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When Master Georgie - George Hardy, surgeon and photographer - sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat...

From its bravura opening onwards, The Crow Road is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel.

'It was the day my...

Abducted at thirteen.
Returned at twenty-eight.
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A young woman named Samantha...

Nineteen-fifty-three is synonymous in the British memory with the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June. But less well known...

The occasion: high school reunion. The place: an oil rig converted into a tourist resort. The outcome: carnage.

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Kit doesn't know who his mother is. What he does know, however, is that his father, Guy, is dying of cancer. Feeling his death is...

Based on the series produced for the BBC World Service Who thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change the face...

William Benson.
Criminal barrister.
Convicted murderer....

Convicted of murder sixteen years ago, William Benson is...

Since the death of Ragnvald Eysteinsson's father in battle, he has worked hard to protect his sister Svanhild and planned to...

Clover has loved James for as long as she can remember, since before she knew what what love was. But fate seems determined to...

Mma Ramotswe knows she is very lucky indeed. She has a loving family, good friends and a thriving business doing what she enjoys...

If you're fat and Indian, you're rich; if you're fat and poor, you're lying. It's only the West where the rich are thin and vegan...

Kieran Elliott’s life changed forever on a single day when a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that...

From childhood, Katherine knows she is different, and that her parents are not who they seem to be. But as she grows up and...

Bertie's respite from his overbearing mother, Irene, is over. She has returned from the middle-east, only to discover that her...

The scent of freshly baked biscuits, lemon and aniseed reminds Elettra of her mother's kitchen. But her mother is in a coma, and...

The one with Mma Ramotswe's summer holiday . . .

Mma Ramotswe is taking a break, leaving important tasks in the capable hands...

Isabel Dalhousie is one of Edinburgh's most generous (but discreet) philanthropists - but should she be more charitable? She...

Sebastian von Eschburg, scion of a wealthy, self-destructive family, survived his disastrous childhood to become a celebrated if...

Barcelona, 1952: General Franco's fascist government is at the height of its oppressive powers, casting a black shadow across the...

Filth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the War....

For philosophically minded Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, getting through life with a clear conscience...

Even the arrival of her baby can't hold Mma Makutsi back from success in the workplace, and so no sooner than she becomes a full...

Isabel Dalhousie leads an enviable life in Edinburgh, with time for cloud-gazing, civilised conversation and good coffee from...

Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi have always relied on the advice of the classic guide to their trade, The Principles of Private...

With a failed marriage behind her, La - short for Lavender - moves to the Suffolk countryside on the eve of the Second World War...

Isabel Dalhousie is a new mother and a connoisseur of philosophy; she d rather not be a sleuth. But when a chance conversation at...

The one with the difficult aunt…

The no. 1 lady detectives of Botswana travel to a safari lodge in the Okavango Delta to carry...

The one where Mma Makutsi has a love rival . . .

Mma Makutsi's engagement to Phuti Radiphuti has progressed smoothly so far,...