Time period: 20th century

In the wake of World War II, four agents were critical in helping build a new organisation now known as the CIA. Adelaide Hawkins, Mary Hutchison, Eloise Page, and Elizabeth Sudmeier, called the 'wise gals' by their male colleagues because of their sharp sense of humour and even quicker intellige...

The Beatles, Carnaby Street, mini-skirts. But the new mood hasn't reached the drab and fearful corridors of MI5 and MI6. Many agents joined the secret service to fight the Nazis. Now they are locked in a Cold War against the Russians. And some of them are traitors. The service has been shaken to ...

War is hovering on the horizon, and Lady Dandy Gilver wants nothing more than to keep her friends and family close. But then a call in the night places her oldest friend Daisy at the centre of a murder investigation. With her friend's future on the line, Dandy and her fellow sleuth Alec Osbourne ...

This book views sixty years of British politics through the eyes of the Progress Trust, an exclusive, secret and influential group of senior Conservative MPs. Many of them occupied important positions within the Conservative Party; others served as Ministers or Secretaries of State during the cou...

In this mesmerising autobiography, acclaimed novelist Edith Olivier describes her remarkable life, which spanned the last decades of the 19th century, two world wars, and the birth of modern Britain.

Kit de Waal grew up in a household of opposites and extremes. Her haphazard mother rarely cooked, forbade Christmas and birthdays, worked as a cleaner, nurse and childminder sometimes all at once and believed the world would end in 1975. Meanwhile, her father stuffed barrels full of goodies for h...

Kit de Waal grew up in a household of opposites and extremes. Her haphazard mother rarely cooked, forbade Christmas and birthdays, worked as a cleaner, nurse and childminder sometimes all at once and believed the world would end in 1975. Meanwhile, her father stuffed barrels full of goodies for h...

This volume contains a selection of 50 charming, heart-breaking and romantic letters sent to and from army personnel of all ranks during the First and Second World Wars.

This volume contains a selection of 50 charming, heart-breaking and romantic letters sent to and from army personnel of all ranks during the First and Second World Wars.

In forty years, the population of the Earth will reach ten billion. Can our world support so many people? What kind of world will it be? In this unique, original and important book, Charles C. Mann illuminates the four great challenges we face - food, water, energy, climate change - through an ex...

P.G. Wodehouse wrote 90 novels and story collections, creating the immortal characters of Jeeves, Psmith and the Empress of Blandings. McCrum's biography chronicles the achievements and shadows of a gilded life.

In a new biography based on research throughout Britain, Europe and the US, Robert McCrumb delves deep beneath the brilliant surface of P.G. Wodehouse's extraordinary life: his youth in Edwardian Britain, his golden years in jazz age America and his internment in Nazi Germany.

This is a powerful evocation of an American childhood. The prequel to 'Running with Scissors', this work tells the story of Augusten's relationship with his tormented father, a man who sent his wife mad & saw his other son run away from home, prior to Augusten going into foster care.

This is an atmospheric memoir of landscape and family, set in the Yorkshire moors and the Australian outback. The book is a dark comedy about how we attempt to hold together and struggle against the elements without and within - and how laughter is always the great lifeline.

This is an atmospheric memoir of landscape and family, set in the Yorkshire moors and the Australian outback. The book is a dark comedy about how we attempt to hold together and struggle against the elements without and within - and how laughter is always the great lifeline.

This thriller evokes 1973 Moscow and a world of diplomacy and counter-espionage. It's 1973 and Martha has been sent down from Cambridge for distributing left-wing leaflets and doing no work. To escape parental disapproval, she marries her friend Kit, posted to Moscow by the diplomatic service. Ki...

1926. Two friends, Ethel Wild and Florrie Daniels, embark on a cross-country adventure in Florrie's Model T. They are heading west each with an important destination: Florrie is moving to Hollywood to become a screenwriter, while Ethel is trying to catch up to her husband in Nevada before he's ab...

1926. Two friends, Ethel Wild and Florrie Daniels, embark on a cross-country adventure in Florrie's Model T. They are heading west each with an important destination: Florrie is moving to Hollywood to become a screenwriter, while Ethel is trying to catch up to her husband in Nevada before he's ab...

1926. Two friends, Ethel Wild and Florrie Daniels, embark on a cross-country adventure in Florrie's Model T. They are heading west each with an important destination: Florrie is moving to Hollywood to become a screenwriter, while Ethel is trying to catch up to her husband in Nevada before he's ab...