Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg knows that peace is far from reach. Although he has won the battle for his ancestral home, rebellion looms in Mercia and invading Norsemen appear at every turn. With the country in turmoil, he comes face to face with King Skoll, a violent Norseman leading an army of ulfhedinn, or wolf warriors, hellbent on seizing a kingdom, and killing any in his path. Surrounded and outnumbered by new enemies, Uhtred must call on all his skill and courage to survive and prevent his beloved Northumbria from falling to the Viking hordes. He is a leader, warrior and rebel. 384pp, paperback.

England is in turmoil as Vikings and Saxons battle for territory. Rumours build about the fatal sickness of the King, and the country awaits an heir. A violent clash at sea forces the warrior lord Uhtred to lead his men from his Northumbrian fortress to London and plunge into the eye of the storm. An oath of loyalty, two warring kings, and a destiny he didn't choose... Two kings claim the empty throne and a new kingdom cannot be born without bloodshed. Uhtred's sword will leave one king dead and the other victorious, but sometimes it is hard to know the will of the gods. 384pp, paperback.

When the young lawyer Daniel Pitt is called from his chambers in Lincoln's Inn to identify a body, he fears that the murder victim will be his friend Kitteredge. But it turns out to be senior lawyer Jonah Drake, who for some reason had borrowed Kitteredge's distinctive coat. Drake was savagely knifed in an alley in London's disreputable Mile End, and Pitt and Kitteredge need to know why. Moneylenders, brothels, opium dens? The reputation of the chambers is at stake, and the head Marcus fford Croft is visibly uneasy. Drake was a cultured man in comfortable circumstances, dealing exclusively in cases of embezzlement, but looking at his financial records Daniel has a feeling there is something wrong. Money is being moved too often with no apparent reason. His search takes him to two possible sources, Drake's client Peterson who was lucky to escape with his life when Drake defended him for murder, and also to the shady world of the shipping tycoon Erasmus Faber. The more Daniel delves, the worse it looks for Marcus, and to complicate matters Daniel is in love with Marcus's daughter. A gripping detective novel in the authentically realised setting of Victorian London. 293pp.

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A companion to The Seeker code 93131. London in 1656. Oliver Cromwell is now a king in all but name. Three conspirators, an alliance of Royalists and disillusioned Parliamentarians, plan to assassinate him, paving the way back to the throne for Charles Stuart once and for all. But the Lord Protector's most feared agent Captain Damian Seeker is preoccupied by the horrifying discovery in an illegal gambling den of the body of a man ravaged by what is unmistakeably a bear, creatures not seen in the capital since bear baiting was banned. With Royalist-turned-Commonwealth spy Thomas Faithly tracking the bear, Seeker investigates his victim. The hunt for the killer leads from Kent's coffee house on Cornhill to a German clockmaker in Clerkenwell, to the desolate Lambeth Marshes where no one should venture at night. As the motivation behind the murder becomes clearer, Seeker realises just what and who he is up against. The Royalists in exile have sent to London their greatest fighter, a man who will stop at nothing to ensure the Restoration. 410pp, paperback.

Home Place, Sussex, 1939. As the shadows of the Second World War roll in, banishing the sun-drenched days of childish games and trips to the coast, a new generation of Cazalets takes up the family's story. Louise who dreams of becoming a great actress finds herself facing the harsh reality that her parents have their own lives with secrets, passions and yearnings. Clary, an aspiring writer, learns that her beloved father Rupert is now missing somewhere on the shores of France. And sensitive, imaginative Polly feels stuck - without a vocation, without information about her mother's illness, without anything except her nightmares about the war. Beautifully and poignantly told, the novel is the second in the bestselling Cazalet Chronicles, charming, poignant and quite irresistible, to be shared and cherished. 592pp, paperback. Both volumes have family trees and were published in the early 1990s originally. Beautiful rejacketed reprint paperbacks.

A CWA prize winning novel (2015) set in Cromwell's London and the first in the Damian Seeker series. London 1654 and Oliver Cromwell is at the height of his power and has declared himself Lord Protector, yet he has many enemies at home and abroad. London is a teeming warren of spies and merchants, priests and soldiers, exiles and assassins. One of the web's most fearsome spiders is Damian Seeker, agent of the Lord Protector. No one knows where he comes from, who his family is, or even his real name. All that is known of him for certain is that he is utterly loyal to Cromwell and that nothing can be hidden from him for long. In the city, coffee houses are springing up, fashionable places where men may meet to plot and gossip. When a popular captain and hero of Cromwell's all-powerful army is murdered, and Elias Ellingworth, an outspoken critic of Cromwell's regime is found standing over the bleeding body clutching a knife, his guilt seems to be without question. Yet Seeker is not convinced and he knows better than any man where to search for the real killer to bring him to justice. We are drawn into the Interregnum while the country was still divided between Royalists and Parliamentarians. 421pp, paperback.

Orphan Ellinor Arden is called from her secluded Paris home to London for the hearing of a will. To her surprise she is named as the inheritor of her estranged uncle's fortune, on condition that she marry his adopted son. Encouraged by her lawyer and guardian, the dashing Horace Margrave, Ellinor enters into wedded life with this perfect stranger, but it soon becomes clear that her trust in a dead man's wishes has been misplaced. Suspense-ridden sensational Victorian literature presented with the counterpart piece 'The Mystery at Fernwood'. The author Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837-1915) counted W. M. Thackeray and Henry James among her admirers and wrote more than 70 books. 118pp, paperback.

Set in the shabby world of England's theatricals, populated by hack writers, drunken actors, pushy stage mothers and unscrupulous directors, is a drama of greed, ambition and love. Christopher Tatham is trying to 'make it' in acting, surviving on third-rate bit parts and the charity of his uncle and continues to hope for the elusive leading-man role. A chance encounter with the enchanting Peggy Harper seems to herald a change of fortune, but Tatham is soon forced to give up his flagging career for a dispiriting position as a clerk in the City as he wanders nostalgically through the West End. In a London daubed with greasepaint and filled with hungry actors, will Peggy and Tatham manage to carve out a life for themselves and attain the success and stability they crave? An Edwardian classic thankfully reprinted, this is a surprisingly modern dilemma for the young couple. George Orwell writes in his foreword of 'trudging up and down the Strand on worn-out boot soles, the agents' offices where women in dyed frocks sit waiting their turn, the forlorn collection of press cuttings, the manager who bolts in the middle of the tour with all the takings.' 164pp, paperback.