Brian Stokes

Family ties mean trouble and when a vicious press campaign threatens the career of trainer Bobby Allardeck his brother-in-law, Kit Fielding, decides to find out who is behind it, so putting himself in danger.

When Agent Osbourne ends his latest mission floating in the sea off the coast of Brittany, he is thankful to be picked up by a German E-boat, but he soon makes a startling discovery that plunges him into a deadly game of espionage and intrigue.

Now a vicar of some experience, the author continues his affectionate chronicle of life in Wales in the 1940's.

Diego de Godry arrives in the New World in search of treasure - he finds love, chocolate, and the elixir of life. Denied by his lover, he and his dog Pedro search the world to recapture what he first experienced in Mexico. His search is a journey through time and the history of chocolate.

A moving and reflective account of the author's 4½ years in captivity in Beirut. Contains some offensive language.

Captain Keith Mallory, saboteur and mountaineer, is tasked with scaling the vast precipuice of Navarone and blowing up the guns, which are threatening the lives of twelve hundred British soldiers stranded on the small island of Kheros off the Turkish coast.

When a baffling Luftwaffe message is intercepted in June 1941, it mentions a new invention codenamed Freya. A British intelligence analyst suspects it may be an experimental radar station. Meanwhile a Danish student has spotted an unusual installation near his home. When he learns the truth the only way he can get the information to London is to fly in a decrepit Hornet Moth bi-plane.

The fictionalized memoirs of Harry Secombe's elder brother, Fred, provide a humorous account of life in the Welsh Valleys just after World War II. His experiences as a curate give him an insight into the foibles of a small community.

A frank and moving memoir in which the author remembers the history of his marriage to Iris Murdoch and her descent into Alzheimer's disease.

Over his long career Alistair Cooke met and interviewed many of the most influential people in the twentieth century. Here he has collected together his memories of some of those who have left the world a better place.

After a six month mission to Germany, Marcus Didius Falco returns to Rome to find his apartment wrecked by squatters. Things get even worse when a soldier is found dead and Falco is the prime suspect. He has just three days to clear his name and trace the real murderer.  Book 5

Falco makes the discovery of a severed hand in the local fountain. As he searches Rome's water system he finds evidence of a series of murders, all committed during a public festival. Can he catch the murderer before the next festival, the Roman Games?  Book 9 of series.

A lifetime of restraint and placid affection erupts when a retired bank manager falls for a young girl. Set in Cumbria, this is an intensely moving evocation of an overwhelming passion and its destructive kernel of jealousy.

CONTENT WARNING: contains scenes of a sexual nature and explicit language

Former champion jockey, now super-sleuth, Sid Halley’s suspicions are aroused after three deaths in a single afternoon at Cheltenham Gold Cup Day.