Admiral FitzRoy made his name as a captain on the HMS Beagle and is best known as Darwin's captain on the voyages that gave him the key to natural selection, but this book delves deeper. He was also an active MP and governor of New Zealand, and the founder of the Meteorological Office.

(, New edition)

A man tumbles to his death on a building site and Karen McDade is one of the witnesses. Then the body of Jack O'Hagan is discovered, his veins full of alcohol. An everyday tragedy The postmortem suggests otherwise. Karen can't help wondering if these two suspicious deaths are connected.

When journalist Aidan Shaw disappears in Kashmir, his wife Joanna refuses to believe he is dead. So, enlisting the help of his best friend, Lawrence Malcolm, and Kamla, a girl she saved from an Indian brothel - or flash house - she sets off on a harrowing and treacherous journey to find him.

When Dominic Peach is sent to the former Soviet republic of Belugastan to save an endangered wild sheep he is not pleased. And he'd hoped, by rigging their database to make sheep his one responsibility, that he'd got SOS sewn up. But it turns out Belugastan is more fun than he'd thought.

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In a breathtakingly real fiction debut, Eddy introduces undercover cop Grace Flint, a heroine who will appeal to male and female readers for her quick-thinking, fearless cool. Beaten almost to death in an international operation, Grace is now back on duty. But noone is convinced she has healed inside.

Nicky can't thank Belle enough when she discovers that her fiance is having an affair. Nicky encourages her to help other suspicious partners, and soon Belle is hanging out in bars and hiding in bushes, hoping to catch unsuspecting Casanovas. Then she is hired to follow elusive Eddie Farrar.

With the end of World War II, Lizzie Angel and her family hope the hard times have come to an end, but during the harsh winter of 1947, life seems harder than ever. With her father set on emigrating to Australia, Lizzie must choose between her family and her lover, Miles Thomas.

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Reporter Nick Madrid is in New York covering a fencing tournment. But when he stumbles on a murder plot involving sports sponsorship he knows he's on to a good story. When he then discovers a link to Oswald Mosley's blackshirts and Nazi gold, he can't resist trying to foil the villain's plan.

Hadrian, the great Roman Emperor, was a traveller, intellectual and patron of the arts. But he was also melancholy and volatile. This title tells his story against a background of his travels and intrigues, and the landscape and architecture of the time.

(, 3rd Revised edition)

How pepper contributed to the fall of the Roman empire; how a new kind of plough helped to spark off the Crusades; why stir-fry cooking was invented: spanning over half a million years, this account describes the world history of food and the ways it has influenced the course of human development.

The magnificent new historical novel from the bestselling author of None But The Brave, Mayfield and Vale Valhalla.

Cabbie Chas Tyme is shy, kind-hearted and always ready to see the best in people. His main concern is for his widowed mother, Iris, and, by working hard at Black's Taxis, he does all he can to provide for her. But Iris just wishes he'd concentrate on finding a nice girl who'd appreciate his worth. If only he had the courage to ask someone out.

Zoe Lynton has a passion for archaeology, and tall dark men with broad shoulders and slate blue eyes, which describes Brandon Mitchell. His grandfather believes the grave of Queen Boudicca is to be found on his land, but Brandon is more interested in building houses on the spot.

This is a dramatic, heartstopping family drama about what happens to a couple when they discover a secret that they should never have been told.

Brigid has always felt her mother Frummie favoured her sister over her, and there has always been tension between them. But while Frummie is staying with her in her Devon cottage, two murders occur nearby, the two women are drawn together, especially when a mysterious stranger appears.

This text offers a revisionist view of World War I. The author contends that the popular view that World War I was tragic and unnecessary, is wrong. Based on 20 years of research, this book aims to challenge the assumptions underpinning the traditional belief that World War I was a futile conflict.

A fly-on-the-wall account of life inside the Formula One community, travelling from Spa to Silverstone, Monaco to Monza, and uncovering the real people behind the visors. It reveals their thoughts, hopes and fears and the ups and downs of the season, as well as anecdotes from F1 folklore.

(Paperback)

The OFFICIAL How to Draw guide from Epic Games, creators of FORTNITE, the biggest gaming brand in the world. Includes over 30 Outfits, vehicles, weapons and more!

Tom is a comedian whose sell-by date is fast approaching. He meets - and is quickly dumped by - Taylor, the boy of his dreams. Cue major depression, excessive narcotics, extreme alcohol abuse and an excuse for Tom to talk about his tragic trailer-trash upbringing.

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'Charlie Owen is a talent... an authentic voice that humorously exposes the dark and eccentric world of English street crime' Guy Ritchie

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It's an ordinary Thursday evening in July when Michelle Lunt is found hanging in a flat off Liverpool's Sefton Park. Unfortunately for Johnny Ace, the flat belongs to him. Ace has been framed but once out on bail, he needs to find out who framed him and why and if it's connected with Lunt's death.

(Paperback)

The gripping new page-turner from Sunday Times bestselling author Tasmina Perry is a brilliant 'cuckoo in the nest' story with glamour, suspense and a knockout twist.

(, New edition)

Revealing what life is like on the county circuit, and contrasting this with cricket down under, Langer searches for reasons why the English game is struggling. But more than just a book cricket, this an outsider's view on English life, as he looks at what Londoners put up with, as well as those things where they don't realise how lucky they are.

At the age of three, to stop a fast-spreading cancer, Barty had his eyes removed. At the age of 13 his sight returned, all due to a rollercoaster and a seagull. Barty's desire to make his mother proud of him before she died can't be discounted; the first time she died was the day Barty was born.