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ENEMIES BY BIRTH. BROTHERS IN BLOOD. VENGEANCE WILL BE HAD. 1829. Mahikeng Mission Station. Highveld, southern Africa. 1829. Mahikeng Mission Station. Highveld, southern Africa. The warrior king is dead. Ralph Courtney and Ann Waite have escaped. From the chaos and bloodshed that consumed the...

IN THE HUNT FOR A SPY, HE EXPOSED A CONSPIRACY 'Seriously riveting . . . a testament to Robert Harris's storytelling power' The Times 'Taut and exciting' Guardian Paris, 1895: an army officer, Georges Picquart, watches a convicted spy, Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of a...

AudioFile Earphones Award Winner As she did with The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code, Saskia Maarleveld’s nuanced narration brings to life every character in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse in New York Times bestselling author Kate Quinn’s haunting and powerful story of female friendships and...

63 vor Christus, eine Zeit des Friedens und des Wohlstands: Die Legionen der mächtigen Römischen Republik haben alle Feinde in die Knie gezwungen. Doch auf den Straßen Roms fließt das Blut. Während die Obrigkeit wegsieht, führt Decius Caecilius Metellus der Jüngere, Hauptmann der Vigiles, einen einsamen Kampf gegen die grassierende Gewalt. Als ein Silberwechsler und ein Bauunternehmer ermordet aufgefunden werden, erkennt Metellus die bedrohlichen Vorzeichen einer großangelegten Verschwörung – einer Verschwörung, die ihre Wurzeln im Zentrum der Macht selbst hat.

The second installment in #1 New York Times bestselling author James Clavell’s Asian Saga, Tai Pan, Part Two contains the second half of the sweeping epic of the founding of Hong Kong. “There can only be one Tai-Pan.” Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also...

The second installment in #1 New York Times bestselling author James Clavell’s Asian Saga, Tai Pan, Part One contains the first half of the sweeping epic of the founding of Hong Kong. “There can only be one Tai-Pan.” Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also...

From the internationally bestselling author of Conclave, Precipice and the acclaimed Cicero trilogy comes a sweeping new political thriller about the general who built an empire—and paid the ultimate price. Agrippa is Robert Harris’s monumental return to the world of ancient Rome on the edge...

Edge of Eternity is the epic, final novel in Ken Follett's captivating and hugely ambitious Century trilogy. On its own or in sequence with Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, this is an irresistible and spellbinding epic about the fight for personal freedom set during the Cold War. A Fight...

In the seventh century the Cholas are vassals of the Pallavas. Parthiban conveys his dream of the Chola dynasty regaining its glory - which he believes is lost since they are no longer the independent rulers - to his young son Vikraman. Parthiban refuses to pay tribute to the Pallavas, triggering a battle in which Parthiban is killed. Before he dies, on the battlefield, an enigmatic monk promises Parthiban that he will make sure that Vikraman fulfills Parthiban's dream.

In The Mauritius Command, Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half-pay without a command until his friend, occasional intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a Commodore's pennant. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captains: one a pleasure-seeking dilettante, the other liable to provoke the crew to mutiny.

Crispin is a mosaicist, a layer of bright tiles. Still grieving for the family he lost to the plaque, he lives only for his arcane craft. But an imperial summons from Valerius the Trakesian to Sarantium, the most magnificent place in the world, is difficult to resist. In a world half-wild and tangled with magic, a journey to Sarantium means a walk into destiny. Bearing with him a deadly secret and a Queen's seductive promise, guarded only by his own wits and a talisman from an alchemist's treasury, Crispin sets out for the fabled city. Along the way he will encounter a great beast.

The final battle looms as ultimate secrets are unveiled. A single question haunts both sides: Who is the true "Devdhwaja" – Nagendra or Om? Tensions among allies reach a breaking point. Nagendra shocks everyone by returning from apparent death, unharmed and more powerful than ever before, suggesting he has unlocked some forbidden science or magic. Even trusted comrades shake: LSD and Parimal struggle to trust each other as buried truths emerge.

ಐತಿಹಾಸಿಕ ರೋಚಕ ಘಟನೆಗಳ ಸುತ್ತ ಹೆಣೆಯಲಾದ ಅದ್ಭುತ ಥ್ರಿಲ್ಲರ್ ಕಾದಂಬರಿ ಡಾ.ಕೆ.ಎನ್.ಗಣೇಶಯ್ಯನವರ "ಚಿತಾದಂತ - ಶಾಂತಿದೂತನ ದಂತಯಾನ

Una lettera ingiallita dal tempo scivola in una cassetta della posta: sono passati cinquant'anni da quando è stata spedita. È il 1992, e quel messaggio inatteso riporta tutto indietro, a un mondo oscurato dalle tende nere del Blitz londinese e ai segreti inconfessabili sepolti tra le mura di Milderhurst Castle. Per Edie Burchill, quella busta non è soltanto posta smarrita: è la chiave per scardinare il passato enigmatico di sua madre e scoprire una verità rimasta ostinatamente nascosta per mezzo secolo.

Vor 50.000 Jahren war der Mensch noch ein Neuankömmling in den Wäldern Europas – ohne scharfe Klauen, ohne Reißzähne und mit nur primitiven Speeren aus Holz. Als Ugh-lomi und Eudena auf einem schmalen Felsvorsprung Unterschlupf suchen und das erste Feuer entfachen, lockt der heiße Rauch den unerschrockenen Koloss an. Der Höhlenbär kennt keine Furcht, selbst Mammuts weichen ihm aus. Doch er ahnt nicht, dass der Mensch ein neues Werkzeug erfunden hat: die erste Steinaxt. Und dass Erfindungsgeist am Ende mächtiger ist als Muskeln und Klauen...

Bloomsbury presents Gallows Court by Martin Edwards, read by Helen MacFarlane. ‘A true master of British crime writing’ RICHARD OSMAN A superb Golden Age mystery packed with twists, from the winner of the Diamond Dagger 2020 LONDON, 1930 The night is sooty, sulphurous, and malign. A spate of...

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of Conclave and Dictator, a gripping tale of ancient Rome’s descent into dictatorship “Thrilling. . . . Agrippa is a swift-paced romp. . . . Politics may be ‘a filthy business,’ as Agrippa observes, but in the hands of Mr. Harris, it is a...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Conclave, and Dictator: an unexplained death beckons a young priest into a world of forbidden knowledge in this medieval thriller that’s “as rich in ideas as it is in suspense” (The Wall Street Journal). “One word: wonderful. Two words...

Read by the charismatic Christopher Lee, this collection of three of Holmes’ cases tells of a missing diamond, a missing war hero and a savage yet faithful wolfhound. Contains: The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier The Adventure of the Creeping Man The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone The...

Chief Inspector Soobramania is called when three bodies are discovered in the space of twenty-four hours, with mutilations bearing an eerie resemblance to Jack the Ripper’s victims. Initial suspicion centres on an English Duke visiting Hyderabad and his friend, a powerful Deccani noble and the angry stepson of one of the dead. In the face of political pressure, Soob must ally with his rival in the British Residency Police, Inspector Wilberforce, to unearth the culprit.