It is 1925 & the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple her husband Alec Fletcher & their recent twins move to a new large house on the outskirts of London. Set in a small circle of houses with a communal garden it seems like the idyllic setting
- that is until a murder victim turns up under the bushes of the communal garden. Now rumours of bootleggers American gangsters & an international liquor smuggling operation via black ships turn everything upside down. Alec in his role as Scotland Yard detective has been assigned to ferret out the truth behind the murder
- but it is up to Daisy to find out who the dead man is what his relationship with her new neighbours was why he was murdered
- & who it was who did him in! Praise for Carola Dunns Daisy Dalrymple Series": Cunning...appropriate historical detail & witty dialogue are the finishing touches on this engaging 1920s period piece
- Publishers Weekly. As always Dunn evokes the life & times of 1920s England while providing a plot that is a cut above the average British cosy. This will delight readers who love country-house mysteries
- " Booklist For fans of Dorothy L. Sayers novels Library Journal"."




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Frances Lincoln is proud to reintroduce Rosemary Sutcliffs Black Ships Before Troy now in an exciting new format. Here is Homers epic poem The Iliad brought to life by Rosemary Sutcliff with all the skill of a master storyteller. Alan Lees dramatic cover image hauntingly recreates the age of heroes in this spellbinding introduction to the Greek classics
- a book that should become part of every childhood.
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Detective Sigurdur Oli is in trouble. After a school reunion exposes the chasm between his life & those of his much more successful contemporaries leaving him bitter & resentful one of his old friends asks him to pay an unofficial visit to a couple of blackmailers. He readily agrees only to arrive to find one of the pair lying in a pool of blood. When the victim dies in hospital Sigurdur Oli is faced with investigating a murder without revealing his own reasons for being present at the murder scene. Moving from the villas of Reykjavik's banking elite to a sordid basement flat Black Skies is a superb story of greed pride & murder from one of Europe's most successful crime writers. ...

The explosion will not happen today. It is too soon.. .or too late. First published in English in 1968 Frantz Fanons seminal text was immediately acclaimed as a classic of black liberationalist writing. Fanons descriptions of the feelings of inadequacy & dependence experienced by people of colour in a white world are as salient & as compelling as ever. Fanon identifies a devastating pathology at the heart of Western culture a denial of difference that persists to this day. His writings speak to all who continue the struggle for political & cultural liberation in our troubled times. ...

This black address book is slim has silver lettering on the cover & the pages are edged in silver foil.. Inside there are 26 sections for addresses 1 letter to each section. Each page has three spaces for name address home number mobile fax & email. Measures approximately: H 170 x W 85mm ...

Written during the same period as Tropic of Cancer & Tropic of Capricorn & banned in the English-speaking world upon its publication in Paris in 1936 Black Spring is one of Millers finest achievements & arguably his most distinguished book from a stylistic point of view. It consists of a number of linked episodes describing some of the crucial years in his personal saga from recollections of his childhood in Brooklyn to his time in Paris. ...

A condensed guide to life from the bestselling author of The Black Swan" Nassim Nicholas Taleb's " The Bed of Procrustes" is an invaluable collection of aphorisms navigate the modern world. Why are we so often unwilling to accept that life is unpredictable? In this brilliant book Nassim Nicholas Taleb distils his idiosyncratic wisdom to demolish our illusions contrasting the classical values of courage elegance & erudition against modern philistinism & phoniness. Only by accepting what we don't know he shows can we see the world as it really is. " Happily provocative.. .blistering.. .his observations concern superiority wealth suckerdom academia modernity technology & the all-purpose ignorant "they".. .very"able". (" The New York Times"). "A master philosopher". (" The Times"). " Taleb's crystalline nuggets of thought stand alone like esoteric poems". (" Financial Times"). " Opinionated & witty... It showcases his wit & learning & provides ways to fillet his enemies". (" Independent on Sunday"). Nassim Nicholas Taleb spends most of his time as a flaneur meditating in cafes across the planet. A former trader he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University. He is the author of " Fooled by Randomness" & " The Black Swan" an international bestseller which has become an intellectual social & cultural touchstone." ...

January 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor
- covert stammerer & reluctant poet
- anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater

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New York jeweller Garet James has her fair share of problems: money an elderly father a struggling business. One day she comes across an antiques shop shed never noticed before. The owner possesses an old silver box thats been sealed shut. Would she help an old man & open it perhaps? She does...and that night strange things begin to happen. Its as if her world
- our world
- has shifted slightly revealing another parallel place that co-exists without our knowledge: the world of the Fey... Garet learns that one of her ancestors was the Watchtower: an immortal chosen to stand guard over the human & the fey worlds
- a role that she has it seems inherited from her mother. But the equilibrium between these two existences is under threat. The 16th-century magician & necromancer Dr John Dee has returned the box has been opened & the demons of Despair & Discord released. In a race against time & impending apocalypse it is Garet who must find Dee...and close the box.


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With evil Gordon locked up in Strangeways for 5 years the characters from Karen Woods' debut novel ' Broken Youth' come to terms with life without him. Misty now married to Dominic gives birth to Gordon's child Charlotte. Her former best friend Francesca also gives birth to one of Gordon's children Rico while staying with Gordon's heroin addicted brother Tom. Meanwhile as the clock ticks down on his sentence Gordon broods on the injustice of his situation & plots sweet revenge on those on the outside. ...