So your husband/boyfriend/partner (delete as necessary) has just tipped over 35/40/45/50 (delete as necessary) & you can see that he's not quite as keen on Emmerdale as he once was. He's started to dress with his jeans hoiked too high like his hero Jeremy Clarkson & he's bought a home gym
- the one recommended by George Clooney. Then there are those Harley Davison brochures delivered in brown envelopes. You've noticed he's started pulling in his beer gut when he's talks to his teenage secretary. & why have his grey sideburns turned that browny black? That's a sure sign of hair dye. & then you stumble into the bathroom in the morning & he's got his hands in a jar of your face cream. LADIES BEWARE! That dangerous age has arrived. It's the male menopause. The mid-life crisis. The time when suddenly you find your partner has put a whole Scalextrix track in your attic without you noticing. He's bought an electric guitar & insists on playing Smoke On The Water" to the cat at all hours. It that time when no matter what you say they suddenly don't mind making a fools of themselves. They come home almost every week with a new enthusiasm. Dangerous Men don't just cook
- they COOK. With truffles that cost GBP210 for one the size of a wrinkled scrotum & have to be from the right region of France. & they must be served with a side order of blowfish because you saw that in a " James Bond" DVD that came free with the " Mail on Sunday"."

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When Rachel Kemp is in danger of losing her job at a London University visiting academic Luke Holloway takes her for a sybaritic weekend in the country to cheer her up. Her encounters with Luke & his enigmatic friend Max open up a world of sensual possibilities & she is even offered a new job editing a sexually explicit Victorian diary. But when Rachel returns to London she is accused of smuggling papers out of the country & is sacked on the spot. When she tries to clear her name she discovers her actions have dangerous
- & highly erotic
- consequences.

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As plain-clothes men go Dangerous Davies looks like a non-starter. The small fry of petty larceny & minor disturbances in the backwaters of north-west London are his daily round. His philosophising Welsh drinking companion Mod his outsized & unruly dog Kitty his quarrels with his landlady Mrs Fulljames
- none of these bodes well for the efficient solving of crimes & the outwitting of villainy. But Davies is encouraged by his beautiful friend Jemma & every so often he stumbles upon something really big.
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In 2013 it is possible that Israel backed by the United States will launch an attack on Iran. This would be a catastrophic event risking war bloodshed & global economic collapse. In this passionate but rationally argued essay the authors attempt to avert a potential global catastrophe by showing that the grounds for war do not exist that there are no Iranian nuclear weapons & that Iran would happily come to a table & strike a deal. They argue that the military threats aimed by the West against Iran contravene international law & argue that Iran is a civilised country & legitimate power across the Middle East. For years Peter Oborne & David Morrison have in their respective fields examined the actions of our political classes & found them wanting. Now they have joined forces to make a powerful case against military action. In the wake of the Iraq war will the politicians listen? ...

Set in 1949: one year in the childhood of Candida Lycett Green in the remote village of Farnborough in Berkshire. Here she lives with her father John Betjeman & her mother Penelope Chetwode in one of the bleakest & highest spots on the windswept downl&. Candida runs wild with the 'gang' of village children. Stimulated by regular excursions to the cinema in Wantage Candida & her best friend June became fascinated by the idea of love. Their romantic imagination is fuelled by the beautiful Ruby Mason who cleans the cottage of a reclusive scientist Dr. Fox employed at the neighbouring Harwell Atomic Research Centre. They stealthily engineer a romance between the two
- until it is revealed that none of the children's special adult friends are what they seem & the real world shockingly intervenes to overturn their innocence.
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A walk through Kensal Green Cemetery a meat pie in the greasy spoon a weekend away complete with flannel pyjamas
- Dangerous Davies
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The year is 1562. Lady Catherine Grey cousin of Elizabeth I has just been arrested along with her husband Edward. Their crime is to have secretly married & produced a child who might threaten the Queen's title. Alone in her chamber at the Tower of London Catherine hears ghostly voices echoes she thinks of a crime committed in the same room where she is imprisoned. The story flashes back to 1483 & another Catherine
- Kate Plantaganet bastard daughter of Richard III. She has heard terrible rumours of the death of the young deposed Edward V & his brother (the Princes in the Tower) but loyalty to her father prevents her believing them. After his death at Bosworth she is viewed with suspicion by Henry VII's court even more so when she becomes pregnant. Catherine too is pregnant a friendly warder having sneaked Edward into her room. She finds documents relating to Kate's life & gets swept up both in Kate's story & the mystery of the Princes which she realises Kate never solved. Kate dies in childbirth & it is left to Catherine to discover the truth about the Princes.
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Two women separated by time are linked by the most famous murder mystery in history the Princes in the Tower. Lady Katherine Grey has already suffered more than her fair share of tragedy. Newly pregnant she has incurred the wrath of her formidable cousin Queen Elizabeth I who sees her as a rival to her insecure throne. Alone in her chamber in the Tower she finds old papers belonging to a kinswoman of hers Kate Plantagenet who forty years previously had embarked on a dangerous quest to find what really happened to her cousins the two young Princes who had last been seen as captives in the Tower. But time is not on Kate's side
- nor on Katherine's either...
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Jacob Wilde lived a fast & furious life of reckless abandon...until his wild streak put a cruel end to a life spent in pursuit of pleasure... The Texan ranching grapevine is legendary so Addison Mc Dowell has heard all about Jake Wildes shameless past
- & his scarred solitary present. But her only focus is her future
- which wont include the impossibly arrogant Jacob Wilde! Addison is no Texan wallflower
- when Jake starts a fight shes more than capable of finishing it! However a searing attraction to a man she knows cannot love her back? That she has no idea how to handle...i?? The Wilde Brothers Wilde by name unashamedly wild by nature!


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A little girl is transported with the help of magic glasses from the tedium of a summer afternoon into an exciting world of mangrove swamps spluttering volcanoes & sea where birds fly upside down & wild things threaten to pounce. But she is not alone. Old friends from Moomin Valley
- Hemulen Sniff Snufkin Thingummy & Bob
- have joined her in her journey & Moomin too who rides to their rescue in a stripey balloon. This brand new version of a lost classic pairs Janssons irresistible artwork with a playful rhyming text by one of Britains star poets.

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