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Our Island Storie: History of Britain

Just over a century ago, Our Island Story entranced a nation`s children by telling their history in stories. Short, simply written chapters, packed with living characters and thrilling action - and illustrated with...

Out of Sight

Pagan Babies

Past Imperfect

Damian Baxter is very, very rich. But he has one concern, which is becoming more urgent as the weeks go by: who should inherit his fortune. A letter from an ex-girlfriend suggests that, as a young man, Damian may have...

Pegasus Descending

Dave Robicheaux left his drinking days behind him many years ago, but he still feels guilt over a tragic event he wasn`t sober enough to prevent. Dallas Klein, a bar buddy of Dave`s when he was posted to Miami PD, was...

Pelagia and White Bulldog Ned

In the dying days of the nineteenth century, the small Russian town of Zavolzhsk is shaken out of its sleepy rural existence by the arrival from St Petersburg of a Synodical Inspector with a hidden agenda and a...

Pelagia and the Black Monk ***

Just as the dust from the case of the White Bulldog begins to settle in the small Russian town of Zavolzhsk, its sleepy rural existence is shaken up once again by the arrival of a desperately frightened monk who seeks...

Pelagia and Red Rooster Ned

Returning from the Synod in St Petersburg - and an official rebuke of her crime-fighting ways - Sister Pelagia finds herself aboard a steamer dodging pickpockets, zealots and a sinister man with a detachable eye. But...

Pronto

Putin and Rise of Russia

When the Soviet Union collapsed, the world was left wondering about its destiny. Russia is still an enormous power with a population exceeding 140 million, immense military resources and giant energy reserves - in...

Queens Consort: The Autobiography

England`s medieval queens were elemental in shaping the history of the nation. In an age where all politics were family politics, dynastic marriages placed English queens at the very centre of power - the king`s bed....

Rain Gods

Hackberry Holland is a man haunted by the past. A former POW from the Korean War, he has left his traumatic and chequered past behind to become sheriff of a dried-out, broken-down border town in south Texas. But Hack...

Reader (film tie-in)

For 15-year-old Michael, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. Before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and confused....

Red Mutiny: Battleship Potemkin PB

RED MUTINY tells how the sailors of Imperial Russia`s newest and most powerful battleship, POTEMKIN, seized control and flew the red flag of revolution in June 1905. It is a tale of dramatic adventure, naval battles,...

Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire

For more than 40 years after the Second World War the Iron Curtain divided Europe physically, with 300 km of walls and barbed wire fences; ideologically, between communism and capitalism; psychologically, between...

Riding the Rap

Rose of Sebastopol

Russia, 1854: the Crimean War grinds on, and as the bitter winter draws near, the battlefield hospitals fill with dying men. In defiance of Florence Nightingale, Rosa Barr - young, headstrong and beautiful - travels...

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

This is the story of Dr Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist - for whom diary - notable events include the acquisition of a new electric toothbrush and getting his article on caddis fly larvae published in `Trout and...

Sean Connery: Being a Scot TPB

Although he is an indubitably international superstar, Sir Sean Connery still knows the city of Edinburgh practically street by street from delivering the morning milk as a schoolboy. His round included Fettes...

Shadow of the Wind, The

Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the "cemetery of lost books", a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old...

Shadows of the Workhouse: The Drama of Life in Postwar London

In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories about the people she encountered. There`s Jane, who cleaned and generally...

Sharp Objects

When two girls, aged nine and ten are abducted and killed in Wind Gap, Missouri, Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to investigate and report on the crimes. Camille, self-described `white trash from old...

She Lover of Death

There`s been rising concern in Moscow over a wave of suicides among the city`s young bohemians. An intrepid newspaper reporter, Zhemailo, begins to uncover the truth behind the phenomenon - that the victims are linked...