Ian Wallace

At eighteen, easy-going Benedict Juliard has no stronger ambition than to ride as an amateur jockey. His father, immersed in politics, asks his only son to enter into a pact that neither of them will commit any act that could destroy the father's burgeoning career. Ben agrees lightheartedly, but ten years later finds himself targetted in a vicious attack mounted by his father's increasingly violent political enemies as he makes his drive towards the Prime Ministership. In practice, a 10-lb penalty is the maximum extra weight a winning thoroughbred is normally set to carry in a race. A 10-lb penalty can be a killer.

Gold and diamonds hidden in Yugoslavia in World War 2 lead to theft, blackmail and murder

The Civil War takes a step closer to Cadfael when he discovers that his own son, born as a result of a brief encounter thirty years earlier, has been taken prisoner. Cadfael decides to break his monastic vows and do everything possible to find and release his son. 20th Cadfael mystery.

Sid Halley, ex-jockey turned investigator, has uncovered an obnoxious crime committed by his friend, Ellis Quint. He is called as a witness at the trial but on the morning the trial is due to start, other people’s troubles put him in danger.

On leave from the Foreign Office, Peter Darwin returns to his childhood home. Here he becomes involved with the plight of a local vet, whose operating theatre is becoming an abattoir for a string of valuable racehorses. Peter realises that events from his own past hold the key to the mystery and so puts his own life at risk

Michael Paleologus has turned down a very generous offer for his Cornish house, despite the wishes of some of his children. His son, Nick, is called in to mediate in the family dispute. Too late he understands his father's position, but by then the purchaser is desperate and the situation becomes dangerous!

Having worked as a journalist, newspaper editor, Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister, the memoirs of Lord Deedes provide a unique perspective on political and social life in the twentieth century.

Inspector Thanet investigates the murder of beautiful but unpleasant Nerine Tarrant, pushed over the second-storey balcony of her manor house to her death.

A collection of thirteen exciting short stories from a master of equine thriller writing.

An ex-SAS man is recruited by a rag tag band of men to lead them to freedom from a brutal military dictatorship in Guatemala.

Hercule Poirot is asked to investigate a murder. The complication is that it took place sixteen years earlier and a woman has been convicted of the crime.

Good-looking Guy is from a council flat, Leonora has a mews house in Holland Park. Her mother doesn’t like Guy but, even when he and Leonora grow apart, his obsession with her grows. Contains some offensive language

In 1892 a grandson of Queen Victoria is found slaughtered at Sandringham. To avoid a scandal the news of the murder is covered up, but Lord Francis Powers, an Irish investigator, is commanded to find the killer.

First hand accounts of some great air battles of World Wars l and 2 and the memories of the young men who survived virtually impossible odds.

Fascinating biography of England's greatest Admiral, Lord Nelson;

For more than 25 years the late Frank Muir, together with Denis Norden, wrote some of the best comedy for radio and TV. He tells his colourful and amusing story with many anecdotes.

When a bank job goes wrong a Kingsmarkham detective sergeant is killed. Months later, the Flory family are slaughtered at home by an unknown assassin in what appears to be an unrelated crime. Chief Inspector Wexford feels there is a link and sets out to discover it.

Jack Aubrey's first action in command of a man-of-war in Nelson's time.The book establishes the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Stephen Maturin, who becomes his secretive ship's surgeon and an intelligence agent.  Book 1 of series.

Arriving back in England, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin live the lives of country gentlemen. When Jack loses his money their comfortable existence ends and Jack flees abroad to seek refuge. Instead he finds himself a hunted man..   Book 2 of series.

As an actor, opera singer and entertainer Ian Wallace delighted the public worldwide. Here he relates the story of his life from the moment he tells his father he is taking to the stage to an hilarious pre-war tour of America and on to a career spanning opera plays films and musicals.

A look at the author's impressions of Scotland

After protestors arrive to oppose a proposed new road, a badly decomposed young woman's body is discovered.

Rumpole is convalescing in the Primrose Path Nursing Home, and his colleagues don't expect him back. But a dickey ticker won't stop Rumpole, and after sorting out a few dark deeds at Primrose Path, he is soon back in Chambers.  Book 17 of series.

Sarah Talbot wants to avenge the death of her stepson and together with ex-SAS sergeant Sean Egan begins the hunt for a ruthless man whose trade is drugs and international terrorism.

When jockey Martin Stukely dies after a fall, he accidentally involves his artist friend, Gerard Logan, in a life and death race to find a valuable missing video-tape.

An evocative memoir of Alastair Spencer-Nairn, son of a Scottish Lord, giving a fascinating glimpse into a Scottish family's fortunes during the 20th century.

The pianist, composer and performer, known for his association with Michael Flanders, tells the story of his life.

In 1935 the Duke of Mersham hosts a dinner to promote Anglo-German relations. When a prominent guest dies and other deaths follow, the Duke's brother, Lord Edward Corinth, and Verity Browne, a journalist, determine to find out who is the murderer.

When John Egerton, wayward and charming, realises he is in a potentially ruinous financial crisis, he comes cap in hand to his estranged father, the Provost of a university college. J.E., a believer in 'tough love', offers to help his son - at a price.

Artist living in remote area of Scotland returns to find a group of strangers waiting to attack him. The following days are more dangerous than he could have imagined.

As advisor to the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1980 to 1992, Terry Waite travelled the world with Dr Robert Runcie. In this humorous and affectionate account he recalls the trials and tribulations that the two great friends encountered along the way.

It should have been a happy day but Miriam Gardiner suddenly disappeared from the party given to celebrate her engagement. Her distressed fiance seeks out detective William Monk and asks him to search for Miriam.

A cipher message and a horrible murder in a Sussex village begin the case which has Sherlock Holmes battling against his arch enemy, Dr Moriarty.

A true story of corruption and scandal in this tale of the 18th century share scam that fooled everyone from the King, the Church to the House of Commons, and threatened to overturn the monarchy and the government.

Film director,Thomas Lyon, finds himself listening to a blacksmith’s confession when the dying man mistakes him for a priest. When there is a frenzied knife attack on the set of his current film, Thomas feels tempted to reveal what he has heard in the man’s confession, but what he knows could put his own life in danger.