Julian Barnes
Love Etc

In Talking it Over, Gillian and Stuart were married until Oliver stole her away. In Love, etc Julian Barnes revisits the characters, using the same intimate technique of allowing them to speak directly to the listener, to whisper their secrets, to argue for their version of the truth. A compelling exploration of contemporary love and its betrayals.

Ian Fleming
Moonraker

At M's request, Bond goes up against Sir Hugo Drax at the card table in an exclusive London club to prevent him from cheating. For Drax - a self-made multi-millionaire with a shadowy past - has put up ten million pounds to develop a superatomic rocket, and his exposure as a cheat would threaten Britain's latest defence system.

P. D. James
Death of an Expert Witness

When a young girl is found strangled in a field, it looks like a routine job for the staff of the East Anglian Forensic Laboratory. But then the senior biologist is found dead in his lab and murder comes closer to home. And Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces the most baffling inquiry of his career.

Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe's Waterloo

1815. Lieutenant Colonel Richard Sharpe finds himself on the personal staff of Frederick, Prince of Orange, in command of a large proportion of the Allied Forces. Frederick refuses to listen to Sharpe's reports of an enormous French army marching towards Brussels with the lately returned Emperor Napoleon at its head - until it is nearly too late.