GurkhaIn the summer of 2006, Colour Sargeant Kailash Limbu's platoon was sent to relieve and occupy a police compound in the town of Now Zad in Helmand. He was told to prepare for a forty eight hour operation. In the end, he and his men were under siege for thirty one days one of the longest such sieges in the whole of the Afghan campaign. Kailash Limbu recalls the terrifying and exciting details of those thirty one days in which they killed an estimated

Jackie Morris

Paddy has always stayed true to his Lancashire roots

A troubled childhood strengthens Jane Eyre's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she becomes governess at Thornfield Hall

This is partly thanks to people like Martin Latham

But although she's learned a lot she still must get through the most difficult and dangerous part of her apprenticeship - and her father won't tell her what it is

a pair of scissors

Scarpetta must act as the expert witness for the case - an investigation previously botched by another forensic pathologist

illustrating the spectrum of psychopathy with some insightful and startling case studies

Or get a judge to drop a case

revelatory and provocative in equal measure

Cambridge during the glittering era of Michael Frayn

when industrial miracles and artistic innovations rub shoulders with political unrest