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The Director, Forensic Science Laboratory in Ireland reveals the power of forensics in cracking crime - often from a clue as minute as a single hair.

A story of evangelism working miracles in the youth gangs of New York, at times horrifying, with murder, drugs and prostitution.

How can the fingerprints of a convicted murderer who has been executed turn up on the mutilated corpse of another victim? Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner, investigates.

In 1819 Lady Vesta arrived in Katona as a bride, by proxy, to its hereditary Prince. Her adventures on the way make this story an exciting romance.

The story of the survey voyage of H.M.S.V. Acheron in New Zealand Waters, 1848 - 1851.

Alexander the Third succeeded to the throne of Scotland at the age of seven.

Serena and Joe are thrown together on several occasions and Serena is forced to make up her mind as to her feelings for Joe.

Rebellious SIS Officer Peter Ashton returns once again to the secret world of spies, subversion and violence.

Alex McAuliff must journey to the heart of a conspiracy so powerful that only murder can protect it.

Two men and a woman; respectively an engineer, adventurer and journalist, take charge of a consignment of obsolete weapons and oppose Mussolini's plans to invade Ethiopia during World War Two.

Set in industrial Tyneside in the 1970's. Jinny, at 21, seems to have become a general dogsbody in both her working and private life, but suddenly circumstances begin to change.

Set in Melbourne in 1896, this novel follows a young curate as he finds lodgings in an artist's studio and has his religious principles thoroughly tested by his friend's parties, women an

Elainne Merrill returns home to Hannah's Gate when her mother dies, leaving her in charge of the family fortune.

Robert Vane, great English actor, and Felicia Lisle, equally famous actress, are partners on stage and in real life, apparently the perfect theatre couple.

Kathleen Mangan is the youngest daughter of the artist Frederick McCubbin and here she recounts her growing up in the early years of this century.