These are the tales of the last days before the great darkness descended. These are the tales of the Lost Lands, the country that was once ours but which our enemies now call England. These are the tales of Arthur, the Warlod, the King that Never Was, the Enemy of God and, may the living Christ forgive me, the best man I ever knew. How I have wept for Arthur ... Read More...

It is the spring of 1809 and a small British army is stationed in Lisbon when Marshal Soult begins the French invasion of northern Portugal. No one knows whether the British will fight or leave, but there is little choice for Lieutenant Richard Sharpe and his squad of riflemen ... Read More...

The war in Spain is drawing to a triumphant close for Wellington and the forces allied against the French, but in the winter of 1815 Napoleon's guileful intelligence agent, Pierre Ducos, conceives a devious plan that could force Wellington's army out of Spain without a musket being fired. Read More...

Rider Sandman has a mere seven days to snatch an innocent man from the hungriest gallows of Europe. The hangman is waiting. It is a race against the noose. Read More...

It is 1805 and Ensign Richard Sharpe, having secured a reputation as a fighting soldier in India, is on his way home to join the newly formed Green Jackets. The voyage should be a period of rest but his ship is riven with treachery and threatened by a formidable French warship, the Revenant. Read More...

It is 1807 and Lieutenant Richard Sharpe, newly returned to England, now wants to leave the army. One last job is offered to him. Go to Copenhagen, help the honourable John Lavisser deliver a bribe and stop a war. But nothing is easy in a Europe stirred by French ambitions. Read More...

Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. This became all too apparent when, after nearly two decades in England, the world's best-loved travel writer upped sticks with Mrs Bryson, little Jimmy et al. and returned to live in the country he had left as a youth. Read More...

Since the first tour to South Africa in 1910, to play for the British Lions remains the ultimate accolade for any Home Union rugby player. After an introduction by Willie John McBride, probably the greatest of all Lion's captains, Bill McLaren remembers the highlights of the great tours in recent years. Read More...

Human ambassador, Bren Cameron, has the difficult task of indoctrinating Jason Graham, a young man who has never before set foot on a planet, in the intricate, delicate and potentially lethal maneuverings of the human-atevi interface. Read More...

All seven books of the series in a beautiful boxed set. The Chronicles of Narnia present the adventures of children who play central roles in the unfolding history of the fictional realm of Narnia, a place where animals talk, magic is common, and good battles evil. Read More...