Straccan has lost the woman he loved to his enemies. His first task is to find her. His second, to escort the great bell, Gaudete, to its resting place in Durham. His third to save from her enemies the Gleemaiden of the title and the mysterious child she protects.

"Glory Bus" is written by Richard Laymon.

(, New edition)

Stalag Luft III was a specially built German prison camp designed to hold the most determined escapers - officers and men from the RAF. The last surviving escapers, along with the original executioners have been tracked down and dramatically tell the full story in this volume.

Stumbling upon an execution, Chaucer's pilgrims witness a hanging that leaves the carpenter in a dead faint. That evening, he narrates the tale of a Gloucester hangman whose involvement in the secretive punishment of three witches unleashes a vicious spate of revenge killings.

On the eve of their return to Ireland, Fidelma and Brother Eadulf battle through winter storms to see the Yule in with Eadulf's childhood friend, Brother Botulf. But they arrive too late - Botulf is dead. Who killed him and why And why is the ghost of a young woman haunting the abbot

(, New edition)

Who shot the Earl's finest hawk Who is the hooded figure in the forest and the hidden witness crouching petrified but undetected Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret are called to settle a dispute between Church and State. Guests of the Earl, they find a well-guarded prisoner in the castle dungeons.

(, New edition)

He had seen it with his own eyes. So when Mike's son denies seeing anything unusual, the doctors' diagnosis is confirmed: Mike Peterson is losing his mind. While Mike is undergoing treatment, Kerry has taken on the family reponsibilities. But, three years later, Mike is soon to be released.

In the village of Westerbank the 1960s are not about rock'n'roll; they're about survival, making a bare living out of a struggling farm or working for whoever will pay you. And the return of Joe McBride, 15 years since he fled the village, is about to change forever the worlds of those he left behi

(, New edition)

A crime novel in which a famous conductor and composer finds his life at risk when he returns to his hometown and is sought by an avenger.

It is 1879 and the British army is constantly in action to defend the Empire. Young Lieutenant Simon Fonthill has been dispatched to South Africa with much to prove, for Colonel Covington, his former Commanding Officer, has slanderously branded him a coward.

(Hardback)

Ex-journalist Dan really needs something to get his teeth into. Fellow ex-journalist Mark - whose secret persona is The Horse Whisperer, an internet horse-racing gossip - wants to investigate the man behind Irish American Racing. Simple enough surely. But then, trouble is Dan's middle name.

Aided by her lover, Senenmut, Hatusu is determined that all sections of Egyptian society should accept her as the first Pharoah-Queen of Egypt. But after a spate of killings, Amerotke is again called on to find the truth amongst the suspicion.

There's to be a banquet celebrating the opening of the Museum of British History's exhibition Elegance. Present will be an overambitious Director, a vainglorius Chairman and a restored Gainsborough portrait - add backbiting, sexual innuendo, even romance, and a hound in the left-hand corner...

(Paperback, New edition)

Death is an everyday occurrence at the London teaching hospital of St. Hugh's, as Sister Agnes is well aware. But when an assistant in the pharmacology department dies, the handling of her death arouses Agnes's suspicions, and she finds herself at the heart of a web of murderous intrigue.

When her father is murdered, Katherine Donovan and Ceppi, an orphan, head to Liverpool. Using the last of her money she rents a ramshackle lodging house, but discovers to her horror that one of her tenants is not the respectable salesman he claims to be.

Erotica from the author of 'Amateur Nights' and 'Naked Ambition'.

Adam Spark is eighteen going on eight-and-a-half. On waking from an accident in which he saves a child, he has the distinct impression that all is far from right. What are these curious lights that seem to surround people Why are animals and machines trying to speak to him And can he really control time Is it just his imagination

(Paperback)

A magical story of an unusual child, with universal appeal; 'Impossible to put down', Sarah Broadhurst, Bookseller

(, New edition)

Thomas Fairchild shook the horticultural world by revealing sexual reproduction in plants. This is a biography dedicated to the life and work of a man who could not help interfering with natural design, and as a result has given us the huge variety of flowers in our parks and gardens today.

Thomas Fairchild shook the horticultural world by revealing sexual reproduction in plants. This is a biography dedicated to the life and work of a man who could not help interferring with natural design, and as a result has given us the huge variety of flowers in our parks and gardens today.

(, 3rd Revised edition)

An examination of the mystery of Jack the Ripper. It is in encyclopaedic format and describes all the theories - including the suspect Joseph Barnett, the story of the "Ripper diaries" and the theory of "The Lodger". It also details the policemen, politicians and bystanders caught up in the case.

(Hardback)

From the author of THE SOLDIER'S WOMAN and THE WATCHMAN'S DAUGHTER comes a heart-rending new tale of family strife, dreams abandoned and love triumphant

She lives in their dreams. They die in hers.