The three dahliasIt wouldn't be a country house weekend without a little murder. Three rival actresses team up to solve a murder at the stately home of Lettice Davenport, the author whose sleuthing creation of the 1930's, Dahlia Lively, had made each of them famous to a new generation.

Essential reading for anyone with an interest in trees and woodlands

a family he was friendly with

and among British and Indians alike there were both progressive and conservative attitudes to colonisation

secrets long hidden in plain sight

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing the natural world

colourful noisy sound book is the perfect way to introduce the youngest chiddlers to the world of Roald Dahl

As we learn more fascinating details about Edward's past and the complexity of his inner thoughts

and above all

knowledge and his personal history

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But after becoming embroiled in a dodgy scheme to fund his latest film

the Lewis-Stempels began their new life as peasant farmers