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  • av Georgia (Author) Hunter
    149

    Inspired by one family's extraordinary wartime story, for anyone enthralled by The Tattooist of Auschwitz1939. Three generations of the Kurc family strive to live normal lives despite the growing hardships they face as Jews. But as war rushes to meet them, they are cast to the wind and must find their way through a devastated continent to freedom.

  • av Jacqueline Winspear
    135

    Spring 1940. Maisie Dobbs is asked to investigate the disappearance of a local lad, a craftsman working on a government contract. As Maisie's inquiry reveals a possible link to the London underworld, the country braces for enemy invasion. And another mother is worried about a missing son - but this time the boy in question is one beloved by Maisie.

  • - A thrilling mystery for Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
    av Laurie R. King
    135

    1923. Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock Holmes, are enjoying the summer together on their Sussex estate when they are visited by an old friend, Miss Dorothy Ruskin, an archeologist just returned from Palestine. She leaves in their protection an ancient manuscript which seems to hint at the possibility that Mary Magdalene was an apostle--an artifact certain to stir up a storm of biblical proportions in the Christian establishment. When Ruskin is suddenly killed in a tragic accident, Russell and Holmes find themselves on the trail of a fiendishly clever murderer.

  • - A fascinating historical mystery
    av Jacqueline Winspear
    135

    In the summer of 1932, Maisie Dobbs's career takes an exciting new turn when she accepts an undercover assignment directed by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and the Secret Service. Posing as a junior lecturer, she is sent to a college in Cambridge to monitor any activities 'not in the interests of the Crown'.When the college's controversial pacifist founder and principal, Greville Liddicote, is murdered, Maisie is directed to stand back as Detective Chief Superintendent Robert MacFarlane and Detective Chief Inspector Richard Stratton spearhead the investigation. She soon discovers, however, that the circumstances of Liddicote's death appear inextricably linked to the suspicious comings and goings of faculty and students under her surveillance.As the storm clouds of World War II gather on the horizon, Maisie must overcome a reluctant Secret Service, discover shameful hidden truths about Britain's conduct during the Great War, and face off against the rising powers of the Nazi Party.

  • - The international bestseller and word-of-mouth sensation
    av Jamie Ford
    135

    'You just gave me hope, Henry. And sometimes hope is enough to get you through anything'1986, The Panama HotelThe old Seattle landmark has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made a startling discovery in the basement: personal belongings stored away by Japanese families sent to interment camps during the Second World War. Among the fascinated crowd gathering outside the hotel, stands Henry Lee, and, as the owner unfurls a distinctive parasol, he is flooded by memories of his childhood. He wonders if by some miracle, in amongst the boxes of dusty treasures, lies a link to the Okabe family, and the girl he lost his young heart to, so many years ago.With over a million copies sold worldwide, this captivating debut is a story of the sacrifices one boy makes for love and for his country.

  • - A Forecast for the 21st Century
    av George (Author) Friedman
    169

    Mexico making a bid for global supremacy? Poland becoming America's closest ally? World War III taking place in space? It might sound fantastic but all these things can happen. This title offers a readable forecast of the changes we can expect around the world during the 21st century. It predicts where and why future wars will erupt.

  • av Laurie R. (Author) King
    145 - 285

  • av Mike Hollow
    145 - 269,-

  • - A murder mystery in the heart of the English countryside
    av Rebecca (Author) Tope
    135 - 315

    The wedding of Simmy and Christopher is underway in a pub in Threlkeld, in the late summer. After the happy couple and most of the guests have departed, a young man is found mysteriously injured close by

  • - The intriguing mystery for Sherlock Holmes fans
    av Laurie R. (Author) King
    135

    A queen, a castle, a dark and ageless threat--all await Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes in this chilling new adventure

  • - The witty crime romp
    av L. C. (Author) Tyler
    269,-

  • - A compelling wartime mystery
    av Jacqueline Winspear
    135

    When an American war correspondent is found murdered in her London digs, the death is concealed by the British authorities. Maisie Dobbs is asked to investigate, accompanied by Mark Scott, the American who helped her to escape Hitler's Munich in 1938.

  • - Maisie is the most engaging of sleuths' - Red Online
    av Jacqueline Winspear
    135

    April, 1933. To the costermongers of London, Eddie Pettit is simply a gentle soul with a near-magical gift for working with horses. When he is killed in a violent accident, the costers are sceptical about the cause of his death, and recruit Maisie Dobbs to investigate. Maisie, who has known these men since childhood and remembers Eddie fondly, is eager to help.But it soon becomes clear that powerful political and financial forces are equally determined to prevent her from learning too much about Eddie's death. As Maisie uncovers lies and manipulation on a national scale, she must decide whether to risk all to see justice done.

  • - A fascinating inter-war whodunnit
    av Jacqueline Winspear
    135

    August 1914. When war in Europe is declared, a young American cartographer, Michael Clifton, is compelled to fight for his father's native country, and sets sail for England to serve in the British Army. Three years later, he is listed as missing in action.April 1932. After Michael's remains are unearthed in a French field, his devastated parents engage investigator Maisie Dobbs, hoping she can find the unnamed nurse whose love letters were among their late son's belongings. It is a quest that leads Maisie back to her own bittersweet wartime love - and to the discovery that Michael Clifton may not have died in combat. Suddenly an exposed web of intrigue and violence threatens to ensnare the dead soldier's family and even Maisie herself as she attempts to cope with the impending loss of her mentor and the unsettling awareness that she is once again falling in love.

  • - The bestselling Victorian mystery series
    av Edward Marston
    149

    Derby Day at Epsom Downs. A multitude of people crowd to watch the races: dukes and dustmen, bishops and beggars, privileged ladies and prostitutes. The gamut of Victorian society and a hotbed for crime and crooks of all kinds. With the nation a-flutter in the run up to this national event, a disembodied head is discovered on a passenger train at Crewe; the first in a murky course of events that takes in murder, fraud and race-fixing. Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant are assigned to the case and are soon snarled up in a web of skulduggery stretching across the country. They are forced to ask themselves, just how much is someone prepared to hazard to win?

  • - The bestselling Victorian mystery series
    av Edward Marston
    139

    It is 1852, and Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant Sergeant Victor Leeming are faced with their most difficult case to date. As a train speeds over the Sankey Viaduct, a man is hurled from a carriage into the canal below. It later transpires that he has been stabbed to death. This book is the third in the "Railway Detective" series.

  • av Sarah Hawkswood
    145,-

  • av Edward Marston
    289,-

  • av Stephanie Austin
    289,-

  • av Anna Jacobs
    145,-

  • av Menna (Author) van Praag
    145,-

  • av Menna van Praag
    145,-

    Distraught that her academic career has stalled, Alba is walking through her hometown of Cambridge, and finds herself in front of a house she's never seen before, 11 Hope Street. A beautiful older woman named Peggy greets her and invites her to stay, on the house's usual conditions: she has ninety-nine nights to turn her life around.

  • av Georgia (Author) Hunter
    289,-

  • av Leonie Swann
    289,-

  • av Daniel Sellers
    289,-

  • av Kate (Author) Forsyth
    135

    Charlotte-Rose de la Force, exiled from King Louis XIV's court, has always been a great teller of tales. Selena Leonelli, once the exquisite muse of Tiziano, is terrified of time. Margherita, trapped in a doorless tower and burdened by tangles of red-gold hair, must find a way to escape. You may think you know the story of Rapunzel ...

  • av Leonie Swann
    135

  • av Menna van Praag
    145,-

    In Cambridge a little shop stands where thousands of sheets of beautiful paper and hundreds of exquisite pens wait for someone who, with Clara Cohen's help, will express the true emotions felt to correspondents alive, estranged or dead. When Clara discovers a cache of wartime love letters, she follows them on the start of her own journey.

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