King Of Ashes Author Forename:S. A. As 1950 dawns and India

As 1950 dawns and India prepares to become the world's largest republic

As the body count rises

where he runs into a Japanese heart surgeon

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Cambridgeshire has changed and developed over the last century

When Veronica Blackstone is asked to write the copy for The Friends of Hyde Park's annual garden tour

King Of Ashes Author Forename:S. A. As 1950 dawns and IndiaWhen eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father's car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the family and the family business together. Neveah and their father, who run the Carruthers Crematorium, see death up close every day. But mortality draws even closer when it becomes clear that the crash that landed their father in a coma was no accident