Free Choice? There's no such thing, according to Lee Morris, architect, engineer, jobbing builder and entrepreneur. Choice is pre-ordained by your personality, he says. Stratton Park racecourse, privately owned, faces ruin in the hands of squabbling family. Read More...

Peter Darwin, a young First Secretary in the Foreign Office, returns to England from Tokyo for some quiet leave before taking up a new post. On the way he stops briefly in Miami, and there becomes entangled in a fracas which involves his going back not just to England but to Gloucestershire, scene of the long-buried memories of his childhood. Read More...

Sid Halley, the ex-champion jockey turned investigator, faces new dilemmas, new dangers, new deeply demanding decisions. As the book opens, Sid Halley has uncovered an obnoxious crime committed by a friend whom he - and everyone else - has held in affection bordering on love. Read More...

Despite knowing precious little about the world of racing, John Kendall agrees to write the biography of Tremayne Vickers, a highly successful National Hunt racecourse trainer. But ignorance proves to be harrowing: Kendall's impulsive decision stretches his survival skills and ingenuity to the limit. Read More...

It was after a very pleasant summer weekend that Richard Chandos and Jonah Mansel resolved to join forces and help an old friend retrieve some priceless family heirlooms from his home in Austria. But when they arrive at the castle where the jewels are hidden, they find that others, with less philanthropic leanings, have already been there. Read More...

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is the first ever fully realised Ghost-Horror-Detective-Whodunit-Time-Travel-Romantic-Musical-Comedy Epic. Dirk Gently himself is a detective - well, a sort of detective. There is a long and honourable tradition of great detectives and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. Read More...

The first classic of the Golden Age of English Detective fiction, deliberately written to puncture the dread solemnity of the Sherlock Holmes stories, the ingenious plot and self-mocking hero ensure lasting popularity. It's got everything: a dead American, missing false teeth and a relieved widow. Read More...

In a city where every form of crime and vice flourishes, corruption is king, fabulous wealth stands on the shoulders of unspeakable want, and there are no limits to larceny. It is New York in 1871, where the disinherited son of a monstrous millionaire sees his dead father alive - and sets off a train of mystery and revelation that takes the reader into the darkest heart of evil and avarice in a thriller that only E L Doctorow could have written. Read More...

Dead nudes weren't news in the 87th precinct. Neither were muggings, hippies, hookers or jewellery-stealing ghosts. So why does Detective Brown find himself looking for Snow White? Read More...

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...