…your relationship with books. Whether you’re suffering from a broken heart, stuck in a rut at work or simply want to explore new literary directions, there is a prescription for…

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To celebrate the publication of Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner, we are pleased to share a list of books that inspired Natalie with her writing of her novel…. Let’s have…

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…killings makes for fascinating reading, but it certainly puts an uncomfortable spin on the old adage: ‘Trust me, I’m a Doctor’. Chiara Priorelli, Publicity & Online Marketing Manager Recommend This:…

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My week has been brightened my the news that Kit Harington is returning to the stage for Christopher Marlowe’s play Doctor Faustus. My favourite Game of Thrones character (‘You know…

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…or her own hand at becoming a novelist. Gift for book-lover AND wannabe writer sorted! Don’t say we don’t help you with ideas…. Of course, for more ideas don’t forget…

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…scheme promoting book-based therapy for dementia sufferers will be launched in libraries in England in January 2015. The ‘Books on Prescription‘ scheme comes from The Reading Agency and The Society…

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…ancient book, offers a £1 million reward for anyone who can find it along with a missing Murano vase. But the price on the book’s head brings all sorts of…

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A Concert for Christmas Buy Now Death at the Terminus Buy Now The Railway Detective’s Christmas Case Buy Now The Paris Peacemakers Buy Now The Camden Murder Buy Now Murder…

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…shopping mecca offers me everything – windows to drool over and aspire to, as well as those shops I can actually afford to step into without the fear of breaking…

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…man is clever enough to match swords with the troupe’s burgeoning troubles. Upon Nicholas Bracewell, the company’s bookholder and mainstay, falls the burden that may cost him his life –…

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DCI Hannah Scarlett is determined to uncover the truth behind Emily Friend’s mysterious drowning in the Serpent’s Pool. Though the evidence at the time did not rule out suicide, why…

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As we reach the end of the year, it’s inevitable that we are inundated with ‘Best of 2009’ lists. No matter what the topic – best books, best gadgets, best…

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…and renewing my library books online – check – particularly as the opening hours for my library have been cut of late. But when I showed up at my doctor’s…

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A West Country Mystery Fifty-five-year-old Jim Lapsford makes an unusually healthy-looking corpse. A life-long devotee of vitamin pills and herbal remedies, it seems almost ironic that he has succumbed to…

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Australia, 1882. Following a series of brutal massacres, the population of the Badtjala people is in sharp decline. When German scientist Louis Müller offers to sail Bonny, Jurano and Dorondera…

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…to let Barbara lose sight of the woman she really is – the woman he has always loved. He reawakens Barbara’s passion and fighting spirit, but at what cost?  …

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…and Paul distract me from the Christmas cooking and baking with…some Christmas cooking and baking! Doctor Who: The Other Half (TOH) regresses to boyhood when Matt Smith is on the…

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…Korpanski is filling in his insurance form after his wife has had a minor prang in the car; and an unknown person is penning love letters to a local doctor….

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When Dr Clive Jordan’s dazzling career is brought to an abrupt end by a bullet, his colleagues are devastated – especially the female ones. If the doctor hadn’t been as…

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On a late summer’s Monday, Doctor Claire Roget takes up her new post of clinical psychiatrist at a secure psychiatric unit in Stoke-on-Trent. Six months earlier, her predecessor, Heidi Faro…

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…marry for money when he is in love with Louisa, a student doctor and supporter of women’s rights.   Unknown to the Chetwynds, there is Hannah, living in London, who…

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