Books published by Transworld Publishers Ltd

Whatever the viewpoint, and by whatever name it is known, cannabis - or marijuana, hashish, pot, dope, kif, weed, dagga, grass, ganja - incites debate at every level. In this definitive study, Martin Booth - author of the acclaimed OPIUM: A HISTORY - charts the history of cannabis from the Neolithic period to the present day.

Fresh from the field of Waterloo, Matthew Hervey is dispatched on a mission of the secrecy. Leaving behind his fiancee, Lady Henrietta Lindsey, he must journey to India, an exotic land that will test his mettle to the very limit.

On the tiny Breton island of Le Devin, life has remained almost unchanged for over a hundred years. Taking up the fight to transform the dying village, Mado must confront past tragedies, including the terrible secret that still haunts her father.

Merrion Palmer has been Judge Guy Stockdale's mistress for the last seven years and his wife and two grown-up sons know absolutely nothing about her. But now the time has come for things to change. Guy has become conscious of wasted years and he wants to share his relationship with Merrion with the world. He wants, dammit, to marry her.

For Michael is living a double life - he escapes from the exhausting misery of babies by telling his wife he has to work through the night or travel up north. And while she is valiantly coping on her own, he is just a few miles away in a secret flat, doing all the things that most men with small children can only dream about.

Nora, at first, recounts nothing that Effie really wants to hear, like who her father was - variously Jimmy, Jack, or Ernie. Effie tells of her life at college in Dundee, where she lives in a lethargic relationship with Bob, a student who never goes to lectures, seldom gets out of bed, and to whom the Klingons are as real as the French and more.

A wry, spirited look at being glad and young, this foray back into Eighties London explores relations between sisters, mothers, friends and lovers from the vantage point of a girl caught unexpectedly in the middle.

This is the memoir of a Black Hawk pilot shot down in Mogadishu, his capture, torture and fight for survival.

It is 1953 - Coronation year - and like all of Cockney London the members of the Adams family are looking forward to the celebrations.

With the bounty from his years as a pirate, Thomas Marlowe purchases a fine Virginia plantation from a beautiful young widow, Elizabeth Tinling. But a threat from his illicit past appears, however, as an old pirate enemy plots to seize the colony's wealth, forcing Marlowe to choose between losing all - or facing the one man he fears.

She's left with two teenage daughters and husband Matt - all of whom find themselves regularly featured in her popular and lighthearted newspaper column in which she conveys to her readers an enviably cheery muddle of family life. Things become less rosy when Matt, after twenty years with the same firm, is made redundant.

From autumn 1941 to the first months of 1942, the war continued to affect the lives of the Adams and Somers families. It was not so much the war, however, as a succession of tragic domestic events that brought a sad and little girl called Phoebe into the care of Susie and Sammy Adams. Much needed to be done to cure little Phoebe of her sadness.

It is the early 1920s and Kate Hannigan is happily married to Dr Rodney Prince, who has willingly accepted her illegitimate daughter, Annie, as the eldest child of their household. Everything seems to be going well for the Prince family, but soon spiteful rumours about Kate's earlier life seem to haunt both her and Annie.

Their three children - teenage aspiring model Samantha, pre-med student Scott, and entertainment lawyer Allegra - are successful and happy. Allegra, as an attorney to the stars, has a career that consumes so much of her energy that she has little time for a private life - until a chance encounter with a New York writer turns her life upside down.

A collection of flying stories featuring writers such as Frederick Forsyth, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe. The styles used include science fiction, horror and detective fiction.

Presents a true story of survival in what was arguably the most sinister prison in Europe: the Carabanchel. The story begins on the day Christopher Chance entered the jail and encountered the innate racism of the prison staff and inmates. It tells how he forged a band of international brothers from the chaotic human rubble in order to survive.

Irish is the story of the mass migration from Ireland to Glasgow that took place in the wake of the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century. The coming of the Irish to Glasgow had a bigger impact on the city than other event.

Over a hundred gripping tales - of murder and mystery, ghosts and ghouls, body-snatching and witch-burning - reveal the darker side of genteel Edinburgh's history.

Packed with hilarious and revelatory behind-the-scenes stories and peopled by Law's fellow football legends like Matt Busby, George Best and Jimmy Greaves, Denis Law's book takes the reader back to the game's glory days.

Diagnosed with a lower limb disability at birth, Ronan Tynan had his legs amputated when he was 20 years old. What followed was a remarkable story of determination which saw him gain 18 gold medals and 14 world records at the Paralympics, a medical degree and an international singing career.

It is 1941, and England is at its lowest ebb, under-nourished, under-informed and terrified of imminent invasion. Even at Eden Park, the beautiful country estate where Poppy, Lily, Kate, Marjorie and her adopted brother Billy are working in espionage, confidence is at an all-time low.

Sleep, Pale Sister, a powerful, atmospheric and blackly gothic evocation of Victorian artistic life, was originally published before Joanne Harris achieved worldwide recognition with Chocolat. Henry Chester, a domineering and puritanical Victorian artist, is in search of the perfect model.

The bestselling debut saga novel of 2017. Powerful, absorbing storytelling that fans of sagas by Dilly Court, Rosie Goodwin and Maggie Hope will adore. +++++Sally Swann thought life couldn't get much worse.

A young American aid volunteer, Ricky Colenso, is brutally murdered in former Yugoslavia. His grandfather, the Canadian billionaire Steven Edmond, is bent on revenge. The quest to find Ricky's murderer leads Edmond to Cal Dexter, ex-Vietnam Special Forces, the one man who could bring the killer to justice.

Boots and Tim both made it safely back, but of Bobby there was no sign, and the family all feared the worst. In a farm some miles from Dunkirk, however, Bobby was alive but injured, and trapped by the advancing Germans.

The beginning of a beautifully written, compelling and captivating trilogy that runs the gamut of human experience and emotion from Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author. If you like David Eddings, Brandon Sanderson and Douglas Adams, you will love this. 'Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants' - THE TIMES'A simply stunning start to a trio of books' - ***** Reader review'One of the best books I have ever read' - ***** Reader review'Engaging and entertaining' - ***** Reader review'The pages of her books are coated with glue...you just can't put them down!' - ***** Reader review'What a writer - she is amazing!' - ***** Reader review********************************************************************************************Killashandra thought her world had ended when she was told she would never become a concert singer. And then she met the stranger from off-world... He said he was a Crystal Singer - one of the unique ones of the Galaxy - and when Killashandra tried to find out what a Crystal Singer was the answers were vague and obscure. All she could discover was that they were special people, shrouded in mystery, and danger, and beauty - and something altogether incomprehensible. It was then that she decided that she too must try and become a Crystal Singer...

'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents' bedroom.'This is the story of Ruth Cole. and in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother.

Would you:a) Not tell your parents?b) Stop colouring your hair, having pedicures and buying Gucci?c) Start your own website that asks for money without apology?If you were Karyn Bosnak, you'd do all three... In New York for the first time, with the dream job and the smart flat, Karyn starts spending...and spending.

The grandson of a Scottish clan chieftain, Duncan MacTavish, is shocked to learn that his other grandfather was an English marquess whose title and London estate he has inherited.