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Eight years after the Change that removed technology and much of civilisation from the face of the earth, life is slowly achieving some norm...

When a fuel oil fire destroys Drift Ice Station Zebra, a UK meteorological research facility in the Arctic, killing many of the crew and str...

Rather than accept the status of poor relation in her brother’s house and tolerate the whims of his shrewish wife, a young woman decides to ...

Love in a Cold Climate returns to the decade between the First and Second World Wars. Like its forerunner, The Pursuit of Love , it is narr...

Baker and amateur sleuth, Corinna Chapman is under a lot of pressure. Her livelihood is threatened by a franchise bakery opening at the end ...

Fanny is the daughter of feckless parents - her father was never interested and her mother abandoned her shortly after her birth, in pursuit...

A new exhibition at Oregon's Natural History Museum coincides with an anniversary of the Western Association of Forensic Anthropologists...

When police are called in to investigate a robbery they discover something completely out of their experience - not only in the theft signif...

From the back of the book: Between 1450 and 1750, more than 100,000 people-mainly women-in Europe and colonial America were prosecuted for p...

Cora Felton, the tippling front for America's real Puzzle Lady, neice Sherry Carter is back in another mystery revolving around word puz...

Barrister Trish Maguire has been asked by Sir Henry Buxford to discretely investigate the Gregory Bequest, his art trust that manages a Fren...

Though some couples would have drifted apart under the strain, Karen and Joe Eastman's bond has deepened since learning that their young...

Dallas shoots feral pigs for a living - she has to send a specimen from each one to the biotech company that employs her as proof of death, ...

Burned out by only a year of teaching science to middle school students, Moxie Brecker has moved to Boston and works in the less demanding c...

Herald Tribute columnist Lily Waters rose above the distress of being abandoned, days after giving birth, by her professor husband. Abandon...

After a couple of quotes, Calvin opens his book, subtitled Evolving Intelligence, Now and Then, paraphrasing Piaget - "intelligence is...

Part autobiography (though focusing almost solely on his work), part art history study, Frank Stella explores a decade of work by one of the...

Peg Silver is stunned when she discovers her ex has married, only months after their long-term relationship came to an end. When she learns ...

Dayna Harris is in labour. Though her best friend is by her side, Dayna wants the father of her child supporting her through the quite unexp...

When Abby graduated college she drifted from job to job until she began work as a receptionist at a brothel. Surprised she discovered that s...

Pediatrician Lucy Weiss works for the state, assessing parents whose children are in foster care. It's work that's close to her hear...

Sophie Tennant is an ex-bobby turned private investigator. Although she imagined, when she started, that she'd spend her days tracking d...

Cumbersomely subtitled Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company Selects the Most Creative Thinkers , this s...

Bakerhaven seems like the ideal place to have a charity crossword competition - after all, it's the home to America's best loved cro...

Babylonne is accustomed to her life, such as it is - the motherless bastard child of a priest and a heretic, she's been raised by her au...

At the age of 29, after much travelling, "a lifetime of silly ideas" and the odd bit of stand up, Sully McLeod decided, while in a...

When Never Dead Ned is transferred to head up Ogre Company, his commanding officers expect his posting to be like all the others – annoying,...

Cora Felton, everyone's favourite grandmother figure, is America's Puzzle Lady, the creator of a syndicated daily crossword puzzle. ...

In Victorian London a magician’s quest for eternal life culminates in his summoning of the Devil himself. Angered by the summoning, Satan ki...

One long, warm summer between the World Wars, the four Walker children - John, Susan, Titty (!) and Roger - sail on the Amazon, a borrowed d...