May, AD 41. The emperor Claudius has acceded to the throne, and Rome's citizens look forward to an era of peace. Not so Marcus Corvinus however, who finds himself investigating two murders. At first Marcus refuses to cooperate - but when his enquiries lead him to Rome's busy trading port, he uncovers a disturbing connection between the two deaths.

From the bestselling author of WARRIOR OF ROME comes the second book in an epic new series set in third century Rome; a dramatic era of murder, coup, counter-rebellions and civil war.

From the award-winning author of The Great Fire. 'Miss Hazzard's mind is a revolving light that picks a scene, holds it in utmost clarity for a moment against the surrounding darkness, and moves on' The New York Times

Jerry Morner lives quietly in a cabin by the old quarry, hurting no one. Or that's what he wants people to believe. It takes one spark and a can of petrol to expose the truth. The fire is deadly. Not for Jerry, but for the two strangers found burnt to death inside. His son starts to search for answers.

Think of the fortune waiting for you... July, 1802. Young Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver's daughter, Natty, set off in the footsteps of their fathers. The lure of hidden treasure and the thrill of the ocean odyssey soon gives way to terror as the Nightingale reaches its destination. Treasure Island is not uninhabited as it once was...

Once upon a time, opium was easily available over chemist's counter. The secret of happiness, about which philosophers have disputed for so many ages, could be bought for a penny, and carried in waistcoat pocket. Paradise! So thought, the author, but he soon discovered that 'nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium'.

* An elegiac novel of giving it all up for love -- and living to regret it. * 'I like Elisabeth Russell Taylor. She gets better and better' A.S. Byatt.

This essential anthology--collecting pieces from the National Magazine Award-nominated journal "The Believer"--features the best in creative nonfiction, literary journalism, and the best writing in English from the beginning of the 21st century.

These stories of the 19th-century Russian rural landscape and the difficult life of those who inhabited it were universally popular with the reading public at large and contributed in no small measure to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861.

A novel of ambition, about a man who rises from the most humble of beginnings in Manchester and reaches the very top in politics.

Letty Fox talks us through her search for marital bliss in 1930s New York and London.