Tom Bradby
Shadow Dancer

Colette McVeigh. Widow, mother. And terrorist. A woman who has lived the Republican cause, whose brothers are both heavily involved in the IRA, whose husband was killed by British security forces. Arrested in London, Colette is given a choice: talk and see her children again, or stay silent and spend the rest of her life behind the bars of a prison cell.

James Herriot
The Lord God Made Them All

War, at last, is over. James Herriot goes back to work in the Yorkshire Dales. Plenty has changed in Darrowby, but the blunt-spoken local folk and their stream of four­legged patients are still the same. So is their vet, who doesn't know that literary success is just around the corner.

Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None

Ten strangers are trapped in a lonely island mansion off the Devon coast. Then the murderer strikes - and then there are only nine. Then eight, seven, six, five ... One by one the guests of the unknown host meet their deaths. And each death is cunningly engineered to reflect the events of a children's rhyme.

Elizabeth Jane Howard
Something In Disguise

May's second marriage to Colonel Herbert Brown-Lacey is a terrible mistake. Her children find the colonel's presence oppressive and leave home; Oliver to drift from one affair to another, and Elizabeth to follow him to London in search of love. Even Herbert's own daughter tries to escape from her father's sinister behaviour.