The Rising TideSunday Times bestselling author of the Shetland and Two Rivers series, Ann Cleeves, returns with the tenth in the acclaimed Northumbrian set Vera Stanhope series, following on from The Darkest Evening, in which a school reunion turns deadly as the tide rises on Holy Island.

Painstakingly researched

When a survey asked us what the country's national emblem should be

What's the average life expectancy across the world

neighbours helped each other

We've picked the world's best adventures

and how they will survive

the love between Wächter and his wife Charlotte

The question is

a deaf boy

the more human they look: they build megacities

Hugh Aldersey-Williams transports us to the Dutch Golden Age - a time of immense scientific and artistic innovation - in this histo-biography of Christiaan Huygens

The question of whether he was a double agent must be resolved