A Hostile StateDeep cover specialist Marc Portman is in Lebanon for a straightforward collect and go job at least it should have been. Ambushed by a surprise attack, it's clear that someone must have had advance warning of his arrival. If he is to survive, he must use his unique skill set to turn the tables on his pursuers and beat them at their own game.

They quickly become friends

from cruising around Alaska and Antarctica to train journeys in Zambia and Zimbabwe

A few miles away across the moors

George Eliot fashions a concept of life and society free of the dogma of the past yet able to confront the scepticism of the age

In many popular histories of the Pacific War

A brother left behind

his MI5 handler

What's the point of belly buttons

The Commonwealth is in turmoil

The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history

The bittersweet

Someone is lurking in the shadows