A Dalziel and Pacoe novel. This was Andy Dalziel's worst case and now fifteen years on he looks set to relive it. It's another long hot summer. A child goes missing in the next valley, and as the Dendale reservoir waters shrink and the old village re-emerges from the depths, old fears and suspicions arise too as someone sprays the deadly message on the walls on the small town of Danby. Read More...

Featuring Dalziel and Pascoe. Caught in the blast of a huge Semtex explosion, the only thing preventing Superintendent Andy Dalziel from stepping through Death's door might be his own size (and indomitable willpower). Pascoe is certain of a conspiracy and the attempted murder of Yorkshire Police's most inept officer only convinces him further. Read More...

Richard Gough's book is the most remarkable local history ever written. Read More...

Hakluyt's voyages to North America. A modern version, with an introduction by A L Rowse. Read More...

Chief Inspector Wexford in a psychological gripper following the worst floods in memory. Three people are missing, but one woman is too sure that they are dead... Read More...

Stephen Whalby is master of the moor. What others find bleak and foreboding, Stephen sees as reassuring and darkly beautiful. When a second murdered woman is found, Stephen's sacred moor becomes a home for death, holding one final, fatal secret for him alone. Read More...

Introduction by Gilbert Phelps. Lithographs by Edward Bawden. Rasselas, son of the King of Abyssinia (modern day Ethiopia), leaves his home in company with his sister, Nekayah, and a philosopher, Imlac, to discover the secret of a happy life. Read More...

Selected and edited by Roger Hudson. The object of this book is to show Coleridge in yet another light, as one of the alert, attuned and sensitive recorders of nature, landscape, and the elements. Read More...

Of the seven 'wonders remembered and revered from antiquity, only one survives, yet their memory alone still wields impressive power, inspiring artists, writers – even engineers who wished to emulate such feats. What would be the wonders we would select from our own culture to pass down to future generations? Read More...

Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is a book by the historian Simon Schama. It was published in 1989, the bicentenary of the French Revolution, and like many other works in that year, was highly critical of its legacy. Read More...