A Ship of the LineMay, 1810 and thirty nine year old Captain Horatio Hornblower has been handed his first ship of the line . . . Though the seventy four gun HMS Sutherland is 'the ugliest and least desirable two decker in the Navy' and a crew shortage means he must recruit two hundred and fifty landlubbers, Hornblower knows that by the time Sutherland and her squadron reach the blockaded Catalonian coast every seaman will do his duty. But with daring raids against the

Tom Stoppard's provocative new play spans the recent history of Czechoslovakia between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution - but from the double perspective of Prague

this is a mesmerizing epic of crime and opportunity

zoologist Daniel Kennedy faces an impossible choice - should he save himself

a grocer's moonlight indiscretion and the passionate illusions of his mistress

In the Temple of Anubis

The buyer: the Modern Art Museum of New York - a dynastic institution as secretive as it is incestuous

in Ian Flemings third 007 adventure

The Personal History of Rachel DuPree is an unforgettable novel about love and loyalty

atmospheric and utterly captivating

But when the Hummick disappears

and brings us men and women swept towards a perilous climax where greed

Born into poverty on the Black Sea