The Resurrectionist

A Dickensian tour de force set in a 19th century city beset by a cholera epidemic.

On a property in New South Wales, a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. As years pass and Ellen grows into a beautiful young woman, her father announces his decision: she will marry the first man who can name all the species of the eucalypt, down to the last tree.

Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile. The great solace of her life is her brother Charles, an aspiring writer. It is no surprise when Mary falls for the bookseller's son, antiquarian William Ireland, from whom Charles has purchased a book. But this is no ordinary book - it once belonged to William Shakespeare ...

Norris Marshall is forced to support himself by performing the most secretive job of all. He procures cadavers from grave robbers in order to further his study of human anatomy. Soon he finds himself hunting the killer, who flits through graveyards and ballrooms. What he does not realize is that the killer is far closer than he thinks.

When Mike Langford, a war photographer with a reputation for unusual risk-taking, disappears inside Cambodia, he becomes a mythic figure in the minds of his friends. The search for him which is at the heart of this novel explores the personal highways that led him to war, and to his ultimate fate.

Winner of the Medical Journalists' Open Book Award 2005, this book is about John Hunter. Revered and feared in equal measure, Hunter was the most famous surgeon of eighteenth-century London. An inspiration for Dr Jekyll and Dr Dolittle, he was a maverick medical pioneer, and even anticipated the evolutionary theories of Darwin.

This is a novel about life, love and a 1,235-pound cheese.

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.

Vienna, 1910 and a young girl's body has been discovered. She was strangled. The Chief Inspector uses the latest scientific techniques in his attempt to catch the killer. While his wife, a woman steeped in the Gypsy lore of her native Hungary, relies on intuition, instinct and superstition.

A gripping historical novel, based on a true story, which tells the tale of a girl born into rough cloth who hungered for lace and was hanged for murder in 1763. By a well-known Irish writer.