A boy firebombs a building as he listens to Vivaldi's Winter Concerto splicing behind an R'n'B track. A veteran musician is found dead in an alley with the pulse of an old reggae classic playing in his pocket. Rap sensation Lord Tribulation soon has his stardom threatened when he finds himself in the middle of both incidents.

In six days Silas Mudd will be 100 years old. Grumpily flattered by the fuss over his impending party - even from his irritating family - Silas' greatest pleasure is 'to go over his life' and the women he loved and who made trouble for him.

Barry's mum has become a bit of celebrity, and now he can't go anywhere without seeing a poster of her eating a chocolate digestive or wiggling her bum in a pair of jeans. It's so annoy-embarrassing, and everyone at school is making fun of him. But you can't keep Barry down for long. With the help of his napkin collection, new girl Nancy Verkenwerken and a snail called Snailypoos, Barry is determined to prove once and for all that he is not a loser....

Elizabeth Egan is too busy for friends. As a reluctant mother to her sister Saoirse's young son Luke and with her own business to run, every precious moment is made to count. But with Saoirse crashing in and out of their lives, leaving both her sister and her son reeling, Luke and Elizabeth are desperately in need of some magic. Enter Ivan. Wild, spontaneous and always looking for adventure, in no time at all Ivan has changed Elizabeth in ways she...

Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury - a human hand. The body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for ten years or so, wrapped in a purple cotton shroud.

Tim Frazer was staying at St Bride's guest house, just outside the town of Melinfforest, to investigate why Miss Thackery, a British intelligence agent, had been brutally murdered and her body dumped in a nearby wood.

The New York Times bestselling author brings back the Walker family in a multilayered thriller in which murders past and present connect the lives of three families.

Harper Connelly was struck by lightning as a teenager, and now she can find the dead. In her third case, Harper and Tolliver, her stepbrother, are hired to find a missing grandson. But the truth is far worse than a single dead child, for numerous teenage boys, all unlikely runaways, have disappeared from Doraville, North Carolina.

The story of one of the last great epic journeys of exploration made before World War I: Robert Falcon Scott's fateful journey to the South Pole.