre of a shocking hostage situation, life can sometimes feel overwhelming. But at Sykes Holiday Cottages, we believe everyone deserves a peaceful retreat, an opportunity […]

An extract from the debut novel by Rachel Louise Driscoll, Nephthys is the spellbinding story of a forgotten daughter and a forgotten goddess, moving from Victorian England to the pyramids of Egypt. Unwrapping1887 It lies there, on the table. Bundled like a caterpillar in its chrysalis, still waiting to emerge. When she was young, she […]

We are deeply saddened to announce the death of David Lodge, CBE. He died peacefully with close family at his side. We have published David since 1975, when his seminal fifth novel Changing Places was first issued by Secker & Warburg, right up to his final volume of autobiography, Varying Degrees of Success, in 2021. […]