The story of George Scovell. In 1812 two mighty armies maneuvered across the Spanish plains. They were finely balanced, under skillful leaders. Each struggled to get an advantage. It was a daunting challenge, and Wellington looked to one man to break the code: George Scovell. Read More...

The Ashleys were survivors. They had the gift for retaining what they wanted to retain. Bryony Ashley, urgently summoned from a job abroad, came back after almost a year's absence. Her father, Jonathon Ashley, was dead, killed on a lonely road in Bavaria, and the Court, with its moated house, its ruined gardens and its load of debt, would become the responsibility of her cousin Emory, who had preceded his twin, James, into the world by half an hour. Read More...

This treatise on bees and bee-keeping can hardly be faulted in its scientific accuracy. It is essentially the work of a poet continually glancing at analogies to the human condition... Read More...

The gruesome discovery of an unidentified, decomposed corpse sealed in a railway wagon on a disused siding marks the beginning of Inspector Aurelio Zen's most difficult and dangerous case, set against the backdrop of the three-thousand-year-old city of Catania. Read More...

Carl Carson has a prosperous business, a dotty wife, and a fictitious son. When financial ruin threatens, he puts all these resources to use by staging an elaborate 'kidnapping' and liquidating his assets to pay the ransom. It might have worked, if Sir John Appleby hadn't been his neighbour. Read More...

Slow Hand: Women Writing Erotica is an anthology of stories in which women artfully explore their own erotic terrain. To create this newest of her popular anthologies, Michele Slung challenged women - straight and gay, old and young, journalists, poets, academics, women whose job descriptions range from "anthropologist" to "performance artist" as well as professional novelists and short story writers - to turn her on. Read More...

Fitzroy Maclean Angel is back, and this time teamed with the most politically incorrect female PI in London, Veronica Bludgen. Read More...

Action, adventure, sex education, intrigue, tears, laughter, a homicidal brother with a penchant for amateur dramatics, Someone Like Me has got it all and then some. Read More...

'It was the smell that Mrs Powell noticed first. Slightly sweet. Slightly unpleasant ... It shocked her badly to find a dead man in the corner, his head slumped on his knees.' Who was Billy Blake, other than a homeless alcoholic who wandered the streets? Read More...

Twelve hours after a woman's broken body is washed up on a deserted shore on the south coast of England, her traumatized three-year-old daughter is discovered twenty miles away walking the streets of Poole, alone and apparently abandoned ... Read More...