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Review Taylor's magnificent new novel is Spinal Tap for literary types . . . thoroughly entertaining, knowledgeable romp through the fear and loat...

Product Description A Daily Mail 'best TV and showbiz memoir' for 2020From humble beginnings in Middlesex, where money was scarce but dreams ...

A new edition of Orwell's starkly realistic second novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D. J. Taylor First published in 1935, when O...

Product Description 'A novel brilliantly evoking the isolation of a woman with an unbearable weight on her conscience'SUNDAY TIMES'Succeeds as a ...

Product Description 'Clever, captivating and colourful; an absorbing thriller rich in atmosphere' Philip Gwynne Jones, author of The Venetian Game...

The second John Grey historical mystery It is December 1657. John Grey, at his cramped desk in Lincoln's Inn, is attempting to resume his legal ...

Review [The] character-driven elements that normally make this series so enjoyable are also present here...Daisy is such a winning character.....

Product Description In 1915, the Turkish government systematically organised the wholesale slaughter of a complete race, the Armenians. Under the...

Review ‘The detective novels of M C Beaton, a master of outrageous black comedy, have reached cult status.’ -- Anne Robinson ― The TimesAgatha...

Sea, sand - and the slammer for Agatha! Agatha Raisin thinks she's in for a treat when her ex-husband James Lacey invites her on holiday but - h...

Product Description No wonder she's been crowned Queen of Cosy Crime' Mail on SundayHe was a vicar to die for - and he did!Agatha is going throug...

It can be hell in high water! Drowned brides are like buses: nothing for ages, then two come along at the same time ...! Abandoned by husband Jame...

Product Description There may be trouble ahead . . . so will Agatha face the music? Can the feisty Agatha cut it as a private investigator? She s...

Product Description Agatha's away with the fairies . . . And the little folk are causing big trouble for her! Angry at being jilted by new hu...

Product Description A vengeful ghost comes back to haunt the living?Reports of a haunted house soon have Agatha snooping around, but it turns out...

Love, like hell, is a four-letter word for Agatha ...No happily ever after for her! Recently married to neighbour James Lacey, Agatha quickly finds...

Review Beaton's dry sense of humour and her unflattering but affectionate portrait of gruff, often adolescent-acting Agatha makes this & a blo...

Review ‘The detective novels of M C Beaton, a master of outrageous black comedy, have reached cult status.’ -- Anne Robinson ― The TimesAgatha...

Cold-blooded murder heats up Agatha's summer holiday! Agatha travels to Cyprus, only to contend with her estranged fiance, an egregious group of tr...

Review The Miss Marple-like Raisin is a refreshingly sensible, wonderfully eccentric, thoroughly likeable heroine. - BooklistAnyone interested...

The brand new Agatha Raisin mystery from multimillion-selling author M. C. Beaton, the Queen of Cosy Crime, about an eccentric Cotswolds-based dete...

Product Description Agatha has fallen in love - again. This time it's the local gardener, George Marston, she has her eye on. But competition for...

Review ‘The detective novels of M C Beaton, a master of outrageous black comedy, have reached cult status.’ -- Anne Robinson ― The Times Agatha i...

About the Author PHILIP GOODEN is a graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford. He writes books about language as well as historical crime novels. The f...

'Highly entertaining' Sunday Times It's the summer of 1604 and the Spanish are in London. Many years after the ill-fated Armada, they are negotiat...

Product Description From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the wo...

Coinciding with Pope Benedict XVIs state visit to the UK in September 2010. David Yallop, author of In God's Name, looks at the current news storie...

'Barack Obama had a special talent for making different kinds of people feel comfortable around him because of his biracial life experience, says A...

Review Dark, sharp and compelling -- Peter James on The Puppet Show A book that shines with tension, wit and invention -- William ShawA thril...

'Dazzling' The Guardian on Borderlands 'A clever web of intrigue that deepens and darkens as it twists' Peter James on Gallows Lane 'Some of ...

The deepest cave on earth was a prize that had remained unclaimed for centuries, long after every other ultimate discovery had been made. This is t...

Review From beginning to end, Greenwood infuses her series with evocative settings, multidimensional characters and satisfying mysteries. --Bo...

'Quirky and colourful' Times Crime Club 'An absolute delight' L C Tyler 'This intriguing but charming murder mystery is packed with psychologica...

About the Author Brian McGilloway is the author of eleven crime novels including the Ben Devlin mysteries and the Lucy Black series, the first...

Product Description 'One of British crime's most assured craftsmen . . . perfect entertainment' GuardianOnce again, the plumbing at Tawcester Tow...

Product Description 'A new Simon Brett is an event for mystery fans' P. D. James 'Murder most enjoyable' Colin Dexter 'What? You mean the earl d...

'A new Simon Brett is an event for mystery fans' P. D. James 'Murder most enjoyable' Colin Dexter 'What? You mean the earl does it for money? T...

Product Description 'This is high quality crime writing' A A DhandThe second dark and twisted thriller in the Avison Fluke series by M. W. Craven...

Product Description In nearly 25 years as a sports journalist for the Independent, Daily Telegraph, and The Sunday Times, Martin Johnson has cove...

About the Author George Bain clearly demonstrated in his classrooms, to judge from pupils' work here illustrated, hat through practice and applica...

Product Description In booming Shanghai, Mark Kitto hit the big time. The Financial Times called him a ‘mini media mogul’. One weekend, Mark escap...

Review In this marvellous book, Beilock will tell you how, as she reveals the mental secrets to performing under pressure. -- Jonah Lehrer If you...

An elegy to a golden age of literature, Circus of Dreams divulges how the British literary scene underwent an unrecognisable transformation in the ...

Product Description 'Refreshing . . . I look forward to reading more' Alex Gray'First-rate' Sunday SportWhen it comes to murder, there's no such ...

Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in Trinidad in the final ...