(, New edition)

A wherryman hauls a girls body out of the River Thames, he takes it to the medical practitioner and horoscope caster Dr Forman. To his surprise he recognizes the body - four months earlier she had visited him demanding her horoscope read. As he examines the body he finds her death was no suicide.

Hester Monk's voluntary work in Coldbath Square is increasingly demanding. Every night she tends to a stream of women of the streets who have been injured or become ill as a result of their trade. But the injuries are becoming more serious, and now a body has been discovered in one of the area's brothels...

(Hardback)

Following on from the success of Empire of Sand, Robert Ryan tells the story of the last expedition of 'Scott of the Antarctic'

(Paperback)

The third novel in the Detective Mangan series, set in Hampton Court by award-winning writer and former MP, Alan Johnson.

(Paperback, New edition)

Dominic Felse and the Swami Premanathanand, a man of peace, unravel a deadly Indian rope trick of hatred and murder when they try to discover who is behind the violent deaths of several landlords.

To get some space from his parents, Rick has been hanging out in Deathworld - a punk virtual reality site. His friend Charlie is worried, some of the kids at Deathworld have been committing suicide. Charlie asks the Explorers to help him see if there is more to Deathworld than meets the eye.

(Hardback, 4th Revised edition)

A completely revised edition which forms a concise guide to all aspects of addressing people at the end of the twentieth century. It deals with writing letters, invitations, official and social occasions, royalty and the peerage and concentrates on current social styles and acceptable usage.

(, 3rd Revised edition)

The 3rd revised edition of "Debrett's Guide to Tracing Your Ancestry" outlines all the steps needed to put together the jigsaw of your own family history. With background information on how records have been kept over the years how to consult libraries and family history societies and what to do if you get stuck, it is an invaluable guide.

(, 2nd Revised edition)

Born when Queen Victoria was still on the throne, the Queen Mother married into the Royal Family in 1923, and has earned a place in the nation's heart. This work offers a tribute to the Queen Mother.

(Paperback)

Nevada Barr is the award-winning crime writer of seventeen Anna Pigeon mysteries, each of which has been a New York Times bestseller. Now her entire crime series is available in the UK in ebook format together with this, her brand-new Anna Pigeon mystery.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

A novel about love, conflict and ambition, set in a jewellery business in London in the early 1900s.

(, New edition)

Following his progress from ice-cream salesman to gambler, agent, record producer and traveller, Mim Scala takes the reader on a helter-skelter journey through swinging London and its afterlife on the hippie trail.

(Paperback)

Christine Green's crime novel to feature detective duo Connor O'Neill and Fran Wilson - he, boozy Irishman, she, new policewoman on the block.

(Paperback, New edition)

Janet Laurence's culinary whodunnit. Author's previous titles include 'Death a la Provencale'.

(Hardback)

This is more than straightforward misery. It shows us the difficulty faced by Muslim girls growing up in 1980s Britain; deals with the horror of arranged marriages and the fall out when it goes wrong; what it means to be alienated from those you love and details the trauma involved in being a prostitute who loathes what she does, whilst celebrating the freedom it brings

(, New edition)

East End family saga by the author of 'Wild Hops'.

Agrippina, wife of Claudius, mother of Nero: a beautiful, talented woman, who saw her father murdered and was killed on her son's orders. Her freed man, Parmenon, tells the story of her battle to survive in the violent Imperial Roman court, and her crumbling relationship with her son.

Although World War II means uncertainty and anxiety for some, Eunice is grateful for the opportunities it gives her to escape her overbearing mother and the family's Blackpool boarding house. She volunteers for the Women's Land Army and finds new independence as well as new challenges.

It all started with Simon Lowenstein. Since answering for him at school when the register was called, Charlie has often answered for other people. So, when a beautiful woman he's never met asks him if he is Matthew, he can't help but say yes. But he soon begins to wish he could just be Charlie.

(, New edition)

When 70-year-old Maura Murphy discovered she had cancer, she left her husband of fifty years and started writing her memoirs. Born 'chronically ugly and as cross as a briar' into a poor rural homestead in 1920s Ireland, Maura lived much of her adult life in England, where she fought to keep together a family.

(Paperback)

The New York Times bestselling psychology book on how to find contentment by keeping dopamine in check

(, Export ed)

Two masters of the thriller genre break new ground with their first collaboration, introducing two different sets of cops in two different cities, faced with two very different murders.