1826: Napoleon Bonaparte is dead, the Congress of Vienna's work is done, and there is peace in Europe. However, in Portugal there is the scent of civil war in the air following the death of King John VI. And with Spain, and perhaps even France, threatening to take sides, England's historic treaty with Portugal is set to be invoked. Newly returned from India, Matthew Hervey joins a party of officers sent to make an assessment and lend support to the Portuguese regent. Read More...

The last two years have not been good ones for Matthew Hervey. His beloved wife Henrietta is dead and, believing that he can no longer remain in a regiment where men like Lord Towcester can rise to command, he has turned his back on the Sixth. He is left kicking his heels in a corrupt and unruly England far removed from its once glorious past. Read More...

The year is 1824; the Sixth Light Dragoons are still stationed in India, and the talk in the officers' mess is of war. The Burmese are increasingly encroaching on Company land and skirmishes are becoming common on India's borders. Meanwhile, across the country, the succession to the Raj has been usurped. The rightful claimant, Balwant Singh, has been forced from the throne by the warmonger Durjan Sal. A conflagration looks set to flare, taking the surrounding provinces with it. 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...

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...

'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...