Richard Burnip

When two boys vanish under mysterious circumstances, the local community is filled with unease. Assigned to the case, DCI Banks and his team are baffled by the mystery laid out before them. As they struggle desperately to find the missing boy who holds the key to the puzzle, they find themselves in a race against time where it's their turn to become the prey . . .  Book 22 of series.

Driven by his own passion for collecting Hunter Davies sets off in search of Britain's maddest museums. As he explores these hidden gems he soon discovers that they celebrate just about everything, from lawnmowers in Southport to pencils in Keswick. These eccentric collectors are Britain's finest and could live in no other country in the world.

31 June, 1943. An RAF crew prepare for their next bombing raid on Germany. It is a night that many will never forget. Len Deighton's devastating novel is a gripping minute-by-minute account of what happens over the next twenty-four hours. Told through the eyes of ordinary people in the air and on the ground - from a young pilot to the inhabitants of a small town in the Ruhr - Bomber is an unforgettable portrayal of individuals caught up in the wreckage of war.

A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with £5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home. When DCI Banks receives a warning to step away from the case, he realises there is much more to the mystery than meets the eye - for there are plenty of skeletons to come out of the closet....  Book 21 of series.

Throughout history, the concept of command -- as both a way to achieve objectives and as an assertion of authority -- has been essential to military action and leadership. But, as Sir Lawrence Freedman shows, it is also deeply political. Military command has been reconstructed and revolutionized since the Second World War by nuclear warfare, small-scale guerrilla land operations and cyber interference. Freedman takes a global perspective, systematically investigating its practice and politics since 1945 through a wide range of conflicts from the French Colonial Wars, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bangladesh Liberation War to North Vietnam's Easter Offensive of 1972, the Falklands War, the Iraq War and Russia's wars in Chechnya and Ukraine. By highlighting the political nature of strategy, Freedman shows that military decision-making cannot be separated from civilian priorities and that commanders must now have the sensibility to navigate politics as well as warfare.

After his recent unveiling of a devious assassin, Sir Hugh Corbett has returned to service as the Keeper of the Secret Seal, his appetite for adventure once again whetted. But the death of Corbett's close friend, Ralph Grandison, puts him in the path of extreme danger. Will he survive to see another day?

Don Revie was one of the most complex and controversial men ever to grace the game of football. As a player, he was crowned Footballer of the Year and credited with creating the modern centre-forward. As a manager, he took a Leeds United side languishing in the lower half of the second division and turned them into one of the most dominant sides in the country. As England manager, Revie lost the magic touch and became the first man to walk out on England.

Shunned by the football establishment, he died just 12 years after walking out on England. Revie's death, at the age of 61, robbed him of the opportunity ever to rebuild his reputation as one of the most important figures ever seen in English football. This long-overdue biography reveals how today's football owes so much to Don Revie.

Martin Kirsch is a psychiatrist about to be married. When a young woman he recognises from a brief romance turns up unconscious in a nearby hospital he feels compelled to take over the case but finds himself falling in love with her. He discovers that her case reveals tantalizing connections with Albert Einstein.

Cliff Todd devoted his life to bringing bomb makers to justice. He and his colleagues at the Ministry of Defence's Forensic Explosives Laboratory are the unsung heroes of terrorist bomb attacks - the men and women in white suits who piece together who planted the bombs, what a device consisted of and how the perpetrators might give themselves away.

They played a pivotal role in uncovering the secrets behind some of the world's most horrifying terrorist outrages. Explosive tells the stories of these high-profile cases and details, for the first time, the contribution Todd and his team made in tracking down bombers during a time when Britain was under attack first by the IRA and then by Islamic extremists inspired by al-Qaeda.

Explosive takes the reader into the murky world of the amateur bomb maker, and reveals what Todd's department achieved in many now infamous attacks, including the device concealed in a radio cassette player that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, the IRA attacks on Warrington in Cheshire, the Bali nightclub bombings of 2002, and the 7/7 onslaught in central London that claimed 56 lives and injured 784 others in 2005.
In Explosive, Todd takes us step by step through the investigations, explaining the chemistry, the forensic work and the emotional toll on him and his staff as they sought to recreate and understand what had happened at some of the most shocking tragedies in modern peacetime history.

In the summer of 1942, Gyles Mackrell – a decorated First World War pilot and tea plantation overseer, performed a series of heroic rescues in the hellish jungles of Japanese-occupied Burma – with the aid of twenty elephants. Those he saved were all on the point of death from starvation or fever: that summer was spent in a fight against time.

The locals called it the Loney - that strange nowhere between the Wyre and the Lune. No one ever went near the water. No one apart from us, that is. I suppose I always knew that what happened there wouldn't stay hidden for ever, no matter how much I wanted it to. No matter how hard I tried to forget.... Costa Winner 2015

Vienna 1902, and a beautiful medium has been shot dead. Dr Max Liebermann helps his friend DI Oskar Rheinhardt investigate using the new science of psychoanalysis.

One morning in September, Mark Mason boards the number 1A bus at Land's End. Forty-six buses and eleven days later he disembarks at John O'Groats. Along the way he samples staples of the British diet, and uncovers countless fascinating facts about his native land.

Ingeborg Bullivant returns from a tour to Lucerne engaged. Her subsequent life as a rural pastor’s wife is just as restrictive as her old one, then a dashing artist appears with tales of wondrous Italy and her wanderlust returns.

The Pathfinders were ordinary men and women from a range of nations who revolutionised the efficiency of the Allies' air campaign over mainland Europe. They elevated Bomber Command - initially the only part of the Allied war effort capable of attacking the heart of Nazi Germany - from an impotent force on the cusp of disintegration in 1942 to one capable of razing whole German cities to the ground in a single night, striking with devastating accuracy, inspiring fear and loathing in Hitler's senior command. 

With exclusive interviews with remaining survivors, personal diaries and previously classified records, The Pathfinders brings to life the characters of the airmen and women - many barely out of their teens - who took to the skies in legendary British aircraft such as the Lancaster and the Mosquito, facing almost unimaginable levels of violence from enemy fighter planes to strike at the heart of the Nazi war machine.

When an American friend dumps a dead Russian spy in his apartment, Pavel Richter finds himself in a race with a rogue British colonel and a Soviet general to discover the dead spy's secret. But another question arises - who exactly is Pavel Richter? X rated, contains offensive language.

Jack has been the deputy head teacher at Newbridge Primary School for six years now, and he's happy exactly where he is - even if it sometimes feels like there are a few things missing from his life. After all, the kids keep him busy and there's always a game of rugby to play. But it's a time of change, and Jack's world is no exception. New and old faces appear in his life and a romance blossoms, bringing with it a buried secret and hidden threat. Soon, Jack must make a decision as to where his future is heading, and prepare to face whatever change is yet to come . . .

In Vienna, during 1770, Baron von Kempelen unveiled an unbeatable chess-playing machine, The Mechanical Turk. Hailed as a great invention, it was actually an illusion, operated from inside by an Italian dwarf, Tibor. When a beautiful Contessa died, the machine and its inventor became the target of persecution and intrigue.

June 1914. The beginning of another long, prosperous summer for Britain. But beneath the clear skies, the chill wind of social discontent swirls around this sceptred isle. Shots ring out in a distant European land - the assassination of a foreign aristocrat. From that moment the entire world is propelled into a conflict unlike any seen before. This is the story of five British communities, their circumstances very different, but who will all share in the tragedy that is to come.

A riveting account of the pivotal six-month period spanning the end of World War II. These six months witnessed some of the most dramatic moments of the twentieth century: the cataclysmic battle for Berlin, the death of Franklin Roosevelt, the discovery of the Nazi concentration camps, Churchill’s electoral defeat, and the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan.

The fears, prejudices and desires of the inhabitants of a town on the south coast of England are examined in the aftermath of a brutal murder: a murder discovered when a dog on the beach brings its owner a severed human hand. X rated, contains offensive language and graphic violence.

Shipwrecked Pax has lost his memory but when he is taken under the wing of an elderly man trying to find his lost grandson. The two form a strong bond and the memories come flooding back. It seems that their lives are linked by an earlier betrayal which could threaten their current relationship.

The close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley were home to four generations of the Hollingworth family. 'The Valley' lets us into generations of carousing and banter as the family's attempts to build a better and fairer world for themselves meet sometimes with triumph, sometimes with bitter defeat.

Arms trafficking, offshore accounts and luxury property deals. Super-yachts, private jets and super-car collections. Blood diamonds, suspect oil deals, deforestation and murder. This is the world of Global Witness, the award-winning organisation dedicated to rooting out worldwide corruption. And this is co-founder Patrick Alley's revealing inside track on a breath-taking catalogue of modern super-crimes - and the 'shadow network' that enables them. 

Very Bad People is about following the money, going undercover in the world's most dangerous places, and bringing down the people behind the crimes. As they unravel crooked deals of labyrinthine complexity, the team encounter well-known corporations whose operations are no less criminal than the Mafia.

Patrick Alley's book is a brilliant, authoritative and fearless investigation into the darkest workings of our world - and an inspiration to all of us who want to fight back.

A serial killer is on the loose during the Siberian winter of 1902, Vienna. Inspector Rheinhardt enlists the help of his young friend Dr Max Liebermann, a disciple of Freud, to try and penetrate the vicious killer's mind.

Medieval sleuth, Hugh Corbett, investigates the vicious murders of Wilhelm Von Paulents, a representative of the Hanseatic League, and his wife and clerk in Canterbury, in 1303; Von Paulents was rumoured to own a valuable set of sea charts, the ‘Carta Mysteriosa’.

1672. A generation after the Civil War, England is still struggling to return to normal. In the village of Spadboro, Jonathan Dymond enjoys a quiet and harmonious life. But the death of his uncle leads Jonathan to secrets which have lain dormant since the war, and he is determined to unravel a mystery in his family. Richard & Judy Bookclub