When a woman goes missing, it gets personal for DCI Craig Gillard. But he could never imagine what happens next.

Criminologist

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London swelters in a heatwave in the summer of 1664, & in the corridors of power the temperature is equally high as an outbreak of war with the Dutch threatens to become a reality. In the dilapidated surroundings of Savoy Hospital, a delegation from the Netherlands has gathered for a final attempt to secure peace between the two nations. Thomas Chaloner, active in Holland during Cromwell's time, knows many of the delegates, including the sister of his late wife. Then the body of his former brother-in-law is found in the Thames. Chaloner discovers that the dead man has left enigmatic clues pointing to a motive for his murder. Was he involved in a plot to steal the crown jewels, or did he fall foul of one of the many people in London, who are determined that the peace talks will fail? ...

Late on midsummer's night there is a splash in the river Thames.

A body is found on an isl&, asphyxiated & laced with

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Promising architect Peter Young is shot dead at his desk.

DCI Craig Gillard is quickly on the scene, looking at what appears

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After hours one August evening, Becky Driscoll turns up at Dr Miles Bennells consulting room to tell him something...



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In her spectacular film debut, Whitney Houston plays Rachel Marron, a music/movie superstar at her peak. Fans want to see her. Hear her. Touch her. But one wants to kill her
- & that's where security expert Frank Farmer (Kevin Costner) comes in. Farmer is a professional who never lets his guard down. Rachel has always been in control of her glamorous life. Each expects to be in charge. What they don't expect is to fall in love.
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The war declared by the Boers on 11th October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said 'no end of a lesson'. It proved to be the longest, the costliest, the bloodiest & the most humiliating campaign that Britain fought between 1815 & 1914. Thomas Pakenham has written the first full-scale history of the war since 1910. His narrative is based on first hand & largely unpublished sources ranging from the private papers of the leading protagonists to the recollections of survivors from both sides. Out of this historical gold mine, the author has constructed a narrative as vivid & fast-moving as a novel. ...

Celebrate & recreate the beauty of The Ruth Bancroft Garden!

Ruth Bancroft is a dry gardening pioneer. Her lifelong love

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Carry on camping with dream team Julian Clary & David Roberts! With their extended hyena family in tow, they head on down to Cornwall for a spot of camping. But it's never long before trouble sniffs these hyenas out, & Bobby is mistaken for a pup & snatched by a wicked dognapper. ...

From the bestselling author of ‘ The Other Boleyn Girl’, Philippa Gregory, comes a wonderfully atmospheric evocation of the court of Henry VIII & his final queens.

The year is 1539 & the court of Henry VIII is increasingly fearful at the moods of the ageing sick king. With only a baby in the cradle for an heir, Henry has to take another wife & the dangerous prize of the crown of England is won by Anne of Cleves.

She has her own good reasons for agreeing to marry a man old enough to be her father, in a country where to her both language & habits are foreign. Although fascinated by the glamour of her new surroundings, she senses a trap closing around her. Katherine is confident that she can follow in the steps of her cousin Anne Boleyn to dazzle her way to the throne but her kinswoman Jane Boleyn, haunted by the past, knows that Anne’s path led to Tower Green & to an adulterer’s death.

The story of these three young women, trying to make their own way through the most volatile court in Europe at a time of religious upheaval & political uncertainty, is Philippa Gregory’s most compelling novel yet.





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