Posts Tagged ‘british’
Mrs Griffin Sends Her Love
From organising the school summer fete… ‘Because of our inability to recognise our climatic shortcomings from the outset, arrangements for outdoor jollities get completely out of hand’. …to the sometimes rather odd passions of childhood: ‘I collect stones with holes in them’. Miss Read captures the essence of rural life, and in particular of village…
Read MoreMiss Marple Complete Short Stories
This collection gathers together every short story featuring one of Agatha Christie’s most famous creations: Miss Marple. Described by her friend Dolly Bantry as “the typical old maid of fiction,” Miss Marple has lived almost her entire life in the sleepy hamlet of St. Mary Mead. Yet, by observing village life she has gained an…
Read MoreThe Boy in the Dress
Dennis was different.Why was he different, you ask?Well, a small clue might be in the title of this book…Charming, surprising and hilarious – The Boy in the Dress is everything you would expect from the co-creator of Little Britain. David Walliams’s beautiful first novel will touch the hearts (and funny bones) of children and adults…
Read MoreFive Little Pigs A Hercule Poirot Mystery
Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, but just like the nursery rhyme, there were five other “little pigs” who could have done it: Philip Blake (the stockbroker), who went to market; Meredith Blake (the amateur herbalist), who stayed at home; Elsa Greer (the three-time divorcÉe), who had her roast beef; Cecilia Williams…
Read MoreThe Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is not only the most famous character in crime fiction, but arguably the most famous character in all fiction. In sixty adventures that pit his extraordinary wits and courage against foreign spies, blackmailers, cultists, petty thieves, murderers, swindlers, policemen (both stupid and clever), and his arch-nemesis Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes, together with his faithful…
Read MoreThe Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
Gathers stories of the gaslight era which feature the exploits of criminals rather than the detectives solving the cases, including such authors as E.W. Hornung, Arnold Bennett, and Edgar Wallace.
Read MoreThe Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime
A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides those new- fangled bicycles and doesn’t like to be told what to do. And, in crime…
Read MoreShetland 2 White Nights
WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION DIAMOND DAGGER AWARD 2017White Nights is the second title in Ann Cleeves’ Shetland crime series featuring Detective Jimmy Perez.NOW A MAJOR BBC DRAMAWhen Shetland detective Jimmy Perez finds a body in a hut used by fishermen it seems to be a straightforward case of suicide. He recognizes the victim…
Read MoreThe Glass Room (Vera #5)
WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION DIAMOND DAGGER AWARD 2017″One of the best natural writers of detective fiction” Sunday ExpressDI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her hippy neighbours keep her well-supplied in homebrew and conversation so she has more tolerance for them than most. When one of them goes missing…
Read MoreCold Earth (Shetland #7)
Cold Earth is the seventh book in Ann Cleeves’ Shetland series – a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall.In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main Lerwick-Sumburgh road and sweeps down to the sea. At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait, Jimmy Perez…
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