An intensely gripping thriller set in wartime France in the spring of 1940 as the BEF faces a massive German blitzkrieg. Scouting ahead of the main force, a British Matilda tank - affectionately named 'Bert' by its four-man crew - is attacked by dive bombers and the railway tunnel that provides a welcome refuge becomes a death trap when the bombing seals the entrance. The crew dig desperately to regain their freedom only to find, when they emerge two days later, that they are some forty miles behind the German advance....

Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, was one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages, and also one of the most controversial. She was beautiful, intelligent and wilful, and in her lifetime there were rumours about her that were not without substance. Her contemporaries were sometimes scandalised by her behaviour. She had been reared in a relaxed and licentious court - where the arts of the troubadours flourished - and was even said to have presdied over the fabled Courts of Love. Eleanor married in turn Louis VII of France and Henry II of England, and was the mother of Richard the Lionheart and King John. She lived to be 82.

Captain John Staple had enjoyed active service too much to ever settle for a life of humdrum respectability. The post of gate-keeper to a toll-house in the Pennines appeared to offer certain unexpected and agreeable diversions. This exciting, witty novel tells how the handsome dragoon becomes involved with an engaging highwayman, a tacituen Bow Street runner and a stolen hoard of coins whilst protecting the squire's attractive neice from black villainy.

The sinking of a cargo ship and the slaughter of its crew seemed a senseless act of violence. But Clea Rice knows the truth and is determined to expose the culprits. When Jordan Tavistock is asked to steal the indiscreet letters of a friend, he reluctantly obliges, only to be caught red-handed - by another burglar. The burglar is Clea, who is looking for something else entirely. As Jordan finds himself caught up in a web of mystery and intrigue, he wonders how he can trust Clea when she will not tell him who she is working for, or even what her real name is. Only together can they find the answers to the sinister questions surrounding the sinking of the ship. Answers that some are prepared to kill for to keep buried.