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A. J. Wentworth, formerly teacher of mathematics at Burgrove prep school for boys, now passes his retirement years in a typically English rural village where somehow he seems unable to stay out of trouble.

What's going on behind the doors of Fountain Inn? This beautifully observed thriller marked Victor Canning's entree into crime fiction, and rewards with a thrilling finale - sure to delight fans of Agatha Christie's Tommy and Tuppence.

Customs & Excise are tracking a gang of cigar-smugglers who operate on the quiet Kent coast near Plummergen, home to retired art teacher Miss Emily Seeton. Their attempt at a midnight ambush goes wrong, and a man is found dead.

In a tale marrying the insight of Sue Townsend with the farcical humour of John O'Farrell, a priceless cello is abducted, a conductor is stranded on the wrong side of the Atlantic, and Erin the cellist stumbles (eventually) on her true calling in life.

Eight authors were given the freedom of their chosen English Heritage site, from medieval castles to a Cold War nuclear bunker. Immersed in the past and chilled by rumours of hauntings, they channelled their darker imaginings into a series of extraordinary new ghost stories.

Concrete Poetry is the first photographic survey of Modernist sculpture within the Brutalist context.

Miss Seeton is off to Buckingham Palace on a secret mission-but to foil a jewel heist, she must risk losing the Queen's head . . . and her own neck. Serene amidst every kind of skullduggery, this eccentric English spinster steps in where Scotland Yard stumbles, armed with nothing more than her sketchpad and umbrella!

The gentle Miss Seeton? A thief? A preposterous notion-until she's accused of helping a pickpocket . . . and stumbles into a nest of crime. Serene amidst every kind of skullduggery, this eccentric English spinster steps in where Scotland Yard stumbles, armed with nothing more than her sketchpad and umbrella!

It's highway robbery for the innocent passengers of a motor coach tour. When Miss Seeton sketches the roadside bandits, she becomes a moving target herself. Serene amidst every kind of skullduggery, this eccentric English spinster steps in where Scotland Yard stumbles, armed with nothing more than her sketchpad and umbrella!

A summer's day resounds to the thwack of ball on racket, as Britain's young hopeful seems set to knock out her American opponent. Yet it soon emerges that her father has made an enemy who will stop at little to harm them both. But the wrongdoers have reckoned without artistic sleuth Miss Seeton, who defeats them game, set and match.

Join disillusioned junior PR exec Tom Winscombe and a cast of disreputable and downright dangerous characters in this witty thriller set in a murky world of murder, mystery and complex equations, involving internet conspiracy theorists, hedge fund managers, the Belarusian mafia and a cat called .

When Darren Stubbs accidentally short-circuits a robot lamppost, life on the Dolestar Discovery changes forever - for everyone. This anarchic comic adventure travels from the shining skyscrapers of Singulopolis to the hidden depths of the internet, and reveals what happens when a person finally puts down their mop and bucket and says 'No.'

Hettie Bagshot and her sidekick Tilly set out on a road trip to catch a killer cat amid a sea of entertainers. As Psycho Derek's bus lurches from one venue to the next, the killer strikes again. The big question for The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency is who will be next?

''Yes, I know it contravenes every rule in the book... lucky I threw that out years ago.'' Recently retired, Dr Sparrow reveals with refreshing candour and dark humour the most memorable experiences of his career as a rural GP on the Devon/Cornwall border. From sewing a patient's finger back on during a call-out, to the emergency countryside delivery inspired by James Herriot, to suddenly remembering the body left in the back of a Volvo, and a small oversight that blew up the local crematorium, Dr Sparrow spares no blushes. Dr Michael Sparrow charted an unconventional course from the immaturity and uncertainty of life as a medical student, through hospital jobs and a six-year spell in the Royal Air Force, to the immaturity and uncertainty of life as a rural GP. He lives on the Devon/Cornwall border, after retiring as the region's longest serving GP.

Continues the memoirs of a rural doctor, following on from "Country Doctor", which sold more than 20,000 copies. Dr Sparrow guides us through the daily rounds of his practice on the Devon/Cornwall border.

This final instalment in the comic trilogy of doctor's memoirs is characterised by refreshing candour and dark humour, with a series of new rural misadventures related on a case-by-case basis inspired by James Herriot.

A collection of David Ziggy Greene's Scene & Heard columns from Private Eye.

The pages of The Confession Album contain 100 questions. Your part is collecting the answers - whether from a loved one, or yourself - in the course of an evening, or over a lifetime.

This new handbook provides a full but concise guide to the key pest species that commonly infest historic houses, and solutions for dealing with them.

In the illuminating and entertaining One Kiss or Two? Andy Scott goes down the rabbit hole to take a closer look at what greetings are all about. Through in-depth research and his personal experiences, and with the help of experts, Scott takes us on a captivating journey through a subject far richer than we might have expected.

The first full and accessible account of one of the most significant and overlooked figures in the field of sexual psychology

A page-turning adventure into the dark heart of human origins, revealing the story of our species, the paradox of the modern mind and our innate predilection for murder...

'The heart-rending story of two beautiful and glamorous women, and the spirals of disaster into which one of their lives tumbled.' Robert Lacey, author of Grace and The Crown

In the breaststrokes of Roger Deakin's Waterlog, this is the story of one man's search for himself across the breadth of Britain's wild waters.

A revealing and tremendously entertaining look at how the world of luck really works