P. D. James

National BestsellerFeaturing the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling  and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions,  and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk coastline. Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland  Yard has just published a new book of poems and has...

Volumes 26 and 27 are both concerned with reactions occurring at electrodes arising through the passage of current. They provide an introduction to the study of electrode kinetics. The basic ideas and experimental methodology are presented in Volume 26, whilst Volume 27 deals with reactions at particular types of electrodes. Chapter 1 of the...

National BestsellerCheverell Manor is a beautiful old house in Dorset, which its owner, the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell, uses as a private clinic. When the investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, arrives to have a disfiguring facial scar removed, she has every expectation of a successful operation and a peaceful week...

From the award-winning master of literary crime fiction, a classic work rich in tense drama and psychological insight.On the East Anglian seacoast, a small theological college hangs precariously on an eroding shoreline and an equally precarious future. When the body of a student is found buried in the sand, the boy's influential father demands...