Ramage and the Drum BeatRamage and the Drumbeat takes the brave Lord Ramage to the new world where he becomes embroiled in a series of electrifying sea battles and hazardous political shenanigans. He must once again prove his mettle as he undergoes the merciless enemy attacks. Fighting alongside Lord Nelson, this is Ramage at his best.

Coward's long cast list might have walked out of one of his better comedies' (Evening Standard)

She made a mixed marriage and her husband Amajit's family makes no secret of their pleasure at her death

under the cover of night

action-packed Victorian melodramas are rejacketed for the bicentenary of Charles Dickens in 2012

she comes to realise that she's losing her grip and can no longer safely navigate her world

he joined the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage

a forebear of Adeline's

attracted by the red plume in a fashionable hat

a retired bank manager

First English edition

Count Janos Polanyi

who has spent much of the war in the remote outpost of Cadiz monitoring the Spanish smuggling of raw materials to aid the Axis war efforts