A love letter to Mother Earth and entertaining must-read that goes to the heart of our survival' Charles Massy, author of Call of the Reed Warbler. Perfect for fans of Wilding by Isabella Tree. What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves. Soil is the unlikely story of our most maligned resource as swashbuckling hero. A saga of bombs, ice ages and civilisations falling. Of ancient hunger, modern sicknesses and gastronomic delight. It features poison...

Going wrong: As wild teenagers, Guy and Leonora pledged perpetual love. Now, Guy intends to hold her to that promise - one way or another. Harm done: With the release of a convicted pedophile riling up a working-class neighborhood, Inspecor Wexford investigates the apparent abductions of a wealthy couple's toddler and several teenage girls. The fallen curtain: Teenage Richard Clayton remains haunted by a few unaccounted-for hours when he went missing...

Disgraced detective Sandra Pullman is given a chance to save her career by heading up a team of retired detectives in charge of solving open cold cases.