His masterly account of a cruel flight from invasion.
Paterson, manager of a small rice mill, organizes the evacuation of a small English community when Japanese forces invade Burma. Paterson takes with him his Burmese mistress and her young brother. The rest of the party take along their prejudices, their pettiness and their squabbles, aand a small enclave of English insularity moves north through Burma.
Swiftly and inevitably the journey becomes a tragic working out of tension and insoluble conflict.

In this, the last of the Lord Peter Wimsey novels (though he did appear again in short stories), the inimitable Miss Sayers has married him off to his beloved Harriet, but this has in no way diminished Lord Peter's determination to see a case through to the very, very end......

When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, shot up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame the usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all and that the site of the explosion would make a nice day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all.

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?

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.

Spirited, independent and in her late twenties, Miss Annis Wychwood held herself to be past the age for falling in love. Befriending a pretty runaway heiress brings unexpected consequences, among them the very conflicting emotions aroused by her encounter with the wayward girl's guardian, Mr Oliver Carleton, who was quite the rudest man Annis had ever met....

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.

When Gervase Frant, Seventh Earl of St Erth, returns at last from Waterloo to his family seat at Stanyon, he enjoys a less than welcome homecoming. Only Theo, a cousin even quieter than himself, is there to greet him - and when he meets his stepmother and younger half-brother he detects open regret that he has survived the wars. The dangers of the Lincolnshire countryside could never be more unexpected...

A full-blooded romantic thriller.
'I have often wanted to know what it was he did that was so entirely wicked,' she said. It is a mystery, and I think very romantic.'
'There is no mystery,' said Shield,'nor is it in the least romantic. Ludovic was a wild young man who crowned a series of follies with murder.
A full blooded romance of the eighteenth century, this exciting adventure story of the tracking-down of a master criminal is told with all the verve and suspense of a modern detective story.