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It was Felix who named it The Birdcage - the tall house in Bristol where Miss Pidgeon lived with her tenant, the beautiful and talented actress Angel, and Angel's daughter, Lizzie. It was Felix whom they all adored and who was so in love with Angel, but while Lizzie longed for a father, Felix had other commitments: to his insecure, possessive wife Marina and to their son Piers, both living at beautiful, mellow Michaelgarth, the family home on the edge of Exmoor.

A picture of life in the year 1000. Set in England, it follows the Julian Calendar month by month, revealing amazing details of a mainly agrarian life.

Two ex-IRA hitmen are employed by British Intelligence to counteract a Russian-backed hired assassin operating in France and England.

A compelling story of suspense, deceit and discovery from the Booker Prize Winning author Searching through a little-used cupboard at home, TV history man Glyn Peters chances upon a photograph he has never seen. Taken in high summer, many years before, it shows his wife, Kath, holding hands with another man. As Glyn begins to search for answers, he and those around him find the certainties of the past and present slipping away, and the picture of the beautiful woman they all thought they knew so well distorts, changes, grows mistier.

A new collection of stories from Jane Gardam, a writer at the height of her powers well-known for her caustic wit, free-wheeling imagination, love of humanity and wicked powers of observation, with a hint of the bizarre.

In all her twenty-five years, Venetia has never been out of her locale nor interested in her two admirers. Then, in one extraordinary encounter she is tempted to cast aside her good name and reputation.

With his rising culinary career threatened by an episode of food poisoning that affects most of the guests at a private affair that he had catered, Max Moreton finds himself in more trouble when he caters an exclusive luncheon at the Two Thousand Guineas horse race, a party devasted by a bomb blast that kills some of his staff as well as many of the guests.

Elizabeth and Betsy knew each other as school-children. When they meet again in later life, one is safely married, the other most unsafely partnered.

Laura Cadman had always assumed she would marry Edmund Shaw, the son of her father's partner, and keep the Shaw and Cadman name alive. But Edmund's violent refusal is just the beginning. When Jabez Shaw dies, Edmund takes advantage and cheats him.

Cyril Entwistle, is a Yorkshireman, womaniser, egoist, world-class liar, and of late, controversial BBC talking head on almost any topic. He has chosen Stan Kops to write his biography.