Bloomsbury

It is 1958, and as Laika, the Sputnik dog is launched into space, Golly Murray, the Cullymore barber's wife, finds herself oddly obsessing about the canine cosmonaut. Meanwhile, Fonsey 'Teddy' O'Neill, is returning, like the prodigal son, from overseas, with brylcream in his hair, and a Cuban-heeled swagger to his step, having...

A teacher is dead, murdered by two of his students in front of the school. He was a good man. People liked him. So how could this happen? Why? It just doesn't make sense to Jackson, and he is determined to investigate the case until he understands. Benjamin Zephaniah has, once again, chosen a topical and hard-hitting subject - and he deals...

Memoirs of Occupied FranceAs the grip of the German Occupation tightened on Paris in the summer of 1940, Agn's Humbert, a respected art historian, took a leap of blind faith and reckless courage. With a handful of her distinguished colleagues at the Mus'e de l'Homme in Paris, she helped to form one of the first organised groups of...

The Story of Knole and the SackvillesSince its purchase in 1604 by Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, the house at Knole, Kent, has been inhabited by thirteen generations of a single aristocratic family, the Sackvilles. Here, drawing on a wealth of unpublished letters, archives and images, the current incumbent of the seat, Robert...

Didn&'t anyone tell you that divas don&'t knit? Knit-one... Jo Mackenzie needs a new start and jumps at the chance to take over her grandmother&'s wool shop in a small seaside town. Purl-one... But it&'s not going to be easy with two young sons to cope with, an A-list actress moving into the local mansion and a knitting group addicted to...

By the time Grace is eighteen, she has been orphaned, moved countries and lost touch with her only brother. Talented, awkward and a little fierce, she can't help thinking that she's managed to lose anything she's ever loved. So she decides to revisit her past in America, and she's brought her camera - she's going to catch...