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



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It seems like a routine disappearance, a case of musician's stage fright. As a senior detective,   Craig Gillard isn't sure

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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 His narrative is based on first hand & largely unpublished sources ranging from the private papers of the leading protagonists to the recollections of survivors from both sides.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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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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On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving his multimillionaire father to run off to Africa with a near penniless man. An inspiration for Nancy Mitford's character The Bolter, painted by William Orpen, & photographed by Cecil Beaton, Sackville went on to divorce a total of five times, yet died with a picture of her first love by her bed. Her struggle to reinvent her life with each new marriage left one husband murdered & branded her the 'high priestess' of White Mischief's bed-hopping Happy Valley in Kenya. Sackville's life was so scandalous that it was kept a secret from her great-granddaughter Frances Osborne. Now, Osborne tells the moving tale of betrayal & heartbreak behind Sackville's road to scandal & return, painting a dazzling portrait of high society in the early twentieth century. ...

On an ordinary day in 1941, a letter arrives on the doormats of five young women, a letter which will change everything.

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In the Phoenix Munitions Factory, everyone has their secrets...

As WWII rolls across Europe, Kitty boards a ship

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