This volume sets out to illustrate in both words and pictures the physical world of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, as alluded to by Austen, so that readers can enjoy her novels with greater understanding and insight.

Television and radio broadcaster John Humphrys takes us along the spiritual road he himself has travelled. He was brought up a Christian and prayed every day of his life until his growing doubts finally began to overwhelm his faith.

The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968.

The Dambusters raid is a well-known event of World War 2. Here, bestselling author Max Arthur has collected together first-hand accounts of the preparation, practise, organisation and the raid itself, and also relates the sense of loss at RAF Scampton when 53 men failed to return.

Stephanie & Katie are strangers but they're in love with the same man - James. Stephanie is his wife, Katie his mistress. When Stephanie discovers James is having an affair, she tracks Katie down. They join forces to get their own back on him. But what happens when one thinks enough is enough & the other doesn't want to stop?

The Oxfordshire hamlet of Lark Rise bustles with activity. The tightly-knit farming community includes the gossip, the midwife, the pedlars, the borrowers and the gypsies, as well as the clerics and the old folks who hate to see the traditions fade.

When Joe & his girlfriend decide to trade in their life in a Lancashire fish market to run a bar in the Tenerife sunshine, they anticipate a paradise of sea, sand & siestas. This story talks about the morning-afters as well as the night-befores.

Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital?s psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk - and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the...