Mavis Cheek
Sleeping Beauties

Tabitha's Beauty Parlour is a haven. The women who cross its portals enter a perfumed world where never a harsh word is said. But when Chloe, Tabitha's trainee, sets out to prove that she can give her clients the makeover of a lifetime, the quest for feminine perfection achieves hilarious consequences.

Ian Fleming
On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Teresa di Vicenzo leads Bond to new information on one of the most dangerous criminals in the world, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. In his alpine base, Blofeld is developing weapons that could threaten the whole world. Only 007 - with the help of someone who can handle herself at speed - can stop the evil genius.

Rosie Harris
One Step Forward

Katie Roberts dreams of getting away from the Cardiff slums where she lives. Her father, Lewis, has been imprisoned for theft, leaving Katie and her mother homeless and penniless. When Lewis is released years later, it seems that life must improve. But, to Katie's horror, it becomes worse than she has ever known it.

John Le Carré
The Russia House

It is the third summer of perestroika. Niki Landau. philanderer and travelling rep. attends the first Moscow audio fair and is asked by beautiful young Katya to take a parcel back to England. It's addressed to Barley Blair. jazz-player and drinker, and contains information vital to the defence of the West.