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In this funny Regency romance series, the Shackleford sisters descend on a Regency society that doesn’t know what’s hit it… In the eyes of her family, Chastity Shackleford was impulsive, flighty, overly emotional and inclined to sentimental overtures. All in all, a disaster waiting to...

Liz Truss's disastrous premiership was the shortest and most chaotic in British history. In the space of just 49 days, Truss witnessed the death of the longest-reigning monarch, attempted to remould the economy, triggered a collapse in the value of Sterling and was forced on a series of...

Second Lieutenant Wilfred Owen was twenty-four years old when he was admitted to the newly established Craiglockhart War Hospital for treatment of shell shock. A nascent poet, trying to make sense of the terror he had witnessed, he read a collection of poems from a fellow officer, Siegfried...

'A superb book’ – Observer ‘Gripping, vivid and compelling’ – The Critic ‘Humane, absorbing and meticulous’ – New Statesman ‘An extraordinary book’ James O’Brien, TLS Three Weeks in July is the extraordinary and definitive account of the events of the 7/7 London bombings...

THE BESTSELLING AND CONTROVERSIAL BIOGRAPHY Britain's leading investigative writer and biographer, Tom Bower turns the full beam of his formidable powers on one of the most controversial figures of present day: Mohamed Al Fayed. Owner of Harrods, bereaved father of Dodi and instigator of the...

In 1679, Samuel Pepys is Secretary to the Admiralty, in charge of the navy, and at the right hand of King Charles. But also in 1679, England is awash with suspicion and fear. In this maelstrom of distrust, Pepys finds himself at the heart of a conspiracy, charged with treason and facing a...

Postal paths span the length and breadth of Britain - from the furthermost corners of the Outer Hebrides to the isolated communities clinging to the cliffs of the Rame Peninsula in south-east Cornwall. For over 200 years, postmen and women have delivered post to homes across Britain on foot, no matter how remote. A chance remark by a farmer about a Postman's Path led Alan Cleaver on a quest to discover more about this network of lanes, short-cuts and footpaths in the British landscape. 

As mid-winter temperatures grip the cathedral city of Ely, a man is found frozen to death in his high-rise flat. The police may think that Declan McIlroy killed himself, but journalist Philip Dryden is not convinced, and he begins digging for the truth. All too soon, there’s another frozen...

Get ready for another helping of dizzying romance and laugh out loud comedy in ‘A Shackleford Victory’, the sixth instalment in the Dartmouth Diaries … After being suspended and subsequently dismissed from her job in the National Crime Agency, Teddy Shackleford reluctantly takes refuge in...

Get ready for more laughter and sparkling romance in this, the final instalment of the Shackleford Sisters… Anthony Shackleford had long been acquainted with the word duty. Indeed, since the moment he could walk, it had been drummed into him every Friday between the hours of two and four in...

Mr Pooter is a man of modest ambitions, content with his ordinary life. Yet he always seems to be troubled by disagreeable tradesmen, impertinent young office clerks and wayward friends, not to mention his devil-may-care son Lupin with his unsuitable choice of bride. In the bumbling, absurd, yet endearing figure of Pooter, the Grossmiths created an immortal comic character and a superb satire on the snobberies of middle-class suburbia.

Meet Chief Inspector Jim Ashworth. An old-school detective who knows how to handle the law, and himself. A sinister, distorted voice announces the kidnapping of factory owner Simon Edwards. Simon’s wife Barbara answers the terrifying call and is told to stay by the phone and wait for further instructions. Who has taken her husband and why? Chief Inspector Jim Ashworth and his team investigate.

Bloomsbury presents Duel of Beasts by Boyd and Beth Morrison, read by Mark Elstob. Savage beasts, fabulous treasures, perilous duels, and deadly treachery abound in this thrilling adventure novel set in medieval Spain. Málaga, Spain, 1352. Knight-errant Gerard Fox and his daring wife Willa seek...

Bloomsbury presents Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards, read by John Telfer, Candida Gubbins and Martin Edwards. 'A true master of British crime writing.' RICHARD OSMAN 'All the entertainment you'll need this Christmas. Wonderful stuff.' IAN MOORE Can you find the clues...

Bloomsbury presents Korea: War Without End by Richard Dannatt and Robert Lyman, read by Mark Elstob A ground-breaking history of this global conflict including the errors and miscalculations made on both sides. Korea: War Without End examines the stand-off between East and West in Korea that...

The Cambridgeshire hamlet of Jude’s Ferry is a lonely, forgotten spot. Requisitioned decades earlier by the Ministry of Defence for military training, one of its few claims to fame is that in its entire thousand-year history, it never recorded a single crime. But when a Territorial Army...

The only Latin art of war to survive, Vegetius’ Epitome was for long a part of the medieval prince’s military education. The core of his proposals, the maintenance of a professional standing army, was revolutionary for medieval Europe, while his theory of deterrence through strength remains...

From the highly acclaimed author of The Shackleford Sisters, Beverley Watts, comes an exciting new series featuring the next generation. The Shackleford Legacies are a delightful dance of romance, humour, mystery and fun... Lady Jennifer Sinclair is halfway through her second season and...

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle George McGlory - recent widower, part-time librarian, pub quiz enthusiast and lover of loud shirts witnesses a public health funeral and is deeply moved by the sight of the lonely coffin with no flowers and no mourners...

Last Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge was visited by three festive spirits, and the bleak vision of his future has haunted him ever since. He wants to be a good man, and he never wants to see another ghost as long as he lives. But changing your ways for a day is easy. Changing your ways for ever is a...