Fed up with questions about what he was going to do when he retired, Edward decided to get on his bicycle and ride from Le Havre to the Mediterranean. He struggled in Normandy to get directions...

Hidden in the broom cupboard of Rose Cottage is the most delightful little house.
Shh, it's a secret. No one knows it's there... This is the home of Tumtum and Nutmeg...

When...

When an enormous bequest is left to St Martha’s College, the dons split into three factions with three goals: the Virgins believe the bequest should be spent in austere areas of scholarship; the...

Maggie Perowne is head of Old Masters at Klinsky's auction house in London. Ben Glazier is an art expert. Ben, not as young as he was, is inescapably in love with Maggie, but she has an...

This really is the ultimate answer to Life, the Universe and Everything - all five radio series of ‘The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy’ collected together for the first time, in a handsome...

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...

Alexander Cleave, actor, has left his career and his family behind and banished himself to his childhood home. He wants to retire from life, but finds this impossible in a house brimming with...

Reserved, honourable Mr Malik. You wouldn't notice him in a Nairobi street - except, perhaps, to comment on his carefully sculpted combover - but beneath his unprepossessing exterior lies a warm...

I see murder in this unhappy hand... When Mrs. Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde's hand she cannot know what she has predicted. Nor can Oscar know what he has set in...

Amiss is unhappy with his job managing a right-wing, 200-year old English magazine, for the atmosphere is poisoned with egocentricity. And when the deputy editor is found drowned in a bowl of...

HMS Truculent is a nuclear-powered, hunter-killer submarine, and one of the most deadly weapon systems in the world. Phil Hitchens is its distinguished British commander - who has broken away from...

Hidden in the broom cupboard of Rose Cottage is the most delightful house. Shh, it’s a secret. No one knows it’s there... This is the home of Tumtum and Nutmeg.

When General...

When the BBC conducted their Greatest Briton poll, Alfred the Great was the only king to make it into the top twenty. One can be sure that the story of the cakes left to burn by a disguised...

Following the bestselling Summer of a Dormouse, Sir John Mortimer - playwright, novelist, octogenarian and erstwhile QC - offered up more lessons in living and growing old disgracefully. What...

Dear Father Christmas, I’m very sorry that you couldn’t come last year because the chimney was bricked up. We asked Pa to unblock it, so you could get down this time, but he said he couldn’t...