Jean le Viste, a newly wealthy member of the French court, commissions the tapestries to hang in his chateau. Nicolas, his chosen designer, meets le Viste's wife Genevieve and his daughter Claude, both of whom take a keen interest in the tapestries. This novel is written by the author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and Falling Angels .

A guide to Brussels and Bruges. It has four main sections such as: Essential Brussels - features the top 25 sights and a locator map; Brussels by Area - takes you through the city, with localised shopping and entertainment listings; Where to Stay - picks the best hotels to suit your budget; and Need to Know - contains the basics for a smooth trip.

Jack Higgins, the undisputed master of action and suspense is back with a brand new adventure featuring the unstoppable Sean Dillon.

It is the year 1815. Renowned for being as outrageous as she is beautiful, the widow Lady Barbara Childe, is at the centre of all that is fashionable and light-hearted. When she meets Charles Audley, dashing aide-de-campe to the great Duke of Wellington himsef, her joie de vivre knows no bounds - until the eve of the fateful Battle of Waterloo.'

The timely, exceptionally powerful new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of OXYGEN

From the moment he spies Lady Morgan across the glittering ballroom, Gervase Ashford, Earl of Rosthorn, knows he has found the perfect instrument of his revenge. But, wedlock is not on the mind of the continent's most notorious rake. Nor, is it of interest to the fiercely independent Lady Morgan herself.

On a Flemish battlefield, Lord Alleyne Bedwyn is thrown from his horse and left for dead, only to awaken in the bedchamber of a Brussels brothel. The dark, handsome diplomat has no memory of who he is or how he got there - yet of one thing he is certain: he owes his life to the angel of undoubtedly dubious virtue who is nursing him back to health.

A work of imaginative literature, this fictional record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, Sebald's home for the last 20 years, is also an exploration of England's pastoral and imperial past, evoking people and cultures of the region, past and present

A hundred years ago, enlightened people in the western world were outraged by a holocaust in Africa which left millions dead. Conan Doyle wrote a pamphlet on the Congo atrocities which sold 25,000 copies in the first week alone. Yet today not one person in a thousand could say what the fuss was all about, this book tells the story.