Heretics of DuneIn the fifth novel in the Dune sequence, the people of the Scattering are returning. Among them, mysterious and threatening, are the women who call themselves the Honoured Matres, adepts of an ecstatic cult.

Meet Coroner Jenny Cooper

cookery writer and renowned teacher

on the eve of the Second World War

related archeological finds

the critic and professor of literature

and human remains - a bit of skull with traces of the lethal bullet and a fragment of jaw bone

a decorated colonel and a veteran spy who risked her life to keep the Soviet Union in the nuclear arms race

The treatment the heroine receives during her descent into chaos is chilling in this psychological drama

Ally (older sister of May in 'Night Waking')

A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime

Inspired by John Cheever's classic short story

comes a glittering