Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All twenty books are being re-issued by Harper Perennial with stunning new jackets.

Nicholas Barber stumbles across a group of travelling players. In the town where they perform, a young woman is to be hanged for the murder of a twelve-year-old boy. They decide to enact the murder of Thomas Wells. But as the actors rehearse, they discover that the truth about the boy's death has yet to be revealed.

A fast-moving mystery adventure by the world's greatest living SF writer.

Presents a vicar's ludicrous expedition in 1857 to the Garden of Eden in Tasmania.

The first in a trilogy with Ghosts and Athena . Freddie Montgomery is a gentleman first and a murderer second. He committed two crimes - he stole a painting from a wealthy family friend and he killed a chambermaid who caught him in the act. Here he tells his story.

A novel in which the boy narrator grows up enclosed in two worlds. One is legendary - a Donegal house where children are stolen away by demonic forces; the other is actual - the city of Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 1940s and 1950s, a place haunted by political enmities and family secrets.