An innovative collection of folk ballads re-told by professional storytellers. In association with the Society of Storytelling

A complete account of James Billington and his three sons, illuminating the history of a family whose business was death

Exactly 150 years after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, history came extremely close to repeating itself when another army set sail from the Continent with the intention of imposing foreign rule on England.

In the 1990s Brian Lara established himself as the best batsman in the world, with a 375 against England, a 501 for Warwickshire and a 400 not out in Antigua among his world records. At 37, he is still the dominant force in the West Indies side going into 2007. This work presents an account of one of the true greats of world cricket.

Barber concentrates in this book not on the variety of and classification of bronze age artifacts, but the effect bronzemaking had on society and on the status of the craftsmen themselves.

Paul Heiney unravels further science behind those things we take for granted, and explains just why the world and its contents are the way they are. Drawing on questions asked by the public, this book brings some of the finest scientific minds to bear on how the laws of science apply to everyday life.

A history of Canterbury

A doctor has set up a waiting mortuary on the borders of Kensal Green Cemetery. He collapses and dies, apparently of natural causes, but on the same night one of his most reliable employees goes missing. Frances Doughty, a young sleuth with a reputation for solving knotty cases, is engaged to find the missing man, but nothing is as it seems.