It is March 1811 and Bolitho is recalled to duty after only two-and-a-half months’ peace in Cornwall with his beloved Catherine. Promoted to Admiral, his choice of flagship and flag captain...

January 1782, Portsmouth. His Britannic Majesty's frigate Phalarope is ordered to the assistance of the hard-pressed squadrons in the Caribbean. Aboard is her new commander - Richard Bolitho. To...

When two men are discovered, with their throats cut, in the vestry of St Matthew’s Church, the police are faced with an intriguing challenge for one of the victims was ex-Government minister Sir...

Venetia Aldridge is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her brilliant career as a...

Winston and Clementine Churchill wrote to each other constantly throughout the fifty-seven years of their life together, and this comprehensive collection of personal correspondence has been...

The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays the patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly,...

April 1797, Falmouth Bay. As France continues her bitter struggle for supremacy on land and sea, the Royal Navy receives a crippling blow at home: the Great Mutiny. Returning home after eighteen...

Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh had been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk coast. With nothing to do...

It is February, 1806. The frigate carrying Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho drops anchor off the shores of southern Africa. It is only four months since the resounding victory over the combined...

Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei,...

Spring 1802. Richard Bolitho is summoned to the Admiralty to receive his orders for a difficult and thankless mission... The recent Peace of Amiens is already showing signs of strain as old...

Now 18, Philippa, the adopted daughter of Maurice Palfrey, a well-known academic, has claimed her birth certificate from the Register Office and, with it, has made a terrible discovery. Some...