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The fourth volume in the acclaimed Emperor series, in which Conn Iggulden interweaves history and adventure to recreate the astonishing life of Julius Caesar - an epic tale of ambition and rivalry, bravery and betrayal.

Brought to you by Penguin. MURDERERS, CONMEN AND THIEVES A new breed of villain has risen, possessed of extraordinary intellect and violence. Only the brilliant mind and courage of Sexton Blake, scourge of the criminal world, can stop them, in these three classic stories, collected together in...

BRITAIN AND GERMANY ARE AT WAR AND SEXTON BLAKE IS IN THE THICK OF IT As the battle for the Western Front rages, adventuring detective Sexton Blake pits his intellect and physical prowess against the machinations of the Kaiser. A band of intrepid allies join Blake to take on the forces of evil...

Rescued from a pandemic’s wreckage and raised by the eccentric surgeon Dr. Horace Croft, orphan Nora Beady cares little for Victorian conventions. While other young ladies busy themselves with needlework and watercolors, Nora perfects her sutures and anatomical illustrations. Women face dire consequences if caught practicing medicine, but in Croft’s private clinic, Nora is his most trusted - and secret - assistant. That is, until the new surgical resident, Dr. Daniel Gibson, arrives.

Siglo IX, Maguncia. Hija de un predicador que llegó a Sajonia para esparcir la palabra de Dios, Juana es una joven poco común. Cada día acude a la iglesia del padre Carolus, quien, a cambio de que ayude en la cocina, comparte con ella la sabiduría de los textos sagrados.

In 1977, Ickey Jerusalem, San Francisco’s golden-boy poet laureate (based on Blake), is found dead in a locked, first-class toilet on an arriving red-eye flight. Ded Smith, a desperately unhappy, intelligent philistine with a highly developed philosophy to match, is called in to investigate the poet’s death. Thus begins a series of hilarious encounters with the members of Jerusalem’s coterie (updated amalgams of characters from Blake’s work).

In the first novel of a blazing new American Western saga, two estranged brothers must unite to defend their family’s land from a ruthless banker and his cutthroat gang. Jack Noble built Montana’s Rafter N Ranch with his bare hands, leaving behind a hard-won legacy. Now, his grandsons stand to lose it all. Gabriel “Noble” Bartlett is a notorious gunslinger with a mean streak as wide as the frontier. His brother Daniel is a steady rancher who believes in justice - until justice fails.