The Big Bad Apple on Christmas Eve is no place for an orange grower from Florida. Not even Vietnam was this bad. Crazy killers, crazier bimbos, cops, actors and crack dealers are all after his blood. Read More...

The book is a social novel, dealing with Victorian views about sin and illegitimacy. It is a surprisingly compassionate portrayal of a 'fallen woman', a type of person normally outcast from respectable society. The title of the novel refers to the main character Ruth Hilton, an orphaned young seamstress who is seduced and then abandoned by gentleman Henry Bellingham. Read More...

Paris, 1892. The American historian Henry Adams, is looking for Miriam Talbott, a young American woman studying in Paris. But when he goes looking for Miriam, no one at her given address has seen her. And when another woman's body is fished out of the Seine and identified as hers, Adam knows she is in trouble and needs his assistance. Read More...

It was Bill Eldon's feel for homespun characters, cattle, and crops - and not the manoeuvres of the smart lawyers and politicians who call him dated - which proved to be the deciphering factor of the two cases in one volume: The Case of the Runaway Blonde, and The case of the Hungry Horse. Read More...

The Sword of Honour trilogy by Evelyn Waugh is his look at the Second World War. The protagonist is Guy Crouchback, heir of a declining aristocratic English Catholic family. Guy has spent his thirties at the family villa in Italy shunning the world after the failure of his marriage and has decided to return to England at the very beginning of the Second World War, in the belief that the creeping evils of modernity, gradually apparent in the Soviet Union and the Nazi Germany, have become all too clearly displayed as a real and embodied enemy. Read More...

Essays, or counsels, civil and moral. Bacon. Introduction by Brian Vickers. The Essays are written in a wide range of styles, from the plain and unadorned to the epigrammatic. They cover topics drawn from both public and private life, and in each case the essays cover their topics systematically from a number of different angles, weighing one argument against another. Read More...

Father Brown returns from the dead and solves his own murder, and applies the same gentle logic to seven more delightful mysteries. Read More...

"It may seem odd to class a man who has difficulty in rolling his umbrella... among the Supermen of detection, but Father Brown belongs among them." Read More...

Edwardian London: a city of cobbled streets, horse-drawn cabs, gaslights, and eccentrics. None were stranger than the member's of that gentle men's club known as the Club of Queer Trades. Read More...

Under the sardonic eye of Chaucer himself, a group of pilgrims each recount a tale to entertain their companions on the road to Canterbury. By turns comic, bawdy and sublime, these great, theatrical tales and their tellers are a vivid testimony to Chaucer's insight into human nature. Read More...