In Cambridge a child has been hideously murdered and other children have disappeared. A renowned investigator, Simon of Naples, is recruited and he arrives with an Arab and a female doctor, Adelia Aguilar. What's more, her speciality is the study of corpses; she is, in fact, a mistress of the art of death.

Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, has never felt at home in Cambridge, and has a failed marriage to prove it. Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, he attempts to unravel three case histories and begins to realise that everything is connected.

A stunning literary ghost-story of entanglement and obsession; ambition and betrayal - set in present-day Cambridge, but entangled with the 17th century

The extraordinary true story of the discovery of one of the greatest mathematicians

A Cambridge childhood.

It is Boston in the year 1865. A small group of elite scholars prepares to introduce Dante's vision of hell to America. But so does a murderer. The literary geniuses of the Dante Club are finishing America's first translation of The Divine Comedy . The members fight to keep their sacred literary cause alive, but their plans fall apart.

Mike Engleby says things that others dare not even think. In the 1970s, he is a university student, having survived a 'traditional' school. A man devoid of scruple or self-pity, Engleby provides an account of English education. Yet, beneath the disturbing surface of his observations lies an unfolding mystery of gripping power.

It is 1348, and a dead body is found at Cambridge University. Matthew Bartholomew, the college's physician is ordered not to pursue the case, but in the course of caring for victims of the Black Death, he uncovers a conspiracy among the town's traders to close the university down.

Porterhouse is a backwoods institution which is supported by fee-paying students who buy their degrees. Sir Godber Evans, the new Master, is determined to make radical changes, provoking the wrath of the Dean, the Senior Tutor and, most intransigent of all, Skullion the Head Porter.

John Talentire has died attempting Harding's Folly. The verdict is accident, compounded by idiocy. But Imogen Quy can't help wondering how such a clever young man died so stupidly. And when a wildly eccentric production of Hamlet is interrupted by a murder accusation, Imogen has to look into it, uncovering more crime than she expected.

Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, whom he encounters at Cambridge, and through Alec, the gamekeeper on Clive's country estate, Maurice gradually experiences a profound emotional and sexual awakening. A

Cambridge is recovering from the Black Death and Matthew Bartholomew, a physician, is in great demand. A series of murders force him to divert his attention from the community, as he discovers a breakaway sect from the church will stop at nothing to overthrow the established religion.

On 25th October 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The meeting was a disaster, their loud and aggressive confrontation became the stuff of legend. This book tells what really went on in that room.

Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets out from Cambridge full of hopes to become a writer. But when his stories are not successful, he decides instead to marry the beautiful but shallow Agnes, agreeing to abandon his writing and become a schoolmaster.

The death of a student and a master at one of Cambridge's colleges is causing tension between the townfolk, the Church and the colleges. Matthew Bartholomew has to find out the truth before events spiral out of control.

The third Matthew Bartholomew chronicle, an engaging and intricate historical mystery.

The fifth of Susanna Gregory's increasingly popular mysteries featuring the mediaeval physician, Matthew Bartholomew - a brilliantly serpentine whodunnit, with a meticulously researched and evoked period background.

He is Oliver Barrett IV, a rich jock from a stuffy Wasp family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law. She is Jenny Cavilleri, a wisecracking working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe. Opposites in nearly every way. But they fell in love. This book tells us their story.

A follow-up to the bestseller Cryptonomicon , this book presents a cast of characters in a time of genius and discovery, men and women whose exploits defined the age of the High Baroque. It travels from the infant American colonies to the Tower of London, the glittering courts of Louis XIV, and all manner of places in between.