Lady Colin Campbell's first novel has already attracted much critical interest and also controversy as the original publishers were threatened with defamation and legal action from Lily Safra, 'the world's wealthiest widow' who claimed that the main character - a socially scheming double murderess - was based on her own life.

The Palace Diaries is a hilarious and light-hearted look at life behind the scenes of the Royal Establishment by a naïve and rather accident-prone young woman whose dreams all come true when she is given the opportunity to work for the heir to the throne. It is also a humorous introduction to Royal life for the uninitiated, involving disclosures about palace life, key individuals who run the Prince's household and the human realities beneath the glamorous façade.

England's foremost PR Liz Brewer has taken time out from her busy schedule, which includes being the etiquette guru on the  hit TV series Ladette to Lady and the person the media, including CBS, NBC, Fox, ITV, BBC, Daily Mail, Times etc.,asks more than anyone else to commentate on the way things are done amongst the rich, famous, royal and successful, to write  this informative guide to etiquette and party planning.  Surprisingly practical, this book is filled with a wealth of knowledge and information which everyone, will find useful, helpful, and entertaining, irrespective of their circumstances.

Wilhelmine of Prussia's no-holds-barred memoirs give a penetrating insight into the bizarre upbringing she and her brother Frederick the Great suffered at the hands of a callous but ambitious mother and  a megalomaniac  father, whose sadistic  policies resulted in his family going hungry while he ploughed the considerable resources of the state into creating the Prussian Militaristic Machine which would cause several European wars in the future. 

Tum Tum was a vibrant, intelligent springer spaniel who entered her human Ma's life at nine weeks old, thereby banishing loneliness for all time and introducing joyousness which lasted for nearly sixteen years until she crossed over to Pet Heaven.  She has found a way to communicate her unique take on what life is like there, and now shares it with us as well as her many earthly (and true) adventures.

The Marquess of Bath is celebrated not only as an artist and a highly successful business man but also for his extraordinarily diverse love life. He is married yet maintains a harem of wifelets at his famous Elizabethan stately home Longleat, which he has turned into a multi million pound industry in the years since he inherited the estate. But, is the man dubbed by the popular press "Loins of Longleat", envied or admired or a fantasy figure for men who would like his lifestyle but are unable to afford it?

This an important book, a frank and revealing story. It should be read by those who want to believe our Parliamentary system of democracy is not irretrievably broken. It reassures us that Britain remains one of the world's most tolerant, liberal, law-abiding and democratic societies.

Silk Flowers Never Die is an important and intensely personal memoir, powerfully showing with humanity and humour, the difficulties that exist for any family trying to cope with schizophrenia and mental distress. In a compelling story that reveals how much stranger than fiction fact is, Stella Mazzucchelli describes her determination to preserve her son from the worst effects of mental illness, while his young wife is dying of cancer.

Set in China at the time of the Russo-Japanese War, it is the story of a passionate love between an Anglo-American woman of mixed-race lineage and a Russian doctor.

Daughter of Narcissus is a stunning analysis by Lady Colin Campbell of her own dysfunctional family positioned at the heart of upper class international society from the middle of the 20th century to the present day. Departing from her former studies of contemporary high society, Lady Colin turns her intelligence, insight and energy on to her own past to reveal the emotional truth concealed behind the family façade of class and privilege.

Life in the city of Brighton can sometimes resemble that of a situation comedy...a formula that only requires three walls, one at the back and one each side with the action in the middle and the audience watching. Brighton's audience is the vast openness of the English Channel which washes its shore and watches its lives. Life in Brighton sometimes, like the sea, can flow smoothly or rage as rough as a tempest.

Death  by Dior is a fascinating, detailed, dark documentary tale of a young man's almost unwitting adventures in the world of high fashion, Satanism, Nazi intrigue, incest, homosexuality, and murder. It exposes the vice and madness lurking in the soft underbelly of the pathetic British Nazi mummies' boys, the true story of impoverished elements of French aristocratic society and of Normandy's declining rural life.

This is a story about two boys who meet at school in England. The first, Nicko, is the direct descendant of a White Russian émigré from the Revolution while the other, Viktor, is the grandson of Stalin's satrap, the director of the Dalstroi Trust, a part of the Gulag system that mined gold in Kolyma. The satrap, Nikishov, is an actual historical character, but the grandson, Viktor, is the author's invention.

Anna Karenina, the heroine of Leo Tolstoy's masterpiece and the finest female portrayal in Russian fiction, became a social pariah through adultery.  In suicidal despair she threw herself under a train.  This was her alleged death.  The truth is much more complex.

Carol Cleveland has driven a consistent career in international film, TV and stage that's toured the decades and famously landed her many mighty pit-stops with her boisterous 'brothers', the boys of Monty Python. In 'Pom-Poms Up! From Puberty to Python' the British born, American raised and RADA trained actress reveals her life, loves and laughs as the 'Glamorous PYTHON GIRL' who famously kept her cool and a straight face in the heat of the humour generated by Cleese, Palin, Jones, Gilliam and the late Chapman, The 'MONTY' Pythons.

Mr Frankenstein is a powerfully written story of how the wealth and politics of the twenty-first century can be shackled to the ideologies of the twentieth. At its source is incontestable historical fact. At its heart is the sinister warning Mary Shelley issued in the Introduction to her own Frankenstein: 'Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism
of the Creator of the world.'

Recusant is the riches-to-rags story of a long-standing, loyal English family who lost their position as landed gentry and fell into obscurity. The violent, brutal separation of England from the Roman Catholic faith under King Henry VIII is well-documented in English history. Much less well-known is how far Henry's daughter, Queen Elizabeth I, was willing to go to repress those who refused to attend services of the Church of England. Such individuals were known as recusants, for they refused to accept or obey the authority of Henry's newly established religion.

Something is not right in the Northeastern Pacific. Global monitoring satellites are picking up a huge bump in carbon monoxide levels over the Pacific Gyre. An emergency call from a freighter sets in motion a high-seas rescue operation. What is going on out there?

Jim Nordon (31 and divorced) has problems. Disliking suburbia, he alms to recuperate as much as possible from the 21st century by renting an apartment on the top floor of Victoria Mansion, an Edwardian building in Southampton Row due for demolition in the coming year. A supposedly successful career in local government means he has denied himself his ambition to become a portrait painter These problems, if not insuperable, are worsened by the fact that he has to write a report, if possible anonymously, on reducing costs in his own work place. Finally there is the problem of sex.

The true story of a young American, who in 1974 on a singular journey across Southeast Asia and India, discovers, in the words of Kalu Rinpoche, "We live in illusion, the appearance of things. There is a reality. You are that reality. When you see this, you realise you are nothing and being nothing, everything. That is all".

Why did Dave Redmond spend so much time watching cars? He had lived for years in a semi-detached house overlooking the A3 not through any accident of birth, but because he felt safe and happy in it. Retired, a widower, he had the time to watch cars. He had turned a soundproofed front bedroom into a kind of observation post for watching cars. But why?