Libby appears to have everything: living in the picturesque suburbs with her lawyer husband, Alex, and her beloved dog. But behind closed doors, she is being emotionally abused and cracks in their relationship are beginning to show. An enlightening v...More info...
Its 1986. Thatchers Britain, and the City of London is buzzing with energy and aspiration.A gifted young barrister is found slaughtered in Temple Gardens, and Scotland Yard is called in. The crime has all the hallmarks of a straightforward grudge k...More info...
When Micks life is almost ended by Oxfords influential chief planner Conrad, the near-miss and ensuing violence awaken his sense of justice.Conrad, deeply embedded in Oxfords elite, colludes with venerable St Marks College in their sale of a 650-...More info...
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARD 2025: BOOK OF THE YEAR - CRIME & THRILLERONE OF THE FINEST MYSTERIES I HAVE EVER READRob Rinder, Sunday Times bestselling author of The TrialA TANTALISING MYSTERY FOR WO...More info...
Oxfords history begins with the story of a kings daughter, Frideswide, who founded a nunnery in the meadows where the River Thames and River Cherwell meet. A settlement grew up around her shrine, which was built on the site of the present cathedral...More info...
William Dunbar, the younger son of a Scottish nobleman, craves wealth, and marriage seems to be his simplest way to achieve it.His pursuit eventually leads him to Mercy Grundy, an old maid in the eyes of mid-1740s society who fears lifelong spinsterh...More info...
Tender and gallant...Beautiful and romantic. Ashley Herring BlakeTo win her heart, shell have to fight...Oxfordshire 1362When Lily Barden discovers her best friend Johannas hand in marriage is being awarded as the main prize at a tournament, she...More info...
A collection of short stories from Edmund Crispin featuring his beloved amateur detective, Gervase Fen. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best....More info...
The railway route between Oxford and Cambridge - nicknamed the Varsity Line - was opened in stages in the nineteenth century. Running roughly east to west, it crossed several major trunk routes linking London with the North and Midlands, and became p...More info...
Dandelions and hearing aids, a bloodstained cat, a Leonardo drawing, a corpse with an alibi, a truly poisonous letter ... just some of the unusual clues that Oxford don/detective Gervase Fen and his friend Inspector Humbleby are confronted with in th...More info...
A collection of 16 short stories from Edmund Crispin featuring his beloved amateur detective, Gervase Fen. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best.Who burglarised the train heading for Victoria Station, and whatever became of its conductor Did the vi...More info...
As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse - discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best.When a decapitated head is seen floating down the river in the Devon village of All...More info...
Its a truth often acknowledged that when a Jane Austen fan girl ends up living next door to a cynical but handsome crime writer, romantic sparks will fly!When Maddy Shaw is told her Dear Jane column has been cancelled she has no choice but to look o...More info...
As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse - discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best.Long inhabited by a collection of profoundly offbeat locals, there has been a recen...More info...
All of them are guilty of something...Five friends. One deadly secret.Five old university friends gather on the eve of their flatmates memorial at a beautiful riverside house.Host Caro is as perfect as always.Shy, awkward Lilys now a bestselling au...More info...
As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse - discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best.When young actress Gloria Scott throws herself from Waterloo Bridge, the news sends...More info...
Oxfordshire, once part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, has always been a wealthy county. Its landscapes vary from the chalk and beechwood Chiltern Hills in the south to the limestone uplands of the Cotswolds in the north-west, which give very f...More info...
Bicester: A Potted History covers the full history of the town, from the Roman settlement of Alchester that preceded it, through its Saxon, Tudor and Victorian developments, right up to the present day. Some of Bicesters ancient history remains toda...More info...
A fascinating array of operators and vehicles are portrayed in the years leading up to 1972, when National Bus Company amalgamations changed so much. Starting in Oxford, characterised by City of Oxfords red, maroon and duck-egg green buses, the Rive...More info...
As she awaits her execution at Oxford Castle, a newly wed woman from a God-fearing family, convicted for murdering her housemaid, is pardoned at the last minute by King George II. A butcher suddenly disappears and changes his identity after the tragi...More info...
