A body is found floating in a Thames river lock. It is found to be that of Connor Swann, son-in-law of Sir Gerald Asherton, whose son was found in similar circumstances 20 years earlier. Could there be a connection?

Based on real events of four hundred years ago, this is a vivid picture of the brutal everyday reality of life on the Anglo-Scottish border, a place of lawlessness where raids, murder and terror were rife.

Both the story of enterprising headmistress Sarah Burton and a portrait of a whole community, the lives, loves and sorrows of South Riding in Yorkshire are explored in this novel.

This immensely powerful novel follows four generations of the Bindel family as they fight for survival in a hostile world. The family are knit by unbreakable bonds of love and loyalty, bonds which survive the Nazis, concentration camps and the Gulags.

6 years of David's life were to be spent in the King's uniform, but by the end of 1945 he was out of the army and helping a man named Osbert Wilkinson to found a magazine called Octopus. But it was not that which was finally to bring him success.

A real-life detective story, investigating how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction, writing books casting new light on unsolved murders whilst hiding clues to their authors' darkest secrets.

Fran Massey has not spoken to her sister Connie for five years. When their mother dies, the funeral brings them together disastrously as unresolved grievances surface once more. One of the sisters dies in what appears to be an accident. But was it?

The authors have chosen the 200 books since 1950 that they consider to be the best. It includes some familiar names and some surprises. Witty and controversial, their aim is to encourage reading.