1789: NEW SOUTH WALES. Into Sydney, capital of Britain's infant colony, sails the frigate Tempest. She is one of His Majesty's...

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,...

Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter - and industrial spy. In 1848, the East India Company engaged him...

The fourth book in Jean Plaidy's epic Plantagenet series

The untimely death of Richard the Lionheart left his nephew Arthur...

The second book in Jean Plaidy's epic Plantagenet series

News of Thomas a Becket's martyrdom has spread throughout Christendom...

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

The story of the homesick Italian girl who became the most feared woman in sixteenth-century France...

Sullen-eyed and...

Stuck in a job he doesn't want - but can't afford to lose - as nominal Head of the Communications Department at Fenland...

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...

A Jedi adventure that is a direct prequel to the upcoming movie, Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith! Based on information...

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...

India, August 9th 1942. The morning brings raids and the arrest by British police of Congress Party members. Amongst the...

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

1745: Robin and Prudence Merriot have been adventurers and dissemblers...

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!

Captain John Staple's exploits against Napoleon's armies in the Spanish...

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!

Nell Cardross and her husband are madly in love...

But they're very...

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

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