Rosemary Aitken
The Silent Shore

In the sequel to Stormy Waters, a startling revelation leads Sprat Nicholls to break off with her childhood sweetheart, Denzil Vargo, and quarrel with her family. Determined to get as far away as possible from her native Cornwall, Sprat moves 300 miles away to London. On the surface everything seems perfect, but the stifling atmosphere of the city streets soon have her longing for home and for the bewildered Denzil, has no idea why he and Sprat can never be together.

'Aitken not only skillfully animates an intriguing setting, but she also fashions a cliff-hanger'- Booklist

Michael Chabon
The Final Solution

In deep retirement in the English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old man, vaguely recollected by locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African grey parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out? A top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts, perhaps? Or something more sinister?

`It takes a steady hand to appropriate the world's most famous detective, but Chabon has chutzpah to spare'- THE INDEPENDENT

A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES

The third volume in Churchill's famous account. During the long period of 1688 to 1815 three revolutions took place, and all led to war between the British and the French. The English Revolution of 1688 made a new enemy of an old foe; the American Revolution of 1775 saw the United States finally declare independence; and the French Revolution of 1789 reverberated across Europe for years to come. Who better to capture the character and vigour of Wellington, Walpole, Nelson and Pitt than the Prime Minister who led Britain to victory in Europe in 1945?