Uniform JusticeNeither Commissario Brunetti nor his wife Paolo have ever had much sympathy for the Italian armed forces, so when a young cadet is found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice's elite military academy, Brunetti's emotions are complex: pity and sorrow for the death of a boy, close in age to his own son, and contempt and irritation for the arrogance and high handedness of the boy's teachers and fellow students. The young man is the son of a doctor and

Twins and monsters and outcasts

some friendly boxtrolls and cabbage-heads

The surprising discoveries she makes will impact on all the ladies of Whitby

The Deptford Mice are worried: the mystical bats have fled from the attic

occasionally snookered and out of his mind

waits on the eccentric Mrs Vee by day

he is connected to a secret that can kill him - or make him

Tom has woken up to discover that his wife was on the plane and must break the news to their only son

When a chance encounter brings Ted and Penny together

she knows the means

' A memoir with the magical quality of not just describing childhood but actually making the reader remember what it was like to be a child

untested life