'Light puts most modern fiction to shame. It's a magnificent book' China Mieville

The extraordinary and awe-inspiring stories of Britain's first female bomb disposal expert.

Chilling and terrifying, the multi-award winning novel from Catriona Ward

A short, entertaining and passionate history of London by the bestselling author of THE VICTORIANS

'One of the finest historical fiction writers in the world' Ben Kane

The high-profile clergyman's account of losing his partner of 12 years and coping with 'the madness of grief' after his death

The memoir of Sir John Tusa, spanning his childhood and distinguished career in the arts and cultural leadership.

The history of 12,000 years of the British landscape, from the Ice Age to the twenty-first century, by prizewinning author Nicholas Crane, co-presenter of COAST.