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• Chance Developments

  Paperback | Pub: 11 May 2017

  £7.99

  In this beguiling book, Alexander McCall Smith casts his eye over five chanced-upon photographs from the era of black-and-white photography and imagines the stories behind them. Who were those people, what were their stories, why are they smiling,...

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  The End of the Line

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Jun 2019

  £8.99

  After the death of leading haematologist Professor Anstruther, antiquarian book dealer Anthony Sparrow is tasked with clearing out his mansion of its books and papers. He soon begins to question the real circumstances of the old man’s death: was...

• Fatty O’Leary’s Dinner Party

  Paperback | Pub: 10 Apr 2015

  £7.99

  It takes a lot to get under the skin of Cornelius ‘Fatty O’Leary, but then there is a lot of skin to get under. The heroically proportioned Fatty can normally take life as it comes. Right at home in easy-going Fayetteville, Arkansas, he...

• Fatty O’Leary’s Dinner Party

  Paperback | Pub: 08 Mar 2018

  £7.99

  It takes a lot to get under the skin of Cornelius ‘Fatty O’Leary, but then there is a lot of skin to get under. The heroically proportioned Fatty can normally take life as it comes. Right at home in easy-going Fayetteville, Arkansas, he...

• The Long Path to Wisdom

  Paperback | Pub: 22 Oct 2018

  £8.99

  Jan-Philipp Sendker has visited Myanmar (Burma) for over twenty years and, while doing research for his novels The Art of Hearing Heartbeats and A Well-Tempered Heart, he encountered numerous folktales and fables. These stories reveal the rich...

• Midwinter

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Feb 2020

  £8.99

  The Jacobite army marches into England and Alistair Maclean, close confident of Charles Edward Stewart embarks on a secret mission to raise support for the cause in the west. He soon begins to suspect someone close to the Prince is passing...

• The Ragged Lion

  Paperback | Pub: 05 Jul 2018

  £8.99

  In this critically-acclaimed fictional memoir of Sir Walter Scott, Allan Massie recreates the life and times of one of Scotland’s greatest writers, convincingly capturing Scott’s humour, stoicism and eccentricity. Combining imaginative...

• The Sensorium of God

  Paperback | Pub: 31 Jan 2013

  £8.99

  It is the late seventeenth century and still the movement of the planets remains a mystery despite the revolutionary work of Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei and Tycho Brahe almost a hundred years previously. Edmond Halley – dynamic adventurer...

• A Study in Crimson

  Hardback | Pub: 01 Oct 2020

  £12.99

  LONDON, 1942. A killer going by the name of ‘Crimson Jack’ is stalking the wartime streets of London, murdering women on the exact dates of the infamous Jack the Ripper killings of 1888. Has the Ripper somehow returned from the grave? Is...