Richard Worland

In this collection of dark, funny and bizarre short stories, Alexei Sayle's characters are vividly, wryly - and occasionally disturbingly - portrayed. Their voices, and the stories they have to tell will remain in the mind for a long, long time. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

In 1601, Rudolph II, the Hapsburg emperor, has every luxury possible but is unhappy. He brings two English alchemists to Prague, hoping that they will discover the secret of eternal life, but this unleashes trouble for the inhabitants of the Jewish Ghetto.

England cricket captain Michael Vaughan delivers an account of his two years at the helm. He focuses on leadership, his approach to captaincy and his decision-making and man management strategies. He also includes a full analysis of the 2005 Ashes series.

A beautiful collection of poems from bestselling author Louis de Bernières. There are moving poems to, and about, his family: his great grandmother, his mother and father and his children. There are poems about places near and far, about the passing of time, music and about love in its various forms.

5-year-old Nelio watched as his village was burned and his people massacred by bandits. He tells the gruelling story of his journey to the city and to a very different way of life.

Classic Locked-Room Mysteries is a fascinating collection of ingenious mysteries which all pose the question 'howdunnit?'

Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.

Locked-room mysteries reached their height of popularity in the Victorian and Edwardian eras; this collection, edited and introduced by David Stuart Davies, brings together stories from such masters of the genre as Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton. In each story the reader is invited to play detective and is presented with a challenge: can you solve the mystery before the solution is revealed?

At the age of twenty-one, shy Rupert Bogarde fell in love with a nurse a great deal more worldly than he. Jacquie loved France and the couple moved there, married and bought a ruined chapel near Perpignan to turn into a business. Juggling restoration and building work with odd jobs, they eventually opened a holiday centre for young diabetics. With the birth of their two sons their dream should have been complete, but Jacquie had become obsessed with the business - working and partying for days and nights without sleep - while Rupert struggled to keep his family and marriage together.

Jacquie's mania became alarming, until one evening she disappeared. Rupert, by now heavily in debt, was left alone with the children and a business in ruins. Her car was later found crashed and abandoned by the roadside and Rupert soon became the French police's number one suspect. He looked for her for years, learning to live with people's assumptions that he was responsible for Jacquie's disappearance. Then in 2000, seven years after Jacquie's disappearance, he finally discovered the truth.

In London at the height of the Cold War, Kit Fournier is ostensibly a senior diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Grosvenor Square. But he is actually CIA bureau chief in London—a spy operating under diplomatic cover. He plies his cynical trade on the spy-infested streets where suspicion turns enemies into friends and friends into enemies.

In this compelling anthology, the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion guides us through both the horror and the pity of that conflict, from the trenches of the Western Front to reflections from our own age. With a selection of our best-known war poets, this collection also returns lesser known pieces to the light and extends the selection right through to the present day. 

In this compelling anthology, the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion guides us through both the horror and the pity of that conflict, from the trenches of the Western Front to reflections from our own age. With a selection of our best-known war poets, this collection also returns lesser known pieces to the light and extends the selection right through to the present day. 

This is the story of four people whose lives are intertwined and span over seventy years. Tom Stewart, Sister Maria, Dawn Stone and Matthew Ho all live and work in one of the world's great cities, Hong Kong - the Fragrant Harbour.

Tim Moore, a self-confessed loafer, was seduced by the glamour of the Tour de France. He decided to cycle the 3,630 km route, but allocated himself six weeks to complete the challenge. Here he hilariously describes how he tried to emulate his sporting heroes.

Guardian journalist, Giles Tremlett travels through contemporary Spain examining the darker sides of it's history. As well as a moving exploration of Spanish politics, Tremlett's journey was also an attempt to make sense of his personal experience of the Spanish.

In 1948 six-year-old Martin Donally is king of a small and perfect world in the suburbs of Johannesburg. But when the political situation changes, heralding the start of apartheid, the shock waves even hit Martin's safe, cosy world.

Jeremy Vine is one of the most successful broadcasters of recent years and in 2012 clocks up a quarter of a century at the BBC. Here, he takes a look back over his career from the very first day when he arrived at Broadcasting House.

Father Salvatore was a simple priest serving the poor in Valletta. During the Siege of Malta this humble man brought faith, hope and comfort to the homeless sheltering in the catacombs.

Set in Afghanistan in the 1970s, twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to gain his father's approval by winning the local kite-fighting tournament. His loyal friend Hassan promises to help, but neither boy could foresee what would happen that afternoon, which was to shatter their lives. X rated, contains graphic violence and explicit sex.

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices was co-written by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins and features two characters (Mr. Goodchild and Mr. Idle) that are stand-ins for these two. It is told over the course of what was originally five issues of Dickens' journal Household Words and depicts an "idle" (but actually quite frantic) vacation, with long walks/hikes and explorations of inns and other places.

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices was co-written by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins and features two characters (Mr. Goodchild and Mr. Idle) that are stand-ins for these two. It is told over the course of what was originally five issues of Dickens' journal Household Words and depicts an "idle" (but actually quite frantic) vacation, with long walks/hikes and explorations of inns and other places.

Teacher Jack Mitter stumbles into the bathroom one morning and finds the body of his wife floating in the bath. He has no memory of attacking her and only when sentenced and locked up in an institution for the criminally insane does he have a flash of insight.

Terry Wogan regales us with more entertaining tales from his childhood and his long career as a radio and TV broadcaster.

Rodeo, in its early days, was as wild as the Wild West and some of its participants even wilder. Hal Turner would go to any lengths to keep from Red Arnold the champion's crown he felt belonged rightfully to his brother. But now his brother was dead, gored by a bull, and there was no one to stop Red Arnold taking his place...

Project Skydancer was the brainchild of the Ministry of Defence. Beautiful and terrifying in its simplicity, DS29 had designed new warheads for Polaris missiles, warheads that with consummate ease could evade the new batteries of anti-ballistic missiles the Russians had set up around their prime military targets.

For Aldermaston scientist Peter Joyce, it was the pinnacle of his career. Until his documents from the project turned up one chilly October morning on Parliament Hill, and the Ministry's prime suspect committed suicide leaving him with only two alternatives: write off a billion-pound project, or approve tests which could give Russia the power to wipe out the West at the touch of a button.

This is the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries to walk all the way across a very large country, with a very large animal who doesn't really want to.Tim Moore recounts his pilgrimage by donkey along the ancient five-hundred-mile route from St Jean Pied-de-Port on the French side of the Pyrenees to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

In the last year of the 20th century the celebrated foreign correspondent Fergal Keane set out for the BBC on a journey through Britain. From Glasgow to Leeds, London, Cornwall, Wales and to the very fringes of United Kingdom in Country Tyrone, he discovered a surprising and little-known world of poverty, exclusion and alienation. X rated, contains offensive language.

An epic adventure in a world full of Norse mythology and bloodthirsty battles in London, 1019. A compelling journey back in time to a world that is brimming with wonderfully crafted characters and their insatiable hunger for barbaric warfare.  Book 2 of series.

An idiosyncratic selection of A A Gill's writing about food, taken from his Sunday Times and Tatler columns. Sometimes inspired by the traditions of a whole country, sometimes by a single ingredient, it is a celebration of what great eating can be.

Tenant for Death (1937) was the debut crime novel by 'Cyril Hare', nom de plume of Alfred Gordon Clark and one of the best-loved names in English 'Golden Age' crime writing.

Two young estate agent's clerks are sent to check an inventory on a house in Daylesford Gardens, South Kensington. Upon arrival, they find an unlisted item - a corpse. Furthermore, the mysterious tenant, Colin James, has disappeared. In a tale which uncovers many of the seedier aspects of the world of high finance, Hare also introduces his readers to the formidable Inspector Mallett of Scotland Yard.

Upon the novel's first publication the Times Literary Supplement praised Tenant for Death as 'a most ingenious story' while the Spectator celebrated its 'wit, fair play, and characterization' and also declared that 'a new star has risen'.

Second book in Ramses series: Sequel to 'The Son Of Light' (5583). Ramses is about to be crowned and must fight to hold onto his throne. Can the building of the Temple of a Million Years help to vanquish his enemies, visible and unseen?