1794: as the year draws to a close Richard Bolitho, commanding the old Hyperion, leaves Plymouth to join a squadron blockading...

1784: at a time when most of the fleet is laid up, His Majesty's frigate Undine weighs anchor at Spithead to begin a voyage to...

1782: British Captain Richard Bolitho is ordered to take the frigate Phalarope to the Caribbean, where the hard-pressed royal...

1778: a seminal year for the young Richard Bolitho... The American War of Independence changes to an all-out struggle for freedom...

1774: Bolitho is now a newly appointed third lieutenant joining the 28-gun frigate Destiny at Plymouth. It is a far step from...

1777: the revolution in America has erupted into a full-scale war.

The navy's main task is to prevent military supplies from...

One of the Roman novels from the bestselling historical fiction Falco series

‘We should have time to manage it … and still get...

A wrenching novel about the life and death of Lady Jane Grey, one of the most complex and sympathetic figures in Tudor England,...

In the days when the word 'Italian' was synonymous with 'poisoner', there was no woman the French despised more than their own...

What if your partner just disappeared without a trace?

It's an early autumn day like any other as Miles Avery drives his wife,...

Some secrets are too devastating to be told...

When Natalie Moore is killed in a freak accident in France her mother - the...

Even as a fourteen-year-old orphan, Simon Beauvallet knows his own mind.

Later, friend and foe alike will know better than to...

A wonderful Regency romance by one of our best-known and most beloved historical novelists, reissued with a beautiful new cover...

1914-1918… This is the third book in the Blackwood saga. For three generations, members of the Blackwood family served the Royal...

They're called The Glory Boys, by those who regard their exploits with envy or contempt.

January 1943: Glory Boy Bob Kearton -...

For the inhabitants of the damp little Irish town of Ballinacroagh, the repertoire of gastronomic delights has never extended...

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!

Returning home from the battle of Waterloo to claim his title as the new...

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!

When Lady Hester Theale learns Sir Gareth Ludlow is planning to propose...

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!

When Kit Fancot returns on leave from the diplomatic service, he expects...

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!

Annis Wychwood delights in her independence.

Beautiful, rich and far...

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!

Adam Deveril returns from the Peninsula War a hero, only to find his...

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!

To win her hand, he must become what he despises...

In an...

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!

Neither Sir Tristram Shield nor his beautiful young cousin, Eustacie,...

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!

Handsome, wealthy Sir Waldo Hawkridge is the envy of all those around...

From the former head of MI5 and bestselling author Stella Rimington comes the heart-stopping second novel featuring MI5...

'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Reissued now in this...

'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Reissued now in this...

'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Reissued now in this...

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!

The only question which hangs over the life of Sir Richard Wyndham,...

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!

Gilly Ware, the shy young Duke of Sale, has never known his...