Fiction - Adventure and war

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H.M.S. Surprise (Daisy)

Aubrey and Maturin are in the Indian subcontinent and the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Aubrey is on the defensive, pitting wits and seamanship... more

Product code: 800144

£7.99

Harlequin (Daisy)

Thomas of Hookton is one of those archers. When his village is sacked by French raiders, he makes a promise to God: to retrieve the relic stolen from Hookton's church. Escaping his... more

Product code: 800470

£5.99

Heretic (Daisy)

In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a truce; but for Thomas Hookton there is no end to the fighting. He is pursuing the grail, the most... more

Product code: 800664

£6.99

Iron in the soul (Daisy)

June 1940: this was the summer of defeat. Day by day, hour by hour, this work unfolds what men thought and felt and did as France fell. Men who shrugged, men who ran, men who... more

Product code: 800199

£8.99

Sharpe's Christmas; two short stories (Daisy)

Sharpe's Christmas contains two short stories, Sharpe's Christmas and Sharpe's Ransom. Sharpe's Christmas is set in 1813, towards the end of the Peninsular War and falls after... more

Product code: 800437

£5.50

Sharpe's escape; Richard Sharpe and the Bussaco Campaign, 1811 (Daisy)

It is 1810 and the French are making yet another attempt to invade Portugal. Facing them is a wasted land, stripped of food by Wellington's orders, and Captain Richard Sharpe. But... more

Product code: 800164

£6.99

Sharpe's skirmish; Richard Sharpe and the defence of the Tornes, August 1812 (Daisy)

It is the summer of 1812 and Richard Sharpe, newly recovered from the wound he received in the fighting at Salamanca, is given an easy duty; to guard a Commissary Officer posted to... more

Product code: 801739

£4.50

The alchemist (Daisy)

The story of an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a treasure. He journeys to the markets of Tangiers and into the Egyptian desert where a fateful encounter... more

Product code: 800010

£7.99

The bloodstone papers (Daisy)

India, the 1940s: a time of political turmoil and violence; a country on the verge of its tryst with destiny. Ross Monroe is a boxer, a Catholic and an Anglo-Indian - part of the... more

Product code: 800306

£4.99

The deep silence (Daisy)

HMS Temeraire is the latest, most advanced nuclear submarine in the British fleet. Her trials are cut short and she is ordered to the Far East to reinforce the fleet against a... more

Product code: 801564

£6.99

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