William Coles – författare

Meet Kim – a middle-aged hack, ripe for a mid-life crisis.

Meet Kate – his feisty colleague, half his age.

And meet the Marathon des Sables – not just the world’s toughest footrace, but also the burning furnace where two journalists fall in love.

Kim is married and in a dead-end job on a Red Top newspaper. He’s always dreamed of running the Marathon des Sables.

Kate hurls down the gauntlet and Kim can’t help but pick it up.

Based on the events of the 2012 Marathon des Sables, this is a story about finding love in the searing crucible of the Sahara.

Seventeen-year-old schoolboy Kim is an idle drifter at one of Britain''s most extraordinary institutions, Eton College - crammed with over a thousand boys and not a girl in sight. His head is full of the Falklands War and a possible army career, until the day he hears his new piano teacher, the beautiful but pained India, playing Bach''s Well-Tempered Clavier. Kim''s life is destined never to be the same again.

An intensely passionate affair develops and he wallows in the wild and unaccustomed thrill of first love. Twenty-five years on, Kim recalls that heady summer and how their fledgling relationship was so brutally snuffed out - finished off by his enemies, by the constraints of Eton, and by his own withering jealousy.

''Charming, moving, uplifting. Why can''t all love stories be like this?'' The Wall Street Journal

''This is a charming and uplifting book'' Piers Morgan

''What a read! Every schoolboy’s dream comes true in this deftly-written treatment of illicit romance. A triumph'' Alexander McCall Smith

''Honesty, beauty, and passion pervade the novel but so do humour, youthfulness and energy'' Stuck in a Book

''An outstanding debut novel. A wonderful story of first love. Few male authors can write about romance in a way which appeals to women - but Coles has managed it quite brilliantly'' Sunday Express

''My own piano teacher was called Mr Bagston and frankly I don''t think any power on earth could have persuaded us to create a scene of the kind Coles so movingly describes!'' Boris Johnson

''Passionate and excruciatingly compelling'' www.curledup.com

''The writing is such that regardless of how much appeal the setting of Eton should have for all the Anglophiles out there, the delicate and deliberate prose will be what ensures the devotion of the reader until the very last page'' Alcott and Earhart literary blog

''A brilliantly plotted and paced evocation of an affair between a 17-year-old schoolboy and his 23-year-old piano teacher in Eton in the spring of 1982, the Falklands war rumbling in the background'' The Oldie

''This is a delightful story that tumbles along, building tension again and again as both Kim and India throw caution to the wind putting their illicit love affair in constant danger of exposure'' The Small Press Review

''It encompasses all the emotions of being in love, but also of lust, envy, and worries for the future; this is certainly one to read again'' Student Direct, the UK''s leading student newspaper

''One of the most romantic books I have ever read, beautifully written and characterised'' Amazon

‘The book is a thorough-going dissection of first love and, more specifically, first jealousy'' Readme.cc

''Reading Coles'' book has inspired me not only to listen more carefully and frequently to the Bach piano music which sits, ever ready, in my PC’s iTunes Library…[but to play it]'' Musings from a Muddy Island

Seventeen-year-old schoolboy Kim is an idle drifter at one of Britain's most extraordinary institutions, Eton College - crammed with over a thousand boys and not a girl in sight. His head is full of the Falklands War and a possible army career, until the day he hears his new piano teacher, the beautiful but pained India, playing Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Kim's life is destined never to be the same again.

An intensely passionate affair develops and he wallows in the wild and unaccustomed thrill of first love. Twenty-five years on, Kim recalls that heady summer and how their fledgling relationship was so brutally snuffed out - finished off by his enemies, by the constraints of Eton, and by his own withering jealousy.

'Charming, moving, uplifting. Why can't all love stories be like this?' The Wall Street Journal

'This is a charming and uplifting book' Piers Morgan

'What a read! Every schoolboy’s dream comes true in this deftly-written treatment of illicit romance. A triumph' Alexander McCall Smith

'Honesty, beauty, and passion pervade the novel but so do humour, youthfulness and energy' Stuck in a Book

'An outstanding debut novel. A wonderful story of first love. Few male authors can write about romance in a way which appeals to women - but Coles has managed it quite brilliantly' Sunday Express

'My own piano teacher was called Mr Bagston and frankly I don't think any power on earth could have persuaded us to create a scene of the kind Coles so movingly describes!' Boris Johnson

'Passionate and excruciatingly compelling' www.curledup.com

'The writing is such that regardless of how much appeal the setting of Eton should have for all the Anglophiles out there, the delicate and deliberate prose will be what ensures the devotion of the reader until the very last page' Alcott and Earhart literary blog

'A brilliantly plotted and paced evocation of an affair between a 17-year-old schoolboy and his 23-year-old piano teacher in Eton in the spring of 1982, the Falklands war rumbling in the background' The Oldie

'This is a delightful story that tumbles along, building tension again and again as both Kim and India throw caution to the wind putting their illicit love affair in constant danger of exposure' The Small Press Review

'It encompasses all the emotions of being in love, but also of lust, envy, and worries for the future; this is certainly one to read again' Student Direct, the UK's leading student newspaper

'One of the most romantic books I have ever read, beautifully written and characterised' Amazon

‘The book is a thorough-going dissection of first love and, more specifically, first jealousy' Readme.cc

'Reading Coles' book has inspired me not only to listen more carefully and frequently to the Bach piano music which sits, ever ready, in my PC’s iTunes Library…[but to play it]' Musings from a Muddy Island

One man miraculously survives the Atomic Bomb of Hiroshima. Two days later he catches the last train home. Home to Nagasaki.

He arrives just 90 minutes before the world's second atomic bomb explodes into his life.

As he battles through the scene of apocalyptic destruction, surrounded by unthinkable suffering, he is plagued by one constant question: is he lucky, or unlucky? This is his answer: he's the luckiest man alive.

'Compellingly vivid, the most sustained description of apocalypse since Robert Harris's Pompeii.' The Financial Times

Here and in his own words, Cowell spills the beans on his superstar chums, including Madonna, Cheryl Cole and Piers ''Magnificent'' Morgan - and not forgetting, of course, his secret passion for Angelina Jolie.

Gunned down by a fan, Cowell wakes up in hospital to find he''s got no money, no home and no mates. Worse still, his face looks like it''s been through a blender; a tough blow indeed for the vainest man in Britain.

Cowell is on a quest for fame and fortune. But will he ever be able to win back his elusive Mojo - The Sex Factor?

Eton Rogue is a hilarious and shocking story of scandal and rebellion – all set in the heart of the world’s most famous school, Eton College.

Meet our Eton Rogue: Seventeen-year-old Cary, now embarking on his extraordinary final year at Eton. Prince William has joined the school and the British tabloids are ravenous for headlines. Cary is the mole who’s making thousands selling stories to the Sun newspaper - and while he’s at it, he’s secretly dating a housemaster’s daughter.

Based on true events, the rule of Eton Rogue is simple: The more outrageous the tale, the greater the chances that it actually occurred.

Kim is not your average member of Her Majesty’s palace staff – but then he shouldn’t be on the staff at all. He’s in fact a Sun staff reporter who’s wormed his way into Buckingham Palace to pick up every bit of dirt and gossip that he can lay his hands on.

Along the way, Kim is faced with many surprising aspects of Palace life that even he didn’t see coming.

Based on the true story of the tabloid hack who became a Queen’s footman, Palace Rogue is a humorous, uplifting and utterly outrageous story of love and secrets – all of it set in the heart of one of the world’s most famous houses.

‘This rom com is packed full of love, laughs and scandals, and is well worth a read’ Hampshire Chronicle

‘A right royal romp through one of Buckingham Palace’s shadier moments’ Shaun Bythell, author of the international hit Diary of a Bookseller

The world’s hottest movie couple, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, are enduring a year-long film shoot with the world’s most pernickety film director, Stanley Kubrick. Unfortunately the super-secret film set of Eyes Wide Shut has been invaded by Kubrick’s worst nightmare: Kim the tabloid reporter, complete with his trusty spy-pen camera.

Based on a true story, Movie Rogue details how in 1996 a Sun reporter became an extra on one of the most searingly graphic scenes in movie history. Along the way – it’s said – he also befriended both Tom Cruise and Kubrick. But this reporter is so much more than a mere scum-sucking tabloid hack. He is also a matchmaker, and with a wave of Kim’s pixie dust, even the most far-fetched couples can fall in love.

A murder gone wrong. A worldwide police hunt for the killer. And a fugitive who became a legend: The 7th Earl of Lucan.

The Lord Lucan Scandal is one of the greatest and most extraordinary mysteries of the 20th Century. Ever since Lucky Lord Lucan disappeared in 1974 after the murder of his nanny, the world has wondered what happened to Britain’s most dashing Peer. Here, in his own hand, is the answer. This is Lord Lucan’s personal memoir of his life as the world’s most infamous fugitive.

It is the story of an Old Etonian Earl on the run; of how a man became a murderer; and how a life-long friendship soured into an enduring hate. Here, and for the first time, is the full monstrous account of the life of Lord Lucan.

This is his story.

'From his precious vantage point, Bill recreates a world of gossip, lust and ambition, infused with sly humour and cultured judgment. This book is an ace!' Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal

'Another masterpiece of insider fiction by William Coles... and very funny too' Robert Twigger

Wimbledon Rogue is what happens when the world's most buttoned-up sporting event is infiltrated by a mischievous tabloid reporter.

It's Wimbledon 1996 - and tennis journeyman Shane Horne has suddenly started winning matches. Though Shane's wins have got nothing to do with his brilliant tennis technique. Shane is winning because he's made a new friend: Kim, the rogue Wimbledon linesman.

Kim is so much more than a mere crooked tennis umpire. He's also an undercover tabloid reporter digging up al the Wimbledon dirt that's fit to print. Along the way, Kim just happens to be a matchmaker supreme. He's finding love for not just his fellow umpires, but for the Referee, and for the Honorary Stewards and even for the Wimbledon Cook. Wimbledon Rogue is the first ever Rom-Com that is focused on that fast-dying breed, the tennis linesman. There have been linesman at Wimbledon for 147 years - but there has never yet been a novel about them. Until Now.