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The Fort
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Adrian Goldsworthy; Narrated by Stephen Perring
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From bestselling historian Adrian Goldsworthy, a profoundly
authentic, action-packed adventure set on Rome's Danubian frontier.
AD 105: DACIA The Dacian kingdom and Rome are at peace, but no one
thinks that it will last. Sent to command an isolated fort beyond
the Danube, centurion Flavius Ferox can sense that war is coming,
but also knows that enemies may be closer to home. Many of the
Brigantes under his command are former rebels and convicts, as
likely to kill him as obey an order. And then there is Hadrian, the
emperor's cousin, and a man with plans of his own. Reviews for the
Vindolanda Trilogy: 'No one knows the Roman army better than Adrian
Goldsworthy, and no one writes more convincing Roman fiction' Harry
Sidebottom 'An authentic, enjoyable read' The Times 'Gritty and
realistic ... Goldsworthy's characters are authentically ancient
and his descriptions of Roman Britain ring true'Daily Telegraph
(Sydney).
The captivating Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The
Familiars Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will
change everything . . . London, 1754. Six years after leaving her
illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hospital, Bess
Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known. Dreading
the worst, that Clara has died in care, Bess is astonished to be
told she has already claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as
she tries to find out who has taken her little girl - and why. Less
than a mile from Bess's lodgings in the city, in a quiet, gloomy
townhouse on the edge of London, a young widow has not left the
house in a decade. When her close friend - an ambitious young
doctor at the Foundling Hospital - persuades her to hire a
nursemaid for her daughter, she is hesitant to welcome someone new
into her home and her life. But her past is threatening to catch up
with her and tear her carefully constructed world apart. From the
bestselling author of The Familiars comes this captivating story of
mothers and daughters, class and power, and love against the
greatest of odds . . . 'The new Hilary Mantel' COSMOPOLITAN 'Stacey
Halls is a writer of great originality, great imagination and great
sense of place. Atmospheric, intelligent, accessible, every novel
is worth reading, then reading again and again' KATE MOSSE Another
gripping, immersive, intelligent work of historical fiction from
the bestselling author of The Familiars' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE,
author of THE MERCIES A moving, atmospheric chiller' INDEPENDENT 'A
breathtaking achievement' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'Enjoyable and
atmospheric' THE TIMES 'Historical drama at its very best' MY
WEEKLY **MRS ENGLAND: the brand new novel from Stacey Halls is out
now** *Sunday Times bestseller February and September 2020*
Set in the 1600s, beginning with a voyage across the Atlantic, this
is Lauren Groff's inventive novel The Vaster Wilds FROM THE
THREE-TIME NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST AND NEW YORK TIMES
BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATES AND FURIES AND MATRIX Part of a loose
trilogy based on the end of empire, The Vaster Wilds is the story
of a young girl who is servant to a minister and his young
mistress, and in charge of their young daughter Bess. On an epic
voyage across the Atlantic, ship-wrecked, far from home and
fighting for survival, the protagonist of Lauren Groff's
extraordinary new novel must endure but also find meaning in the
journey. PRAISE FOR MATRIX- 'Lush, gripping and ferocious' MADELINE
MILLER 'An audacious piece of storytelling, full of passion, wisdom
and magic' SARAH WATERS 'A gorgeous, sensual, addictive read' SARA
COLLINS
During war, nothing is ever at it seems...Sally Hartley is a
hopeless romantic. Her father died when she was a baby but she has
lived off stories from her mother of what a wonderful man he was.
Now, all she wants is a love like theirs. And she thinks she's
found it in Adam, the brother of a friend from home. When Adam is
posted to Orkney, it's like Sally's dreams have all come true.
After Italy changes sides in the war, the Italian POWs are granted
more freedom on the islands, meaning Sally can spend more time with
her friend, Aldo, and the two grow ever closer. But when a family
secret is revealed, Sally's trust might be forever broken. Sally,
Iris and Mary must continue their duties even as life changes
drastically around them, including an attack on one of their fellow
Wrens from an unknown assailant. Now the friends face danger not
just from the enemy, but also someone much closer to home. An
uplifting and dramatic WWII saga for fans of Kate Thompson,
Margaret Dickinson and Daisy Styles.
The New York Times bestselling author of A Certain Age transports
readers to sunny Florida in this lush and enthralling historical
novel--an enchanting blend of love, suspense, betrayal, and
redemption set among the rumrunners and scoundrels of
Prohibition-era Cocoa Beach. Burdened by a dark family secret,
Virginia Fortescue flees her oppressive home in New York City for
the battlefields of World War I France. While an ambulance driver
for the Red Cross, she meets a charismatic British army surgeon
whose persistent charm opens her heart to the possibility of love.
As the war rages, Virginia falls into a passionate affair with the
dashing Captain Simon Fitzwilliam, only to discover that his past
has its own dark secrets--secrets that will damage their eventual
marriage and propel her back across the Atlantic to the sister and
father she left behind. Five years later, in the early days of
Prohibition, the newly widowed Virginia Fitzwilliam arrives in the
tropical boomtown of Cocoa Beach, Florida, to settle her husband's
estate. Despite the evidence, Virginia does not believe Simon
perished in the fire that destroyed the seaside home he built for
her and their young daughter. Separated from her husband since the
early days of their marriage, the headstrong Virginia plans to
uncover the truth, for the sake of the daughter Simon never met.
Simon's brother and sister welcome her with open arms and introduce
her to a dazzling new world of citrus groves, white beaches,
bootleggers, and Prohibition agents. But Virginia senses a
predatory presence lurking beneath the irresistible, hedonistic
surface of this coastal oasis. The more she learns about Simon and
his mysterious business interests, the more she fears that the
dangers that surrounded Simon now threaten her and their daughter's
life as well.
The case of the pirate U-boat!Air Commodore Raymond has a thrilling
new case for Biggles, Ginger, Algy and Bertie, now the Scotland
Yard Air Squad. Instead of surrendering at the end of the war,
commander Von Schonbeck of submarine U-517 escaped to the south
Indian ocean. From his base on an uncharted island, he has been
waging his own personal war, very profitably. Among other booty, he
is known to have acquired a sizeable quantity of gold. But there's
very little to go on: the submarine sinks all the ships it preys
upon, leaving no survivors. And Biggles & Co. have a hunting
ground of a million square miles of air and ocean... Will they find
the renegade submarine, or will it continue to prowl the depths?
Has Biggles met his match in the hunt for the dastardly von
Schonbeck?
A slave woman is the only survivor of a failed expedition into the depths of Africa. She shelters in the hollow trunk of a baobab tree where she relives her earlier existence in a state of increasing isolation.
How she was captured in her hometown and taken away as a child, her life in a harbour city on the eastern coast as servant to different masters, her journey with her last owner and protector, and her life in the baobab tree.
Larkspur Nielsen is ready for a change. Her parents have passed on,
and her older brother is successfully running the family business.
She bristles at the small-mindedness that permeates life in her
small Ohio community, and she sees little chance of a satisfying
future there. She has a little money saved, and after turning the
tables on a crooked gambler who had fleeced several locals,
including her younger brother, she can stake a new start for
herself and her three sisters. As the gambler's threats of revenge
echo in her ears, she and her sisters head to Independence,
Missouri, to join a wagon train bound for Oregon. Knowing that four
women traveling together will draw unwanted attention, Larkspur
dons a disguise, passing herself off as "Clark" Nielsen,
accompanying his three sisters. But maintaining the ruse is more
difficult than Larkspur imagined, as is protecting her headstrong,
starry-eyed sisters from difficult circumstances and eligible young
men. Will reaching their goal prove too much for them?
Folly Beach, South Carolina, has survived despite hurricanes and
war. But it's the personal battles of Folly Beach's residents that
have left the most scars, and why a young widow has been beckoned
there to heal her own...
To most people, Folly Beach is simply the last barrier island
before reaching the great Atlantic. To some, it's a sanctuary for
lost souls, which is why Emmy Hamilton's mother encourages her to
buy the local book store, Folly's Finds, hoping it will distract
Emmy from the loss of her husband.
Emmy is at first resistant. So much has already changed. But after
finding love letters and an image of a beautiful bottle tree in a
box of used books from Folly's Finds, she decides to take the
plunge. But the seller insists on one condition: Emmy must allow
Lulu, the late owner's difficult sister, to continue selling her
bottle trees from its back yard.
For the most part Emmy ignores Lulu as she sifts through the love
letters, wanting to learn more. But the more she discovers about
the letters, the more she understands Lulu. As details of a
possible murder and a mysterious disappearance during WWII are
revealed, the two women discover that circumstances beyond their
control, sixty years apart, have brought them together, here on
Folly Beach. And it is here that their war-ravaged hearts can find
hope for a second chance...
'The series gets better and better . . . a very credible medieval
world . . . Oswald is such an appealing character, growing richer
and deeper with every book' - Andrew Taylor, author of Ashes of
London 1370. Oswald de Lacy was not always Lord of the Manor, or
even meant to be. The third son, he was sent off to become a novice
monk. Now, with winter closing in on Somershill, his wife flirting
with their houseguest, his sister sniping from the sidelines and
his mother still ruling his life even from her deathbed, Oswald is
forced to confront the secret that has haunted him ever since those
days in the monastery. 1349. Sent to gather herbs in the forest by
his tutor, Brother Peter, 18-year-old Oswald encounters a terrified
girl, who runs into the swollen river and drowns. In her village,
he discovers that she is only one of many poor young women who have
disappeared, with no-one in authority caring enough to investigate.
Convinced the girls are dead, Oswald turns to the village women for
help in finding the murderer - in particular to the beautiful Maud
Woodstock, who provokes feelings in Oswald that no monk should
entertain. Soon, however, another killer stalks the land. Plague
has come and the monastery is locked against it. Brother Peter
insists that Oswald should forget his quest. But Oswald will not
stop until he has discovered the shocking truth, which will echo
down the years to a letter, clutched in his dying mother's hand.
A breathtaking historical novel of revenge, persecution and loss,
The City of Tears by Kate Mosse follows on from her Sunday Times
number one bestseller, The Burning Chambers. May 1572: for ten
violent years the Wars of Religion have raged across France.
Neighbours have become enemies, countless lives have been lost, and
the country has been torn apart over matters of religion,
citizenship and sovereignty. But now a precarious peace is in the
balance and a royal wedding has been negotiated. It is a marriage
that could see France reunited at last. An invitation has arrived
for Minou Joubert and her family to attend this historic wedding in
Paris in August. But what Minou does not know is that the Joubert
family's oldest enemy, Vidal, will also be there. Nor that, within
days of the marriage, on the eve of the Feast Day of St
Bartholomew, her family will be scattered to the four winds and one
of her beloved children will have disappeared without trace . . .
Sweeping from Paris and Chartres to the City of Tears itself - the
great refugee city of Amsterdam - this is a story of one family's
fight to stay together and survive against the devastating tides of
history . . . 'A gorgeously written, utterly absorbing epic . . . I
absolutely loved it' - Lucy Foley, author of The Hunting Party 'A
novel with vast scope and ambition, brilliantly achieved . . . I
was utterly immersed in this spell-binding story' - Rosamund
Lupton, author of Three Hours 'This is historical fiction to
devour. Nobody does it like Kate Mosse' - Anthony Horowitz on The
Burning Chambers
A powerful enemy. A land of second chances.
Jim Courtney is protected by all the wealth and influence that his family's successful business, the Courtney Brothers Trading Company, can provide in the Dutch-owned colonies of South Africa. Louisa Leuven is an orphaned young woman who escaped the plague only to be unjustly imprisoned and transported to the Cape. When a storm destroys her prison ship, Jim is her only hope of escape.
But Louisa and Jim have greater adventures in the African wilds ahead of them: they must flee from Dutch forces who seek not only to recapture their prisoner, but also to hunt down and hang Jim Courtney - and punish the other member of the Courtney family, however they can...
One warrior will bring an army to its knees...Britannia, 60 AD.
When her husband dies, Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni, expects Rome
to enter into a new agreement with her people. However, when Rome
betrays them and her daughters are raped by Roman soldiers,
Boudicca swears revenge. The Britannic tribes rise up and join her
in a campaign against their oppressors and soon her enormous army
sweeps across the country in an unstoppable campaign of brutality.
A young boy races to join her cause, but when it is discovered that
he is the last true blood of the Deceangli, Prydain, the
ex-legionary, embarks on a mission to save him. For the final time,
his path is destined to cross with Cassus, the boyhood friend who
has sworn to kill him, whatever the cost. The incredible, thrilling
final instalment in the Romans series, perfect for fans of Simon
Scarrow, Conn Igggulden and Harry Sidebottom.
A ghost ship full of long-lost gold beckons, and Biggles gets an
icy reception...Biggles, Algie, Bertie and Ginger are visited by
Grimes, an old pal from the war, whose father, a Merchant Navy
captain known as Jumbo, is in a spot of bother. He was recently
tricked into skippering a crew of seal poachers to an islet off
Antarctica. While there, they spotted an old ship - still rigged
for sail - trapped in the pack ice. After an investigation of the
ship, Jumbo overheard the words 'starry' and 'crown' from the
jubilant crew. An avid fan of an unsolved mysteries, Biggles
immediately recognises the importance of these words. Jumbo and his
crew had stumbled upon the long-lost schooner Starry Crown, which
went missing seventy years prior with a ton of Australian gold
ingots aboard. There have been several sightings and ill-fated
recovery expeditions since, but no one has ever retrieved the gold.
Grimes reckons that they might be able to beat the poachers to the
treasure if they were to go by air, and wonders if Biggles is
interested in an adventure. After making a few enquiries, Biggles
agrees to the expedition, but there is more than gold in the Starry
Crown, and no help for miles across Antarctica's vast silence...
Wrap up warm for a classic Biggles adventure to the frozen
continent of Antarctica.
At thirteen, Tom Cringle enters the Royal Navy as a midshipman.
Assigned at first to service in home water, Tom is soon transferred
to the exotic Caribbean where war, piracy, smuggling, and slave
running are the order of the day.
The recent release of the film Master and Commander: The Far Side
of the World has focused even more attention on the publishing
phenomenon of the late Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels
about the Royal Navy in the age of Nelson. These five volumes,
beautifully produced and boxed, contain over 7,000 pages of what
has often been described as a single, continuous narrative. They
are a perfect tribute to such a literary achievement, and a perfect
gift for the serious O'Brian enthusiast.
SHARPE IS BACK. The global bestseller Bernard Cornwell returns with
his iconic hero, Richard Sharpe. If any man can do the impossible
it's Richard Sharpe . . . Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe is a man with a
reputation. Born in the gutter, raised a foundling, he joined the
army twenty-one years ago, and it's been his home ever since. He's
a loose cannon, but his unconventional methods make him a valuable
weapon. So when, the dust still settling after the Battle of
Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington needs a favour, he turns to
Sharpe. For Wellington knows that the end of one war is only the
beginning of another. Napoleon's army may be defeated, but another
enemy lies waiting in the shadows - a secretive group of fanatical
revolutionaries hell-bent on revenge. Sharpe is dispatched to a new
battleground: the maze of Paris streets where lines blur between
friend and foe. And in search of a spy, he will have to defeat a
lethal assassin determined to kill his target or die trying . . .
Sharpe's Assassin was a Sunday Times bestseller in hardback the w/c
4th October 2021.
A journalist in nineteenth-century New York matches wits with a
serial killer in a gripping thriller by the prizewinning author of
the Ian Hamilton Mysteries. New York, 1880. Elizabeth van den Broek
is the only female reporter at the Herald, the city's most popular
newspaper. Then she and her bohemian friend Carlotta Ackerman find
a woman's body wrapped like a mummy in a freshly dug hole in
Central Park-the intended site of an obelisk called Cleopatra's
Needle. The macabre discovery takes Elizabeth away from the society
pages to follow an investigation into New York City's darkest
shadows. When more bodies turn up, each tied to Egyptian lore,
Elizabeth is onto a headline-making scoop more sinister than she
could have imagined. Her reporting has readers spellbound, and each
new clue implicates New York's richest and most powerful citizens.
And a serial killer is watching every headline. Now a madman with
an indecipherable motive is coming after Elizabeth and everyone she
loves. She wants a good story? She may have to die to get it.
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