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John Deed is an ambitious judge. He has made many enemies during his career both as a QC and on the High Court bench, a lot of them in Government; people waiting for an opportunity to pull him down. A new story based on the television series by its author.

The Egyptian sector of the Red Sea provides scuba divers with their finest opportunity to explore the most outstanding collection of shipwrecks found anywhere in the world. This edition explores nineteen of the most important and diveable shipwrecks. It also includes details about many of the minor wrecks and a list of more than 250 sunken ships.

George Windsor Earl (1813-1865) was a noted scholar, law agent, journalist, advocate, magistrate and Assistant Resident Councillor in Singapore and the Straits Settlements.This revised edition incorporates new information which has recently come to light concerning George Windsor Earl, his family and the Straits Settlements.

In 1912, the German, Stefan Haase, is studying Theology at Oxford. There he meets James Millward and James' sister, Beth. These three lives will be profoundly affected by the coming of the Great War.

Franz Xaver Kappus, an aspiring poet, wrote to Rainer Maria Rilke for advice in 1903, but could not have expected such a voluminous response from the acclaimed German writer. Through this correspondence, Augustus Young weaves a patchwork portrait of the enigmatic poet and his intimates.

Colonel Michael Charteris takes command of a battalion during the beginning of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya. Michael oversees the difficult task of training his British and native troops to become a force that can overcome the jungle tactics of the Mau Mau. Matters intesify when the Colonel's wife-to-be is abducted by the Mau Mau.

The Troubled Life and Times of Louisa Carolina Colleton. The true biography of Louisa Carolina Colleton, is a tale that could have flown from the most gothic of historical romances. In 1777, at the age of fourteen, Louisa unexpectedly inherited valuable estates on both sides of the Atlantic after her father had died. Her mother, Lady Colleton, had long deserted her and she went to live with her maternal Uncle at Great Fulford, a Tudor manor, in the depths of the Devon countryside. Eight years later, determined to salvage her inheritance, she embarked on a two-and-a-half-year journey which took her first to the Bahamas, and then

Idealistic and headstrong Jeremy Ashland obtains a job teaching English in the Casablanca of the 1960s. He soon plunges dangerously into local and expatriate circles. Evocative, stylistic and wide-ranging, Mauresque immerses the reader in a world of clandestine relationships, political intrigue, drug smuggling, murder and sorcery.

"Realise then," said the hog, "your unfathomableness with everything - your organic unfathomableness". With that, the sty fell silent. So begins this capering odyssey for hog and human (along with a cast of most unusual life-forms) on a phenomenal and phenomenological ride through the cosmos.

In search of adventure, Inspector Guy Pearson joins the Palestine Police Force under the British Mandate. The year is 1938. Both Palestinians and Jews, at war with each other, regard the British as an occupying power. Guy soons finds himself embroiled in love and intrigue.

An outstanding and greatly neglected novel of the war, revolution, civil war and early Bolshevik rule first appeared in English in 1930 under the title 'Quiet Street'.

In 1936, as New Year's Eve looms, the first-class passengers on the Queen Mary's voyage to New York gather in the ship's glittering Ballroom to celebrate. German banker, Max Hartmann, however, will not be joining the festivities as he is found in his first-class cabin, dead from a single gunshot wound to the head.

The Hooligan details the physical and psychological construction of a concentration camp, but, in a literary masterstroke, omits the war years to plum the bitter harvest of the immediate post-war period.