Mr Scobie's arrival at the nursing home of St Christopher and St Jude - and into the clutches of Matron Hyacinth Price - is accidental. Self-educated and still preserving the gift of idyllic memory and wish, Mr Scobie stands apart from the others. For long term resident and eccentric, Miss Hailey, he represents a kindred spirit; for Matron Price - a lady of questionable practices - the latest victim...

At the close of the year 1918, forced to flee England, Sherlock Holmes and his nineteen year old apprentice, Mary Russell, enter British occupied Palestine under the auspices of Holmes enigmatic brother Mycroft. A rash of murders there seems unrelated to the growing tensions among Jew, Moslem and Christian, yet Holmes is adamant he must reconstruct the most recent one in the desert gully where it occurred. Their singular findings will lead him and Russell through labyrinthine bazaars, verminous hovels, cliff-hung monasteries - and into mortal danger...

The giant carrier was on a capsize angle...It was Bentley's decision to run alongside and rescue her men, but to do this before she sank, meant coming in on the dangerous low tide. Should he risk his own ship and the lives of his men?

When an irresistible body meets an immovable bathing suit - something's got to give...
Until Dianne signed up with a suspect modelling agency, weight ad wolf-whistles had been her main problems - plus wondering who was peeking at her nude sunbathing.
Why was this gorgeous blonde with lots and lots of figure being asked to put on weight?
Perry Mason looked the situation over and found it easy on the eye - the hard part came later when Dianne was held for murder. If she was innocent, why was she lying?

Trapped in an arranged marriage to a veteran of the wars against Robert the Bruce, Lady Johanna FitzHenry has one last chance to escape. If a stranger can be found who is willing to swear to a court that she was secretly wed to him before her match to Sir Fulk de Enderby, Johanna will be set free.
Fleeing bounty hunters after the Battle of Boroughbridge where Edward II's army defeated the rebels, 'Gervase de Laval' is discovered on FitzHenry land and made and offer he cannot refuse.

George and Lennie are itinerant farm workers - one of nimble wits, the other of huge physique - whose simple arrangement keeps them in work. Labouring from dawn until dusk they both have a dream to keep them going. That one day, they'll have enough money to buy a small ranch of their own and keep cows and chickens and rabbits. But even his best friend and mentor can't save Lennie from his worst enemy - his own strength ...

Introducing the Larkins, a family with a deserved place in popular mythology.
Here tey come, in the first of their hilarious rural adventures, crashing their way through the English countryside in the wake of Pop, the quick-eyed, golden-hearted junk dealer, and Ma, with a mouth full of crisps and a laugh like jelly.

Compared with bony Miss Garfield, his new nanny, Gilly, was a welcome vision of youth.
Left behind by his uncaring father in the decaying house, James had hoped that Gilly would enter his imaginary world and meet his 'mates', Mr Pimm and Mr Monday.
The only trouble was that Gilly appeared more interested in playing games with the good-looking Mr Ainsworth - games that did not include him.
James wasn't to know that one of the gamblers was playing for the biggest stake of all.

Rebecca Bayliss rushed to her dying mother's bedside only yo come away shattered by more than grief: her mother had revealed the existence of a family Rebecca knew nothing about. Determined to find them, Rebecca began her journey to a Cornwall mansion and into relationships torn by passion and greed. From her grandfather, who hid an explosive secret, to sensual craftsman Joss Gardner, whose past hinted of intrigue....to a handsome cousin, whose kisses were dangerously seductive, Rebecca was entangled in a family mystery....and unravelling it held the key to her future and her heart.

For the first time in her life, Selina Bruce wasn't sure what tomorrow would bring. She had impulsively left behind her lawyer fiance in London and flown alone to a tiny island off the Spanish coast. She was searching for the father she'd never known, but what she found was an unexpected truth about herself and the man she planned to marry. For exotic San Antonio offered Selina more than the penetrating brilliance of the noonday sun. It offered the mysterious George Dyer, who held the key not only to her past..... but to her heart.