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An anthology of over 60 classic poems of war and remembrance. The horrors of war have prompted countless soldiers and civilians to compose poetry, whether to denounce needless slaughter, celebrate courage or honour the dead. Beautifully read by Dean Lennox Kelly, Jenny Agutter, Michael Jayston, Rupert Holliday Evans and Samantha Bond, these timeless poems are poignant and powerful.

Martin Devereux, one of the world’s top helmsmen, runs a boatyard and charter fleet on the south coast with his elderly partner, Henry. While Martin is away in Australia, a series of sinister accidents takes place at the boatyard, and when he returns he is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery that is threatening his livelihood. Following an invitation to sail in the Marbella Cup match series, Martin finds himself caught on an accelerating roller coaster of violence and fear that sweeps him to southern Spain - the Costa del Crime.

Bill Tyrell spent 10 years reporting from the hellholes of the world. Now he has had enough and is back in England living aboard the antique cutter yacht Vixen, taking juvenile delinquents to sea for the good of their souls. But the journalist in him cannot be buried. Not when a Russian naval cadet dies in a stupid accident under the eyes of a cabinet minister and Tyrell becomes the scapegoat.

When the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic battles - hears rumours of a missile base near the West German border, it seems the perfect opportunity to regain some standing in the Intelligence world. Desperate for glory and determined to outdo their rivals at the Circus, including George Smiley, they send deactivated agent Fred Leiser back into East Germany, armed only with some schoolboy training and his memories of the war. In the land of eloquent silence that is Communist East Germany, Leiser's fate is no longer his own.

The Cold War is over and retired secret servant Tim Cranmer has been put out to pasture, spending his days making wine on his Somerset estate. But then he discovers that his former double agent Larry ­- dreamer, dissolute, philanderer and disloyal friend - has vanished, along with Tim's mistress. As their trail takes him to the lawless wilds of Russia and the North Caucasus, he is forced to question everything he stood for.

At the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities - about an international businessman at the hotel with suspicious dealings - backfires terribly, and people close to Pine begin to die, he commits himself to a battle against powerful forces he cannot begin to imagine.

West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them. As he gets closer to the truth of Harting's disappearance, he will discover that the face of Cold War Europe - and the attentions of the British Ministry itself - are far uglier that he could possibly have imagined.