Harriet Martens, named ‘The Hard Detective’ by the media because of her unrelenting opposition to every sort of evil-doing, has been secretly summoned to London to investigate corruption in...

The stories in this collection are about women of all ages and circumstances. The runaway of the title story is a young woman who is incapable of leaving her husband. In another, a country girl...

In Locked In, San Francisco private eye Sharon McCone was shot in the head and suffered from locked-in syndrome: almost total paralysis but with an alert, conscious mind. Now, as Sharon struggles...

Little Women is recognized as one of the best-loved classic children's stories of all time. Originally written as a "girls' story," its appeal transcends the boundaries of time and age, making it...

A chance meeting on a train brought together Lord Ickenham and Bill Oakshott--although being told that the love of his life, Hermione, was engaged to none other than Pongo, Lord Ickenham's nephew,...

Bernard Elliot, a poet, and Frances Reardon, a fiction writer, meet at a writers' colony during the summer of 1957 and begin a friendship and correspondence. Bernard, well-born and...

Robert Amiss is working undercover as a waiter at a gentleman’s club at the request of his friend DS Pooley. The club secretary has allegedly jumped to his death from the club’s gallery, but...

Expecting to meet her boyfriend, Marcus Marks, for dinner, she finds his wife waiting for her instead. After the initial shock wears off, Franny finds she has more in common with Clare Marks than...

Julia Carver, a twenty-four-year-old model and aspiring actress, has always had a difficult relationship with her mother, Cindy. So when her daughter disappears, Cindy assumes that Julia is just...

When 'Cakes and Ale' was first published in 1930 it roused a storm of controversy since many people imagined they recognised portraits of literary figures now no more. It is the novel for which...

Chief Inspector Wexford had every reason to remember the Painter case - it was the first murder he’d ever handled on his own. There had been no mystery - Painter had done it and been hanged.

The library on Kar-Charrat is one of the wonders of the Universe. It is also hidden from all but a few select species. The Doctor and Ace discover that the librarians have found a new way of...

The third and most ambitious of Michael Palin’s adventures is a voyage of epic proportions—the circumnavigation of the Pacific Rim. He travels for almost a year through the eighteen countries...

On millennium night, 31 December 1999, with Tony Blair presiding over a superficially cool, sexed-up new version of the country, Benjamin Trotter finds himself watching the celebrations on his...

High school sophomore Tom Parking has always dreamed of being spirited away to a magical world whose inhabitants would declare him their Chosen One, just like in the fantasy novels he reads. So...