Through Russia and Siberian Tartary to the frontiers of China, the Frozen Sea and Kamtchatka. His simple idea - vindicated by experience at every point of his journey, at least in Siberia - was that one should travel as far as possible alone... Read More...

Only when it's too late does Mike Powell realise that he's wasted his talents as a jockey and spoilt his marriage. His riding career is in decline; his beautiful wife, Tessa, has left him. And, to cap it all, he's almost bankrupt, having tried to build a future by pinhooking. Then, on the way to the annual sportsperson awards ceremony, Mike is killed in a car crash. When his old friend Jed Harvard discovers that Mike's estate has been left to an American called George Parker - a man he's never head of before - his suspicions are aroused. Read More...

John Mortimer chose his favourite Rumpole stories for this collection - the ones that made him laugh while writing them, which is, he says, ‘the only reliable test of a successful piece of work’. Read More...

In 1973, Iain Forward was framed for murder. Finally released from prison, he's obsessed with the desire to find out who framed him, and why. His loyal wife Alison begs him to put the nightmare behind him so they can build a future together. But Iain can think only of the past - of the mysterious events in Singapore that led to his arrest. Read More...

John de St Jorre reconstructs a unique period, marked by its creative energy, its spirit of innovation and its humour. He shows us the undergrowth of literature bursting forth into jungle life. Read More...

When the body of a young man is discovered on the slopes of Mount Lycabettus, it is initially assumed that a pack of wolves is responsible for his death. But tramachus, an aspiring student at Plato's academy, has been murdered and Heracles, known as the 'Deciphererof Enigmas', is called into help unravel the truth. Read More...

The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then British East Africa. The book is a lyrical meditation on Blixen’s life on her coffee plantation, as well as a tribute to some of the people who touched her life there. It is also a vivid snapshot of African colonial life in the last decades of the British Empire. Blixen wrote the book in English and then translated it into Danish. Read More...

Shakespeare lived in many worlds, so many that no single book can hope to encompass them all. But in particular, he inhabited two worlds of words, between which there yawns an apparently unbridgeable gap. Read More...

Once again, Laurence Gough brilliantly captures the sights and sounds of Vancouver, as police detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker investigate the murder of a city police officer, who had a very arcane sex life. But is that the key to his death? Read More...

Harry Pendel, Jewish-Irish foster child, is the charismatic proprietor and guiding genius of Pendel and Braithwaite Limitada, Tailors to Royalty, formerly of Savile Row, through whose doors passes everyone who is anyone in Central America. Andrew Osnard, mysterious and fleshly, is an Old Etonian and spy. His secret mission is two-pronged: .. Read More...