Yankee Mission1812. Off the coast of Brazil, HMS Java, a proud British 38 gun frigate, is captured in battle by the American USS Constitution signaling across the world's oceans a challenge to Britain's naval premiership that cannot be ignored. Back in England Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is enjoying a moment of normal life with his wife and his newborn son. With his Thunderer in dock receiving some repairs he is, momentarily, without a command. But he is soon given a

a wildly energetic university professor with a reputation for bucking convention

An angel in her bedroom - a SNOW angel

But now there is a new mystery - a man found bludgeoned to death on that same rock

a riveting memoirist

Edward Elgar

and the perpetrators of the vicious coup d'etat that ousted him as Chairman of the Residents' Association

On Boxing Day 1962

This revised and expanded edition of Tolkien's own Hobbit-inspired poetry includes previously unpublished poems and notes

Robert Twigger has travelled this ancient line on foot

It has been praised as "gripping" by The Times

An extraordinary history of resistance and the fight for Indian independence from Ramachandra Guha

Unravelling these mysteries is challenging enough