Peacock: 221 books

The surprising and shocking conclusion to the unique BOY SHERLOCK HOLMES series. Becoming Sherlock is the final book in Shane Peacock's award-winning Boy Sherlock Holmes series, combining brilliant storytelling with fascinating historical detail, and a mystery worthy of one of the greatest sleuths in English literature.

Summer 1869, and Sherlock Holmes and his friend Irene celebrate her sixteenth birthday by attending the theater to watch a celebrated magician make a real dragon appear on stage. It is the London sensation. Sherlock and Irene meet the magician, Alistair Hemsworth – just as he is arrested for the...

Sherlock Holmes, just thirteen, is a misfit. His highborn mother is the daughter of an aristocratic family, his father a poor Jew. Their marriage flouts tradition and makes them social pariahs in the London of the 1860s; and their son, Sherlock, bears the burden of their rebellion. Friendless, bullied...

“A pleasurable read. The Victorian setting and international political intrigue, together with the murder mystery, add complexity to the plot.” —Historical Novel Society September, 1840. Novelist and patron of the arts Lady Blessington has hired private investigator Liberty Lane to escort...

From the author of the Edgar Award–nominated legal thriller A Cure for Night, an ambitious and compulsively readable novel set in the cutthroat world of New York real estate. A concrete floor three hundred feet up in the Aurora Tower condo development in SoHo has collapsed, hurling three...

Copenhagen, sometimes referred to as a "fairytale place", is surely among the most delightful cities of Europe. The home of Hans Christian Anderson, and the location of the world-famous "Tivoli Gardens", which so inspired Walt Disney, it is one of the most heavily-visited destinations...

Do you blame it on the weatherman? When faced with problems do you say "C'est La Vie"? Do some people say you look like your dad? Well then, you'll just love the B*Witched Quiz Book! Chock full of 50 questions to test your knowledge on the double-platinum selling all-girl group, this book is great...

Special Agent Steve Harris of the FBI has a problem. An unknown assassin has killed a high-ranking overseas diplomat in a Washington street, in broad daylight. There seems to be no motive for the murder and no one has claimed responsibility.As the body count rises, Harris hunts down one of...

It is a general truism that since duck was largely seen as game, ordinary people didn’t keep them. It is only comparatively recently that people have begun enjoying duck meat. However, there are many excellent reasons for keeping ducks in the garden, not least that they lay eggs and taste supreme....

"The Urban Hen" is the perfect companion for the city poultry keeper and shows you how to maintain a happy, healthy garden or backyard flock in towns and cities. Paul Peacock shows you how to: find the best poultry for the small garden and house them properly, feed your birds, tune in to...

Grandma's Ways represents a large repository of knowledge that we have mostly forgotten. With a little modification for these busy modern times. Techniques for preserving food, keeping hens and bees, growing vegetables and fruit, making your own cosmetics and a host of other things will bring us not...

"All that winter in 1945/6 I was happy at last. The war years were behind me. The prison, the hunger in the orphanage after I escaped the 'consignment' to Auschwitz, was no more. I was 15, back in school and had a loving home with Auntie Marga, the second. However, I had a big decision to...

According to Wikipedia: "Northanger Abbey is fundamentally a parody of Gothic fiction. Austen turns the conventions of eighteenth-century novels on their head, by making her heroine a plain and undistinguished girl from a middle-class family, allowing the heroine to fall in love with the hero before...

Science and faith hang in the balance for one atheistically Inclined scientist, until his life is turned around by events he can only categorize as miraculous, which launches him into a powerful Christian ministry alongside his professional work. A personal memoir of events that have shaped...