Books published by Transworld Publishers Ltd

Vicky Rai, the son of a high-profile Minister, has been shot dead by one of the guests at his own party. They are a glitzy bunch, but among them the police find six strange, displaced characters with a gun in their possession. In doing so, the amazing, tender and touching, techni-colour lives of six eccentric personalities unravel before our eyes.

A polemical history of the British ruling class and how they ended up owning our nation.

In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, which, it turns out, is also the story of earth and our existence on it.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2017The secret history of the invention that changed everything and became the most profitable product in the world.

'Will delight every gardener' - BBC Gardener's WorldThe perfect book for those who garden in snatched moments from the Garden Media Guild Awards 2020 Journalist of the YearWhether you have a spacious plot or a small patch in the garden, this handbook is full of tried-and-tested tips from a seasoned old hand.

What do you drink when you're not drinking?Seedlip - the first distilled non-alcoholic spirit - was created to solve this problem and launched to huge excitement.

Turn on your computer.Your task: break into a Russian criminal's laptop and find proof that he's concealing five deep-cover agents - seemingly normal people living in plain sight. You're in.

Over the following months, she has to sort through a dilapidated house filled to the brim with rubbish and treasures, in search of a woman she'd never really known or understood in life.

Seven-year-old Hanna has never spoken a word.She is a sweet but silent angel in the eyes of her adoring father, but with Mummy, things are different. Suzette loves her daughter but difficulties with babysitters and teachers over the years have put a strain on their relationship and her sanity.Then Hanna speaks for the first time, to Suzette alone, and what she says is chilling.Suzette wants to write it off as a scary joke, but she's becoming increasingly frightened by Hanna's little games. Could she be in danger from her own child? And when it's her word against her daughter's, can she make her husband believe her?Bad Apple is a blazing debut novel about a perfect-looking family - where sweetness can be deceptive.Fans of BEHIND HER EYES, DAUGHTER or GOOD ME, BAD ME will love this page-turning story of dark domestic suspense.

After much hard graft and some close encounters of the violent gangster kind, AWT's flamboyant style as a restaurateur soon bought him to the attention of cookery's cognoscenti and today Antony is to the culinary establishment what a bull is to a china shop.

The only child of an electrical engineer and a mother who resented the fact that she'd never been to university, the broadcaster Jenni Murray grew up in a traditional household in the 1950s.

'The greatest Gaelic footballer of all time.' Pat SpillaneWhen Colm Cooper retired from inter-county football in 2017, he left behind a remarkable legacy. But the man known nationally as 'Gooch' is also an intensely private figure who has never courted publicity and his personal story remains largely untold.

The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling Trisha Ashley will more than satisfy romantic comedy fans. But the house has a secret at its heart: an old legend concerning one of the famous windows. Or can Carey and Angel find a way to make this house a home?

'A character destined for television' Daily Mail'High octane drama from one of Britain's freshest crime voices' Phil Williams, BBC Radio Five liveIt is an ordinary Yorkshire morning, cold and miserable.

The gorgeous, summery new novel from Marcia Willett - perfect for fans of Trisha Ashley, Lucy Diamond and Carole Matthews. Praise for Marcia Willett: 'A genuine voice of our times' The Times 'Riveting, moving and utterly feel-good' Daily Mail

"This does indeed deserve comparisons with Blackadder" Radio Times"A knockabout, well-researched take on the working and domestic life of Shakespeare."

BBC RADIO 4 'BOOK OF THE WEEK' The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British institution unlike any other, and its story during the Second World War is also our story.

Chosen as President Roosevelt's fourth term Vice President, Harry S Truman was the prototypical ordinary man from small-town America. That is, until he was thrust in over his head following the sudden death of Roosevelt. This book takes readers into the situation room with Truman during these tumultuous, history-making few months.

When George Washington, first President of the United States, laid the foundation stone of the Capitol Building of the city that was to bear his name, he did so wearing full Masonic regalia.

When Samuel Godwin, a young and naive art tutor, accepts a job with the Farrow family at their majestic home, little does he expect to come across such a web of secrets and lies.

There's a split second between having it all, and losing everything. But when his son dies at birth, a deep anger emerges, robbing Hayden of everything. But just as Hayden's rage rises again, a young figure from the past emerges, forcing him to re-visit his long-buried childhood...

An innocent little girlA phenomenal fortuneA mother like no otherTen-year old Bettina and her mother, Babs, are heiresses to one of America's biggest fortunes. Can Bettina ever break free to forge her own identity - or is she simply doomed to being her mother's daughter forever?

His mission should have been straightforward: to keep one man alive for one week. His mission is to keep Reaper alive for a week until he can be brought to trial.ONE WEEK TO STAY ALIVEBut Lock soon realises that he faces the toughest assignment of his career - just to survive ...

Terry Walton has kept an allotment in the Rhondda Valley in South Wales for over fifty years. Then, in 2006, after half a decade of happy gardening, Terry's allotment was adopted by the Jeremy Vine Show and he became an unlikely media star.

Together they must piece together the jigsaw that is Jane's identity. To solve the murders, Fox must discard his black and white preconceptions, look beyond the spectrum of normal human experience and confront the dark truth of her past...and his own.

Even the approach to Christmas fails to excite restless Agnes Conway, the twenty-two-year-old manager of the sweet and tobacconist shops owned by her feckless father.

HANNAH MASSEYProud and canny, ignorant and intensely ambitious, Hannah Massey is a born ruler. Others, like the O'Briens - and especially John O'Brien - fought grimly for a world they were only rarely allowed to glimpse.

'Like the best action films in book form' FHM Nick Stone is back in London but if he thought he was home for a break, he's very, very wrong. In exchange for his own safety - a life for a life - Stone is charged with locating someone who doesn't want to be found, currently hiding out in the one of the remotest corners of the UK.

Hidden somewhere in the labyrinthine city is an ancient book, rumoured to contain thorny heresies and secrets of immeasurable power. While learning the alchemy of cooking, he quickly finds himself entangled in the search for the ancient tome, even suspecting the chef, his maestro, may be concealing valuable information.

Despite the best endeavours of his frankly rather groovy parents, nascent fashion sense and regular exposure to credible music from an early age, he was inexorably drawn into the bizarre, esoteric world that is golf, with its male-bonding rituals and strange trousers.