Gothic architecture, with its flying buttresses, pointed arches, tracery and large windows, is synonymous with the golden age of cathedral-building in Europe. The author (who shares her name... read more
A visceral evocation of the 'badlands' between the Five Counties of Northern Ireland and Eire, blending dialects from across the British Isles with photography.
Another in the 'No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' series from the master of 'sofa suspense': you'll find yourself safe in the middle of your seat rather than anywhere uncomfortably near its edg... read more
The fifth and final book in the Barbarotti series sees the investigator take on a cold case, in which the chief witness/suspect of course turns out to be a particularly slippery and terrifyi... read more
A piece of lively entertainment from the former MP, cabinet minister and memoirist. A foreign office chap disappears in Crete without trace - well, almost none - just enough in fact to feed ... read more
The Indemnity and Oblivion Act passed into law in 1660, the first year of the Restoration. In Harris's compelling new novel, two regicides flee to America but are tried and found guilty in ... read more
An intelligent novel about the wounds of geography and history in modern Turkey: a centenarian artist begins to reveal her suppressed past and family secrets unspool.
A fascinating exploration of the use of wood in human history: half a million years of tools, devices, construction, art and architecture, from wedges, planes, screws and pulleys to stave ch... read more
The novelist, historian and biographer morphs with supreme elegance into a memoirist, borne along by his gifts of intelligence, wit, culture and scrutiny.
A reprint of one of BW's earliest picture books, from 1971: Varenka lives in a forest and cannot bear to leave its animals and birds when war threatens. Soon she is sheltering several people... read more
"...It was on the afternoon of Christmas Eve, and I was in Mrs Protheroe's garden, waiting for cats, with her son Jim...". Every adult and every childs needs to have Thomas's words and image... read more
A 'chapter book' about Clementine, a genius who dreams in Latin and who also happens to be a mouse - and the prize specimen in a laboratory, from which she makes a prodigious bid for freedom... read more