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The story of a young, strong willed and passionate couple living in Hong Kong and Canton during the 1850's when the penetration of China by Western countries was causing bitter hatred and war.

Continues the mid-nineteenth-century Lancastrian saga of extraordinary heroine Annie Gibson, begun in 'Salem Street', and 'High Street'.

Ruben Oliver's life is coming apart. He is obliged to take early retirement as a librarian due to the new political realities of South Africa.

Gilbert Langton, respected linguist and trusted negotiator, has been selected to mediate the interests of Japan and Germany in an ambitious deal masterminded to lift the Russian Republic out from u

The lives of the doctor, nurse and patients in a large hospital.

A remarkable biography of a remarkable man.

Cathy Gordon has made a discovery. Adopted at birth, she suddenly finds she has a grandfather.

Lt. Colonel Jon Smith, currently working as a medical researcher, is contacted by a Russian colleague with an urgent request - that they meet in Venice in ten days.

Hades is the name of a seemingly unbeatable doomsday virus.

When an explosion destroys the esteemed Pasteur Institute in Paris, cyber-wizard Marty Zellerbach is in a coma, while one of the world's top computer scientists goes missing.

Joseph Rooney, dustman, is looking for lodgings. Ma Howlett welcomes him but he feels strange and shy. Then he meets Nellie and suddenly things are not so bad.

A series of meticulously planned bank robberies ends in murder, and Alex Cross must pit his wits against the bizarre and sadistic mastermind behind the crimes.

When Fred suggests to his wife, Sally, that they should take a boating holiday on the Norfolk Broads, she is filled with trepidation. A series of disasters threaten to ruin their holiday.

Catharine Howard's dainty charm quickly attracts Henry VIII.

Vic made careful survey of the situation because he was never one to shoot first.