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The Dance Begins is an enthralling short story introduction to Pretending to Dance, from the bestselling author of The Silent Sister and The Midwife's Confession, Diane Chamberlain.North Carolina: 1982...

Why would anyone risk his life blowing up tanks of toxic chemicals?This is the question barrister Trish Maguire must answer in her ninth investigation. When the explosion rips through quiet fields in...

Amanda Cross musters up an ingenious solution to an impossible scenario in this penetrating literary mystery, The James Joyce Murder.On the famous Joycean day of June 16th, Kate Fansler attends the annual...

To Stand or Fall is the final of four thrilling instalments of John Scalzi's The End of All Things. The full novel is also available to buy.Our fate is in their hands . . .The Colonial Union's Defence...

Evidence of a violent crime is found in the basement of an Italian palazzo. A missing American student appears to be the victim, two mysterious brothers the main suspects. The strangest thing: the murder...

The Closter Drug company is going to double in value as soon as it perfects its cure for migraine: most of the directors are set to make sizeable fortunes as they float the company on the Stock Exchange....

Why did investigative journalist Jamie Maxden have to die? Did someone need to stop him revealing the scandalous secrets of the food industry?In the sixth Trish Maguire novel, the coroner says Jamie's...

An extract from the start of Tim Severin’s second thrilling historical adventure set in Saxon times.If you’re a fan of Ben Kane and Harry Sidebottom, you’ll love the beginning of The Emperor's Elephant,...

A Christmas short story from bestselling author Lucy Diamond, revisiting her Beach Cafe characters. After a hectic summer running her beach cafe in Cornwall, Evie Flynn is looking forward to her first...

Desmonde Fitzgerald is handsome, charming and blessed with a marvellous singing voice – he is the Minstrel Boy. He becomes a priest, winning the coveted Golden Chalice for his singing when in seminary...

The stability and resilience of Lewis Eliot is sharply contrasted with the melancholia of his brilliant colleague, Roy Calvert, in the fourth novel of C. P. Snow’s masterful Strangers and Brothers sequence.Opening...

The Life of the Mind is the first of four thrilling instalments of John Scalzi's The End of All Things. The full novel is also available to buy.Our fate is in their hands . . .The Colonial Union's Defence...

Winner of 1954 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.Widely regarded as C. P. Snow’s masterpiece, this lucid and compelling story of the contest for the Mastership of a Cambridge college is the...

Young Dr. Martin West has just arrived to take up an important medical post on a British island colony in the Tropics which is on the verge of being granted self-government, and where corruption is rife....

The famous Dr Finlay stories Adventures of a Black Bag represents a selection of A J Cronin’s best stories – stories which are tragic, funny and wry, each revolving around two doctors whose tremendously...

From the author of Poldark, the bestselling book and hit television series.When the beautiful young daughter of a prominent gentleman is found dead the coroner is naturally reluctant to bring a verdict...

A woman is found dead in an apparent suicide – but there may be something darker at play. Featuring Inspector Jimmy Perez, Too Good To Be True is a gripping Quick Read from Ann Cleeves' bestselling Shetland...

Sir Lewis Eliot returns to his hometown in the tenth, and penultimate, novel in the Strangers and Brothers sequence.Although now mature in the world of affairs and in possession of a knighthood, the older...

Originally published under the name Everatt Jackson, The Road to Hell is an early thriller from Margaret Dickinson, who has since become a bestselling saga author.It seemed to Ben Winwood that all his...

Lewis Eliot, the diffident protagonist of the Strangers and Brothers sequence, retreats to the background in this absorbing study of his mentor, George Passant, a charismatic solicitor’s clerk. In the...

Opening in Krakow's legendary cabaret cafe, Jama Michalika, 'Even the Crows Say Kraków' takes the reader on a by turns fanciful and philosophical flight around the magical Polish city. The story won the...

The world of Sir Lewis Eliot draws to a close in Last Things, the eleventh and final novel in C. P. Snow’s decade-spanning Strangers and Brothers sequence.After his heart stops briefly on the operating...

Lady with Carnations is not only the traditional name of a famous Holbein miniature which unexpectedly comes into a London salesroom in the mid-thirties: it is also the soubriquet by which some of her...

Amanda Cross examines relationships and human nature in The Players Come Again, a thought-provoking novel about literature, feminism and ageing.The 80s are coming to a close and Kate Fansler is using...

In this Christmas short story, Kate Kerrigan revisits the glamorous 1920s New York first portrayed in her latest novel, Ellis Island. Mae is a young Irish servant. She's left her family back home and...

In the heat of late afternoon, a young boy waits at the station for his father. A plume of steam, white against the purple-heathered hills, marks the train. Beyond, blooming along the shoreline, the flowers...

'A taut page-turner on multiple levels' BooklistAn effortlessly engrossing read filled with tension, excitement and heart, Stalking Ground, the second in Margaret Mizushima's lauded debut series, will...

Could the take-over of Rigley's Patent Footbalm by the giant American Hutstacker Chemical Corporation really be scuppered by Mrs Ogmore-Davies's parrot finding a body in Panty Harbour? It looked like...

How can a ravishing art collection be built on so much blood and pain?In the fifth novel in the series, London barrister Trish Maguire brings her forensic intelligence to bear on the dark secrets behind...

The cathedral town of Litchester is more used to carols by candlelight during the festive period than flames and intrigue, but the proposed sale of its 1225 copy of the Magna Carta in order to raise funds...