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The Pearly Queen was really Aunt Edie. Everyone loved Aunt Edie - but especially the Andrews family.

Jack Andrews was having a tough time. Jack and the children managed as best they could, but things were pretty tough when Aunt Edie turned up. Aunt Edie was warm, generous, kind, and, above all, she was their very own Pearly Queen.

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Osokin began to pray, not that he would live but that he would truly die . Neither has he felt the sun on his face for more than fifty . Not to release him, but to return him to St Petersburg to deliver him into the hands of an old, old enemy who would visit damnation upon the ruling family of Russia: the great vampire Zmyeevich.

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Former pirate and captain of Guardship, Thomas Marlowe, is now a man of property, keeping his prosperous tobacco plantation in Virginia with his wife Elizabeth. But the Anglo-Spanish war has meant a decline in tobacco prices, and Thomas decides to come to England to trade his wares, thinking that he will meet an old enemy from his pirating days.

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It was a remarkable and profound transformation, brought about largely by two men with an insatiable desire to succeed, Duncan Fletcher and Andy Flower.

In The Plan, Steve James tells the story of the renaissance of English cricket from a unique perspective.

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Boris Becker shot to fame in 1985 when at seventeen years old, he became the youngest player ever to win the men's final at Wimbledon.

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South London in the 1930s ...and Mrs Hilda Jones is fed up with her dull husband.

Meanwhile, a heavy East End gang has moved into the area from Shoreditch, and has established a lucrative protection racket, bringing drama and anxiety to this closely-knit neighbourhood.

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Jolyon Chadwick, a famous television presenter, takes his new girlfriend Henrietta home meet his extended family - and also to meet Marie, the mother who deserted him and his father many years ago, now re-appeared and seeming to want forgiveness. Jolyon, however, is not in the mood for forgiveness.

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For Alice Pettiford, living near Gloucester in the late 1940s, leaving school for a job as a railway secretary makes perfect sense. When he and Alice discover an old railway coach, long abandoned, hidden in a clearing in the Forest of Dean, Alice realises that it has been a very special, magical place.

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'Powerful' Guardian

'Haunting' Independent

How close can you get to the truth...before you become the target

Jerry Morner lives quietly in a cabin by the old quarry, hurting no one. But he soon realises that some secrets are better left to the dead.

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Desire and power collide in the court of Elizabeth I


Warwickshire, 1575

Pomp, fanfare and a wealth of lavish festivities await Elizabeth I at Kenilworth Castle.

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In 1980, following more than 20 years of torture and suffering as a political prisoner of the Communist Chinese government, Dr Tenzin Choedrak left Tibet to live in exile in India and returned to his duties as the Dalai Lama's physician. Here, he tells of his disturbing experiences.

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But there is a terrible price to pay for their help - a knowledge that will change her utterly.

As Guinevere faces the first great test of her reign, so her childhood companion, Black Leg - the shape-shifting son of her adoptive father - begins his own quest to become a man and warrior worthy of this new queen.

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In early 1942 the Germans opened a top-security prisoner-of-war camp in occupied Poland for captured Allied airmen. In this book Guy Walters takes a fresh look at this remarkable event and asks the question, what was the true story, not the movie version This title examines what the escape really achieved, and the nature of the man who led it.

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Toys - from teddy bears to Barbie dolls to train sets - define our image of childhood innocence. But the truth is that toys represent a $21 billion a year industry, and with so much money at stake, the toy business is anything but child's play. This book exposes the truths behind Britain's favourite toys.

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Contains an insider's view of a real-life subculture of crime solving - from its tangled history, the politics and bureaucracy to the science, the emotional and physical toll, and the lucky breaks, and a singular exploration of human nature itself. This work examines four cases of the Cold Case and Apprehension Squad, from inception to resolution.

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Too many of us lose our sense of self-worth early on. Girls are especially vulnerable, often turning from free spirits into 'female impersonators' by adolescence. In this title, the author describes how, by returning to her childhood self through techniques such as imagery, guided meditation and artistic expression.

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Perfect for fans of Jenny Colgan, Milly Johnson and Trisha Ashley.

"Astley writes with humour and insight about the stresses and strains of family life" - THE TIMES
"A most absorbing and revealing read" - WOMAN'S WEEKLY
"Judy Astley's books are always a joy to read."

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'He who saves one life, it is as if he saved an entire world'

The Holocaust will be forever numbered amongst the darkest of days in human civilisation.

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It was Peter's near-fatal accident and her own illness which decided the young couple to turn their backs on England and Germany and make a new start farming in Ireland.

Life was harsh at first, but predictably Christabel found humour in the accidents of poverty and the many mishaps of country life.

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2012: Edward, a diplomat held hostage for eleven years in an Afghan cave, returns to London to find his wife is dead, and in her place is an unnerving double - his daughter, now grown up. Numb with grief, he attempts to re-build his life and answer the questions that are troubling him. Was his wife's death an accident Who paid his ransom

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But as she finds herself drawn to the old neglected and overgrown walled rose garden and the dilapidated gardeners cottage attached, shesuddenly sees a future as shedecides to restore them.

As the rose garden takes on a new life and starts to bloom again, Molly finds that she can look to the future with new confidence and hope.

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Angus has ambitious plans for his future, plans that had never included Vanessa - until now .

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She longs for Caradoc Jones, son of a famous Welsh cattle drover and, in desperation, she accepts a job as chaperon to Caradoc's spoilt sister Georgina, and joins the drovers on the road to Smithfield market in London.