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The third instalment of the brilliant William Dougal series, from the bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London. There's unfi...

'You be a cheat and a liar Katy Hawley, no wonder your folks d'aint want you! Well we don't want you neither, do we girls?'It was only a playground...

With mounting disbelief, Regan Trent realises that the death of her beloved mother has left her totally at her stepfather's mercy. But mercy is a f...

'Reported with skill and personal insight' The TimesBestselling author and the most famous woman in a flak jacket Kate Adie sets out on a fascinati...

Sent away from Rome for mocking the repulsive heir apparent Gaius, high-born Marcellus Gallio resigns himself to several dreary years in Palestine....

Do you ever wish that you could be someone else? Just step out of your life and wake up as someone new?Karina's life was once mapped out for her - ...

Rob Ryan's magical paper-cuts and screenprints have been used by designer Paul Smith, appeared on a Vogue model and graced book covers (THE BOOK OF...

If you could go back in time, what would you do differently? For Eliott, there is no question. To all appearances, his life has been a success. At ...

The corpse of a young woman is found bludgeoned, frozen and burnt to death. Then the post-mortem reveals that she recently gave birth. And evidence...

A teenager is found barely alive by the roadside, bleeding from her slit throat. The police can't even begin to imagine the horrors she has faced. ...

Clarissa was born into wealth and privilege, as a child, shooting and hunting were the norm and pigeons were flown in from Cairo for supper. Her mo...

Recognised as 'The first truly definitive English-language study of this myth-laden subject and a pleasure to read' (Sunday Times) COSA NOSTRA is t...

In this gloriously original social history, Travis Elborough argues that our national character - our snobbishness and willingness to laugh at ours...

Dear Alec, Remember my engagement yesterday? The annual duty luncheon for the Reverend Mr Tait from which and whom I expected only boredom? I could...

A cosy Dandy Gilver mystery set in 1930s Scotland. For fans of PG Wodehouse, Alexander McCall Smith and Agatha Christie.'McPherson is an exemplary ...

PERFECT FOR FANS OF SUSIE STEINERYou are a police officer. This is what you do. You speak for the dead, and the desperate living.Anna Cameron is a...

In the summer of 1909, seventeen-year-old Nell Golightly is the new maid at the Orchard Tea Gardens in Cambridgeshire when Rupert Brooke moves in a...

Missing persons, mystery suicides, haunted houses and murder ...Tony Stockwell is regularly asked by victims of crime and their families, to use hi...

Crime is a man's business, so they say, though not according to Queenie Dove. A self-proclaimed genius when it comes to thieving and escape, she re...

Crime's a man's business. So they say. Who was that small figure then, slender enough to trot along the moonlit track, swift and low, virtually inv...

For millions of years, humankind has used a brilliantly successful survival strategy. If we like something, we chase after more of it: more status,...

If you've ever wondered what effect video games have on your children's minds or worried about how much private information the government and big ...

PERFECT FOR FANS OF SUSIE STEINERSomeone is dead because of Jamie. Yesterday they were alive. Jamie Worth is a newly qualified as a firearms offic...

In December 1922 Edith Thompson, a smart, bright, lower-middle class woman who worked in a milliner's shop, was tried for conspiring with her young...