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Vet in a Spin

James Herriot, strapped into the cockpit of a Tiger Moth trainer, feels rather out of place, but he hasn`t found a new profession and it surely won`t be long before the RAF come round to his point of view. James...

Vets Might Fly

A few months of married bliss, a lovers` nest in Darrowby and the wonders of home cooking are rudely interrupted for James Herriot by the Second World War. James Herriot`s fifth volume of memoirs relocates him to a...

Waterland (Ned)

In the years since its first publication, in 1983, Waterland has established itself as one of the classics of twentieth-century British literature: a visionary tale of England`s Fen country; a sinuous meditation on...

What You See Is What You Get. My Autobiography

Whats Yours is Mine

Like a princess in a fairytale, Grace Hamilton has been showered with blessings: professional success, a happy marriage, and she even lives in a beautiful castle. But the only thing she really wants - her heart`s...

Winter in Madrid

1940: The Spanish Civil War is over, and Madrid lies ruined, while the Germans continue their relentless march through Europe. And as Britain stands alone, General Franco considers whether to abandon neutrality and...

Wolves Eat Dogs

Chernobyl: the Zone of Exclusion. A ghostly place, deserted and forgotten for almost two decades; now inhabited by militia, shady scavengers, a few reckless scientists, and some elderly Ukrainian peasants who would...

World Is Full of Married Men

In the greedy, grasping media business, married men don`t stay that way for long ...David Cooper cheats ...his wife doesn`t ...but then Claudia comes into his life and David wants out of his marriage. But Claudia...

Young Sherlock Holmes 3: Black Ice

The year is 1868, and Sherlock Holmes is fourteen. He has witnessed his first murder and travelled to America to unravel a deadly mystery, but now he faces his most dangerous mission yet. Mycroft, Sherlock`s older...

Young Sherlock Holmes 4: Fire Storm

Teenage Sherlock has come up against some challenges in his time, but what confronts him now is baffling. His friend and her father have vanished. Their house looks as if nobody has ever lived in it. Sherlock begins...

Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud

The year is 1868, and Sherlock Holmes is fourteen. His life is that of a perfectly ordinary army officer`s son: boarding school, good manners, a classical education - the backbone of the British Empire. But all that...

Young Sherlock Holmes 2: Red Leech

Sherlock knows that Amyus Crow, his mysterious American tutor, has some dark secrets. But he didn`t expect to find a notorious killer, hanged by the US government, apparently alive and well in Surrey - and Crow...