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COMING SOON: Gone for a Soldier - New novel to be published March 26, 2026
Gone for a Soldier
Gone for a Soldier
Publication Date: March 26,2026
Hardback, £19.99; paperback, £11.99; e-book, £4.99.
ISBN: 978-1-0685273-1-9
Melissa Jones's eagerly-awaited new novel Gone for A Soldier will be published on March 26, 2026 by the newly-launched Author's Collective.
A subtle psychological mystery from a compelling, established author, one of the first four titles from exciting new publishing endeavour, The Authors’ Collective
Maddie used to be a writer. Maddie used to be married, too. Now she is an English teacher at a smart sixth-form college, the mother of Pip, a troubled fourteen-year-old boy, and – by her own admission – the killer of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Benedict Fordham. Except the police can’t find any trace of a body, the army doesn’t have a record of ‘Robert Benedict Fordham’, and Maddie thinks he’s lied about everything he’s ever told her.
In a terrifying descent into darkness and death Gone for a Soldier examines truth in a postmodern world, explores the very extremes of deception, and dives deep into the vulnerability of handing over trust to someone you don’t – can’t – really know.
Praise for Melissa Jones
‘Quietly chilling’, Sunday Telegraph
‘Compelling, clear and intense’ The Times
‘A writer at the top of her craft’ Kirkus Reviews.
Elegant, persuasive and engrossing, Fay Weldon
A wonderful novel… it will not disappoint.’ The Independent.
Cold in Earth
Cold in Earth
Zoe is a mother, a television celebrity and a powerful career woman. Hers is a success story that millions can only dream of. But when her baby dies, her guilt and grief plunge her into an inner landscape of dream and nightmare where the familiar becomes horrible, the unthinkable real. "Cold In Earth" is a stark, poetic and utterly terrifying first novel.
Sick at Heart
Sick at Heart
Alex’s mother is his first love. Throughout his isolated childhood he protects her, worships her, hates her… and keeps her murderous secrets. So, when she rejects him, remarries and sends him to school in England, Alex is profoundly damaged. He is also charming, funny, handsome and ambitious. And he’s looking for a woman he can mould – a woman who will never betray him.
Sick at Heart is told through Alex’s letters: the first to his remote, fragile mother, the second to his gentle, correct wife, and the third to his talented and exquisite seventeen-year-old lover. As Alex writes with the unfathomable calm of a deranged mind, the line between obsessive love and extreme hatred blurs, then disappears.
Sick at Heart is a compelling, exciting and disturbingly dramatic novel about intimate jeopardy and the dark side of human longing.
The Hidden Heart of Emily Hudson
The Hidden Heart of Emily Hudson
Inspired by an episode in Henry James's life, The Hidden Heart of Emily Hudson tells the story of an independent young woman's flight from convention.
After the start of the Civil War, Emily Hudson, an orphan who has lost her entire family to consumption and fever, finds herself the begrudged guest at the home of her relatives in Newport. Emily's longing to be an artist is dismissed by her puritanical uncle, who wants nothing more than to rid himself of her through marriage. Her only friend is her aesthete cousin, William, an ailing young writer. When a promising engagement to the eligible Captain Lindsay is broken, William rescues Emily from an uncertain future by taking her to England. Lonely and desperate to escape her cousin - once her confidante, now her obsessively controlling patron - Emily sets out alone to meet her destiny in the eternal city of Rome.
Emily Hudson is an exquisitely told tale about a heroine struggling to be true to herself, and also find love in a society where only marriage or an independent income guaranteed a woman the freedom to do as she pleased.
also by melissa jones
also by melissa jones
Interiors for Under 5s
Interiors for Under 5s
Childhood is undergoing a revolution. The philosophy of bringing up children as separate from adults is a thing of the past. In pre-schools, more and more attention is being paid to designing spaces that accommodate the very young and meet their needs in a way that fosters dialogue and communication. When it comes to home life, busy parents want to spend free time with their children that they will both enjoy. Children are no longer just tagging along and fitting in, they are being provided for with spaces that are stimulating, fun, imaginative, peaceful, or just plain practical. Children are no longer adults in waiting – they have their own culture, and contemporary children’s interiors are very much about defining the way childhood is being designed in the twenty-first century.
This book showcases a wide variety of interiors designed for the very young from around the world. These range from creches, nurseries and preschools, to museums, restaurants, bedrooms, playspaces, shops and hotels. Each architect or designer has given considerable thought to making their space – whether public or private - workable and beautiful, and their approaches are inspirational. If you are looking for design ideas, or just want somewhere great to take your child at the weekend, this is the book for you.
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