Grace Dives

After visiting Japan in 1902 and then discovering two magnificent cherry trees in the garden of his family home in Kent, Collingwood 'Cherry' Ingram, fell in love with cherry blossoms, or sakura, and dedicated much of his life to their cultivation and preservation. Ingram became one of the world’s leading sakura experts and every spring we enjoy his legacy.

Marie Tennant's death is suicide, but when other bodies appear DS Diane Fry tries to build a murder enquiry. Her partner, DC Ben Cooper, seems to be wasting police time trying to solve a fifty year old, wartime mystery, but a vicious attack suggests the past may provide a motive for the present violence! Book 3 of the series.

Agatha Christie was already well known as a crime writer when she accompanied her husband, Max Mallowan, to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s. She took enormous interest in all his excavations, and when friends asked what her strange life was like, she decided to answer their questions in this delightful book.

Emily gets a job as a nanny. She discovers her charge is illegitimate - the father a conman who disappeared before the baby was born. Now, unknown to Emily, he is back, determined to exploit his status as parent in return for some cash.

Sophie Duval reveals to her long-lost nephew the tragic story of a family of master craftsmen in eighteenth-century France, with the violence and terror of the Revolution as a clamouring background against which their loves and their hopes are played out.

The four March sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy live in New England with their mother, while their father has been drafted to fight in the Civil War. The girls embark on a series of adventures and endure a number of unexpected misfortunes and experiences that allow their personalities to emerge.  Book 1 of series.

The Browns are going abroad, and Paddington considers a holiday in France is not to be taken lightly. So he packs a disguise outfit, his magic set and a map of France printed on a tea towel.

Paddington is in charge of the ‘EYETINNERY’ and, as Mrs Bird mutters darkly, ‘There’s no knowing where we might end up.’ But he’s planning some very good holiday ‘doings’ indeed for the Browns. And Paddington himself becomes the only bear ever to ride in the famous Tour de France bicycle race – and win a prize!

The first collected edition of Fleur Adcock’s poetry, which displays her conversational style, psychological insight and unsentimental view of personal relationships.