Fiction - Adventure and war

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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

The naked and the dead (Daisy)

The story of a platoon of young Americans soldiers as they pick their way through treacherous terrain across the Japanese-held island of Anopopei. Caught up in the confusion of... more

Product code: 800124

£8.99

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

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

The night watch (Daisy)

This is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish... more

Product code: 800294

£7.99

Cross stitch (Daisy)

In 1945, Claire Randall is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon in Scotland. Innocently she walks through a stone circle in the Highlands, and... more

Product code: 800608

£7.99

Devil may care (Daisy)

Dr Julius Gorner is a name that will become seared into James Bond's consciousness. The name of a man who knows no master but his own power-crazed ego, whose wealth is exceeded... more

Product code: 800991

£7.99

Beauvallet (Daisy)

'Mad Nicholas' to his friends, 'Scourge of Spain' to the enemy, Sir Nicholas Beauvallet has never been known to resist a challenge. When a captured galleon yields the lovely Dona... more

Product code: 800979

£7.99

The quest (Daisy)

Egypt is struck by a series of terrible plagues that cripple the Kingdom, and then the ultimate disaster follows. The Nile fails. The waters that nourish and sustain the land dry... more

Product code: 801037

£7.99

Catch-22 (Daisy)

A rational coward in World War II makes the craziest and puzzling dilemma suddenly understandable: if a man was crazy he could be grounded, all he had to do was ask; if he asked... more

Product code: 800735

£7.99

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