Mr Davenport has written a witty and learned introduction on various methods of murder. He has explored the many possibilities, including a number that are not included in this anthology. The examples are drawn from history and fiction, and range from classical Greece and Biblical times to the present. Read More...

When the English capture Calais, the war with France is suspended by a truce. But for Thomas of Hookton, there is no end to the fighting. He has to find the grail, the most sacred of Christendom's relics, and is sent to his ancestral homeland, Gascony, to engineer a confrontation with his deadliest enemy: his cousin, Guy Vexille. Read More...

It is 1810 and the French are making yet another attempt to invade Portugal and push the British back into the sea. Facing them is a wasted land, stripped of food by Wellington's orders, and Captain Richard Sharpe. But Sharpe is in trouble. Read More...

It is 1810 and the French are making yet another attempt to invade Portugal and push the British back into the sea. Facing them is a wasted land, stripped of food by Wellington's orders, and Captain Richard Sharpe. But Sharpe is in trouble. Read More...

India, 1803. It is four years since Richard Sharpe earned his sergeant's stripes at the siege of Seringapatam, and four years in which Sharpe seems to have discovered the easiest billet in the British army. But that comfort is rudely shattered when he witnesses a murderous act of treachery by ... Read More...

Harlequins are lost souls, so loved by the devil that he would not take them to hell, but left them to roam the world. In French the word is hellequin and that is what they called the English archers who came across the Channel to lay waste the towns and countryside. Read More...

The novel that Sharpe fans have been waiting for, Sharpe's Tiger describes the adventures of the raw young private soldier Richard Sharpe in India, before the Peninsular War. Read More...

Following the outstanding success of his Arthurian trilogy, Stonehenge is the story of three brothers and of their rivalry that creates the great temple we know as Stonehenge. Read More...

'Lancelot was gone and what had been his army now knelt to us in terror. Their banners were fallen, their spears were grounded and their shields lay flat. The madness had swept across Dunmonia like a thunderstorm, but it had passed and Arthur had won, and below us, under a high summer sun, a whole army knelt for his mercy.' Read More...

'It is a good season, Igraine tells me, to write of old things and so she has brought me a fresh pile of skins, a flask of newly mixed ink and a sheaf of quills. Tell me of Arthur, she says, of Golden Arthur, our last and best hope, our king who never was king, the enemy of God and scourge of Saxons. Tell me of Arthur.' Read More...