Michael Young is a brilliant young history student whose life is changed when he meets Leo Zuckerman, an ageing physicist with a theory that can change worlds. Together they realise that they have the power to alter...
I could never have told this story without the books and materials of the specialists who have worked at the sites and have collected the artifacts of our prehistoric ancestors, and they have my deepest gratitude. To...
From the internationally acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries comes an extraordinary stand-alone novel - both a mystery and a sweeping drama - that traces the legacy of the nineteenth-century slave trade...
'The mind is a time machine that travels backwards in memory and forwards in prophecy, but he has done with prophecy ; Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George...
After killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander finds himself spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression. He has just decided to leave the police when an old friend approaches him for help...
Miles Green wakes up in a mysterious hospital with no idea of how he got there or who he is. He definitely doesn`t remember his wife, or his children`s names. An impossibly shapely specialist doctor tells him his...
Roy Strang is engaged is a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate the evil predator-scavenger bird, the marabou stork, before it drives away the peace-loving flamingo from the...
When Margaret Thatcher unexpectedly emerged to challenge Edward Heath for the Conservative leadership in 1975, the public knew her only as the archetypal Home Counties Tory Lady, more famous for her hats than for any...
Mary Boleyn: The Great and Infamous Whore
Mary Boleyn is remembered by posterity as a `great and infamous whore`. She was the mistress of two kings, Francois I of France and Henry VIII of England, and sister to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII`s second wife. She may...
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon were 18th-century British surveyors who ran the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland - the Mason-Dixon Line. This is their story, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk,...
One hot spring the devil arrives in Moscow accompanied by two demons, a beautiful naked witch and a huge black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. When the visitors leave, the asylums are full and the forces of...
Surely no stranger work exists in the annals of protest literature than "The Master and Margarita". Written during the Soviet crackdown of the 1930s, when Mikhail Bulgakov`s works were effectively banned, it wraps its...
At Deverill Hall, an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village of King`s Deverill, impostors are in the air. The prime example is man-about-town Bertie Wooster, doing a good turn to Gussie Fink-Nottle by...
