On an early morning in July 2019, a minor quake unearths a copper scroll from the walls of a Qumran cave near the Dead Sea. The scroll finds its way to an antiquities dealer in Jordan and then to Professor Samuel Wadsworth at the Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. If he can properly interpret the information on the scroll, Wadsworth believes it will lead to billions of dollars in gold, silver, and rare ornaments hidden in the year 70 AD to deny the invading Romans the valuable ...

Explore Britain's dark criminal history through the fascinating objects that have been hidden away in the Crime Museum at Scotland Yard, a collection that, although world-famous, is so sensitive it is not open to public view. Each object tells its own story: the briefcase with a concealed syringe owned by the notorious Kray twins; the gun Ruth Ellis used to murder her lover David Blakely; a burnt-out computer from the Glasgow airport car bomb; a picture from the property o...

He could juggle with soap and dance on a tightrope. He could make snails faster and outrun his schoolmaster. Like all the characters in the Silly Kids series of rhyming picture books, Clever Trevor lives up to his name. He gets up to all sorts of cheeky things that kids love to hear about, with infectious humour that adults will enjoy too Until, like most children, he tires of being clever and wants to be something else..Children introduced to

She put something smelly behind the telly and rotten fruit in her Uncle’s best suit. Like all the characters in the Silly Kids series of rhyming picture books, Unruly Julie lives up to her name. She gets up to cheeky things kids will love to hear about, with infectious humour that adults will enjoy too. Until, like most children, she tires of being Unruly and wants to be something else. It’s a very silly story with a very clever twist.Children int...

"Nasty Mountain" is both a fairy tale for older children and an allegory for adults. It is a tale of adventure, action, courage and learning how to work together in a world of suspicion, fear, hatred and prejudice that has ruled for many years, if not centuries. It is a story of love and friendship emerging in spite of the presence of distrust and tribal isolation. At a time in our society and the world where fear, suspicion and hatred of tyhe "Other" seems to be ...

At the dawn of the Victorian age there was effectively no police detective force in Britain and detecting methods were rudimentary; by the end of Victoria's reign the Criminal Investigation Department had been established and basic forensic tests were in use. This book explores the development of the professional detective during the nineteenth century, giving examples of the methods he used to track down criminals and to convict them of offences ranging from petty theft to brutal murder. ...