Filter to

The epic adventure of Lyra Belacqua and her friend Will Parry, wandering through parallel worlds in search of knowledge about the enigmatic Dust, is widely acknowledged as a masterpiece of storytelling that is both thrilling and profound. As well as awards, there have been controversies, but Pullman refuses to be drawn on the ‘meaning’ of His Dark Materials; as he writes on his webpage, ‘I’m not in the message business. I’m in the “Once upon a time” business’. Young Adult The three titles included in this set are:Northern Lights (Read more...) Subtle Knife (Read more...)Amber Spyglass (Read more...)

Slightly off-mint.

Off-mint.

Slightly off-mint and felt-tip mark on upper trimmed edge.

Slightly off-mint.

Slightly off-mint.

DI Jimmy Perez, created by bestselling British crime author Ann Cleeves, has featured in eight novels since 2006, investigating suspicious deaths in the close-knit communities of the Shetland islands. The award-winning series inspired the popular BBC drama Shetland. The seven titles included in this set are: Cold Earth (Read more...) Thin Air (Read more...) Dead Water (Read more...) Blue Lightning (Read more...) Red Bones (Read more...) White Nights (Read more...) Raven Black (Read more...)

In Lancashire in 1612, with the Pendle witch trials looming, the mistress of Gawthorpe Hall is 17-year-old Fleetwood Shuttleworth who, after three stillbirths, is pregnant again and desperate for herself and her child to survive. A chance encounter with Alice Gray, a young midwife who promises to help her, brings hope – if Alice can escape the witch-hunt.

During 1979's ‘Winter of Discontent’, as rubbish piles up on the pavements, the killings increase in Peckham – DS Tennison’s new posting – and the tabloids are screaming about police incompetence and a killer on the loose along ‘murder mile’.

In the mid-1970s, with London in the grip of the IRA bombing campaign, Tennison witnesses a bomb blast at Covent Garden tube station. Later, she catches sight of the bomber; but can she convince her senior officers that the man is IRA before he strikes again?

The final book in the series finds British Major Edgar and the Soviets' Viktor Krasotkin – adversaries of old – drawn to 1970s Berlin and into an unlikely alliance as they confront Nazi war criminals and a plot, hatched in 1945, to launch the Fourth Reich.

The end of the Second World War is in sight, but as Soviet ambitions in Austria become clear, another conflict looms. Britain’s Major Edgar deploys agents to Vienna, but Viktor Krasotkin is already in the city and the espionage war begins.

All spies have secrets, but Henry Hunter has more than most. Working for two competing masters against a deadly mutual enemy – the Nazi regime – he enters Germany on a perilous mission as Operation Barbarossa is about to begin.

In the Pas de Calais, an SOE agent named Nathalie Mercier disappears. Realizing that her involvement in the Allies’ D-Day deception puts Nathalie in jeopardy, her husband, a Royal Navy Intelligence Officer, sets off on a perilous mission to find her.

In the midst of one difficult murder investigation, Clare’s boss takes her to a secret location in the hills, where she learns of a major security breach in Police Scotland, meets the authorised hacker on the case – and is sworn to secrecy.

A baby girl is snatched from the crowd watching a fun run and Clare’s team – there as competitors – begin a race against time: the baby has a potentially fatal medical condition; but it also becomes apparent that young Abi was not taken at random.

In her first major case after arriving in St Andrews, DI Mackay is called to the scene of a grisly murder: at a smart hotel reception, a wedding guest is killed in a deliberate hit-and-run, with a card marked ‘5' pinned to his mangled body.