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Beyond a Joke is a celebration of comedy - one of the modern world's most dominant and compelling art forms - but it is also the story of comedy's dark side, homing in on the scandals that have surrounded some of light entertainment's biggest stars, and telling it as it is, featuring insight from one who was there at the time.

John George Haigh, the Acid Bath Killer who killed between six and nine men and women;

A criminal mastermind is carrying out a deadly game of murder on the streets of New York.

Until then, Lauren and Oliver had never met, but now they become so closely bound together that their families are forced to confront truths they hoped they'd never have to face, secrets they'd never even imagined...

And when only the machinations of ruthless intriguers like William Cecil and Francis Walsingham prevented Elizabeth's kingdom from descending into anarchy and political chaos. The Elizabethans is a panoramic, exhilarating depiction of an intensely colourful period by master-historian, A N Wilson.

Dancer, dramatic actress, businesswoman, corporate executive with Pepsi-Cola, Joan Crawford during her lifetime (1906 - 1977) was rarely out of the news.

To avenge his father's death, Erasmus Kemp has had the rebellious sailors of his father's ship, including Sullivan, brought back to London to stand trial on charges of mutiny and piracy.

There is more information in the world than ever before - but who's in control?At the centre sits the Establishment: governments, corporations and powerful individuals who have more knowledge about us, and more power, than ever before.

A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York - including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But Nina's world is shattered when she unearths a terrible secret that causes her to run for her life and change her identity.

Michael Baden and Marion Roach take readers to the autopsy table in the morgue and practically place the scalpel in their hands to show how advances in forensic science are solving crimes as never before.

In the beginning, there was maximum ride... A girl. A fighter. A leader. A superhuman with a mission to save the world. She's gone to the ends of the earth seeking her destiny. And now, the end isn't near... It's here.

Inspired by Hemingway's adventures as a newspaper correspondent in Spain in the 1930s, The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War magnificently evokes life in a besieged city over a tumultuous decade.

Imagine the period glamour, sexual inequality and daytime drinking of Mad Men set in a country where women aren't allowed to look at men and alcohol is illegal.When Mason takes a job at the Arabian American Oil company in Saudi Arabia, Gin becomes a company wife, in a company house, in the company compound.

There's nothing quite like a holiday with your boyfriend... Flora Fielding can't wait for Barney to join her in San Francisco so they can begin their dream holiday.

Professional 'cleaner' Jonathan Quinn has a new client and a odd job: find and remove the remains of a body hidden twenty years ago inside the walls of a London building, before the building is demolished.

For the crew of the Keiko, their stay at the Grand House casino on New Samara was supposed to be a well-deserved rest. It didn t last.Captain Ichabod Drift promised that the side-trip to the mining planet Uragan would be a quick in and out a data retrieval job then back to the tables. He was wrong.When the revolution comes, all you can do is choose a side and hope to get out alive.

Tina Rose is the beloved daughter of a wealthy Jewish family, while Edward grew up with an abusive father in the wilds of New Zealand. Despite their differences, the two fall madly in love when Edward arrives in England, looking for a better future.

Everyone thinks Emma Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emma has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. That is, until Emma finds a piece of evidence he can't afford to ignore.

A powerful novel about about secrets and mistakes and how life can change course in less than a heartbeat. From the Top Ten bestselling author of Never Say Goodbye.

The wonderfully nostalgic and heartwarming new novel from the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of The Beggar Maid. Born out of wedlock when her mother was only fourteen, Lucy Pocket has spent all her life in the care of her disreputable but charming grandmother, Eva.

His name is carefully guarded from the general public but within the secretive inner circles of the ultra-rich Dr Alex Hoffmann is a legend - a visionary scientist whose computer software turns everything it touches into gold.

Three years ago Bella Castle left her home town nursing a broken heart over Dominic Thane, the man she fell in love with but couldn't have ...Now she's made a new life for herself in the country, working as an estate agent. But recently he's been preoccupied, and she's starting to question if his future hopes and dreams are a perfect match for hers.

The seventh book in Cathy Woodman's hugely popluar Talyton St George seriesEach book in the Talyton St George series can be read as a standalone novel, but when Cathy first had the idea of writing about a vet practice, she intended it to be a trilogy about two vets - Maz and Alex.

Three very different girls sign up as student nurses in 1936, while England is still mourning the death of George V. Helen is the quiet one, a mystery to her fellow nurses, avoiding fun, gossip and the limelight.

PI John Craine has come to Hale Island to get away from it all - the memories and the guilt, and a past that just won't let go. Or - in his already tormented state - did Craine imagine it in the first place?Determined to get at the truth, Craine starts asking questions.

His mission: Kidnap the head of the vicious La Frontera drugs cartel and get him back to the UK to face trial for murder. All that's standing in his way is the cartel's four thousand trained soldiers, a corrupt army and police force and a former South African special forces colonel who has been paid to track him down.

When city girl Molly Bonner arrives in the village of Lufferton Boney, she creates quite a stir. For Molly is a girl on a mission: to discover the truth behind Lufferton Boney's most notorious resident, the giant (and slightly obscene) Gnome etched into the face of Pound Hill.

When news of the death of his former apprentice reaches Jedi Master Mander Zuma, he is immediately suspicious.