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Frank Elder never stopped looking.

Long after Susan Blacklock's disappearance, Detective Inspector Frank Elder has taken early retirement, but the case still plagues his mind one failure he can never fix.

The prime suspects were jailed for another murder.

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But the vast majority seem to have their origins in people's delight in inventing stories - whether the legend that the blackbird was originally white, or the suggestion that witches kept owls as their familiars.

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But Robert, highly skilled at solving other people's problems, is struggling to deal with his own.

As the floating island returns to the surface of the lake, Robert forces Matt to confront the truth about his brother's death, but also, unknowingly, exposes him to an adult world of passion, guilt, and betrayal...

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A storm rages over the north of Britain, a troop carrier founders in the Irish Sea, flood indicators go off the scale, the seas are mountainous and a spring tide is about to strike the East Coast. But surely London is safe: the Thames Barrier will save the capital from disaster as it was intended to do

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Alex Stone, part of the underground magic circuit, is determined to take his lifelong hobby to the professional level, to reach the pinnacle of this bizarre world and become a master magician.

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For a Pagan Song tells the story of how Jonny Bealby follows in the footsteps of his two heroes from literature, Kipling and Dravot, travelling across remote parts of India and Pakistan and into war-torn Afghanistan.

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The fourth and most compelling novel from one of the most exciting new crime writers to emerge in recent years, Fanatical love, dangerous obsession and a terrible deadly secret. Unexplained events on the island put Rose's life in danger - but throw her into the path of Robin Davey, charismatic owner of the island.

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His own courage was officially recognised as he was mentioned in despatches three times and posthumously awarded the D.S.O.

The letters have been transcribed and edited by Hermon's granddaughter Anne Nason with the guidance and historical advice of James Holland, the distinguished historian and writer.

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Commander Graham Martineau was awarded the Victoria Cross for pressing home an attack against impossible odds. Few survived, and crimson ribbon remains a haunting symbol of the sacrifice of ship and men.

Now, as captain of the crack Tribal Class destroyer H.M.S.

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Members of the Polish Air Force fought through the defeat of their own country in 1939 and then alongside the French until the fall of France the following year, when they made their varied ways to Britain.

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When Lisa Martin and David Kirby were forced to part, they never dreamed they might one day have a second chance. In spite of knowing this is a battle they can't win, he decides to fight anyway, in the only way he knows how.

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Until Lottie meets a boy with golden-brown eyes who calls her "Sassy" and accuses her of running away.

It is after this meeting that the dreams start, dreams of another life, almost another world, and Lottie, sharing them with Baz, begins to believe he knows more than he chooses to tell.

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In this new volume of memoirs, Frank Skinner describes his experience of going back on the road doing stand-up again, after many years spent working mainly on television.

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A bringing up-to date of the diaries of Tony Benn, covering events from the Gulf War to the rise of New Labour.

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Young catboy Cyan has found himself on one side of a huge territorial catfight against the beautiful Siam and her endless crew of gorgeous generals.

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And what happens when those things are then made available to the consumer for free

In his groundbreaking new book, The Long Tail author Chris Anderson considers a brave new world where the old economic certainties are being undermined by a growing flood of free goods - newspapers, DVDs, T-shirts, phones, even holiday flights.

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John George Haigh, the Acid Bath Killer who killed between six and nine men and women;

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Is there such a thing as just good friends...

When a long-distance phone call summons private investigator Annie McHugh's lover and business partner, Gerry, across the Atlantic Annie's left in charge.

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A third novel by the author of "Bird of Paradise" and "The Indiscretion". Charting the ebb and flow of female friendships, and set against a background of international polo and transatlantic airlines, it is the story of a woman who throws down a challenge - to life, business and her lover.

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The earliest part of the Bible is recognized as the foundation-stone of three great religions, yet, archeologists and historians have failed to find any evidence to confirm the events. This book talks about the movement to discover the archaeological evidence for events described in the Old Testament, which we have come to think of as myths.

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If he doesn't find a hit sitcom - and fast - it'll be goodbye to the bourbon, broads and BMWs of his Beverly Hills lifestyle and he'll be out on his (freshly irrigated) arse.

Award-winning comedy writer, Melvin Medford, has a plan to help Don out.

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Bob Geldof first visited Africa in 1984. The following year, Live Aid inspired a generation to raise millions for the starving in Africa.

Over twenty years on, passion undiminished, Geldof returns to what he calls the Luminous Continent.

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Her flatmate Luke has the tact of a traffic warden with toothache, her friend Tina is in love with her new man, her landlord Marcus is in love with himself, and, after the tequila incident, it looks as though Tom the vet will be sticking to Alsatians.

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In return for oil rights, Moscow's hunter-killer submarine, Viper 157, will take out the British aircraft carrier arriving to recapture the islands, leaving Argentina free to claim the 'malvinas.'

The United States are furious at this act of international piracy - and the fact that their largest oil giant owns the very same oil rights.