Shakespeare lived in many worlds, so many that no single book can hope to encompass them all. But in particular, he inhabited two worlds of words, between which there yawns an apparently unbridgeable gap. Read More...

Once again, Laurence Gough brilliantly captures the sights and sounds of Vancouver, as police detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker investigate the murder of a city police officer, who had a very arcane sex life. But is that the key to his death? Read More...

Best-selling spy author Len Deighton shows us the reality of the most crucial battle of the Second World War. Since the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, the British people have confronted no greater greater threat to their freedom than in 1940, when Hitler's armies swept through France in a few weeks and stood poised twenty-one miles from Dover. Read More...

Falco's back in trouble as usual. With Titus Caesar in pursuit of his patrician girlfriend Helena, Marcus Didius Falco, the louche Roman sleuth, is sent out of the way on an undercover mission to Roman Germany. Read More...

Working for the Palace was not all perks. Poor pay. Jealous colleagues. And now a small accounting error has left Marcus Didius Falco, Imperial Rome's most hard-done-by investigator, sharing a cell with a large rat ... Read More...

Rome, AD 72. Marcus Didius Falco, one-time Imperial agent and unemployed informer, has an insurmountable problem. The Emperor Vespasian has refused to elevate him to the middle rank and therefore he cannot marry his aristocratic love, Helena Justina. Read More...

Rome, AD 72. 'I still can't believe I've put the bastard away for good!' Petro muttered. Petronius Longus, captain of the Aventine watch, and Marcus Didius Falco's oldest friend, has finally nailed one of Rome's top criminals - Balbinus. But under Roman law citizens cannot be imprisoned; instead they are allowed 'time to depart' from the Empire to go into permanent exile. Read More...

Nobody was poisoned at the dinner for the Society of Olive Oil Producers of Baetica, though in retrospect this was quite a surprise... Inimitable sleuth Marcus Didius Falco is back with a vengeance. Read More...

AD 72: To many Rome is the centre of the Empire, to Marcus Didius Falco, Imperial spy and casual informer, it is the home of his mother, the domineering matriarch who has kept the Didius clan together since her husband absconded with a redhead some twenty years before. Read More...

Back in Rome after a dangerous mission to the Roman province of Baetica, Marcus Didius Falco is enjoying a drink of ill-travelled Spanish wine with his old friend Petronius Longus when a man cleaning the local fountain makes a gruesome discovery: a severed human hand. Read More...