Uppläsare Mike Grady

The first book in The County Guides to Murder Series.The County Guides to Murder are a series of detective novels set in 1930s England.The books are an odyssey through England and its history.In each county, the protagonists ? Stephen Sefton, a ve...

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A novel of Ancient Egypt from the bestselling author of River God. Wilbur Smith is a master at the helm of one of the greatest stories of all time.On the banks of the Nile, a hero will rise.Across the lush plains of Egypt, Taita, a freed eunuch sl...

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The Worldwide Number One Bestseller Wilbur Smith returns to Ancient Egypt in a captivating new novel that will transport you to extraordinary times.EGYPT IS UNDER ATTACK.Pharaoh Tamose lies mortally wounded. The ancient city of Luxor is surrounded...

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The Malabar coast is full of dangers: greedy tradesmen, fearless pirates, and men full of vengeance. But for a Courtney, the greatest danger might just be his own family?After his father?s gambling debts leave him penniless and in danger, Francis ...

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CREAM TEAS! SCHOOL DINNERS! SATANIC SURFERS!Join our heroes as they follow up a Norfolk Mystery with a bad case of ? DEATH IN DEVON.Swanton Morley, the People?s Professor, sets off for Devon to continue his history of England, The County Guides. M...

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From one of our greatest science writers, this biography of a beech-and-bluebell wood through diverse moods and changing seasons combines stunning natural history with the ancient history of the countryside to tell the full story of the British la...

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The first unpublished novel from the historical fiction legend, George Macdonald Fraser, featuring the unscrupulous and brilliantly entertaining pirate, Calico Jack Rackham.New Providence, 1720s. When infamous pirate Captain 'Calico' Jack Rackham ...

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Now available in ebook format, 'The Pyrates' is a swashbuckling romp of a novel.The Pyrates is all the swashbucklers that ever were, rolled into one great Technicoloured pantomime - tall ships and desert islands, impossibly gallant adventurers and...

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A biography of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome?s first great poet, a dandy who fell in love with another man?s wife and made it known to the world through his verse.This superb book gives a rare portrait of life during one of the most critical momen...

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?Beautifully crafted by Sansom, Professor Morley promises to become a little gem of English crime writing; sample him now? Daily MailWelcome to Westmorland. Perhaps the most scenic county in England! Home of the poets! Land of the great artists! D...

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At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes' lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life and work, and the polit...

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'When I am disturbed, even angry, gardening has been a therapy. When I don't want to talk I turn to Plot 29, or to a wilder piece of land by a northern sea. There, among seeds and trees, my breathing slows; my heart rate too. My anxieties slip awa...

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In 1938, with the Japanese army approaching from Nanking, Huan Hsu?s great-great grandfather, Liu, and his five granddaughters, were forced to flee their hometown on the banks of the Yangtze River. But before they left a hole was dug as deep as a ...

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From exciting debut author, Justin Fisher, comes this rip-roaring, page-turning new magical adventure. Perfect for fans of House of Secrets.Ned Waddlesworth has always considered his world to be exceptionally ordinary. Until the day he discovers i...

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From the author of bestselling debut NED''S CIRCUS OF MARVELS? Roll up, roll up, and prepare to be AMAZED AGAIN by Ned and the marvellous, magical, monstrous flying circus!Ned and his family are trying to be ordinary except for the small fact that...

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Ned and the magical Circus of Marvels are back in a third rip-roaring, page-turning adventure!The Armstrongs are both predator and prey, hunting for clues to help them fight the Darkening-King, while constantly watching their backs. This time it?s...

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZEA magisterial life of Ted Hughes ? identified recently as the only English poet since the First World War with a claim to true greatness and one of Britain?s most important writers ? to be published on N...

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?Beautifully crafted by Sansom, Professor Morley promises to become a little gem of English crime writing; sample him now? Daily MailOctober 1937. Swanton Morley, the People?s Professor, sets off to Essex to continue his history of England, The Co...

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The second book in the spellbinding, epic adventure series from 'the Godmother of Fantasy', Diana Wynne Jones.For centuries, Dalemark has been a land divided by the warring earldoms of the North and South. Now, with the help of the Undying, the my...

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From Beachy Head to Brighton, and from Chichester to Rye, Flaming Sussex sees our intrepid trio plunge once again into the dark heart of England?Beautifully crafted by Sansom, Professor Morley promises to become a little gem of English crime writi...

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'Never less than compelling ... She consistently succeeds in bringing what might otherwise seem dusty and remote to vivid life' Tom Holland, Literary Review'Starts with an erupting volcano - and then gets more exciting ... Wonderfully rich, witty,...

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A classic Golden Age crime novel, and one of the first to feature a serial killer.Investigating the disappearance of a vicar's daughter in London, the popular novelist and amateur detective Roger Sheringham is shocked to discover that the girl is ...

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One of the earliest psychological crime novels.Mrs Bentley has been arrested for murder. The evidence is overwhelming: arsenic she extracted from fly papers was in her husband's medicine, his food and his lemonade, and her crimes are being plaster...

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Sunday Times Bestseller'A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement' Charles FosterWaterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September)Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings?...

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Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet. We have hunted them for thousands of years and scratched their icons into our mythologies. They simultaneously fill us with waves of terror, a...

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A frank and witty memoir of life at the Bar and on the Bench, from former High Court Judge The Hon. Sir Harry Ognall.For many years, Harry Ognall enjoyed a formidable reputation as an advocate at the criminal Bar. As counsel, and later as judge, h...

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A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils?industrial, chemical, geological?that humans are leaving behindA Times Book of the Year ? A Daily Telegraph Book of the YearWhat will the world look ...

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Alien meets Psycho in this chilling mystery set on a spaceship, soon to be an original series on Netflix, by the #1 best-selling author of A Song of Ice and Fire George R.R. Martin. Brought to electrifying life with artwork by David Palumbo.On a v...

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An epic collection of science fiction tales around space exploration and cosmic horror by the #1 bestselling author of A Game of Thrones ? with the titular story, Nightflyers, coming to Netflix in 2018.On a voyage toward the boundaries of the know...

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'One of the most important books of the decade' Country LifeFinally, a practical, realistic plan to rescue, preserve and enhance nature.News about Britain's wildlife and ecosystems tends to be grim. In Green and Prosperous Land, Oxford economist a...

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