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

A twenty-year-old murder
A chain of unsolvable mysteries
Can one detective solve this epic riddle?
When a man is found...

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

Norman is the clever one of a close-knit Jewish family in the East End of London. Infant prodigy; brilliant barrister; the apple...

Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo,...

Joe Coughlin is nineteen when he meets Emma Gould. A small-time thief in 1920s Boston, he is told to cuff her while his...

Hauled in a cart to a field hospital in northern France in March 1916, an American woman wakes from unconsciousness to the smell...

In 1035, a young fifteen year old Viking is dragged wounded from the battle. Left for dead, for the next twenty years his...

On the second floor of the famous F. G. Goode department store, in Ladies’ Cocktail Frocks, the women in black are girding...

In the genteel environs of Corduroy Mansions, Pimlico, strange doings are afoot, mostly in the name of love. Lonely William...

Despite inhabiting a great city renowned for its impeccable restraint, the extended family of 44 Scotland Street is trembling on...

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

As the countdown to Mma Makutsi's wedding begins, all is not as it should be at the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. While...

As well as its advantages, there are drawbacks to the enlightened village that is twenty-first-century Edinburgh, where every...

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

A wonderfully accessible literary novel, that draws on Iran's rich literary heritage but which always remains engaging and very...

To the casual observer, the great enlightened city of Edinburgh, home of no-nonsense philosophers and cream teas, might appear...

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

Long-suffering child genius Bertie Pollock has much to contend with in the latest instalment of life at 44 Scotland Street, not...

The senior pupils of St Peter s High School are on retreat to a secluded outdoor activity centre, coming to terms with the murder...

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,...

The one with the poison pen letter…

For the first time in her career as Botswana's no. 1 lady detective, Mma Ramotswe suffers...

March is set towards the end of the American Civil War and follows General Sherman's epic march with sixty thousand Union troops...

An exciting and atmospheric novel which will continue to expand the audience for Simon Mawer

As Dee Denham, once a beautiful...

It is a wet day in Dorset, and walking to a luncheon party is Sir Edward Feathers QC, followed by two elderly friends: his...

The key to contentment in the Scottish climate is the right attitude to rain - just as in life the key to happiness lies in...

At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, seven former schoolmates gather for a wedding. Nora, the owner of...

The Secret Purposes, David Baddiel's third novel, takes us into a little-known and still somewhat submerged area of British...

Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful Botswanan private investigator of 'traditional build', is now married to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni of...