Books Crime Books Meet two sleuths from a sleepy Yorkshire village as they investigate murders & discover the secrets behind the twitching curtains. Date with Death is the first cosy crime novel in Julia Chapman’s Dales Detective series. Samson O’ Brien has been dismissed from the police force, & returns to his hometown of Bruncliffe in the Yorkshire Dales to set up the Dales Detective Agency. However, the villagers aren’t that welcoming to a man they see as trouble. Delilah Metcalfe is struggling to keep her business, the Dales Dating Agency, afloat as well as trying to control her wayward dog, Tolpuddle, when Samson’s first case – a supposed suicide – takes an unexpected turn, & a trail of deaths lead back to the door of Delilah’s agency. With suspicion hanging over someone they both care for, the two feuding neighbours soon realize that they need to work together to solve the mystery of the dating deaths. But working together is easier said than done... Product... ...

When Mrs Shepherd arrives at the Dales Detective Agency on a December morning, quite convinced that someone is trying to kill

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The Dales Detective Agency’s latest assignment appears to be an open & shut case. 

Hired by a local solicitor to find

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Dates is an informative & enjoyable account of the date & the date palm, following its journey from ancient Mesopotamia to the places where it is cultivated today. Dates is interwoven with stories, anecdotes & humour, & explores date etymology, history, culture, religion, myth & legend. ...

Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown children & a lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, her life. So when her husband of twenty-four years said they needed to talk, Paris couldn't imagine what he was about to say. I want a divorce, Peter tells her. ...

Details: Lizzie is finding that life in the Birmingham blitz is hard. Her husband is away fighting in the Second World
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Archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, mountaineer & nation builder, Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege & plenty. This title presents her story. It is a portrait of a woman who transcended the restrictions of her class & age & in so doing created a remarkable & enduring legacy. ...

Thirteenth-century France: Bridget has grown up mastering the mystical gifts of her ancestor Mary Magdalene, whose unbroken female lineage has kept a legacy of wisdom alive for a thousand years. Nut the all-powerful Catholic Church has sworn to destroy Bridget for using her healing talents & supernatural abilities. Bridget's duty to continue the bloodline leads her into the arms of Raoul de Montvallant
- a Catholic. But when the Church's savage religious intolerance causes Raoul to turn rebel, a terrible vengeance is extracted by Simon de Montfort, the unstoppable Catholic leader...
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Maddy Shillabeer's prospects are limited.

Being the only woman in a household of men, she's resigned herself to

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The autobiography of a young girl growing up in Mao's China. Hong Ying grew up in a slum on the banks of the Yangtze, an area permanently veiled in fog & steeped in superstition. Life was precarious & Hong Ying, the youngest of the six children, grew up afraid that she would be condemned to a life of carrying sand & emptying chamber pots. Gradually, Hong Ying began to try & solve some of the mysteries which had seemed to surround her early life: a stalker who had followed her since she was a child, a VD record in her father's file, & a persistent feeling that there was something strange about her birth. Among her discoveries, Hong Ying learnt that her mother was once married to a Triadman who had died in a labour camp as a counter-revolutionary, while her father, now a blind sailor, had several times barely escaped with his life during the civil war. Under the corrupt rule, her mother had taken extreme measures to keep the children alive while several of her relatives starved to death during the Great Famine. Moreover, Hong Ying's stalker turned out to have an astoundingly close connection with her. After the tragic deaths of both her first lover & her first child, Hong Ying decided she had to take control of her own life: she left home & worked hard to become a published poet & a novelist. After the events in Tian'anmen Square, she left China to live in London. ...