Gareth Armstrong

Wentworth, today, is a crumbling and forgotten palace in Yorkshire. Yet just 100 years ago it was the ancestral pile of the Fitzwilliams – an aristocratic clan whose home and life were fuelled by coal mining. This is the story of their spectacular decline and a class war that literally ripped apart the local landscape.

A N Wilson explores how readers and thinkers have approached the Bible, and how it might be read today. He challenges the way fundamentalists - whether believers or non-believers - have misused the Bible, either by neglecting and failing to recognize its cultural significance, or by using it as a weapon against those with whom they disagree.

This is a novel with universal resonance which tells the story of three people trying to survive in a city rife with the extreme fear of desperate times, and of the sorrowing cellist who plays undaunted in their midst.

Laos 1972. The communist Pathet Lao has taken over. Most of the educated class has fled. When three bodies are recovered from a reservoir, Dr Sri establishes that the cause of death was not drowing - they seem to have been electrocuted.

Richard Stocker, an English protestant, fled persecution in England after the execution of his friend, Lady Jane Grey. In 1556 he arrives in Venice where he becomes involved with three remarkable women, Faustina Contarini, Yasmeen Ahmed and Veronica Franco. Each has her own story and secrets, but they are all daughters of the Doge...

When archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband, ex-SAS soldier Eddie Chase, are given the chance to work on an Interpol investigation into smuggled artefacts, they are stunned to realise that the artefacts hold clues to the location of a lost Inca settlement hidden somewhere in South America.

As Nina and Eddie dig deeper, it soon becomes clear that finding the settlement may only be the start of their incredible quest. One which, astonishingly, may lead them to one of the greatest legends of all time: El Dorado - the mythical city of gold.

Nina and Eddie are desperate to locate the fabled city. But they are not alone in their search. Deep in the jungles of Venezuela, they face corrupt soldiers, murderous revolutionaries and ruthless drug lords who will stop at nothing to obtain the city's treasures. 

Book 7 of series. 

The peaceful life of a village in Wiltshire is suddenly shattered when a yawning, bottomless crack spreads through the earth, out of which creeps a fog that resembles no other. Wherever it goes it leaves behind a trail of disaster as hideous as the tragedy that marked its entry into the world. The fog, quite simply, drives people insane.

1876. Nineteen-year-old orphan Esperanza Gorst arrives at the great country house of Evenwood to be interviewed for the position of lady's-maid. But Esperanza is no ordinary servant. She has been sent by her guardian, the mysterious Madame de l'Orme, to uncover the dark and dangerous secrets that her new mistress has sought to conceal, and to set right a past injustice in which Esperanza's own closest interests are bound up.

After the death of Pope John Paul II it is possible that a serial killer is on the loose in the Vatican. A cardinal is foud dead and mutilated, and this is not the first death. Profiler Paola Dicanti is called in, and she is assisted bt Anthony Fowler, an American priest. But he is no ordinary priest, with links to the CIA he may know more about the killer than Dicanti could have guessed! X rated, contains graphic violence.

Sydney Kentridge carved out a reputation as South Africa's most prominent anti-apartheid advocate - his story is entwined with the country's emergence from racial injustice and oppression. He is the only lawyer to have acted for three winners of the Nobel Peace Prize - Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Chief Albert Lutuli. Already world-famous for his landmark cases including the Treason Trial of Nelson Mandela and the other leading members of the ANC, the inquiry into the Sharpeville massacre, and the inquest into the death of Steve Biko, he then became England's premier advocate. Through the great set-pieces of the legal struggle against apartheid - cases which made the headlines not just in South Africa, but across the world - this biography is a portrait of enduring moral stature.

Celebrated playwright Harold Pinter and critically acclaimed biographer Antonia Fraser lived together from August 1975 until his death thirty-three years later on Christmas Eve 2008. This is a moving testimony of their life together, based partly on Antonia Fraser's own diaries and also her own recollections of their fascinating life together.

Terry Walton has kept an allotment for over 50 years in the Rhondda valley in South Wales. He started when he was 4, helping on his dad's plot, and while still in his teens established an allotment empire, growing vegetables and flowers which he sold to local customers. This fascinating memoir also includes anecdotes, topical tips and family recipes.

AD 51. Legionaries Cato and Macro have forged a bond that has survived war, rebellion and torture. Yet nothing has prepared them for a daunting mission on the deadliest battlefield of all: the bloody streets of Rome.

Traitors are threatening to plunge the Empire into bloody chaos and no one can be trusted. The Emperor has ordered Cato and Macro to go on a deadly mission, working undercover to root out the traitors before Rome tears itself apart.

As the true scale of the corruption dawns, they realise they are facing terrifying odds. Two men against many, in a desperate race to save not only the Empire, but each other.

For over six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire. Beside her for more than twenty of those years was her beloved husband and the father of their nine children, Prince Albert. A composer, engineer, soldier, politician, linguist and bibliophile, Albert was one of the architects of Victorian Britain's transformation as a centre of political, technological, scientific and intellectual advancement. Albert lived only forty-two years, but fathered four royal dynasties and helped pioneer the modern constitutional monarchy. Drawn from the Royal archives, including Prince Albert's own correspondence, this biography offers never-before-known details about the man and his time, giving Albert the reverence and recognition that is long overdue.

Eva Gatsby has often wondered about what happened to her grandfather Lawrence in Burma, during the Second World War. When Eva's job requires a trip to Mandalay, Lawrence finally breaks his silence and asks her to return a mysterious artefact - a chinthe - to its rightful owner. But when Eva arrives, her mission proves dangerously complicated..

Hundreds of years in the future, the world is an alarmingly different place.

Life is lived according to The Rulebook and social hierarchy is determined by your perception of colour. Eddie Russett is an above average Red who dreams of moving up the ladder by marriage to Constance Oxblood. Until he is sent to the Outer Fringes where he meets Jane - a lowly Grey with an uncontrollable temper and a desire to see him killed.

For Eddie, it's love at first sight. But his infatuation will lead him to discover that all is not as it seems in a world where everything that looks black and white is really shades of grey...

Book 1 in the Shades of Grey series.

In August 1616 a ship ventures into the Arctic. On board Thomas Cave wagers that he will live there alone through an Arctic winter until the next season. He is left with provisions, shelter and a journal, as the light begins to recede.

Roger Dykmans, a university student, is living with his brother Hans, an international emissary who's secretly working against the Nazis. As time goes by, Roger finds himself increasingly drawn to Magda, Hans' Jewish wife. When Magda and her young daughter, Anna, are arrested by the Nazis their secret world is turned upside down.

A young woman leaves her home, summoned to the emperor's court and a husband she barely knows. On the other side of the world, a famous scholar and his interpreter set off to find and collect the mysterious beasts of legend in the unknown lands of the East. The two groups of travellers are destined to cross paths.

To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique - an aging, stiff widow, paraded as the figurehead to an all-male imperial enterprise. But in truth, Britain's longest reigning monarch was one of the most passionate, expressive, humorous and unconventional women who ever lived, and the story of her life continues to fascinate.