Julie Monday, abandoned by her mother and raised in a children’s home, enjoys a rare moment of happiness when at the age of eight she visits the Essex seaside and…

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The third book in the Nicholas Bracewell series   For Lord Westfield’s Men, Every high road leads to death.   When the deathly horrors of the Black Plague decimate the…

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1903. The British Empire has reached its probable apogee: so much of the world map is coloured red and the sun never set on its boundaries. But Lord Curzon, the…

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Shortlisted for the Kobo eDunnit Award Returning to their tranquil Sussex home, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes discover a beautiful rock mysteriously planted in the flower bed – a rock…

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Spring, 1937. Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs is making her way home, only to find herself in a dangerous…

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In this first instalment of the Bow Street Rivals series a riot breaks out in Dartmoor prison, enabling some American inmates to escape. The twin detectives Peter and Paul Skillen…

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  On Easter Day, the Reverend Tobias Campion returns from morning service and discovers a putrefying corpse nailed to a tree. A crown of thorns tops the victim’s head; the…

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The Lake District, 1948. When Chrissie Kemp arrives to visit her grandmother Georgia, she is not prepared for the shocking revelation which will throw her family into turmoil. Chrissie is…

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Norfolk 1939. The start of World War II brings about dramatic changes for the de Lacey family. Their eldest daughter Elizabeth is expected home any day from France when an…

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Matt Hunter lost his faith a long time ago. Formerly a minister, now a professor of sociology, he’s writing a book that debunks the Christian faith while assisting the police…

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…physical; the violence of warfare has left him a changed man. Helen must summon what strength she can to help the man she loves overcome the lasting and devastating effects…

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…Doctor Who; Maddalena Fagandini who used ingenious sound effects in her score for the radio version of Orphée. These articles and books only highlight a fraction of these extraordinary women,…

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…reports, with sponsors donating money to various cancer charities for every #beatcancer post, the campaign also managed to raise $70,000. If anyone needed real proof of the positive effects of…

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…amount of time I’ve noticed a few recurring side effects of gaining an editorial publishing placement, and feel that it’s only my duty to make future interns aware of just…

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…here are my top films adapted from books, out now: Life of Pi: Loved the book, and was glad that the film stuck pretty closely to it. The visual effects…

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…soul-chilling effects of the Dementors. (I’ll stop there, before I reveal just how much I know about Harry Potter. I can’t help it – I’m of the Potter generation!) And…

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…Bedtime Bear. Or should I turn the tables and get her to take charge of the sound effects for a beautiful book like Silly Suzy Goose? Lesley-Anne Crooks, Sales &…

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…of the famous Grimm brothers, and harrowingly elucidates the effects of war and poverty, intertwined with a passionate, compelling love story. Perfectly blending serious, factual events with a fairy-tale romance,…

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…your delectation. If ever a book deserved to make an entrance with sound effects à la 1960s Batman (KAPOW! ZOINK! WHAMM! etc), this is it. As serendipity would have it,…

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…a stop. When I did begin to write again, I couldn’t remember where I’d got up to. My treatment cycles had unpredictable effects and the work grew in fits and…

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…at times very funny. When you think a two-and-a-half-hour movie can feel very long (and that’s with scene changes, multiple characters, and maybe special effects), the fact these two actors…

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