The Maze of Cadiz - signed, lined & datedPeter Cotton, a young Intelligence officer is sent to Spain in September 1944. The war in Europe is drawing to a close; formerly neutral Franco is edging closer to the Allies. Cotton has been sent to investigate the activities and then, just as he arrives, reports of the death of a British agent, May, who has spent much of the war in the remote outpost of Cadiz monitoring the Spanish smuggling of raw materials to aid the Axis war efforts, in strict

it turns out that there is only one suspect: Yashim himself

is found dead in his writing hut off the coast of the family residence

Tom returns to Lambourn

Book I in the 'Bitterbynde' trilogy

the police are at a loss

she receives word of Freddie's death in action along with his uniform -but something doesn't quite make sense

let alone married - yet this trap is so well laid that she is powerless to prove otherwise

Baldwin and Simon are at last back on the English mainland

a lowly maid from an English estate with a striking resemblance to French royalty

With such a spear in his possession Sigurd might now assemble a host strong enough to challenge King Gorm and wreak the revenge he craves

bringing her sketch pads and an ancient golden ring her father sent to her for safekeeping before he died

The third volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy A decrepit warship sails on the last stretch of its voyage to Sydney Cove