Rose Humble, one of six children, is used to holding her own in the world. But as war casts a shadow over her family, Rose comes to see there are people who are not all they seem. Like her own sister, Queenie, and the young fire-fighter she meets who forces her to rethink her world once more.

Set during World War I, this book tells the story of Alice Hawthorne and her love for the handsome young gamekeeper Tom Dwerryhouse. It is also the story of the entanglements and rivalries of the two families who separately employ Alice and Tom.

When Joss, an adopted child, discovers that her real mother has left the beautiful family home, Belheddon Hall, to her, she is thrilled, until she discovers that the Hall is haunted by a presence which will not tolerate husbands or sons living in the house.

As nurses in World War I, sisters Kate and Evvie set off far from their loving homes

A terrifically compelling wartime story of love and loss from the author of A SONG AT TWILIGHT.

Emily Wallace has no doubt about who killed her best friend ten years ago: Clint Austin, her then boyfriend. The key witness in his trial, Emily put Clint behind bars with her testimony. After serving ten years for a crime he didn't commit, Clint knows only the truth can set him free.

When Nikos, a detective in the final years of his career, is persuaded back to his home town he is faced with the gory murder of a young boy near the old monastery. Echoing two murders committed 33 years previously in the exact same spot, and a mass cult suicide, it brings back a part of the island's history that it has tried hard to forget.

Clive Barker is widely acknowledged as the master of nerve-shattering horror. The Hellbound Heart is one of his best, one of the most dead-frightening stories you are likely to ever read, a story of the human heart and all the great terrors and ecstasies within. It was also the book behind the cult horror film, Hellraiser.

The seventies in modern British political history encompasses strikes that brought down governments, the rise of Margaret Thatcher and the fall of Edward Heath, the IMF crisis, the Winter of Discontent and the three-day week. This book goes in search of what really happened, what it felt like at the time, and where it was all leading.

Takes us through British, American and European history, elaborating not just how civil liberties were constructed in the past, but how they were continually rethought - and re-fought - in response to modernity, and puts into context various controversies of the past.

Jamaica used to be the source of much of Britain's wealth, an island where slaves grew sugar and the money flowed out in vast quantities. Since independence in 1962, it has gradually become a society where extreme violence has become ordinary and gangs control the areas where most Jamaicans live. This book explores a country of lost promise.

Politics, Business, The Environment. Science. Health,. The Arts. People Time brings you informed, illuminating and superbly photographed coverage of the topics that interest you most. Time provides a fresh international perspective on the important issues of the day, together with candid and revealing profiles of people in the news.

One of the key comics of the 1980s - along with Watchmen and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns - Howard Chaykin's American Flagg! was a massive-selling hit, breaking new ground in comics storytelling and influencing a generation of writers and artists. America, 2031. TV star Reuben Flagg is drafted to protect the citizens of Chicago as a Plexus Ranger, having pretended to be one onscreen. The ...

It was America, 2031. TV star Reuben Flagg is drafted to protect the citizens of Chicago as a Plexus Ranger, having pretended to be one onscreen. The inexperienced Flagg must tackle an America blighted by a biased and oppressive media, dubious 'wars', widespread political corruption and environmental disaster...