SIDNEY CHAMBERS AND THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS

CANVEY ISLAND

While Len and Violet glide across the dance floor, Violet's husband George dwells on the war of almost 10 years ago. Back at Len's home his wife and young son are fighting for their lives in the flood that almost engulfed Canvey island in 1953.

THE COLOUR OF HEAVEN

In Venice in 1295 Teresa Fiolaro finds an abandoned baby. She calls him Paolo and raises him among the glass-makers of Murano. A local painter recognises his talent for distinguishing colour and tone, and sends him on a quest for the perfect blue.

THE DISCOVERY OF CHOCOLATE

Diego de Godry arrives in the New World in search of treasure - he finds love, chocolate, and the elixir of life. Denied by his lover, he and his dog Pedro search the world to recapture what he first experienced in Mexico. His search is a journey through time and the history of chocolate.

EAST FORTUNE

As the three Henderson brothers – Jack, Douglas and Angus – head toward their childhood home in East Fortune for their annual summer gathering, they steel themselves against sibling rivalry, parental expectation and the vulnerability that comes with being with those who know you best.

THE ROAD TO GRANTCHESTER

It is 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstep with Amanda Kendall at her brother Robert's birthday party. No one can believe, on this golden evening, that there could ever be another war. Returning to London seven years later, Sidney has gained a Military Cross, and lost his best friend on the battlefields of Italy. Carrying a terrible, secret guilt, must decide what to do with the rest of his life. But he has heard a call: constant, though quiet, and growing ever more persistent. Sidney must now negotiate his path to God: the course of which, much like true love, never runs smooth.

SIDNEY CHAMBERS AND THE DANGERS OF TEMPTATION

Archdeacon Sidney Chambers is beginning to think that the life of a full-time priest (and part-time detective) is not easy. So when a bewitching divorcee in a mink coat interrupts Sidney's family lunch asking him to help locate her missing son, he hopes it will be an open and shut case... Book 5 of the series.

SIDNEY CHAMBERS AND THE PERILS OF THE NIGHT

The loveable full time priest and part time detective Canon Sidney Chambers, working in tandem with the increasingly exasperated Inspector Geordie Keating, are called on to investigate a series of suspicious events starting with the unexpected fall of a Cambridge don from the roof of King's College Chapel. Book 2 of the series.

SIDNEY CHAMBERS AND THE PERSISTENCE OF LOVE

It is May 1971 and Archdeacon Sidney Chambers is walking in a bluebell wood with his daughter Anna, when they stumble upon a body. Thrust into another murder investigation, Sidney discovers a world of hippies and psychedelic plants, where permissive behaviour seems to hide something darker. Endeavouring to fit his clerical duties around the demands of sleuthing, Sidney continues to reflect on the divine mysteries of love, life and faith.

SIDNEY CHAMBERS AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL

The loveable full-time priest and part-time detective, Canon Sidney Chambers, continues his sleuthing adventures in 1960's Cambridge. As well as attempting to stop a serial killer who has a grievance against the clergy, Sidney wrestles with the problem of evil, attempts to fulfill the demands of Dickens - his faithful Labrador, and contemplates, as always, the nature of love. Book 3 of the series.

SIDNEY CHAMBERS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH

Sidney Chambers, vicar of Grantchester and honorary canon of Ely Cathedral, is an unconventional clerical detective. He can go where the police cannot. Together with his roguish friend, inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney discovers that being a detective, like being a clergyman, means that you are never off duty. First book of the series