Mortal SicknessIn this second Lydmouth novel some local townsfolk have received anonymous letters alleging that their vicar has been selling church treasures to finance his visits to prostitutes. Inspector Thornhill is called in when treasures are found to be missing.

Anthony Peardew has spent half his life lovingly collecting lost objects

Catrina Davies was renting a box-room in a house in Bristol

and peopled with characters from Norman times through to 1980 when Broad street had its first two bookshops

But even the dreariest situation can be transformed into an adventure by the indomitable Miss Mole

'Gathering Moss

Dave Davies is the co-founder and lead guitarist of epoch-defining band the Kinks

But once she married Jake and had his child

116 were schoolchildren

As she uncovers everything he endured in the Holocaust - and what it took to learn to live again - Eva is confronted by the lies that haunt her family

as well as a life partner

Could it be our strength

They served as tax collectors