Many aspects of Britain's involvement in World War Two only slowly emerged from beneath the barrage of official secrets & popular misconception. One of the most controversial issues, the internment of 'enemy aliens' (and also British subjects) on the Isle of Man. ...

Cumbria, 1783. A broken heritage; a secret history... The tomb of the first Earl of Greta should have lain undisturbed on its island of bones for three hundred years. When idle curiosity opens the stone lid, however, inside is one body too many. Gabriel Crowther's family bought the Gretas' land long ago, & has suffered its own bloody history. His brother was hanged for murdering their father, the Baron of Keswick, & Crowther has chosen comfortable seclusion & anonymity over estate & title for thirty years. But the call of the mystery brings him home at last. Travelling with forthright Mrs Harriet Westerman, who is escaping her own tragedy, Crowther finds a little town caught between new horrors & old, where ancient ways challenge modern justice. & against the wild & beautiful backdrop of fells & water, Crowther discovers that his past will not stay buried. ...

A vengeful goddess hunts for three jewels: fallen stars that will give her endless power.

To save the world, six friends

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From the winner of the Waterstones Children's Book prize comes a new novel about family & friendship. Jonathan, Holly & Davy have been struggling since their mother's death. On a visit to eccentric Great-Aunt Irene, they receive some photographs that could lead them to an inheritance. But they're not the only ones after the treasure... ...

All her life, London-born Angelika has been intrigued by her mother's secret past. Now planning her wedding, she feels she must visit the remote Crete village her mother grew up in.

Angie's estranged elderly grandmother, Maria, is dying. She welcomes Angie with open arms
- it's time to unburden herself, & tell the story she'll otherwise take to her grave.

It's the story of the Nazi occupation of Crete during the Second World War, of horror, of courage & of the lengths to which a mother will go to protect her children. & it's the story of bitter secrets that broke a family apart, & of three enchanting women who come together to heal wounds that have damaged two generations.

This paperback book has 486 pages & measures: 19.7 x 12.8 x 2.7cm






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Clustered together in azure-blue waters are a collection of little islands whose culture, history & people have touched every corner of the world. From the moment Columbus gazed out at what he mistook for India, & wrote in his journal of 'the most beautiful land that human eyes have ever seen, ' the Caribbean has been the subject of fantasies, myths & daydreams. It was claimed, & its societies were built to enrich old Europe, & much later its beaches were splashed across billboards advertising fizzy drinks, its towns & people pictured in holiday brochures.

But these islands are so much more than gloss, white sand & palm trees, they form a region rich in colour, beauty & strength. Home of the Rastafarian faith, Che Guevara's stomping ground & birthplace of reggae, the Caribbean has produced some of the world's most famous artists, activists, writers, musicians & sportsmen
- from Usain Bolt to Bob Marley & from Harry Belafonte to V. S. Naipaul. In the pages of Island People we hear the voices of the Caribbean people, explore their home & learn what it means to them, & to the world.

In this fascinating & absorbing book, the product of almost a decade of travel & intense study, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro strips away the fantasy & myth to expose the real islands, & the real people, that make up the Caribbean.

This hardback book has 456 pages & measures: 24 x 16 x 3.4cm






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My childhood socks were always white, my frocks ironed. Each day predictable, safe. I escaped. Aged 19, I was swept off my feet by a wild adventurer & married within months. Two small children later (with three more to come) complete with Labradors, cats, a heavy horse & hearts full of dreams, we arrived on a remote Hebridean island to begin our life on the Tapsalteerie Estate. Nothing was ever predictable again. ISLAND WIFE tells the story of Judy, who, at 19, met her Wild Pioneer. He whisked her off into an adventure, a marriage of forty years, & a life on a remote Hebridean isl&. Along the way she bears five children, learns how to run a rocky hill farm, a hotel, a recording studio & the first whale watching business in the UK
- all the while inventively making fraying ends meet. When her children start to leave home, things fall apart & there is sadness & joy in how she puts things back together. Judy tells her story in a clear & unique voice, in turns funny, unforgettable & intensely moving.
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Tomas O' Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1856 & died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish. He shared to the full the perilous life of a primitive community, yet possessed a shrewd & humorous detachment that enabled him to observe & describe the world. ...

Questions, questions, questions
- there are so many questions about the multitude of Scottish islands. Enough, enough. The
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First published in 1970, nine years after Hemingway's death, this is the story of an artist & adventurer -- a man much like Hemingway himself. Beginning in the 1930s, Islands in the Stream follows the fortunes of Thomas Hudson, from his experiences as a painter on the Gulf Stream island of Bimini through his antisubmarine activities off the coast of Cuba during World War II. Hemingway is at his mature best in this beguiling tale. Read by Bruce Greenwood ...