BERNARD CORNWELL

The entire "Sharp" series is being reprinted with new jackets to appeal to a younger generation. 'What makes these books such a successful formula is the blend of action, well-researched historical setting, colourful characterisation and a juicy sub-p ...

The year is 1820. Rider Sandman, a hero of Waterloo, returns to London to wed his fiancée. But instead of settling down to fame and glory, he finds himself penniless in a country where high unemployment and social unrest rage, and where men-innocent or guilty-are hanged for the merest of crimes.When he's offered a job as private investigator to ...

The first book in a brand new series, The Last Kingdom is set in England during the reign of King Alfred. Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria. Orphaned at ten, he is captured and adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtred's fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who...