While tending to his father's business affairs, John Lempriere, a young scholar, discovers a 150-year-old conspiracy that has kept his family from its share of the fabulously wealthy East India Company. But as John begins to untangle the years of mystery and deceit, people begin to die, in ways that mirror the very myths he is researching.

Sugar, a 19-year-old whore in the brothel of Mrs Castaway, yearns for a better life. Her ascent through the strata of 1870s London society offers the reader a host of characters. At the heart of the story, however, is a young woman's struggle to lift her body and soul out of the gutter.

* An eerie and utterly compelling novel of mystery and seduction set in a women's prison in Victorian London.

From the author of 'Watchmen' comes the long awaited collection of the award winning 'From Hell'. This major graphic novel tells the story of Jack the Ripper, the most infamous serial murderer of all time. Soon to be a major motion picture from Twentieth Century Fox starring Johnny Depp, Nigel Hawthorne and Terence Stamp.

B format publication of this wonderfully lush, sensuous and bawdy novel set in the music halls of the late 19th century.

Still a teenager Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage to a man twenty years older. Moved away from her childhood village, Nazneen is moved to London, not knowing a word of english and confined to her flat. This title exlpores the role of fate in our lives and traces the transformation of an Asian girl.