This is the second novel in the series of four, depicting the meeting, courtship and ultimate fulfilment of two modern heroes, Christopher Tietjens and Valentine Wannop, despite social...

The Royal Stuarts ruled for over 300 years in Scotland and for a century as the Royal Family of Britain and Ireland. They were leading actors in the foremost political dramas of British history -...

London, 1850. Fog in the air and filth in the streets, from the rat-infested graveyard of Tom-All-Alone's to the elegant chambers in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where the lawyer Edward Tulkinghorn has...

In this biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, A.N. Wilson narrates the complex drama of the writer's life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery...

The venerable bank of Tubal & Co is in trouble. It’s not the first time in its 300-year history, but this time will be the last.

A sale is under way, and a number of rather important...

‘This is the room from which I will direct the war,’ Churchill declared, shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 1940. And he did just that, as the distinguished Churchill biographer Richard...

Oscar is having the worst holiday ever. So when his dad suggests the family go on a haunted tour of York, he jumps at the chance of doing something that doesn't involve trailing round gift shops....

Victory or death: the fight for freedom is about to begin...

The Helat rebels have broken the power of the demon lord and challenged the rule of their masters, the Sol-ket. But the...

From the bestselling author of Lemprière's Dictionary, Lawrence Norfolk is back with an astounding novel of seventeeth-century life, love and war; the story of an orphan who becomes the greatest...

In a momentous period of British history, Donald Thomas's latest Sherlock Holmes adventure pits the Great Detective and his faithful biographer, Dr John Watson, against an international conspiracy...

Sir Ranulph Fiennes is described as ‘the world’s greatest living explorer’ by The Guinness Book of Records, and his life story shows this is no exaggeration. From his early military career...

A Man Could Stand Up, the third volume of Parade's End, brings Ford's characters to the 'crack across the table of History', across which lie their uncertain post-war futures. Divided into three...

Drugged, manacled, condemned to a dank cell in the depths of London's infamous Newgate prison, the world's greatest literary detective awaits execution by a vengeful crew of formidable enemies....

The Anglo-American ‘Special Relationship’ is in deep trouble. The ambitious vice-president, Bobby Black, who wields greater influence over foreign affairs than his titular boss, has fallen out...

The authors present 11 ghost stories: from a ghost walk around York to a drowned boy determined to find someone to play with, to a child trapped in a mirror, ready to pull you in, to devilish...