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On a business trip to Paris at the age of 19, Peter Mayle began an enduring fascination with the French and their love affair with food and wine.

Detective Inspector Bonaparte investigates abduction and murder - and nearly gets marooned on Lake Eyre.

Parrish kills for fun. Now he wants to make a deal : his death sentence for the body of Judith Sayre, buried in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Moving into a new home in Leeds, rising radio star Matt Harper is shocked to find the skeleton of a child in the attic.

Only after returning from his funeral did Fiona Bailey realize how much she would miss Davey. Towards the end of his life she had discovered qualities about him she had previously overlooked.

Blake Durant was a man with things to forget and he had to keep moving. After taking shelter from a storm with a group of strangers he finds himself in trouble again.

The Borrowers, a family of tiny people, are kidnapped from their home in Little Fordham and held captive in an attic.

Lucretia is forced to marry the Marquis of Marlyn. Together they encounter dangerous adventures in France as they rescue Englishmen from the hands of Napoleon.

Tom Seymour is a child psychiatrist who has worked in the north of England for many years.

The story of a few days in the life of a young Russian boy during the siege of Leningrad in World War II.

After Claudia seduces Jenny's sweetheart, Frank, she gives birth to a baby girl. When the child is disowned Jenny cares for her and loves her as her own.

After the war between the states, many small skirmishes still exist.

The author, a well-known Australian art critic, recounts his boyhood experiences growing up in an Irish Catholic family in Australia.

Lady Brandon dies peacefully in her bed, much loved and respected by all but, as Maurice Evans discovers, Mary's corpse is shrouded in mystery.

Superstar mystery novelist Grace McCabe needs to unwind after a grueling book tour. Visiting her sister whom she hasn't seen in months, seems the perfect solution.