This sequel to Strudwick's Successor sees more of the lovely Tracey Mulligan as she seeks to revenge herself on Sir Arthur Brain. She recruits John Dillon, a retired police officer with his own reasons for finding the man, and the hapless Piggy Swinton, in her search for the man who has robbed her of her life savings. The search in complicated by the involvement of a local crime boss, and the end is not quite what she had hoped for. But Dillon has a plan. Meet many of your favourite characters from book one, together with more improbable personas and impossible situations. This very funny...

The residents of the village of Whitedown were gradually rebuilding their lives after WWII when the 1958 influenza pandemic hit the village. Now in 1959 they struggle to return to normality. This is a story of love, life and hope as it chronicles the struggle of an isolated village in post-war rural Kent.

This third Peckham novel has the lovely Tracey Mulligan running the factory. But the combination of incompetent staff and an interfering ex-owner make life challenging for her. More impossible situations and comic events as this third installment completes the Peckham trilogy. Dumb waiters and silent undertakers are just a few of the new characters that you meet in this final work.

Malcolm and Sylvia had no thought of buying a hotel when they clambered into the little train that ran along the coast from Dungeness to Dymchurch, but then they saw the neglected little seafront property. It spoke to them, ate into them and they knew that they wanted it, even though they had no possible way of affording it. But sometimes fate is kind to young lovers and when their fortunes suddenly change they make a decision that will alter their lives for ever. This is the fourth novel by James that returns to the well loved characters that inhabited Peckham in the 1960s.