A spy aloneEveryone knows about the Cambridge Spies from the Fifties, identified and broken up after passing national secrets to the Soviets for years. But no spy ring was ever unearthed at Oxford. Because one never existed? Or because it was never found? 2022: Former spy Simon Sharman is eking out a living in the private sector. When a commission to delve into the financial dealings of a mysterious Russian oligarch comes across his desk, he jumps at the chance.

and on the other the agents of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation

Her isolated existence - four miles from the road and the nearest neighbour - no longer looked such a good or sensible idea

from war-torn nations to disaster zones

and Kiichi Mihara

But it doesn't have to be this way

Tom Nancollas goes in search of eleven relics that together tell the story of Britain at sea

The reality is that despite all the coverage

are all here

crippled daughter a husband

from his working class beginnings in Bolton and his rise to meteoric

Slowly he became a writer who no longer wrote

Or the secrets of the living