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...

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 ...

Recently divorced, Anna Fox decides to cheer herself up by retracing a journey her great grandmother, Louisa, made in the mid nineteenth century - a Nile cruise from Luxor to Aswan. Anna carries with her two of Louisa's possessions - an ancient Egyptian scent bottle and an illustrated diary of the original cruise that has lain read for over a hundred years.

Polly Anna could not remember her father, and after her mother died, in poverty, when Polly Anna was just three, the workhouse was the only place for her. Helped by Jonty, a young misfit who became her best friend, she ran away with the fairground folk and became a horse rider and acrobat - travelling to Bartholomew Fair, Nottingham Goose Fair and Hull Fair. Her friends became the circus people and the gypsies, and her home the caravans and tents of the travellers.

'Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge' More than fifty years on, Iris Chase is remembering Laura's mysterious death. And so begins an extraordinary and compelling story of two sisters and their secrets. Set against a panoramic backdrop of twentieth century history, The Blind Assassin is an epic tale of memory, intrigue and betrayal...

It's late spring in 1321 and as Sir Baldwin Furnshill, Keeper of the King's Peace, prepares for his wedding, he receives news that one of his guests, Roger, Squire of Throwleigh, has just died. The new master of Throwleigh is little Herbert, five years old and isolated in his grief, for his distraught mother, Katherine, unfairly blames him for her husband's death. At Lady Katherine's visible rejection of her son, Baldwin feels deeply disturbed about the new heir's apparent lack of protection. For having inherited a large estate and much wealth, the five year old will doubtless have made some dangerous enemies....

Tired from a grim war in America, Ross Poldark returns to his land and his family. But the joyful homecoming he has anticipated turns sour, for his father is dead, his estate is derelict and the girl he loves is engaged to his cousin.

When her parents are brutally murdered during King Richard's campaign in the Crusades in 1191, Isabel de Clairmont's dreams of marriage are shattered. Betrayed by her guardian and threatened by his son, the brooding, enigmatic Hugh de Mortaine, Isabel discovers her parents deaths to be inextricably linked to the mysterious pendant torn from her mother's body, a pendant forged in the lost Crusader Kingdom of Outremer nearly a century before.

Beautiful, spoilt and irrepressibly witty, Emma Woodhouse enjoys a position of power and privilege in the small country town of Highbury. Lacking neither fortune nor consequence, Emma sees no attraction in marriage, preferring instead to exercise her considerable intelligence match-making between her friends and acquaintances. The arrival of sweet, silly Harriet Smith gives her the perfect opportunity to embark upon further schemes, greatly trying the patience of her old friend Mr Knightley.