Michael Jayston

A museum near Hampstead Heath has been inherited by three siblings, all of whom are required to sign any new lease. Without the lease the museum will have to close. One brother won't sign. Then his body is discovered in his car.

This latest in Kent's popular Bolitho series of historical books is set during the bitter war of 1813 for naval supremacy over America, when men from very different nations, and for their own motives, fought a fierce and bloody battle in Canadian waters.

Set in contemporary, recession gripped Britain, a left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to...

The man he knew as "Control" is dead, and the young Turks who forced him out now run the Circus. But George Smiley isn't quite ready for retirement - especially when a pretty, would-be defector surfaces with a shocking accusation: a Soviet mole has penetrated the highest level of British Intelligence. Relying only on his wits and a small, loyal cadre, Smiley recognises the hand of Karla - his Moscow Centre nemesis - and sets a trap to catch the traitor....

The racing trimaran Street Express is anchored in a gale off the coast of southern Ireland. Jimmy Dixon and his long-term friend Ed Boniface are championship sailors. Tragedy strikes when the third crew member is washed overboard - or is he?