Intrepid traveller Stephen Smith plumbs the hidden depths of the metropolis, wandering through buried treasures from Roman times to the present day. Exploding corpses, the bowels of the Palace of Westminster, the culverts of Hampton Court and the miniature Mail Rail that once distributed 12 million letters a day – Smith’s journey covers the bizarre, the arcane and, always, the intoxicating as he r... More >

Summer, 1942. For the people of Malta, suffering daily bombing raids, the British are the last line of defence against the Nazis. And it is Max Chadwick’s job as the information officer to ensure the news the islanders receive maintains morale. So when Max is given proof suggesting a British officer is murdering local women, he knows the consequences of discovery are dire.... More >

About to close a major deal, Ed Lister is called to the phone. It’s the news every parent dreads. His daughter has been murdered. To find Sophie’s killer, his quest leads to a mysterious website, so he hires a young cyber-sleuth to track down the web-master, Ward – the most companionably lethal psychopath you could ever hope not to meet. Who is really hunting whom?... More >

When bestselling author Carrie McClelland visits the stark and beautiful Slains Casle, she decides to use the castle as the setting for her new novel, and one of her own ancestors, Sophia, as her heroine. Then Carrie realises her writing is taking on a life of its own and the lines between fact and fiction become increasingly blurred. As Sophia’s memories draw Carrie more deeply into the intrigue ... More >

Nora is just 12 when the war breaks out and she joins train-loads of evacuees leaving London’s East End for the safety of rural Kent. Her surrogate family, the Rivers, are unlike anyone she has ever met and she soon comes to love her new life with them, in particular with their daughter Grace. The two become as close as sisters, although, to Nora’s confusion, even this is not quite as close as she... More >

Dark Echo is an unlucky boat. Despite this knowledge, Martin Stannard falls under her spell and prepares to sail her across the Atlantic with his father. But his lover Suzanne is uneasy and begins exploring the yacht’s past. What she finds is terrifying. Dark Echo isn’t just unlucky, it’s evil. It was built for Harry Spalding, a soldier and sorcerer who committed suicide yet still casts his malevo... More >

The debauched celebration of the cabaret era. The magical ascent of cinema. The deprivations of World War I and the build up to World War II. Set against the rise and fall of Berlin and the innovations in art that accompanied it, The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite brilliantly weaves together the story of orphan girl Lilly Nelly Aphrodite’s remarkable journey from poverty to film stardom.... More >

The official sequel to Bram Stoker’s classic novel Dracula, written by his direct descendent and endorsed by the Stoker family. Twenty-five years after the events in the original novel, morphine addict Dr Jack Seward hunts vampires across Europe. Meanwhile, Quincey Harker, son of Jonathan and Mina is pursuing a career at London’s Lyceum Theatre. When their production of Dracula loses its star, the... More >

As the three Henderson brothers – Jack, Douglas and Angus – head toward their childhood home in East Fortune for their annual summer gathering, they steel themselves against sibling rivalry, parental expectation and the vulnerability that comes with being with those who know you best. A subtle look at lives at the crossroads; about life and love, chance and hope – and how families survive.... More >

On a moonlit night in 1903, a mysterious young woman flees alone across the Canadian wilderness. Mary Bouton is 19 years old, half mad and widowed – by her own hand. Tearing through the forest, she is desperate, her nerves burning, and she is certain of only one thing – that two red-headed brothers, rifles across their backs, lurch close behind her. She has murdered their brother and their cold lu... More >

These are desperate times for Mary Tudor. As England’s first ruling queen, her joy should be complete when she marries Philip, the dashing prince of Spain. But despite her ardent devotion, he’s making it painfully obvious that he cares little for his new wife. Lonely and depressed, Mary begins to vent her anguish on her people – and England becomes a place of cruelty persecution and fear. Mary’s f... More >

In the dead of winter, Polly Evans ventures to the remote Yukon Territory in Canada’s far northwest, where temperatures plunge to minus forty and the sun rises for just a few hours each day. Her mission: to learn to drive sled dogs. But when she arrives, she finds there’s more to this unspoilt wilderness than deathly cold.... More >

The Wideacre estate is bankrupt. The villagers are living in poverty and Wideacre Hall is a smoke-blackened ruin. But in the Dower House two children are being raised in protected innocence. Equal claimants to the inheritance of Wideacre, rivals for the love of the village. Only one can be the favoured child and inherit the magical understanding between the land and the Lacey family. Only one can ... More >

In the northern Californian town of Coventry, two teenage brothers go into the woods one day; only one comes back. No one knows what happened to the younger brother Josh, until 20 years later, when the older brother, Oren, returns home after many years. His first morning back, he hears a thump on the front porch. Lying in front of the door is a human jawbone, teeth still intact. It is not the firs... More >

Atticus, captain of one of the ships of Rome’s small, coastal fleet is from a Greek fishing family. Septimus, legionary commander, reluctantly ordered aboard ship, is from Rome, born into a traditional army family. It could never be an easy alliance. But the arrival of a hostile fleet, larger, far more skilful and more powerful than any Atticus has encountered before, forces them to act together.... More >

Genghis Khan is the leader of a nation united from the tribes. He was victorious in the long war against the Chin, the Mongolians’ ancient foe. Now trouble arises from another direction. His embassies to the west are rebuffed, his ambassadors are murdered. The nation must embark on their greatest journey where they face enemies: ancient, powerful enemies. But the khan has chosen a path that will l... More >

On the coast of southern Spain, an English father sits waiting for his son. It is many years since Benedict, then still a child, set out with the famous scholar Antioch on a mission to find and collect mysterious beasts of the East. In all those years there has been no word. But the boy’s father is not the only person asking questions on the harbourside that summer...... More >

It’s summer in the Granite City and Aberdeen’s growing Polish community is under attack from a serial offender. Detective Sergeant Logan McRae is assigned to the investigation, but with the victims too scared to talk, it’s going nowhere fast. When the next victim is bookie, Logan finds himself caught up in a world of drug wars, prostitution rings and gun-running courtesy of Aberdeen’s oldest and m... More >

As a lover of both history and the countryside, urbanite couch-potato Charlie Connelly decides to rectify this and sets out on foot along some famous routes, journeying alongside Boudica’s chariot in Norfolk, reliving Bonnie Prince Charlie’s flight to Skye, and taking the same tragic route as the starving famine walkers of Connemara. It’s a tale that features broken toes, dead poets, a couple of g... More >

Agincourt is one of the epic battles of history. It was fought between two badly matched armies that met in atrocious conditions on St Crispin’s Day 1415. It has always been held to be the triumph of the longbow against the armoured knight, the common man against the feudal aristocrats. But these are myths. Bernard Cornwell depicts the reality behind these myths, culminating in the battle seen fro... More >

Dashing career soldier and ladies’ man, Captain Daniel Rawson, happily accepts the Duke of Marlborough’s dangerous undercover mission to find a missing spy – a Dutch tapestry-maker based at the court of Louis XIV. The tapestry-maker’s beautiful daughter Amalia, unaware of her father’s espionage role, is fearful for her safety. It’s up to Daniel to find her father and put Amalia’s mind at rest.... More >

It’s 1946 and 17-year-old Laura Trelling is stagnating in her dilapidated Sussex family home. Then she meets Paul Lovell – a chance encounter that will bring her a new life in pre-apartheid South Africa. Three years earlier, 16-year-old Gay Gibson is no less desperate to escape England When their paths cross, they find their lives inextricably entangled, with fatal consequences...... More >

One murder has haunted Lieutenant Jonathan Stride for 30 years. In July 1977 his girlfriend’s sister was savagely beaten to death. Just 17 years old, Stride came face to face with the vagrant suspected of her murder – and let the man escape. When writer Trish Verdure begins a book about the murder, Stride is reluctant to re-open the unsolved case. But Tish has new evidence that raises shocking que... More >

After John Sutter’s wife killed her Mafia don lover, he set out in his boat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the stretch of Long Island’s North Shore to attend the funeral of an old family servant. John finds himself living less than a mile from Susan, and though the infamous Mafia don, Frank Bellarosa is long dead, ... More >