James Anderson
The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy

Welcome to Alderley, a magnificent mansion in the heart of the Country where a grand house party is taking place. The preparations have been made, the guests have been invited, and the staff are on What could possibly go wrong? Let the entertainment begin. The of the diamond necklace and the antique pistols might all be explained, but the body in the lake – that really was a puzzle. ‘Don’t expect solve anything,’ Inspector Wilkens announced modestly when he arrived. And at a gathering that included English aristocracy, foreign agents in disguise, a ravishing baroness, a daring jewel thief, a Texas millionaire and, of course, the imperturbable butler, it was going some intricate sleuthing to uncover who killed whom and why.

Angela Carter
Love

With surgical precision, Love charts the destructive emotional war between a young woman, her husband, and his disruptive brother as they move through a labyrinth of betrayal, alienation and lost connections. This revised edition has lost none of Angela Carter’s haunting power to evoke the ebb of the 1960s.

Angela Carter, born in 1940, lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965. She died in February 1992.‘One of the century’s finest writers’ – SUNDAY TIMES

Winston Churchill
The Second World War
Book 2: Alone

‘After the first forty days we were alone, with victorious Germany and Italy engaged in a mortal attack upon us, with Soviet Russia a hostile neutral actively aiding Hitler, and Japan an unknowable menace.’ Churchill’s history of the Second World War is, and will remain, the definitive work. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent historical reconstruction and an enduring work of literature. This edition is part of Churchill’s own abridgement of his original six volume history.