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From the multiple award-winning author of Ysabel, Tigana and A Song for Arbonne, this powerful, moving saga evokes the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and Norse cultures of a thousand years ago.There is nothing soft or silken about the north. The lives of men and women are as challenging as the climate and lands in which they dwell. For generations, the Erlings of Vinmark have taken their dragon-prowed ships…
A NATION WILL FIGHT FOR ITS FREEDOM.Robert Low’s Kingdom Series on the making of Scotland, now available in one complete eBook for the first time and featuring a new and exclusive Author’s Note on the series.THE LION WAKESIt is 1296 and Scotland is in turmoil. The old King, Alexander III, has died and Scotland’s future is in peril. Edward I of England, desperate to keep control of his northern bor…
George MacDonald Fraser’s hilarious stories of the most disastrous soldier in the British Army – collected together for the first time in one volume.Private McAuslan, J., the Dirtiest Soldier in the Word (alias the Tartan Caliban, or the Highland Division’s answer to the Pekin Man) first demonstrated his unfitness for service in The General Danced at Dawn. He continued his disorderly advance, losi…
The new novel from the bestselling author of THE SIXTH WIFE.When 12-year-old Katherine Howard comes to live in the Duchess of Norfolk's household, poor relation Cat Tilney is deeply suspicious. The two girls couldn't be more different: Cat, watchful and ambitious; Katherine, interested only in clothes and boys. Their companions are in thrall to Katherine, but it's Cat in whom Katherine confides an…
From her beginnings as a humble oyster seller, Nell Gwynn’s dazzling rise to fame has gone down in history. Step into the tumultuous world of Restoration England, and join Nell on her journey from courtesan, to famed actress, to King’s mistress in a novel that is as captivating as Nelly herself.Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th Century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl …
Speak out for the fate of millions or turn a blind eye? We all have choices.‘Absolutely exceptional. So beautifully written, with precision and wisdom and real emotional acuity … A remarkable achievement’ STEPHEN KELMAN, author of Pigeon English1944, Germany. Ernst Beck’s new job marks an end to months of unemployment. Working for Erfurt’s most prestigious engineering firm, Topf & Sons, means he c…
Ravished by the RakeFor vivacious Lady Perdita Brooke, teasing Alistair Lyndon with reminders of their passionate night together was meant to be a game. But the honourable young man Perdita knew had become a devastatingly dashing rake… and he had ascandalous ace up his sleeve!Seduced by the ScoundrelShipwrecked and washed up on an island, Averil Heydon is terrified – and being rescued by mysteriou…
The Captain’s Forbidden MissBattle-weary Captain Pierre Dammartin has secured the ultimate bargaining tool: holding his enemy’s daughter as his captive. Josephine Mallington is the one woman he should hate…yet her vulnerable beauty soon leads Pierre to want her for reasons other than revenge…His Mask of RetributionHeld at gunpoint on Hounslow Heath, Marianne is taken prisoner by a mysterious maske…
Escape to a world of roguish rakes and daring debutantes with this incredible Regency collection from Mills & Boon.The Admiral’s Penniless Bride by Carla KellySally Paul is homeless and down to her last penny – so the last thing she expects is an offer of marriage from a complete stranger. Admiral Sir Charles Bright is in need of a wife…but after marrying in haste, can he convince Sally to enjoy t…
Escape to a world of roguish rakes and daring debutantes with this incredible Regency collection from Mills & Boon.The Admiral’s Penniless Bride by Carla KellySally Paul is homeless and down to her last penny – so the last thing she expects is an offer of marriage from a complete stranger. Admiral Sir Charles Bright is in need of a wife…but after marrying in haste, can he convince Sally to enjoy t…
The Laird’s Forbidden LadyKEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE . . .Ian Gilvry, Laird of Dunross, is as rough and wild as the Highland heather. Yet the return of Sassenach Selina and her family to claim his land ignites hatred and passion in equal measure.BUT YOUR ENEMIES EVEN CLOSER!Lady Selina is torn between family loyalty and wanton need for Ian. Tricked into marriage, the Laird fulfils her every burning d…
The Greatest of SinsHaving spent years believing a lie about his birth, Dr Samuel Hastings has been condemned to a personal hell of his desire’s making – his sinful thoughts of the one woman he can never touch would damn his soul for eternity.Lady Evelyn Thorne is engaged to the very suitable Duke of St Aldric when a shocking truth is revealed – and now Sam will play every bit of the devil to sedu…
A chilling true story of deception and survival set amidst the Inuit communities of the Canadian Arctic.In 1922 the Irish-American explorer Robert Flaherty made a film called ‘Nanook of the North’ which captured the world's imagination. Soon afterwards, he quit the Arctic for good, leaving behind his bastard son, Joseph, to grow up Eskimo.Thirty years later a young, inexperienced policeman, Ross G…
At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes’ lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life and work, and the political instability and violence in the Middle East attributed to it.The Sykes-Picot agreement was a secret pact drawn up in May 1916 between the French and…