Service in English hotels can drive a man to drink, but rarely to suicide. Was Leonard Dickinson's death suicide? He'd washed the sleeping pills down with tea and lemon, but his family weren't having it and his life wasn't insured. Inspector Mallet orders kippers for his breakfast as he begins the investigation, but gets only red herrings. Read More...

DS Trimble and lawyer Francis Pettigrew join forces again to investigate the death of Mrs Pink, whose feet were discovered sticking out of a pile of leaves. Read More...

Francis Pettigrew is on holiday in Exmoor and stumbles over a body. The body mysteriously disappears... Read More...

Francis Pettigrew is seconded to the wartime civil service, and a murderer strikes... Read More...

A searing and visceral account of how the American West was really won. Told from the point of view of the American Indian, the catalogue of broken promises, treaties and battles is a tragic but essential story. Translated into 17 languages and a bestseller worldwide, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee awakened a new understanding of America’s past. 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...

The remarkable sequel to E.P. Thompson's influential, landmark volume of social history. The Making of the English Working Class, Customs in Common describes the complex culture from which working class institutions emerge from England. A panoply of traditions and customs that the new working class fought to preserve well into Victorian times. Read More...