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The explosion was heard 20 miles away. It killed canal boatmen & wrecked the Pompeian villa of Lawrence Alma-Tadema, the St John's Wood artist. But what caused the 1874 Regent's Park Explosion? Fenian bombs or sabogate by rival railways?

My blue heaven: The Witness Protection Program is turned upside down by a mob informant and an FBI agent. The man with two brains: Dr. Hfuhruhurr is the world-famous originator of zip-lock, screw-top brain surgery. Into his empty life runs Delores Benedict, a stunning beauty wi...

The explosion was heard twenty miles away. It killed boatmen and wrecked the exotic villa of Lawrence Alma-Tadema, the fashionable St John's Wood artist. But what caused the 1874 Regents Park explosion? Fenian bombs? Sabotage by rival railways or other firms? Or was it something ...

Praise for Joan Aiken's stories: "Wildly inventive, darkly lyrical, and always surprising . . . should be cherished."- Publishers Weekly "Darkly whimsical stories. . . . Aiken writes with surpassing spirit and alertness, her elegant restraint and dry wit never fail to leave th...

"For best friends Lola Poole and Joan Proctor-Riley, there's never too much when it comes to online-dating rich, no-commitments lovers. It's a fantasy come true that makes their unhappy lives bearable. But there's no escape when Lola's vicious relatives cheat her out of everythin...

Charles Dickens created some of the most memorable characters in English literature. But just what became of the convict that frightened young Pip in Great Expectations? Was he guilty, or framed? And what really did become of Edwin Drood? Was the case ever solved? Mike Ashley pr...