Macmillan

The Shooting in the Shop

Fethering #11

by Simon Brett

Christmas can be murder . . . Carole Seddon hates Christmas - it all seems rather a waste of time. So when her neighbour and best friend, Jude, drags her along to go shopping at a local store called Gallimaufry,...

Cowboys and Aliens

by Joan D. Vinge

1875, New Mexico Territory.

A stranger with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers...

Ten Little Herrings

Ethelred and Elsie Mysteries #2

by L. C. Tyler

When obscure crime writer Ethelred Tressider vanishes, his dogged literary agent, Elsie Thirkettle, is soon on his trail. Finding him (in a ramshackle hotel in the French Loire) proves surprisingly easy. Bringing...

The Surprising Life of Constance Spry

by Sue Shephard

"Dress by Schiaperelli, photographs by Cecil Beaton, flowers by Constance Spry - The decorator of the moment, the photographer of the moment, the florist of the moment - what more could you ask?" Thus Vogue...

Half Life

by Roopa Farooki

It's time to stop fighting, and go home' Those were the words that finally persuaded Aruna to walk out of her East London flat in the middle of breakfast, wearing flimsy sandals on a brisk Spring day, carrying...

The Philosopher Prince

by Paul Waters

355AD. In a late-Roman world of ambitious bureaucrats and power-hungry courtiers two young friends of the British nobility, Drusus and Marcellus, have fallen foul of the prevailing authority. There is no place...

Katherine the Queen

by Linda Porter

The general perception of Katherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of Henry VIII, is that she was a provincial nobody with intellectual pretensions who became queen of England because the king needed a matronly...

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

by Tom Franklin

Amos, Mississippi, is a quiet town. Silas Jones is its sole law enforcement officer. The last excitement here was nearly twenty years ago, when a teenage girl disappeared on a date with Larry Ott, Silas's one-time...