Bernard Cornwell Books In Order

Sharpe Books In Publication Order

  1. Sharpe’s Gold (1981)
  2. Sharpe’s Eagle (1981)
  3. Sharpe’s Company (1982)
  4. Sharpe’s Sword (1983)
  5. Sharpe’s Enemy (1984)
  6. Sharpe’s Honor (1985)
  7. Sharpe’s Regiment (1986)
  8. Sharpe’s Siege (1987)
  9. Sharpe’s Rifles (1988)
  10. Sharpe’s Revenge (1989)
  11. Sharpe’s Waterloo (1990)
  12. Sharpe’s Devil (1992)
  13. Sharpe’s Christmas & Sharpe’s Ransom (2 Short Stories) (1994)
  14. Sharpe’s Battle (1995)
  15. Sharpe’s Tiger (1997)
  16. Sharpe’s Triumph (1998)
  17. Sharpe’s Skirmish (1999)
  18. Sharpe’s Fortress (1999)
  19. Sharpe’s Trafalgar (2000)
  20. Sharpe’s Prey (2001)
  21. Sharpe’s Havoc (2003)
  22. Sharpe’s Escape (2004)
  23. Sharpe’s Fury (2006)
  24. Sharpe’s Assassin (2021)

Sharpe Books In Chronological Order

  1. Sharpe’s Tiger (1997)
  2. Sharpe’s Triumph (1998)
  3. Sharpe’s Fortress (1999)
  4. Sharpe’s Trafalgar (2000)
  5. Sharpe’s Prey (2001)
  6. Sharpe’s Rifles (1988)
  7. Sharpe’s Havoc (2003)
  8. Sharpe’s Eagle (1981)
  9. Sharpe’s Gold (1981)
  10. Sharpe’s Escape (2004)
  11. Sharpe’s Fury (2006)
  12. Sharpe’s Battle (1995)
  13. Sharpe’s Company (1982)
  14. Sharpe’s Sword (1983)
  15. Sharpe’s Skirmish (1999)
  16. Sharpe’s Enemy (1984)
  17. Sharpe’s Honor (1985)
  18. Sharpe’s Regiment (1986)
  19. Sharpe’s Christmas & Sharpe’s Ransom (2 Short Stories) (1994)
  20. Sharpe’s Siege (1987)
  21. Sharpe’s Revenge (1989)
  22. Sharpe’s Waterloo (1990)
  23. Sharpe’s Assassin (2021)
  24. Sharpe’s Devil (1992)

Sharpe Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Sharpe’s Story (2007)

Crowning Mercy Books In Publication Order

  1. A Crowning Mercy (With: Susannah Kells) (1983)
  2. The Fallen Angels (With: Susannah Kells) (1983)
  3. The Aristocrats (By:Susannah Kells) (1986)
  4. Coat of Arms (By:Susannah Kells) (1986)

Grail Quest Books In Publication Order

  1. Harlequin (2000)
  2. Vagabond (2002)
  3. Heretic (2003)
  4. 1356 (2012)

Starbuck Chronicles Books In Publication Order

  1. Rebel (1993)
  2. Copperhead (1994)
  3. Battle Flag (1995)
  4. The Bloody Ground (1996)

Sailing Thrillers Books In Publication Order

  1. Wildtrack (1988)
  2. Killer’s Wake / Sea Lord (1989)
  3. Crackdown (1990)
  4. Stormchild (1991)
  5. Scoundrel (1992)

Warlord Chronicles / The Arthur Books In Publication Order

  1. The Winter King (1995)
  2. Enemy of God (1996)
  3. Excalibur (1997)

The Warrior Chronicles / Saxon Stories Books In Publication Order

  1. The Last Kingdom (2004)
  2. The Pale Horseman (2005)
  3. Lords of the North (2006)
  4. Sword Song (2007)
  5. The Burning Land (2009)
  6. Death of Kings (2011)
  7. The Pagan Lord (2013)
  8. The Empty Throne (2014)
  9. Warriors of the Storm (2015)
  10. The Flame Bearer (2016)
  11. War of the Wolf (2018)
  12. Sword of Kings (2019)
  13. War Lord (2020)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Redcoat (1987)
  2. Stonehenge (1999)
  3. Gallows Thief (2001)
  4. Agincourt (2008)
  5. The Fort (2010)
  6. Fools and Mortal (2017)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Waterloo (2015)

Crowning Mercy Books In Publication Order

  1. Coat of Arms (By:Susannah Kells) (1986)

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Bernard Cornwell Books Overview

Sharpe’s Gold

Richard Sharpe and the Destruction of Almeida, August 1810 Bold, professional and determined, Richard Sharpe embarks on a desperate mission. He must recover the treasure, vital to the success of the war, now hidden behind enemy lines. The gold is in the possession of a powerful guerrilla leader, feared by ally and enemy alike. And he has no love for Sharpe, the man who has stolen his woman. But Sharpe’s fiercest battles lie with the British officers, ignorant of his deadly secret and mistrustful of his ruthless methods. The Complete Sharpe Collection with a new introduction by the author

Sharpe’s Eagle

In this first in the epic series, Captain Richard Sharpe, bold, professional, and ruthless, prepares to lead his men against the armies of Napoleon in what will be the bloodiest battle of the war. Sharpe has earned his captaincy, but there are others who have bought their commissions despite their incompetence. After their cowardly loss of the regiment’s colors, their resentment toward the upstart Sharpe turns to treachery, and Sharpe must battle his way through sword fights and bloody warfare to redeem the honor of his regiment.

Sharpe’s Company

Looming on the border of Portugal and Spain is the fortress of Badajoz. To lead an assault on its thick, sheer walls and battlements is suicide, yet Richard Sharpe must lead one. Inside the walls are his wife and daughter, and only he can save them. Outside is the misshapen, vengeance crazed Sergeant Obadiah Haskewill, a man determined to kill Sharpe. Sharpe knows that in the heat of battle only the cold steel of his battered sword and the ruthless bloodlust of a soldier at war will protect him from the danger of both sides. Third in a series taking Sharpe all the way to Waterloo. ‘Consistently exciting…
these are wonderful novels.’ Stephen King

Sharpe’s Sword

The bitter rivalry between Sharpe and the ruthless Frenchman Colonel Leroux is brought to life against the vivid canvas of the Peninsular War. Richard Sharpe is once again at war. But this time his enemy is a single man the ruthless, sad*istic Colonel Leroux. Sharpe’s mission is to safeguard El Mirador, the spy whose network of agents is vital to the British victory. So Sharpe must enter a new world of political and military intrigue. And in the unfamiliar surroundings of aristocratic Spanish society, his only guide is the beautiful Marquesa a woman with her own secrets to conceal! The complete Sharpe collection

Sharpe’s Enemy

A classic Sharpe adventure: Richard Sharpe and the Defence of Portugal, Christmas 1812 Newly promoted, Major Richard Sharpe leads his small force into the biting cold of the winter mountains. His task is to rescue a group of well born women held hostage by a rabble of deserters. And one of the renegades is Sergeant Hakeswill, Sharpe’s most implacable enemy. But the rescue is the least of Sharpe’s problems. He must face a far greater threat. With only the support of his own company and the new Rocket Troop the last word in military incompetence to back his gamble, Sharpe cannot afford even to recognize the prospect of defeat. For to surrender or to fail would mean the end of the war for the Allied armies! The Complete Sharpe Collection

Sharpe’s Honor

A classic Sharpe adventure: Richard Sharpe and the Vitoria Campaign, February to June 1813 Major Richard Sharpe awaits the opening shots of the army’s new campaign with grim expectancy. Victory depends on the increasingly fragile alliance between Britain and Spain an alliance that must be maintained at any cost. But Sharpe’s enemy, Pierre Ducos, seizes a chance to both destroy the alliance and take a personal revenge on Sharpe. And when the lovely spy, La Marquesa, takes a hand in the game, Sharpe finds himself caught in a web of deadly intrigue and becomes a fugitive, hunted by enemy and ally alike…

Sharpe’s Regiment

Major Sharpe should be fighting the French but his worst enemies are in England…
Major Richard Sharpe’s men were in mortal danger not from the French, but from the bureaucrats of Whitehall. Unless reinforcements could be brought from England, the depleted South Essex would be disbanded, their troops scattered throughout the army. Determined not to see his regiment die, Sharpe returns to England and uncovers a nest of well bred, high ranking traitors, any one of whom could utterly destroy his career with a word, or a stroke of the pen. Sharpe is forced into the most desperate gamble of his life and not even the influence of the Prince Regent may be enough to save him…

Sharpe’s Siege

A classic Sharpe adventure: Richard Sharpe and the Winter Campaign, 1814. The invasion of France is under way, and the British Navy has called upon the services of Major Richard Sharpe. He and a small force of Riflemen are to capture a fortress and secure a landing on the French coast. It is to be one of the most dangerous missions of his career. Through the incompetence of a recklessly ambitious naval commander and the machinations of his old enemy, French spymaster Pierre Ducos, Sharpe finds himself abandoned in the heart of enemy territory, facing overwhelming forces and the very real prospect of defeat. He has no alternative but to trust his fortunes to an American privateer a man who has no love for the British invaders.

Sharpe’s Rifles

Richard Sharpe and the French invasion of Galicia, January 1809. In the bitter winter of 1809 the French are winning the war in Spain and Britain’s forces are retreating towards Corunna, with Napoleon’s victorious armies in pursuit. Lieutenant Richard Sharpe and a detachment of Riflemen are cut off from the British army and surrounded by enemy troops. Their only hope of escape is to accept the help of an unlikely ally, a Spanish cavalry officer, Major Blas Vivar. Unknown to Sharpe, the Spaniard harbours a desperate and quixotic ambition which will lead to a suicidal assault on the holy city of Santiago de Compostela and a savage fight agains overwhelming French numbers. Sharpe’s determination must be tested to its limit if victory is to be snatched from disaster. The Complete Sharpe Collection with a new introduction by the author

Sharpe’s Revenge

Richard Sharpe and the Peace of 1814. It is 1814. After a long and exhausting series of battles the British and Spanish armies are pushing into south western France from Spain. Rumours abound that Napoleon has surrendered, been murdered, or fled. But before the French are finally defeated, and Sharpe can lay down his sword, one of the bloodiest conflicts of the war must be fought: the battle for the city of Toulouse. Sharpe’s war is not over with the victory. Accused of stealing a consignment of Napoleon’s treasure en route to Elba, Sharpe must elude his captors and track down the unknown enemy who has tried to incriminate him. Accompanied by his comrade, Captain William Frederickson, Major Richard Sharpe pursues with energy, venom and unflinching resolve an ingenious and devastating revenge.

Sharpe’s Waterloo

Richard Sharpe and the Waterloo Campaign, 15 June to 18 June 1815. It is 1815. Sharpe is serving on the personal staff of the inexperienced and incompetent Young Frog, William, Prince of Orange, who has been given command of a large proportion of the Allied force. More concerned with cutting a dash at a grand society ball in Brussels, the Young Frog refuses to listen to Sharpe’s scouting reports of an enormous army marching towards them with the lately returned Napoleon at its head. When the Battle of Waterloo commences, Sharpe has to stand by and watch military folly on a grand scale. But at the height of the conflict, just as victory seems impossible, he makes a momentous decision. With his usual skill, courage and determination he takes command and the most hard fought and bloody battle of his career becomes Sharpe’s own magnificent triumph.

Sharpe’s Devil

An honored veteran of the Napolenic Wars, Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe is drawn into a deadly battle, both on land and on the high seas. The year is 1820, and military hero Richard Sharpe has quietly passed the years since the Battle of Waterloo as a farmer. Suddenly, his peaceful retirement is disturbed when he and the intrepid Patrick Harper are called to the Spanish colony of Chile to find Don Blas Vivar, an old friend who has vanished without a trace and who just happened to be the captain general of Chile. Sharpe and Harper embark on a dangerous journey that carries them first to an unexpected interview with Napoleon, then on to Chile, a land seething with corruption and revolt. On land and at sea, Sharpe faces impossible odds, not only against finding Vivar, but against surviving in a time when tyranny rules, injustice abounds Napoleon lurks on the horizon, itching to rekindle the world in a blaze of war.

Sharpe’s Christmas & Sharpe’s Ransom (2 Short Stories)

‘Sharpe’s Christmas’ contains two short stories. In the title story Richard Sharpe, commanding the Prince of Wales’s Own Volunteers, finds himself in a high, hard place with an enemy brigade on one side and a desperate force of Frenchmen fleeing their defeat in Spain on the other. The second story, ‘Sharpe’s Ransom’, is set in France, after the wars, when old enemies take Sharpe’s woman and child hostage.

Sharpe’s Battle

As Napoleon threatens to crush Britain on the battlefield, Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe leads a ragtag army to exact personal revenge against a French general known for his acts of terror. Sharpe’s Battle takes Richard Sharpe and his company back to the spring of 1811 and one of the most bitter battles of the Peninsular War, a battle on which all British hopes of victory in Spain will depend. Sharpe is given responsibility to lead an Irish battalion of the king of Spain’s household guard, ceremonial troops untrained and unequipped for battle. While quartered in the crumbling fort of San Isidro, they are attacked by murderous Brigadier General Guy Luop’s elite French brigade. Sharpe has witnessed General Loup’s despicable was crimes before; to put an end to them, and to settle another more personal score, Sharpe must lead his company into the blood gutted streets of Fuentes de O oro, where thousands of French troops have amassed, in a battle to the death.

Sharpe’s Tiger

The prequel to the series, describing Sharpe’s experiences in India, repackaged to tie in with the fantastic new Sharpe look. Throughout the series, there are references to Sharpe’s early soldiering life in India. With the same meticulous research and attention to detail that is found in the Peninsular War books, Bernard Cornwell has sumptuously recreated the 1799 campaign against Seringapatam which made the British masters of southern India, a campaign that pitted brutalized soldiers against an ancient and splendid civilization. Sharpe, the rest of his battalion and rising star of the general staff Arthur Wellesley, are about to embark upon the siege of the island citadel of the Tippoo of Mysore, Seringapatam. The British must remove this potentate from his Tiger Throne, but he has gone to great lengths to defend his city from attack. When a senior British officer is captured by the Tippoo’s forces, Sharpe is offered a chance to attempt a rescue and infiltrate the Tippoo’s forces. Sharpe needs no invitation to get away from the tyrannical Sergeant Hakeswill, but once inside the dangerous world of the Tippoo he realises he will need all his wits just to stay alive, let alone save the British army from catastrophe. Set against the background of dazzling wealth, ruinous poverty, gorgeous palaces, sudden cruelty and pitiless battles, ‘Sharpe’s Tiger‘ is his greatest adventure yet.

Sharpe’s Triumph

With the return of the brave English sergeant Richard Sharpe here, to battle the mercenary forces of the Mahratta confederation in India in 1803 Bernard Cornwell claims his rightful place alongside Patrick O’Brian as a contemporary master of historical narrative. Sharpe’s Triumph is a riveting story of betrayal and revenge that showcases the deft blend of suspenseful military adventure and sweeping historical detail that has made each new installment of the Richard Sharpe series a number one bestseller in Great Britain and around the world. In the four years since he earned his sergeant’s stripes at the bloody siege of Seringapatam, young Richard Sharpe has lead a peaceful existence. But this relatively easy life meets with a brutal end when he is the sole survivor of a murderous attack at the hands of Major William Dodd, a cold blooded English officer who has defected from the East India Company to join the mercenary forces of the Mahratta confederation. Sharpe rises from the killing field at Fort Chasalgaon vowing to avenge his dead comrades, even if it means pursuing the turncoat Dodd to the very ends of the continent. It is a quest that takes him deep into the heart of enemy territory, where the accepted rules of engagement have been discarded, where ever shifting loyalties create an environment of dangerous uncertainty, forcing Sharpe to guard against attacks from enemy and friend. The paths of treachery ultimately lead to the small village of Assaye, where Sharpe’s company joins the army of Sir Arthur Wellesley the future Duke of Wellington to take on the Mahratta horde. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wellesley bravely seizes an unexpected geographical advantage and charges into the white heat of a battle that will make his reputation. It is a bloody confrontation that will make Sharpe’s name, too but first he must survive the carnage and live to tell the tale of what will be remembered as one of the greatest battles of its century.

Sharpe’s Skirmish

In The Winter King and Enemy of God, Bernard Cornwell took the beloved legend of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and made it fresh and new for our time. Now, in this riveting final installment of his extraordinary trilogy, Mr. Cornwell relates how King Arthur and his warriors battle their Saxon enemies, allied with Lancelot, for the throne of all Britain. Excalibur is a monumental story of love and war. Betrayed by his true love, Guinevere, Arthur must face his enemies who were once his friends in final, mortal combat. He must also face his most daunting challenge of all. Merlin has made a terrible pact with Mordred, Arthur’s sworn enemy, to summon the gods and the power the gods possess. Arthur’s success at stopping them, even his survival, is anything but certain. But winning when all seems lost is what makes Arthur a hero. Stunningly written and peopled with the familiar characters of legend and brilliantly narrated by Tim Pigott Smith Excalibur is a fitting and immensely powerful conclusion to one of the greatest ever retellings of the Arthurian saga.

Sharpe’s Fortress

Britain’s number one bestselling novelist is back! Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe’s Fortress the stunning successor to Sharpe’s Tiger and Sharpe’s Triumph marks Richard Sharpe’s explosive, unforgettable, final adventure in India. Surviving the infamous battle of Assaye, Richard Sharpe has been promoted for his gallantry and skill assisting Sir Arthur Wellesley the future Duke of Wellington in overcoming the rebellious Mahratta confederation. But though the war with the Mahratta seems near its end, Sharpe, now an officer in Wellesley’s army, faces a battle of a different kind among his own ranks. Uncomfortable with his newfound authority and unwelcoming colleagues, Sharpe is relegated to the tedium of baggage duty. But his fury and uncertainty are soon overcome when he catches wind of a treasonous scheme devised by none other than his oldest and worst enemy, Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill. His life hanging in the balance and no friend to turn to, Sharpe has little choice but to take up arms and seek revenge in a desperate attempt to thwart his old nemesis and regain his stolen treasure, the jewels of the Tippoo Sultan. Sharpe’s private campaign leads him to the legendary impenetrable fortress in the sky, Gawilghur the last refuge for desperate enemies of all dark stripes, including the renegade Englishman William Dodd. Joining Wellesley’s army as it prepares to lay siege to this fortress high above the Deccan Plain, Sharpe will risk his honor, reputation, and fortune on a battle that will test him as never before. Sharpe’s Fortress caps this unforgettable soldier’s India trilogy and leaves him poised to return to Europe, where he will face new, even more evil and lethal enemies. Bernard Cornwell’s masterful characters and sweeping historical novels provide ‘a marvelous mixture of fact and fiction’ that are ‘characterized by…
immaculate historical reconstruction and the ability to tell a ripping yarn.’ For adventure fans everywhere, they are not to be missed.

Sharpe’s Trafalgar

A dazzling nautical adventure that finds Bernard Cornwell’s beloved ensign Richard Sharpe in the middle of one of history’s most spectacular naval engagements: the battle at Cape Trafalgar off the coast of Spain. The year is 1805, and Richard Sharpe, having completed his tour in India Sharpe’s Tiger; Sharpe’s Triumph; Sharpe’s Fortress, is headed back to England, where he will join a newly formed regiment, the Green Jackets. Traveling aboard Captain Peculiar Cromwell’s East Indiaman cargo ship, the Calliope, is the lovely Lady Grace Hale, whose regal presence may provide intrigue and distraction from what promises to be an otherwise uneventful voyage home. But nothing is uneventful in the life of Richard Sharpe, even at sea: the Calliope is captured by a formidable French warship, the Revenant, which has been terrorizing British nautical traffic in the Indian Ocean. The french warship races toward the safety of its own fleet, carrying a stolen treaty that, if delivered, could provoke India into a new war against the British and render for naught all that Sharpe has fought for so bravely till now. But help comes from an unexpected quarter. An old friend, a captain in the Royal Navy, is on the trail of the Revenant, and Sharpe comes aboard a 74 gun man of war called Pucelle in hot pursuit. Then Admiral Horatio Nelson arrives, with his magnificent fleet of twenty seven. What results is a breathtaking retelling of one of the most ferocious and one sided sea battles in European history, in which Nelson and Sharpe vanquish the combined naval might of France and Spain at Trafalgar.

Sharpe’s Prey

Bestselling novelist Bernard Cornwell returns to his popular Richard Sharpe series with this eighteenth dazzling installment, which finds his beloved hero in the heart of war torn Denmark, trying to protect the prized Danish fleet from Napoleon Bonaparte’s ambitions. The year is 1807, and Richard Sharpe is back in England, where his career seems to have come to a dead end. Loveless, destitute, and relegated to the menial tasks of quartermaster, Sharpe roams the streets of London, pondering a bleak future away from the army. Then, out of the blue, an old friend invites him to undertake a secret mission the delivery of a bribe to the Danish capital, Copenhagen. Denmark is officially neutral, but Napoleon is threatening an invasion in order to capture the powerful Danish fleet, which could replace the ships France lost in its disastrous defeat at Trafalgar. The British, fearing such enhancement of French power, threaten their own preemptive invasion, and Sharpe, whose errand seemed so simple, is trapped in a web of treachery that will end only when the city, which thought itself safe, is subjected to a brutal and merciless bombardment. Sharpe’s Prey the chronological sequel to Sharpe’s Trafalgar finds Bernard Cornwell at the top of his bestselling form, combining the meticulous historical detail and fantastic battle scenes he’s famous for with a plot that races at breakneck speed toward the final, bloody battle that threatens to destroy Copenhagen.

Sharpe’s Havoc

Bestselling historical novelist Bernard Cornwell returns to the battlefields of the Iberian Peninsula with Sharpe’s Havoc, where the lieutenant and his men bravely fight the French invasion into Portugal. It is 1809, a few years after Lieutenant Richard Sharpe’s heroic exploits on the battlefields of India and at Trafalgar, and Sharpe finds himself fighting the savage armies of Napoleon Bonaparte as they try to bring the whole of the Iberian Peninsula under their control. Napoleon is advancing fast in northern Portugal, and no one knows whether the small contingent of British troops stationed in Lisbon will stay to fight or sail back to England. Sharpe, however, does not have a choice: He and his squad of riflemen are on the lookout for the missing daughter of an English wine shipper, when the French onslaught begins and the city of Oporto becomes a setting for carnage and disaster. Stranded behind enemy lines, Sharpe returns to his mission to find Kate Savage. Sharpe’s position on enemy grounds is precarious, and his search is further complicated by a mysterious and threatening Englishman, Colonel Christopher, who has his own ideas on how the French can be driven from Portugal. Christopher’s scheme is dangerous, and Sharpe and his Riflemen are the only obstacles standing in his way. Suddenly, a newly arrived British commander in Lisbon, Sir Arthur Wellesley, unknowingly comes to Sharpe’s rescue. Just when Sharpe and his men seem doomed, Sir Arthur mounts his own counterattack, an operation of breathtaking daring that will send Marshal Soult’s army reeling back into the northern mountains. Sharpe’s Havoc is a classic Sharpe story, based on real history, and a return to Portugal in the company of Sergeant Patrick Harper, Captain Hogan, and Sharpe’s beloved Green jackets, who can turn a battle as fast as Cornwell’s readers can turn a page.

Sharpe’s Escape

It is 1810, and in Napoleon’s determination to conquer Portugal and push the British back to the sea he sends his largest army yet across the Spanish frontier. But between the Portuguese border and Napoleon’s seemingly certain victory are twoobstacles a wasted land, stripped of food by Wellington’s orders, and Captain Richard Sharpe. But Sharpe is in trouble. The captain of the Light Company is threatened from inside and out: First by an incompetent British officer, who by virtue of family connections is temporarily given Sharpe’s command. An even greater danger is posed by two corrupt Portuguese brothers Major Ferreira, a high ranking officer in the army of Portugal, and his brother, nicknamed ‘Ferragus’ after a legen dary Portuguese giant, who makes no claims to respectability, preferring instead to rule by crude physical strength and pure intimidation. Together the brothers have developed a devious plot to ingratiate themselves with the French invaders who are threatening to become Portugal’s new rulers. Sharpe’s interference in the first stage of their plan earns the undying enmity of the brothers. Ferragus vows revenge and plots a merciless trap that seems certain to kill Sharpe and his intimates battle tested ally Sergeant Harper, the Portuguese officer Jorge Vicente, and a prickly but lovely English governess. As the city of Coimbra is burned and pillaged, Sharpe and his companions plot a daring escape, ensuring that Ferragus will follow on toward Lisbon, into the jaws of a snare laid by Wellington the massive lines of Torres Vedras, a daring and ingenious last stand against the invaders. There, beneath the British guns, Sharpe is reunited with his shattered but grateful company, and meets his enemies in a thrilling and decisive fight. Sharpe’s Escape emphatically reaffirms Bernard Cornwell’s status as ‘perhaps the greatest writer of historical adventure novels today’ Washington Post; its climactic battle scenes and evocative re creation of history sweep the reader off the page and into the action and drama of nineteenth century warfare.

Sharpe’s Fury

This is the long awaited twenty first novel in the number one bestselling series featuring Richard Sharpe. In the winter of 1811 the war seemed lost. All Spain has fallen to the French, except for Cadiz which is now the Spanish capital and is under siege. Wellington and his British army are in Portugal, waiting for spring to spark the war to life again. Richard Sharpe and his company are part of a small expeditionary force sent to break a bridge across the River Guadiana. What begins as a brilliant piece of soldiering turns into disaster, thanks to the brutal savagery of the French Colonel Vandal who is leading his battalion to join the siege of Cadiz. Sharpe extricates a handful of men from the debacle and is driven south into the threatened city. There, in Cadiz, he discovers more than one enemy. Many Spaniards doubt Britain’s motives and believe their future would be brighter if they made peace with the French, and one of them, a baleful priest, secures a powerful weapon to break the British alliance. He will use a beautiful who*re and the letters she received from a wealthy man. The priest will use blackmail, and Sharpe must defeat him in a sinister war of knife and treachery in the dark alleys of the city. Yet the alliance will only survive if the French siege can be lifted. An allied army marches from the city to take on the more powerful French and, once again, a brilliant piece of soldiering turns to disaster, this time because the Spanish refuse to fight. A small British force is trapped by a French army, and the only hope now lies with the outnumbered redcoats who, on a hill beside the sea, refuse to admit defeat. And there, in the sweltering horror of Barossa, Sharpe finds Colonel Vandal again. ‘Sharpe’s Fury‘ is based on the real events of the winter of 1811 that led to the extraordinary victory of Barossa, the battle which saw the British capture the first French eagle of the Napoleonic Wars.

Sharpe’s Story

Sharpe’s Story is Bernard Cornwell’s own account of the Sharpe series; how it began and how it has evolved over nearly thirty years.

A Crowning Mercy (With: Susannah Kells)

A highly entertaining, wonderfully colourful story, now revealed to be written by one of our favourite historical novelists. In mid seventeenth century England, the nation was in upheaval. In the Dorset countryside, one sunlit afternoon, a young girl illicitly bathing in a stream first fell in love with a passing stranger. Her parents called her Dorcas, but he called her Campion and that’s what she longed to be, then and forever. She had one gift left for her by her unknown father a pendant made of gold, banded by tiny glowing stones and at its base was a seal engraved with an axe and the words: St Matthew. So when she flees before the unbearable, worthy suitor who is forced upon her after her forbidden meeting, she takes this and the delicate lace gloves with her, and hopes to find her father, and her lover. There are four of these intricately wrought seals each owned by a stranger, each holding a secret within. And when all four seals are united, then the holder will have access to great wealth and power. That is Campion’s inheritance. But to claim this and find again her summer love, she must follow the course her father’s legacy charts for her. It is a road full of both peril and enchantment. A Crowning Mercy was first published in 1983 under the name Susannah Kells. It has been out of print for 10 years. HarperCollins are delighted to be able to re publish it.

The Fallen Angels (With: Susannah Kells)

A highly entertaining, wonderfully colourful story, now revealed to be written by one of our favourite historical novelists. The gilded family had been the envy and the pride of England for centuries. Never had the Lazenders seemed more powerful or more wealthy. And never had the unseen means of their destruction seemed so close! Yet the heir to the estate was absent. Toby Lazender worked for the British in Revolutionary France where he hunted down the men who had murdered the innocent girl he loved. It was his sister, Campion, who oversaw the family’s affairs at the ‘little kingdom’ of Lazen Castle. But Lazen is, unknowingly, a house under siege. The Fallen Angels among the most powerful and dangerous men in Europe are plotting to bring revolution to England. To succeed, they need money, and the Lazender fortune can provide it. The key to the fortune is control of Campion’s future. A web of deceit closes around Lazen, drawing Campion ever closer to a subtle trap that has been laid just for her. Her only hope for survival lies with the Gypsy her brother’s broodingly aloof horse master a man whose loyalties are at best uncertain. The Fallen Angels is a powerful blend of passion, adventure and intrigue, played out in the shadow of the guillotine and the sunlit splendour of an English estate. It is a worthy successor to A Crowning Mercy, the first chronicle of the Lazender family.

The Aristocrats (By:Susannah Kells)

The magnificent saga of an aristocratic dynasty, caught between modern day scandal and an ancient feud.

Coat of Arms (By:Susannah Kells)

The magnificent saga of an aristocratic dynasty, caught between modern day scandal and an ancient feud.

Vagabond

From internationally bestselling author Bernard Cornwell comes the eagerly anticipated sequel in his acclaimed Grail Quest series, in which a young archer sets out to avenge his family’s honor on the battlefields of the Hundred Years’ War and winds up on a quest for the Holy Grail. 1347: a year of war and unrest. England’s army is fighting in France, and its absence encourages the Scots to invade the old enemy. Thomas of Hookton, sent back to England to follow an ancient trail that suggests his family once owned the Holy Grail, instead becomes embroiled in the savage fight when the Scots come to Durham. Out of the horror he finds a new companion for the quest but also discovers a new and sinister enemy in a Dominican Inquisitor. All Europe wants the grail. Many may doubt it even exists, but no one would willingly allow an enemy to find Christendom’s most precious relic, and Thomas finds himself in a murderous race with the Inquisitor and with Guy de Vexille, the mysterious black rider who murdered Thomas’s father in The Archer’s Tale. Thomas appears to have an advantage in the race. His father bequeathed him a mysterious notebook that confirms the grail’s existence and offers clues to where the relic might be hidden. But his rivals, inspired by a fanatical religious fervor, have their own advantage the torture chamber of the Inquisition. Thomas, seeking help to decipher the book’s cryptic pages, is delivered instead to his worst enemies. He finds refuge in Brittany, with Jeanette, the Countess of Armorica, but fate will not let him rest. He is thrust into one of the bloodiest and most desperate fights of the Hundred Years’ War, the Battle of la Roche Derrien, and amid the flames, arrows, and butchery of that night, he faces his enemies again.

Heretic

New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell has written his masterpiece, a roiling saga about love, honor, belief and, above aft, about bravery in its many forms in which a young warrior’s religious heritage sets him on a quest for a mysterious treasure rumored to be the Holy Grail itself. Thomas of Hookton is a young man but already a seasoned veteran of King Edward’s army. His fearlessness and uncanny prowess with the longbow make him a natural leader in what will be remembered as the Hundred Years’ War. Accompanied by a small but able band of soldiers among them Sir Guillaume a landless lord seeking to regain his fortune as a mercenary and Robbie Douglas a Scottish prisoner spared by Thomas, and who now serves him loyally Thomas is sent to Gascony to capture the castle of Astarac. But he has ulterior motives for accepting the charge: Gascony is the home both of his forebears and of the black knight Guy de Vexille who brutally slaughtered his father, a priest, when Thomas was a lad. It is also reputed to be the place where the Grail was last seen. While capturing Astarac, Thomas learns of a tragedy in the making: a beautiful young woman named Genevieve, innocent if not pious, is to be burned as a Heretic for refusing to adhere to the strict religious guidelines of the day. Thomas prevents the corrupt local priest from carrying out his ‘God given’ duty a sacrilege that taints Thomas with the same Heretical brush, and which turns him into an outcast, even among his own men. Eventually he and Genevieve have no choice but to flee across a landscape of blood and fire. While hidden away at a monastery, they learn of a plot involving the creation of an imitation Grail for a diabolical end, and they witness’ the murder of a trusted priest at the hands of the man Thomas has been chasing his entire adult life Guy de Vexille. At last reconciled with his allies, Thomas leads his brave band in a bloody battle to the death, the outcome of which could determine the seat of power and the direction of Christendom forevermore. An epic saga steeped in myth and legend, Heretic presents a portrait of the fourteenth century and, especially, of the fate of the Holy Grail as only master storyteller Bernard Cornwell can.

1356

Hirsch and Goodman offer a mathematically sound, rigorous text to those instructors who believe students should be challenged. The text prepares students for future study in higher level courses by gradually building students’ confidence without sacrificing rigor. To help students move beyond the ‘how’ of algebra computational proficiency to the ‘why’ conceptual understanding, the authors introduce topics at an elementary level and return to them at increasing levels of complexity. Their gradual introduction of concepts, rules, and definitions through a wealth of illustrative examples both numerical and algebraic helps students compare and contrast related ideas and understand the sometimes subtle distinctions among a variety of situations. This author team carefully prepares students to succeed in higher level mathematics.

Rebel

A Powerful and evocative story of the civil war’sfirst battle and the men who fought itWhen Richmond landowner Washington Faulconer snatches young Nate Starbuck from the grip of a Yankee hating mob, Nate is both grateful and awed by his idealistic rescuer. Turning his back forever on the life he left in Boston, Nate agrees to join the newly formed Flaulconer’s Legion, even though it means fighting against his native North. But Nate’s dilemma is only one of many within the Legion. Faulconer’s own son cannot bring himself to fight, while his daughter’s cheating fianc plots for control of the family fortune. As they come together to march into battle, the men are prepared to start a war…
but they aren’t ready for how they and the nation will be forever changed by the oaths they have sworn for their beloved South.

Copperhead

A Copperhead is a turncoat a northerner who sympathises with the South. Captain Nate Starbuck, forced out of his beloved Legion by the enmity of its founder, General Washington Faulconer, becomes caught up in a dangerous double game of espionage. He is given no choice but to travel from a prison cell in Richmond, Virginia, to the secret centre of the high Northen command in a desperate attempt to thwart Yankee strategy which threatens to overwhelm the South. Starbuck plays a difficult and complex game of bluff and betrayal in a winner takes all effort to save his own life and return to the Legion but at a high cost to his personal and professional loyalties as a friend and a man of war.

Battle Flag

Third volume in the Starbuck Chronicles. The battle for control of Richmond, the Confederate capital, continues through the hot summer of 1862. Captain Nate Starbuck, yankee fighting for the Southern cause, has to survive and win with his ragged Company in the bitter struggle not only against the formidable Northern army but equally in opposition to his own superiors who would like nothing better than to see Nate Starbuck dead and dishonoured. Starbuck’s courage is tested to the limit in his desperate manoeuvres to retrieve his own and the Legion’s honour in this the thrid narrative of Bernard Cornwell’s sweeping epic of the American Civil War.

The Bloody Ground

In this fourth, final, and rousing installment of Nathaniel Starbuck’s Civil War adventures, Nate is given command of a punishment battalion: a motley collection of cowards, thieves, deserters, and murderers. Setting off to Join General Robert E. Lee’s army, Starbuck’s men reach Harper’s Ferry in time to take part in Stonewall Jackson’s capture of the Union garrison. From there, the regiment moves on to the legendary horror of Sharpsburg, beside the Antietam Creek, forever to be remembered as the bloodiest single day of the war. There, Starbuck and his troop will have their courage and commitment tested as never before.

Wildtrack

Nick Sandman’s spine was shattered by a bullet in the Falklands. He has no money and no prospects, only a dream of sailing far away from his troubles on his boat, Sycorax. But Sycorax is as crippled as he is, and to make her seaworthy again, Nick must strike a devil’s bargain with egomaniacal TV star Tony Bannister. Signing on to the crew of Bannister’s powerful ocean racer, Wildtrack, Nick is expected to help sail her to victory. But the despised celebrity has made some powerful enemies who will stop at nothing for revenge…
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Killer’s Wake / Sea Lord

This is a splendid thriller of skullduggery and smuggling, politics and passion, in the Carribean waters, with a twentieth century Sharpe at the helm.

Crackdown

Paradise is the perfect escape for ex Marine Nick Breakspear, captain of a charter yacht operation in the Bahamas, until he agrees to pilot a ‘detox cruise’ for the drug addled grown son and daughter of a powerful U.S. senator. Ambushed far from port, he is helpless to prevent the murder of a crew member by modern day pirates who sink Nick’s yacht before vanishing with the senator’s kids. Having barely eluded death, Nick must immediately set sail for disaster once again. For there’s a death to be avenged on the dark side of Eden, the senator is demanding that his lost children be found…
and the woman Nick loves is being held prisoner by killers somewhere on Murder Cay.

Stormchild

Tragedy has decimated Tim Blackburn’s safe and comfortable existence. Having already lost a son in a terrorist attack, he must now cope with the death of his beloved wife, killed in a mysterious explosion at sea. And all that remains of his destroyed family is his missing daughter Nicole, last seen in the company of Caspar von Rellsteb the mad, charismatic leader of the shadowy environmental activist group called Genesis who keeps an iron fisted hold over his fanatically dedicated followers. Determined to free Nicole from the crazed, self proclaimed ‘protector of the planet,’ Tim sets sail aboard the sloop Stormchild, with the beautiful, story hungry journalist Jackie Potten. But their hunt for the hidden lair of Genesis is leading them into dangerous and terrifying waters and the darkness that waits for Tim Blackburn on the far side of the world could destroy both his sanity and his soul.

Scoundrel

Paul Shanahan, the owner of a yacht delivery business in Belgium, now lives a peaceful existence after a terrorist active life. An old colleague’s request for the secret transport of a large amount of gold is a welcome return to the fold, and a chance to get home to Boston. But it turns out to be the trickiest and deadliest business of all haunted always by the betrayal of his lover.

The Winter King

The first volume of The Warlord Chronicles, the trilogy that forever changed the way the legend of Arthur is told. ‘These are the tales of the last days before the great darkness descended…
. These are the tales of Arthur, the Warlord, the King that Never Was.’In The Winter King, Bernard Cornwell, who has been called ‘one of the most accomplished storytellers now writing,’ turns to the story he was born to write: the mythic saga of King Arthur. The saga begins in fifth century Dark Age Britain, a land where Arthur has been banished and Merlin has disappeared, where a child king sits unprotected on the throne, where religion vies with magic for the souls of the people. Going far beyond the usual tales of romance and chivalry, The Winter King introduces us to Arthur the man rather than the legend a true hero; a man of honor, loyalty and amazing valor; a man who loves Guinevere more passionately than he should; a man whose life is at once tragic and triumphant. As Arthur, a military genius, struggles with his small band of warriors to keep a flicker of civilization alive in a barbaric world, Bernard Cornwell makes a familiar tale into a legend all over again.

Enemy of God

This is the continuing story of Arthur, the second in a trilogy which began with ‘The Winter King’. The novels bring Arthur and his world to vivid life. A man battling for his vision of the future in a brutal age, dragged down by suspicions and magics of the past, surrounded by intrigue, dependent on his skill at war and genius for leadership.

Excalibur

In The Winter King and Enemy of God, Bernard Cornwell took the beloved legend of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and made it fresh and new for our time. Now, in this riveting final installment of his extraordinary trilogy, Mr. Cornwell relates how King Arthur and his warriors battle their Saxon enemies, allied with Lancelot, for the throne of all Britain. Excalibur is a monumental story of love and war. Betrayed by his true love, Guinevere, Arthur must face his enemies who were once his friends in final, mortal combat. He must also face his most daunting challenge of all. Merlin has made a terrible pact with Mordred, Arthur’s sworn enemy, to summon the gods and the power the gods possess. Arthur’s success at stopping them, even his survival, is anything but certain. But winning when all seems lost is what makes Arthur a hero. Stunningly written and peopled with the familiar characters of legend and brilliantly narrated by Tim Pigott Smith Excalibur is a fitting and immensely powerful conclusion to one of the greatest ever retellings of the Arthurian saga.

The Last Kingdom

The first book in a brand new series, The Last Kingdom is set in England during the reign of King Alfred. Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of ninth century Northumbria. Orphaned at ten, he is captured and adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtred’s fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the only English kingdom to survive the Danish assault. The struggle between the English and the Danes and the strife between christianity and paganism is the background to Uhtred’s growing up. He is left uncertain of his loyalties but a slaughter in a winter dawn propels him to the English side and he will become a man just as the Danes launch their fiercest attack yet on Alfred’s kingdom. Marriage ties him further still to the West Saxon cause but when his wife and child vanish in the chaos of the Danish invasion, Uhtred is driven to face the greatest of the Viking chieftains in a battle beside the sea. There, in the horror of the shield wall, he discovers his true allegiance. The Last Kingdom, like most of Bernard Cornwell’s books, is firmly based on true history. It is the first novel of a series that will tell the tale of Alfred the Great and his descendants and of the enemies they faced, Viking warriors like Ivar the Boneless and his feared brother, Ubba. Against their lives Bernard Cornwell has woven a story of divided loyalties, reluctant love and desperate heroism. In Uhtred, he has created one of his most interesting and heroic characters and in The Last Kingdom one of his most powerful and passionate novels.

The Pale Horseman

Uhtred is a Saxon, adrift in a world of fire, sword and treachery. He has to make a choice fight for the Vikings who raised him, or for King Alfred the Great of Wessex who dislikes him. Wessex, in the late 9th Century, was the last English kingdom. All the rest had fallen to the Danish Vikings. Now the Vikings want to finish England, and they assemble the Great Army which has only one ambition to conquer Wessex. Uhtred lives in Wessex, though he has small love for it and none for King Alfred. Yet fate, as Uhtred learns, has its own imperatives, and when the Vikings attack, Uhtred finds himself on Alfred’s side. The Pale Horseman, rooted in the real history of Anglo Saxon England, tells the astonishing and true story of how Alfred fights back against his overwhelming enemies. Alfred and Uhtred make unlikely allies, yet the two forge an uneasy alliance that will lead them to where the last remaining Saxon army will fight for the very existence of England. The Pale Horseman is enthralling as both a historical and a personal story, a novel of divided loyalties and desperate heroism. The Washington Post calls Bernard Cornwell ‘perhaps the greatest writer of historical adventure novels today’, and The Pale Horseman is yet another masterpiece of historical and battle fiction that gives life to one of the most important and exciting epochs in the history of the English people and culture.

Lords of the North

The third instalment in Bernard Cornwell’s King Alfred series, following on from the outstanding previous novels The Last Kingdom and The Pale Horseman, both of which were top ten bestsellers. The year is 878 and Wessex is free from the Vikings. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, helped Alfred win that victory, but now he is disgusted by Alfred’s lack of generosity and repelled by the king’s insistent piety. He flees Wessex, going back north to seek revenge for the killing of his foster father and to rescue his stepsister, captured in the same raid. He needs to find his old enemy, Kjartan, a renegade Danish lord who lurks in the formidable stronghold of Dunholm. Uhtred arrives in the north to discover rebellion, chaos and fear. His only ally is Hild, a West Saxon nun fleeing her calling, and his best hope is his sword, with which he has made a formidable reputation as a warrior. He will need the assistance of other warriors if he is to attack Dunholm and he finds Guthred, a slave who believes he is a king. He takes him across the Pennines to where a desperate alliance of fanatical Christians and beleaguered Danes form a new army to confront the terrible Viking lords who rule Northumbria. ‘The Lords of the North‘ is a powerful story of betrayal, romance and struggle, set in an England of turmoil, upheaval and glory. Uhtred, a Northumbrian raised as a Viking, a man without lands, a warrior without a country, has become a splendid heroic figure.

Sword Song

The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and the Saxon kingdom of Wessex in the south. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord warrior by instinct, Viking by nature has finally settled down. He has land, a wife, and two children, and a duty given to him by King Alfred to hold the frontier on the Thames. But then trouble stirs: a dead man has risen, and new Vikings have arrived to occupy the decayed Roman city of London. Their dream is to conquer Wessex, and to do it they need Uhtred’s help. Alfred has other ideas. He wants Uhtred to expel the Viking raiders from London. Uhtred must weigh his oath to the king against the dangerous turning tide of shifting allegiances and deadly power struggles. And other storm clouds are gathering: thelefl d Alfred’s daughter is newly married, but by a cruel twist of fate, her very existence now threatens Alfred’s kingdom. It is Uhtred half Saxon, half Dane whose uncertain loyalties must now decide England’s future. A gripping story of love, deceit, and violence, Sword Song is set in an England of tremendous turmoil and strife yet one galvanized by the hope that Alfred may prove an enduring force. Uhtred, his lord of war and greatest warrior, has become his sword a man feared and respected the length and breadth of Britain.

The Burning Land

In a clash of heroes, the kingdom is born. At the end of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex is in ill health; his heir, an untested youth. His enemy, the Danes, having failed to conquer Wessex, now see their chance for victory. Led by the sword of savage warrior Harald Bloodhair, the Viking hordes attack. But Uhtred, Alfred’s reluctant warlord, proves his worth, outwitting Harald and handing the Vikings one of their greatest defeats. For Uhtred, the sweetness of victory is soon overshadowed by tragedy. Breaking with Alfred, he joins the Vikings, swearing never again to serve the Saxon king. Instead, he will reclaim his ancestral fortress on the Northumbrian coast. Allied with his old friend Ragnar and his old foe Haesten he aims to invade and conquer Wessex itself. Yet fate has different plans. The Danes of East Anglia and the Vikings of Northumbria are plotting the conquest of all Britain. When Alfred’s daughter pleads with Uhtred for help, he cannot refuse her request. In a desperate gamble, he takes command of a demoralized Mercian army, leading them in an unforgettable battle on a blood soaked field beside the Thames. In The Burning Land, Bernard Cornwell, ‘the reigning king of historical fiction’ USA Today, delivers a rousing saga of Anglo Saxon England an irresistible new chapter in his thrilling Saxon Tales, the epic story of the birth of England and the legendary king who made it possible.

Death of Kings

The fate of a new nation rests in the hands of a reluctant warrior in this thrilling sixth volume in the acclaimed New York Times bestselling Saxon Tales series. As the ninth century wanes, Alfred the Great lies dying, his dream of a unified England in danger and his kingdom on the brink of chaos. While his son, Edward, has been named his successor, there are other Saxon claimants to the throne as well as ambitious pagan Vikings to the north. Uhtred, the Saxon born, Viking raised warrior, whose life seems to shadow the making of England itself, is torn between his vows to Alfred and his desire to reclaim his long lost ancestral lands and castle in the north. As the king’s warrior, he is duty bound, but Alfred s reign is nearing its end, and Uhtred has sworn no oath to the crown prince. Despite his long years of service, Uhtred is still loath to commit to the old king s Saxon cause of a united and Christian England. Now he must make a momentous decision, one that will forever transform his life…
and the course of history: take up arms and Alfred s mantle or lay down his sword and allow the dream of a unified kingdom to fall into oblivion. A harrowing story of the power of tribal commitment and the dilemma of divided loyalties, Death of Kings is the latest chapter in the epic saga of the making of England, magnificently brought to life by the reigning king of historical fiction USA Today.

Redcoat

A Family…
A City…
A Soldier…
Torn Across a Bloody DivideIt is autumn, 1777, and the cradle of liberty, Philadelphia, has fallen to the British. Yet the true battle has only just begun. On both sides, loyalties are tested and families torn asunder. The young Redcoat, Sam Gilpin, has seen his brother die. Now he must choose between duty to a distant King and the call of his own conscience. And for the men and women of the prosperous Becket family, the revolution brings bitter conflict between those loyal to the crown, and those with dreams of liberty. Soon, across the fields of ice and blood in a place called Valley Forge, history will be rewritten, changing the lives and fortunes of these men and women forever.

Stonehenge

Bernard Cornwell’s new novel, following the enormous success of his Arthurian trilogy The Winter King, Enemy of God, and Excalibur is the tale of three brothers and of their rivalry that creates the great temple. One summer’s day, a stranger carrying great wealth in gold comes to the settlement of Ratharryn. He dies in the old temple. The people assume that the gold is a gift from the gods. But the mysterious treasure causes great dissension, both without from tribal rivalry, and within. The three sons of Ratharryn’s chief each perceive the great gift in a different way. The eldest, Lengar, the warrior, harnesses his murderous ambition to be a ruler and take great power for his tribe. Camaban, the second and an outcast from the tribe, becomes a great visionary and feared wise man, and it is his vision that will force the youngest brother, Saban, to create the great temple on the green hill where the gods will appear on earth. It is Saban who is the builder, the leader and the man of peace. It is his love for a sorceress whose powers rival those of Camaban and for Aurenna, the sun bride whose destiny is to die for the gods, that finally brings the rivalries of the brothers to a head. But it is also his skills that will build the vast temple, a place for the gods certainly but also a place that will confirm for ever the supreme power of the tribe that built it. And in the end, when the temple is complete, Saban must choose between the gods and his family. Stonehenge is Britain’s greatest prehistoric monument, a symbol of history; a building, created 4 millenia ago, which still provokes awe and mystery. Stonehenge A novel of 2000 BC is first and foremost a great historical novel. Bernard Cornwell is well known and admired for the realism and imagination with which he brings an earlier world to life. And here he uses all these skills to create the world of primitive Britain and to solve the mysteries of who built Stonehenge and why. ‘A circle of chalk, a ring of stone, and a house of arches to call the far gods home’

Gallows Thief

A spellbinding historical drama about an ex soldier in 1820s London who must help rescue an innocent man from Death Row, by bestselling author Bernard CornwellIt is the end of the Napoleonic Wars and England has just fought its last victorious battle against the French. As Rider Sandman and the other heroes of Waterloo begin to make their way back to England, they find a country where corruption, poverty, and social unrest run rampant, and where ‘justice’ is most often delivered at the end of a hangman’s noose. Nowhere in London are the streets as busy as in front of Newgate Prison, its largest penitentiary, where mobs gather regularly to watch the terrible spectacle of the doomed men and women on the gallows’ stands. Rider Sandman whose reputation on the battlefields of France is exceeded only by his renown on the cricket fields of England returns home from war to discover his personal affairs in a shambles. Creditors have taken over his estate, leaving him penniless and forcing him to release the woman he loves from her obligations to marry him. Desperate to right his situation, he accepts the offer of a job investigating the claims of innocence by a painter due to hang for murder in a few days’ time. The Home Secretary makes it clear that this is pro forma, and that he expects Sandman to rubber stamp the verdict. But Sandman’s investigation reveals that something is amiss that there is merit to the young artist’s claims. He further discovers that, though the Queen herself has ordered a reinvestigation of the circumstances, someone else does not want the truth revealed. In a race against the clock, Sandman moves from the hellish bowels of Newgate prison to the perfumed drawing rooms of the aristocracy, determined to rescue the innocent man from the rope. As he begins to peel back the layers of an utterly corrupt penal system, he finds himself pitted against some of the wealthiest and most ruthless men in Regency England. Gallows Thief combines the rich historical texture of Edward Rutherford and the taut suspense of Caleb Carr to create an eviscerating portrait of capital punishment in nineteeth century London.

Agincourt

‘The greatest writer of historical adventures today’ Washington Post tackles his richest, most thrilling subject yet the heroic tale of Agincourt. Young Nicholas Hook is dogged by a cursed past haunted by what he has failed to do and banished for what he has done. A wanted man in England, he is driven to fight as a mercenary archer in France, where he finds two things he can love: his instincts as a fighting man, and a girl in trouble. Together they survive the notorious massacre at Soissons, an event that shocks all Christendom. With no options left, Hook heads home to England, where his capture means certain death. Instead he is discovered by the young King of England Henry V himself and by royal command he takes up the longbow again and dons the cross of Saint George. Hook returns to France as part of the superb army Henry leads in his quest to claim the French crown. But after the English campaign suffers devastating early losses, it becomes clear that Hook and his fellow archers are their king’s last resort in a desperate fight against an enemy more daunting than they could ever have imagined. One of the most dramatic victories in British history, the battle of Agincourt immortalized by Shakespeare in Henry V pitted undermanned and overwhelmed English forces against a French army determined to keep their crown out of Henry’s hands. Here Bernard Cornwell resurrects the legend of the battle and the ‘band of brothers’ who fought it on October 25, 1415. An epic of redemption, Agincourt follows a commoner, a king, and a nation’s entire army on an improbable mission to test the will of God and reclaim what is rightfully theirs. From the disasters at the siege of Harfleur to the horrors of the field of Agincourt, this exhilarating story of survival and slaughter is at once a brilliant work of history and a triumph of imagination Bernard Cornwell at his best.

The Fort

While the major fighting of the Revolutionary War moves to the South in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops of war, sails to the fogbound coast of New England. In response, Massachusetts sends a fleet of more than forty vessels and some one thousand infantrymen to captivate, kill or destroy the foreign invaders. But ineptitude and irresolution lead to a mortifying defeat and have stunning repercussions for two men on opposite sides: an untested young Scottish lieutenant named John Moore and a Boston silversmith and patriot named Paul Revere. Inimitably told in Cornwell’s thrilling narrative style, The Fort is the extraordinary novel of this fascinating clash between a superpower and a nation in the making.

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