Hate him, fear him, despise him, he is King Cobra, commanding, all-knowing, supreme in his power, awesome in his wrath… this is the hard, chilling, incredible brutal reality of the vice that this nation tolerates

An intricate tapestry of book –one tale woven into the other, a panorama of distinctive voices that call out to each other over time

Voyage is robustly passionate saga of clipper ships and robber barons, highbred women and rebellious men, violence above deck and raw sex below.. a stunning, wide-canvas tale of romance and adventure on the high seas, and a panoramic vision of a turbulent America into the 20th Century

Who Moved My Cheese? Is a simple parable that reveals profound truths. It is an amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a maze and look for cheese to nourish them and make them happy.

Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in life – whether it is a good job, a loving relationship, money or a possession, health or spiritual peace of mind.

Grace Lawson is living a happy, straightforward life in the suburbs with her husband. Jack, and two young children. But that security is about to come to a brutal end. For when Grace picks up a set of holiday snaps, amount them is one shot that doesn’t fit; a faded image that Grace doesn’t recognize of her husband as she never knew him.

Alice Reynolds had always dreamt of escaping her grimy corner of south London for the fairytale world of the aristocratic elite. Cricket whites, Pimms and summer balls were the stuff of Alice’s dreams. But when those dreams come true, the friends and enemies she makes on a trip to Russia draw her into a completely different world.

Bound together by their weekly knitting circle, Carrie, Velma, Gwen and Shirley supported one another through the bleak wartime years. Through good times and bad, they kept each other’s spirit up, taking comfort in their unique bond of friendship, longing for the day their men would return.

Liz MacMillan has wanted to be a nurse ever since her baby brother died of scarlet fever, but her domineering father won’t allow it. On the outbreak of war, however, nursing becomes a patriotic duty and soon Liz is working in Glasgow’s Western Infirmary. There she’s befriended by medic Adam Buchanan, who confounds all Liz’s prejudices about the upper classes with his warmth and openness. But it’s another student, Mario Rossi, who touches Liz’s heart.

Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways and to act as nurse to John: a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunatic episodes. But John’s strangeness is grotesquely mirrored in that of his four sisters, who roam the dark, mazy Essex country house under the strict gaze of eighty-year-old Mrs cosway.