William Haden

Martin Bell was a member of the BBC TV news team for over thirty years. Disillusioned with corruption and sleaze amongst politicians, he stood for election as MP for Tatton in 1997. Here he tells his own story.

Travel writer Redmond O'Hanlon is famous for his adventurous expeditions. His new challenge is the Congo, the most dangerous and inhospitable jungle in the world, in search of a prehistoric lake. Sex and strong language. X rated, explicit sexual content and offensive language.

George Abbershaw goes to stay at Black Dudley Manor for the weekend, intending to propose to Maggie Oliphant. His plans are thrown into disarray when a murder is committed.

Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis take over a case in which the victim has been killed by a single stab wound to the stomach. Within days they uncover surprising new information about the victim and then another body is discovered.  Book 11 of series.

The story of the competitive friendship of two men from schooldays through to work and marriage. The novel culminates in a trial scene.

When a man is killed and Rome's Chief of Spies left for dead, Marcus Didio Falco investigates and soon finds himself plunged into the fiercely competitive world of olive oil production.  Book 8 of series.

Being English used to be so easy, but no longer. In this intelligent and funny book the author takes a look at what it means to be English.

A collection of criticisms, articles and essays written after the author returned to live in England in 1988.

Includes 'A Man of Property' & 'Interlude: Indian Summer of a Forsyte'. A successful solicitor, Soames Forsyte marries the penniless but beautiful Irene and determines to build a country house for her.  Book 1 of series.

Includes 'In Chancery' & 'Interlude: Awakening'. The saga of the Forsyte family continues with the long running feud between Soames and his cousin 'Young' Jolyon. A new generation has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions.  Book 2 of series.

Contains 'To Let'. The Cherrell sons have left their home of Condaford Grange to serve the state as soldiers, clergymen and administrators, but the 1930s bring uncertainty in a world of rapidly altering morals and unemployment.  Book 3 of series.

In this Gothic tale of terror, Dr Frankenstein creates a being of supernatural size and strength which eventually destroys Frankenstein himself.

When his wife dies, watchmaker Robert decides to build the perfect timepiece in her memory. But can he succeed where others have failed, and what in any case is perfect time? Strong language.

An amusing collection of stories, portraying an array of sharply-observed places and characters.

Hercule Poirot's first murder investigation. Poirot is called in to investigate the strange events at Styles St Mary. Evelyn, companion to old Mrs Inglethorn, has left and now the air seems rife with suspicion.

When, during a long hot summer, a child goes missing, Dalziel and others must re-examine a case from fifteen years ago when three other young girls disappeared.

Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister it feels more like purgatory than paradise.

Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to hospital after an unfortunate accident, Bernard is beginning to regret ever coming to Haiwaii. Until, that is, he stumbles on something he had given up hope of finding: the astonishing possibility of love. 

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

An actor's career plumbs new depths when he acts the part of a murder victim and gets drawn into a real investigation.

One day Sophie comes home from school to find two questions in her mailbox: Who are you? and Where does the world come from? This is the start of her adventure in philosophy; but this is not the only mystery - who is Hilde, and why do her possessions appear among Sophie's?

When Geoffrey Staddon hears that Consuela Caswell, his former lover, has been charged with murder by poisoning he knows that he will have to return to Clouds Frome, his first and best commission as an architect, and confront his past.

Living in the shadow of an illustrious father, the art historian Kenneth Clark, and his formidable brother Alan, Colin writes with wit and affection about his family and his work in the theatre.