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Patrick Taylor's Irish Country novels follow two doctors, Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly and Barry Laverty, in rural Northern Ireland. A second line, the Irish Troubles books, turns to political violence. Taylor's catalogue holds 23 titles, from The West Clare Railway (1994) to An Irish Country Yuletide (2021), with short stories and non-fiction alongside. No new Taylor title has appeared since 2021.

Cozy mystery is Patti Benning's entire field, and food supplies many of the titles. Benning's catalogue reaches 300 books published between 2016 and 2026, opening with Killer Caramel Cookies and arriving at Barbecue Bedlam. Papa Pacelli's Pizzeria and Darling Deli sit alongside Search and Rescue, Rambling RV, Sit, Stay, Sleep, Nightsmith Novelties, Real Estate Rescue, Egret Isle and Cozy Mystery Tails of Alaska. Benning remains in active publication.

Family secrets, marriage and the ties between fathers and daughters run through Patti Callahan Henry's fiction. Losing the Moon (2004) opens the catalogue, followed by Where the River Runs (2005), Between the Tides (2007), The Art of Keeping Secrets (2008) and Driftwood Summer (2009). Nineteen titles are catalogued, reaching The Story She Left Behind in 2025.

Patti Larsen's catalogue is one of the largest in the directory: 223 books published between Cat City (2010) and Caught Dead (2026). Young adult fantasy and horror fill the early run, Hayle Coven, Hayle Coven Destinies, Whitewitch Island, the Nightshade Cases, while the later books turn to cosy mystery in the Fiona Fleming, Fleming Investigations, Daisy Bruce, Persephone Pringle and Delaine Baker series. Ghosts, siblings, orphans and witches recur throughout.

Patti Smith

19 books• 1 series

Patti Smith (Patricia Lee Smith, born December 30, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, poet and author who combines rock and poetry. The 1975 album Horses placed Smith in the New York City punk rock movement. Because the Night, co-written with Bruce Springsteen, reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1978. The catalogue lists 19 books from Seventh Heaven (1972) to Bread of Angels: A Memoir (2025), including Babel (1978), Woolgathering (1992) and Auguries of Innocence (2005). Smith entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.

Paty Jager divides 74 books between historical western romance and mystery. The Halsey Brothers and the Petticoat titles carry the romance, beginning with Gambling on an Angel and Marshal in Petticoats in 2006, while the Shandra Higheagle Mystery, Gabriel Hawke and Spotted Pony Casino series carry the crime. Jager reached Captured Hummingbird in 2026 and keeps publishing.

Paul Auster

45 books• 1 series

Paul Auster, born in 1947 and died in 2024, was an American novelist, memoirist, poet and filmmaker whose fiction keeps returning to New York, authorship and the shape of a life. The New York Trilogy, City of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room, is the best known work, alongside Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), The Brooklyn Follies (2005), Invisible (2009), Sunset Park (2010), Winter Journal (2012) and 4 3 2 1 (2017). Auster's books have been translated into more than 40 languages. Forty-five titles are catalogued, from White Spaces (1980) to Bloodbath Nation (2023).

Coroner mysteries make up the core of Paul Austin Ardoin's catalogue: The Reluctant Coroner, The Incumbent Coroner, The Candidate Coroner and their successors carry the Fenway Stevenson series. Two other sequences run alongside, the Woodhead & Becker Mysteries, also published as Murders of Substance, and Time Loop Detective. Twenty books have appeared since Bad Weather in 2018, the latest The Disloyal Coroner in 2025.

Paul Cleave

14 books• 3 series

Paul Cleave is a crime writer from New Zealand. The catalogue holds 14 books published between 2006 and 2023, opening with The Cleaner (2006) and running through Cemetery Lake (2008), Blood Men (2010), The Laughterhouse (2012) and Trust No One (2015). The Theodore Tate and Cleaner series sit alongside a body of standalone novels. Serial murder, private investigation and psychological suspense are the recurring subjects.

Paul Doherty writes historical mysteries set largely in England, with 127 books catalogued from The Death of a King (1985) to The Meadows of Murder (2026). Recurring detectives include Hugh Corbett, Brother Athelstan, Kathryn Swinbrooke and Amerotke. Other series cover the Canterbury Tales Mysteries, Ancient Rome, Egyptian Mysteries, Nicholas Segalla, Mathilde of Westminster, Margaret Beaufort and Vlad Drakulya. Satan in St Mary's (1986) and Spy in Chancery (1988) are among the early titles.

Paul Doiron is the author of the Mike Bowditch series of crime novels. Subjects attached to the books include game wardens, wilderness areas, Maine, missing persons and murder. The catalogue holds 26 books between 1998 and 2026; the earliest listed title is Eating Between The Lines (1998), and The Poacher's Son (2010), Trespasser (2011), Bad Little Falls (2012) and Massacre Pond (2013) follow. Storm Tide (2026) is the newest entry.

Paul Finch

75 books• 14 series

Paul Finch is an English author and scriptwriter who started on the television series The Bill and wrote for children's animation before turning to prose. More than 300 Finch short stories have run in magazines including All Hallows and Black Static, and Finch edits the Terror Tales horror anthologies. The catalogue holds 79 books from The Shadows Beneath (2000) onward, with In the Forest of the Night in 2026 and Dark Skies scheduled for 2027. DS Mark Heckenburg anchors the crime novels and Lucy Clayburn is a second heading; Finch has also written Doctor Who tie-in work. Anthology volumes such as The Black Book of Horror sit in the listing alongside the novels.

Paul Gallico

45 books• 3 series

Paul Gallico (1897-1976) wrote novels, short stories and sports journalism, and many of his books reached the screen. The Snow Goose (1941) is his most critically successful title; The Poseidon Adventure is known mainly through the 1972 film; and four novels follow the character Mrs. Harris, catalogued here as the Mrs. 'Arris series. The Dunkirk evacuation of 1940, the Second World War, cats, geese and Paris recur among his subjects, across 45 catalogued titles that open with The Adventures of Hiram Holliday (1939). Books median 160 pages, and the 1960s were Gallico's heaviest decade.

Paul Heatley writes action thrillers and crime fiction. The catalogue holds 45 books published between 2015 and 2026, opening with six 2015 titles - The Boy, The Mess, The Motel Whore, The Pitbull, The Vampire and Three - and reaching Close Range in 2026. Tom Rollins Thriller is the largest series, alongside An Eye For An Eye, First Sleeper and Christmas Crime Story. Books run to a median 222 pages, and Heatley remains actively publishing.

Paul J. Bennett's catalogue holds 43 books published between 2017 and 2026, organised into four series: Heir to the Crown, Frozen Flame, Power Ascending and the Chronicles of Cyric. Crowns, magic and invented realms give the titles their vocabulary. A long run of Crown books forms the spine, from Servant of the Crown (2017) through Sword of the Crown, Heart of the Crown, Burden of the Crown and Fate of the Crown to Victory of the Crown in 2026. Mercerian Tales: Stories of the Past (2018) collects shorter pieces, and the books sit at a median of 340 pages.

Paul Kemprecos writes mysteries and adventure fiction. Aristotle Socarides, a Greek American private investigator on Cape Cod, carries six underwater detective thrillers that won Kemprecos a Shamus Award, starting with Cool Blue Tomb (1991). Kemprecos also co-wrote the NUMA Files with Clive Cussler, a series built on Kurt Austin of NUMA's Special Assignments Team. The catalogue holds 12 titles, reaching The God in the Sea (2024), and takes in the Matt Hawkins adventures.

Legal thrillers make up most of Paul Levine's work. Jake Lassiter, a former football player turned Miami lawyer, carries fifteen of the 28 catalogued books, starting with To Speak for the Dead (1990). Levine also wrote the four Solomon vs. Lord novels in the mid-2000s and the Einstein-Chaplin books, which draw on the friendship between Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin. Miami, murder trials and lawyers fill the subject tags, and Midnight Patriots (2026) is his newest title.

The Bee Sting (2023) is the most recent of four novels by Paul Murray, an Irish writer born in 1975 who also works in essays, short fiction and screenwriting. Before it came The Mark and the Void (2015), Skippy Dies (2010) and his first book, An Evening of Long Goodbyes (2003). Private schools, teenage boys and the children of rich families supply much of the material. Murray wrote the screenplay for Metal Heart.

Paul Sussman (1966-2012) was an English novelist, archaeologist and journalist. Egypt, antiquities and archaeological excavation run through the fiction, with Yusuf Khalifa the named series; titles include The Lost Army of Cambyses (2002), The Last Secret of the Temple (2005), The Hidden Oasis (2008) and The Labyrinth of Osiris (2012). The Independent called the novels the intelligent reader's answer to The Da Vinci Code. Six titles are catalogued, opening with Death by Spaghetti (1996) and closing with The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius Phoenix (2014).

Paul Theroux

68 books• 1 series

Travel writing and fiction have occupied Paul Theroux since 1968. Born in 1941, the American writer is catalogued here with 68 books, from Fong and the Indians (1968) to True North: On the Road in Canada (2026). The Great Railway Bazaar (1975) is his best known travelogue. The Mosquito Coast took the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981, was filmed in 1986 and became a television series in 2021. Railways, voyages and description of place recur throughout the catalogue, which is ongoing.

Paul Tremblay

22 books• 5 series

Horror, dark fantasy and science fiction make up Paul Tremblay's work, and Tremblay, born in 1971, edits as well as writes. A Head Full of Ghosts, The Cabin at the End of the World and Survivor Song are the most widely read of the novels. Private investigation, Boston, paranoia and narcolepsy recur as subjects, and the Mark Genevich series runs beside the standalone books. Twenty-two titles are catalogued through Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep (2026). Tremblay has won multiple Bram Stoker Awards and sat as a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards.

Cold War espionage is Paul Vidich's subject, written around the Central Intelligence Agency and its operations from Korea to Cuba. Seven books are catalogued: An Honorable Man (2016), The Good Assassin (2017), The Coldest Warrior (2020), The Mercenary (2021), The Matchmaker (2022), Beirut Station (2023) and The Poet's Game. George Mueller and Alex Matthews head the two series.

Witches recur throughout Paula Brackston's fiction, The Witch's Daughter (2008), The Winter Witch (2013), The Midnight Witch (2014) and The Silver Witch (2015) among them. Twenty catalogued books run from The Dragon's Trail (1999) to Hecate Cavendish and the Angel of Death in 2026, with the Brothers Grimm Mysteries, Found Things and the Shadow Chronicles as further series. Immortality, the occult and Merlin figure in the subjects.

Paula Daly writes domestic suspense. Six standalone novels make up the catalogue: Just What Kind of Mother Are You? (2013), Keep Your Friends Close (2014), The Mistake I Made (2015), The Trophy Child (2017), Open Your Eyes (2018) and Clear My Name (2019). Marriage, adultery, secrets, teenage girls and missing children supply the material, and no new title has appeared since 2019.

Paula Hawkins

5 books• 2 series

Paula Hawkins is a British author, born 26 August 1972, whose psychological thriller The Girl on the Train (2015) became a top seller. The Girl on the Train takes up domestic violence, alcohol and drug abuse, and was filmed in 2016 with Emily Blunt. Into the Water (2017) was the second Hawkins thriller. The catalogue lists 5 books: The Girl on the Train, Into the Water, A Slow Fire Burning (2021), Blind Spot (2022) and The Blue Hour (2024).

Paula McLain, born 1965, is an American author best known for The Paris Wife (2011), a novel imagining Ernest Hemingway's first marriage that spent a long time on the New York Times bestseller list. McLain has published two poetry collections, a memoir about growing up in foster care, and the novel A Ticket to Ride (2008). The catalogue of 12 books opens with Less of Her (1999) and includes Circling the Sun (2015), Love and Ruin (2018) and When the Stars Go Dark (2021). Skylark (2026) is the newest title.

Paula Munier writes the Mercy and Elvis Mystery series, and the catalogue lists 10 books from Fixing Freddie (2010) to The Snow Lies Deep (2025). A Borrowing of Bones (2018) and Blind Search (2019) followed Fixing Freddie, with Home at Night (2023) and The Night Woods (2024) among later titles. Subjects include women veterans, rescue dogs, wilderness areas, abandoned children and cold cases. The books are catalogued as police procedurals and women-sleuth mysteries.

Scotland is Paula Quinn's subject. The American novelist writes historical romance built on Highlanders, Scottish history and the Norman conquest, and has said the country's culture, history and beauty drew her to it. Quinn's series include the MacGregors: Highland Heirs, Children of the Mist, Hearts of the Highlands, the Risande Family and Hearts of the Conquest. Forty-three books run from Lord of Desire (2005) to 2026, and Quinn has reached the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists.

Paulette Jiles

18 books

Paulette Jiles (1943-2025) was an American poet, memoirist and novelist. Her 18 catalogued books run from the poetry collection Waterloo Express (1973) to the novel Chenneville (2023). Recurring subjects include North American history, the American West, Indigenous peoples of North America and railroad travel. Jiles also published as Paulette K. Jiles.

Ancient Egypt is where Pauline Gedge set most of her historical fiction. Gedge, born in 1945, is a Canadian novelist whose 14 catalogued books span Child of the Morning (1977) to The King's Man (2010). Lords of the Two Lands and Lady of the Reeds are the Egyptian sequences; The Eagle and the Raven (1978) turns to the Britons and Stargate (1982) to fantasy. Gedge's novels have sold more than six million copies in 18 languages, and the first four carried cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon. The catalogue is likely complete.

Pauline Rowson writes police procedural crime fiction. DI Andy Horton is the recurring detective of the Solent Murder Mystery series, and Inspector Alun Ryga and Art Marvik head the other two sequences. Thirty-two books run from In Cold Daylight (2006) to Death on the Pier (2026), several of them retitled for other markets: Tide of Death also appears as The Portsmouth Murders, Deadly Waters as The Langstone Harbour Murders. Cold cases, missing persons and murder investigation recur as subjects.

Paullina Simons, born in Russia in 1963 and writing from America, is best known for The Bronze Horseman (2000), which grew into a series with The Bridge to Holy Cross / Tatiana and Alexander (2003) and The Summer Garden (2005). Saint Petersburg and New York recur as settings, alongside historical romance and suspense. Her catalogue opens with Tully (1994) and takes in Red Leaves (1996), Eleven Hours (1998) and The Girl in Times Square (2004), reaching The Bell and the Blade (2025) at 21 books. The novels run long, at a median of 563 pages.

Paulo Coelho

35 books• 2 series

Pilgrimage, metaphysics and the conduct of life run through Paulo Coelho's writing, catalogued under Portuguese fiction and listed in Spanish and Russian translation as well. The Pilgrimage and The Diary of a Magus (1987) open the list, and The Alchemist (1988), Brida (1990), By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994) and The Fifth Mountain (1996) follow. Thirty-five catalogued titles reach The Supreme Gift in 2026.

Pearl S. Buck

99 books• 1 series

China is the subject Pearl S. Buck is catalogued for. East Wind: West Wind (1930) is the earliest of 99 entries, followed by The Good Earth (1931), Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935); House Of Earth is the one named series. Farm life, marriage, families and social customs fill the subject tags. No newer title is dated, and the listing is marked likely complete.

Fantasy is Pedro Urvi's genre across 36 catalogued books. Urvi writes three series, Path of the Ranger, Ilenian Enigma and Secret of the Golden Gods, starting with Marked (2012) and continuing to Omnius Skies (2026). One-word titles mark the early run: Conflict (2013), Destiny (2014), Trials (2016), Origin (2017) and Rebellion (2018).

Peg Cochran writes cozy mysteries with women sleuths, five series of them: Gourmet De-Lite Mysteries, Cranberry Cove Mysteries, Farmer's Daughter Mysteries, Lucille Mysteries and Murder, She Reported. Catering, cooking, farms and Michigan supply the trades and settings around which the murders happen. Cochran's catalogue holds 26 books, from Allergic to Death (2012) to Where the Bodies Are Berried (2025).

Peggy Ehrhart writes mysteries, and the catalogue lists 18 books from Sweet Man Is Gone (2008) to The Quilt Whisperer Investigates (2026). Series include the Maxx Maxwell Mysteries and the Quilt Whisperer Mystery books, and the Knit & Nibble Mystery name also appears in the listing. Women blues musicians, women sleuths, murder investigation and cozy mystery are among the recorded subjects. Murder Gets the Blues (2010), Died in the Wool (2018), Murder, She Knit (2018) and Knit One, Die Two (2019) are among the titles.

Peggy Rowe writes humorous memoir. Four books are catalogued: About My Mother (2018), About Your Father and Other Celebrities I Have Known (2020), Vacuuming in the Nude: And Other Ways to Get Attention (2022) and Oh No, Not The Home: Observations and Confessions of a Grandmother in Transition (2024). Family, celebrity and the Baltimore Orioles appear among the subjects.

Peggy Townsend writes suspense and domestic thrillers. Aloa Snow, a journalist, carries the mystery series that opens with See Her Run (2018) and continues in The Thin Edge (2019). Five books are catalogued: Safe Landings (2013), those two, The Beautiful and the Wild (2023) and The Botanist's Assistant (2025). Women athletes, running, eating disorders and secrecy recur as subjects.

Penelope Barsetti has 19 catalogued books published between 2021 and 2026. The run opens with The Forsaken King (2021) and reaches Goddess of Death (2026). Three series organise it: Death, Dirty Blood and Depths. Titles across the catalogue name kings, queens, vampires and dragons, among them The Broken Queen (2022), The Forsaken Vampire (2023), Blood of Dragons (2024) and Clash of Kingdoms (2024). Barsetti remains actively publishing.

Penelope Bloom writes contemporary romance, 52 books of it catalogued since 2016. His, Mine and Dark all appeared in her first year, and the series since include Objects of Attraction, Citrione Crime Family, Grumpy Boss, Frosty Harbor, My (Mostly) Funny Romance and Confluence Academy. The Wedding Wrecker (2025) is the newest catalogued title, with Unveiled scheduled for 2027.

Penelope Douglas writes contemporary romance and New Adult fiction. The catalogue counts 27 books, headed by Bully and running to Midnight Curfew (2026), with the series Fall Away, Devil's Night and Hellbent. Subjects tagged on the books include dark, enemies-to-lovers, forbidden-love and second-chance themes. Other titles are Rival, Corrupt, Misconduct and Punk 57. Douglas is still publishing.

Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England, and a winner of the Booker Prize. The Times placed Fitzgerald among the 50 greatest British writers since 1945 in 2008, and in 2012 The Observer listed her final novel, The Blue Flower, among the ten best historical novels. A.S. Byatt called her Jane Austen's nearest heir for precision and invention. Sixteen books are catalogued between 1975 and 2008, opening with Edward Burne-Jones (1975) and taking in The Bookshop (1978), Offshore (1979), Human Voices (1980), At Freddie's (1982) and The Beginning of Spring (1988).

Penelope Lively

65 books• 3 series

Penelope Lively, born in 1933, is a British writer of fiction for children and for adults, and holds the title Dame. Moon Tiger took the Booker Prize in 1987, and The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (1973) won the Carnegie Medal for British children's books. Her catalogue runs to 65 titles published between 1970 and 2021, from Astercote (1970) to Metamorphosis (2021), taking in The Whispering Knights (1971), The Driftway (1972), The House in Norham Gardens (1974) and A Stitch in Time (1976). Ghost stories, English social life, the Second World War, and space and time recur as subjects.

Penelope Sky has a catalogue of 72 books, beginning with Buttons and Lace (2016) and reaching By Blade, I Love (2026), with The Emperor listed for 2027. The subject headings classify the work as romantic suspense. Titles such as Buttons and Blame, Buttons and Hate and The Scotch King appeared in 2017. Sky's series include Buttons, Scotch, Betrothed, Chateau, Fifth Republic, Skull, By Blade and Roman Republic.

Contemporary romance is the register of Penelope Ward's catalogue, which runs to 29 books published between 2013 and 2026. Ward opened with Gemini and Jake Undone in 2013, and The Challenge (2026) is the newest listed title. Jake and Man Next Door are the two series recorded under Ward's name. Early titles include My Skylar (2014), Stepbrother Dearest (2014), Sins of Sevin (2015) and RoomHate (2016). Ward is still publishing.

Penn Cole is catalogued under fantasy, with 4 books published between 2023 and 2026 and a series listing named Kindred's Curse. Spark of the Everflame (2023) is recorded as the first title. Glow of the Everflame and Heat of the Everflame also carry 2023 dates, and Burn of the Everflame (2026) is the newest. Penn Cole is still publishing.

Motorcycle clubs and crime families carry Penny Dee's fiction. Six series make up the 18 catalogued books, led by Kings of Mayhem MC and its Tennessee offshoot, with De Kysa Mafia, Zarkov Bratva, MC Fables and Men of Mirror Lake Mountain alongside. Dee started in 2019 with Kings of Mayhem and four further titles that year, and published Twisted Temptation in 2026.

Penny Jordan is one of the pen names of Penelope Halsall, born Penelope Jones, an English novelist who lived from 24 November 1946 to 31 December 2011. Halsall produced more than 200 romance novels: contemporary romance as Penny Jordan, Regency romance as Caroline Courtney and historical romance as Annie Groves, the maiden name of Halsall's mother. Melinda Wright and Lydia Hitchcock were two further pen names. Sales passed 70 million copies, with translations into many languages. The catalogue lists 210 books from 1979 to 2019, and the earliest entries, such as A Wager For Love (1979), carry the Caroline Courtney name. Series include Perfect Crightons, Jet Set Wives, Leopardi Brothers, Parenti Dynasty and Russian Rivals.

Penny Reid writes humorous contemporary romance. Neanderthal Seeks Human (2013) is the earliest title in a catalogue of 59 that reaches Prom King (2026), and Knitting in the City, the Winston Brothers, Hypothesis, Rugby, Good Folk, Dear Professor and the Handcrafted Mysteries are the series. Knitters, psychotherapists, park rangers and women comedians appear among the occupations in the subject tags.

Penny Vincenzi wrote long sagas of wealth, publishing and London society. The British novelist, born in 1939 and died in 2018, has 22 catalogued titles published between 1977 and 2017, from The Compleat Liar (1977) to At the Heart of It (2017). Spoils Of Time is her one catalogued series, and the Lytton family, rich people, married life and adultery run through the subject headings. Her novels are long, at a median of about 640 pages, and sales had passed seven million copies by 2014.

Penny Warner writes in two halves. One is mystery: the Connor Westphal books, with deaf women and women journalists in the subject record, plus the Party-Planning and Food Festival mysteries, the Code Busters Club for children and Troop 13. That work has taken multiple Agatha Awards. The other half is practical non-fiction, more than 50 titles on cooking, parenting, parties and children's activities, starting with Healthy Snacks for Kids (1983). Seventy-one books are catalogued through The Search for the Missing Mascot (2025).

Pepper North has 149 books in the catalogue. The first, The Digestive Health Center: Susan's Story, dates from 2017; the most recent, Melissa, from 2026, and Diablo is announced for 2027. Series credited to North include Dr. Richards' Littles, Little Cakes, SANCTUM, Magic of Twelve, Soldier Daddies, Danger Bluff and Devil Daddies MC. Early titles include Electrostatic Bonds, Hazel and Looking After Lindy, all from 2018.

Pepper Winters writes dark romance, romantic suspense and erotica thrillers. Her 55 catalogued books open with Tears of Tess and Quintessentially Q, both 2013, and reach Coal Hearts (2026). The series arrive in duets and trilogies: Monsters In The Dark, Dollar, Goddess Isles, Ribbon Duet, Jewelry Box, Darkest Destiny Trilogy, Pure Corruption MC, Master Of Trickery Duet, Luna Duet, Can't Touch This and Destini Chronicles. Dominance and submission, bondage and contemporary man-woman relationships recur across the subject index. Winters has reached the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller lists, holds an IndieReader badge for a top ten indie bestseller in romance, and has been translated into nine languages.

Percival Everett

36 books

Percival Everett, born December 22, 1956, is an American author and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. The fiction moves across western, mystery, thriller, satire and philosophical forms, often using satire to examine race and identity in the United States. Erasure (2001), I Am Not Sidney Poitier (2009) and The Trees (2021), shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, are the best-known novels. The catalogue lists 37 books from Suder (1983) to James (2024), with Serious Music due in 2027, and includes short stories and poetry.

Perri O'Shaughnessy is the pen name of two sisters, Mary and Pamela O'Shaughnessy, writing together from Northern California. Pamela trained at Harvard Law School and practised as a trial lawyer for sixteen years; Mary worked as an editor and writer on multimedia projects. Their legal suspense series follows Nina Reilly, a woman lawyer, across 15 books from Motion to Suppress (1995) to Dreams of the Dead (2011). Courtroom language marks the run, Invasion of Privacy, Obstruction of Justice, Acts of Malice, Writ of Execution.

Perry Comer has published 65 catalogued books since 2001, from Parish Nightmare to No Friend in Sight in 2026. The Donland books, continued as Donland and The Hornet, form the longest series, with Fighting Marines, Tap Miller, Big Bob's Boys, Asher and Blake, and the Pastors titles beside them. A cluster of five titles appeared in 2012 alone, and the 2020s are the densest decade. Comer continues to publish.

DI Munro and DS West carry almost all of Pete Brassett's crime fiction, a Scottish police pairing working murder cases across a long series. Twenty books run from Clam Chowder at Lafayette and Spring (2013) to Ruse (2022), with Avarice (2017) among the earlier entries. No title has appeared since 2022, and the catalogue is dormant.

Peter Ackroyd

70 books• 4 series

Peter Ackroyd is an English novelist, biographer and critic, born in 1949, whose standing subject is the history and culture of London. Seventy books are catalogued from London Lickpenny (1973) to Forgotten London (2025). Biography fills much of the list, in Chaucer (1980), Ezra Pound and His World (1980), T.S. Eliot (1984) and later lives of William Blake, Charles Dickens, Charlie Chaplin and Sir Thomas More; the novels include The Great Fire of London (1982), The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983) and Hawksmoor (1985). Ackroyd's Brief Lives, Voyages Through Time, a History of England and Shakespeare: the Biography are the series. The Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards followed.

Peter Benchley

13 books

Peter Benchley (1940-2006) was an American novelist best known for Jaws (1974), whose screen adaptation he co-wrote with Carl Gottlieb. The Deep (1976), The Island (1979), Beast (1991) and White Shark (1994) were also adapted for cinema and television. The 13 catalogued books run from Time and a Ticket (1964) to Shark Life (2002). Benchley later regretted his writing about sharks, judging that it fed fear and false belief already in place, and became an advocate for marine conservation.