A man is found shot, and the Duke of Denver is charged with his murder. Naturally, it is his brother, Lord Peter Wimsey, who is called in to investigate the crime. This is a family affair, for the murdered man was the fiance of the sister of Denver and Wimsey. Why, then, does the Duke refuse to cooperate with the investigation? Is he really guilty, or is he covering up for someone? Why is Wimsey attacked by an enraged farmer on the lonely moors? Why is an attempt made on his life in a Soho Street?

Vincent Majestyk had had enough - enough fighting, enough war, enough death. He knew too well the feel of the recoil, the smell of gunpowder, the sight of a human target falling. So when he took off his uniform and became a civilian, he swore that he would never kill again. Majestyk was content with himself and the world, and no one knew about his past. He looked like an easy mark. That's why the Mob thought they could tell him who to hire, why a bullying cop thought he could be pushed around, and why a beautiful woman told him to run. No one realised that even a peace loving man had his limits. Mr Majestyk had been pushed to his - and the killer within him awoke, prepared to go to war again.

Born in 1820, Florence Nightingale was not a likely candidate for a career in nursing. She was the daughter of a wealthy British banker, and her privileged childhood included a private education. She could have married an lived an easy life. But Florence believed God was calling her to be a nurse, and she decided to follow His call. Not long after she completed her training, the Crimean War broke out. Florence organized a band of nurses to hit the front lines and care for the soldiers. Her compassionate spirit and leadership abilities would prove a priceless blessing to those soldiers. Morale skyrocketed as the death rate dropped dramatically. The system of nursing that Florence developed would revolutionize medical care.
PRE-TEEN BIOGRAPHY

Fourteen year-old Lucy lives in Glasgow with her mother, half-brother Reuben and Reuben's father, David, but she has never forgotten the memory of her poet father, her died saving her as a baby from a terrible fire. Not only does his spirit influence Lucy's literary achievements in being chosen to represent her school in a poetry competition, but history repeats itself when Lucy rescues a crotchety neighbour who has accidentally electrocuted himself.

Things were looking bad for the Met. The thin blue line had been broken too many times. Pay-offs, backhanders and cover-ups in every department, at every level. And now a student is killed when police move in on an animal rights demonstration. Jack Bentham is put in charge of the enquiry. But Operation Bad Apple, a massive internal investigation to clear out police corruption, is rattling everyone and no one wants to talk. No one, that is, except some very heavy villains who are dropping a lot of hints about a lot of very senior policemen

When Reg and Mavis Holmes advertised for a lodger, several applicants retreated as soon as they heard there was a young baby in the house. But Miss Trubb's reaction was different: When she had seen the pram in the hall and Mavis had told her about Joy, her stern, rather lifeless features had glowed with a sudden radiance, and inner happiness that shone in her faded eyes and trembled in her voice. But the peaceful, happy days of this young couple and their baby are soon to be shattered. How can Miss Trubb's interest in their new baby be as innocent as it seems? For Reg and Mavis soon learn that they've entrusted their blooming six month old daughter to the protection of a convicted child-killer.....

I Can Jump Puddles' is Alan Marshall's story of his childhood - a happy world, in which, depite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides and laughs. His world was the Australian countryside early this century: rough riders, bushmen, farmers, rouseabouts, and tellers of tall stories

Weeks after her return from a European holiday, young Australian tourist Madeline Fisher continues to be haunted by a nightmare vision that first assailed her during a vision to a fairytale castle in the Austrian Alps. Is it a sign of madness? A premonition of danger? Whatever the case, the ghastly fantasy sets in train a series of sinister events that leads Madeline, and the indomitable Inspector Hornsley, back to Austria to confront her fears, and the terrifying secret of her past.

It was a corpse, disfigured and unrecognisable. The sexton found it, and appropriately it was in the churchyard. When 'The Nine Tailors' was first published, The Sunday Times said,'It is more than a mere detective story: it is a really good novel of astonishing virtuosity.

Porterhouse is a Cambridge College held fast by the steel cobwebs of tradition. When Sir Godber Evans is appointed Master, disturbing whispers of radical change echo through the Court and the Cloisters. But Skullion, the intensely reactionary head porter, is determined to get everything heading backwards towards normal again