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1) Azincourt
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A unique novel, looking at one the greatest battles in history. Print run 150,000.
2) Heretic
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Grail Quest (Bernard Cornwell) volume 3
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The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the number one bestseller Vagabond, this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series. In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a truce.
But for Thomas of Hookton, the hero of Harlequin and Vagabond, there is no end to the fighting. He is pursuing the grail, the most sacred of Christendom's relics, and is sent to his ancestral homeland, Gascony, to engineer...
3) The fort
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The bestselling author returns with a new stand-alone novel of the most infamous Naval encounter of the War of Independence. It is the summer of 1779 and a force of Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, have been sent to harass rebel privateers and to establish a safe haven for Loyalists. Determined to expel them, the rebels will send a fleet of 40 vessels and more than one thousand infantrymen to destroy the invaders. Cornwell brings...
4) 1356
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Thomas of Hookton, a veteran of Crecy and many other battles, is the leader of a mercenary company east of Gascony in 1356. He must fulfill an urgent task: La Malice, a sword of mythical power guaranteeing victory to its owner, is thought to be hidden near the town of Poitiers. But others are seeking the treasure too, with some pursuing their private agendas against Thomas.
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In the last years of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex is in failing health, and his heir is an untested youth. The Danes, who have failed so many times to conquer Wessex, smell opportunity. This novel, the fifth in Cornwell's magnificent series focused on England's history, tells of the final assaults on Alfred's kingdom of Wessex. Print run 125,000.
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A lost legacy puts one of England's great families in mortal peril ...
Lazen Castle, home to the much-envied Lazender family, is a house under siege. The heir is abroad, pursuing his own adventures, so the family estates fall under the control of his sister, Campion. Meanwhile, The Fallen Angels, a powerful and dangerous secret society in Europe, need the Lazender fortune to bring their rebellion to England. Surrounded by deceit, Campion draws ever...
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In a country at war, a secret inheritance reveals a dark conspiracy ... On a sunlit afternoon in seventeenth-century Dorset, a young girl falls in love with a stranger. But when her Puritan brother tries to force her into an unbearable marriage she flees, taking with her only the gift left to her by her unknown father, a gold pendant sealed by an engraving of an axe, and the words: St Matthew. One of four intricately wrought seals - each holding a...
8) Stonehenge
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A novel by Bernard Cornwell that follows the enormous success of his Arthurian trilogy (The Winter King, Enemy of God, and Excalibur) tells the tale of three brothers and of their rivalry that creates the great temple.
One summer's day, a stranger carrying great wealth in gold comes to the settlement of Ratharryn. He dies in the old temple. The people assume that the gold is a gift from the gods. But the mysterious treasure causes great dissension,...
10) Copperhead
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Starbuck chronicles volume 2
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The beloved Confederate Captain Nate Starbuck returns to the front lines of the Civil War in this second installment of Bernard Cornwell's acclaimed Nathaniel Starbuck Chronicles. It is the summer of 1862, and Nate has been bloodied but victorious at the battles of Ball's Bluff and Seven Pines. But he can't escape his Northern roots, and it is only a matter of time until he's accused of being a Yankee spy, pursued, and brutally interrogated. To clear...
11) Archer's tale
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Grail Quest (Bernard Cornwell) volume 1
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At dawn on Easter morning 1343, a marauding band of French raiders arrives by boat to ambush the coastal village of Hookton. To brave young Thomas, the only survivor, the horror of the attack is epitomized by the casual savagery of a particular black-clad knight. Thomas vows to avenge the murder of his townsmen and recapture a holy treasure that the black knight stole from the church. But Thomas must first make his way to France, so he joins the army...
12) Battle flag
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Starbuck chronicles volume 3
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From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the third installment in The Starbuck Chronicles.
The epic battle for control of the Confederate capital continues through the hot summer of 1862.
It's a battle that Captain Nate Starbuck, a Yankee fighting for the Southern cause, has to survive and win. He must lead his ragged company in a bitter struggle, not only against the formidable Northern army, but against his own superiors who...
13) Death of kings
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The exciting conclusion to the Making of England series. Saxon-born warrior, Uhtred, desires to reclaim his long lost lands and castle to the north, but the challenge to him, as the king's warrior, is that he knows that he will either be the means of making Alfred's dream of a united and Christian England come to pass or be responsible for condemning it to oblivion.
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Warlord chronicles volume 3
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From Bernard Cornwell. the creator of the No. 1 bestselling Sharpe novels. Arthur seeks peace, with the aid of his sword Excaliber . . . After rebellions and betrayals by those he believed loved him most, Arthur looks at his most weak. His Saxon enemies decide to strike before he regains his strength, plunging Britain into war. It will require all Arthur's leadership and military cunning to win this last battle. But in this final struggle of the warlord,...
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Warlord chronicles volume II
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From Bernard Cornwell, the creator of the No. 1 bestselling Sharpe novels. Arthur has brought a fragile peace to Britain - but it cannot last . . . Uniting the restive British kingdoms behind him, Arthur believes he can now hold back the Saxons threatening the country. Meanwhile, Merlin sets out on a quest to uncover the sacred Treasures of Britain, hoping they will prove decisive in the coming battle. But in a country where the cult of the Christians...
17) War lord
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Last kingdom volume 13
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THE FINAL BATTLE AWAITS... The epic conclusion to the globally bestselling historical series. England is under attack. Chaos reigns. Northumbria, the last kingdom, is threatened by armies from all sides, by land and sea - and only one man stands in their way. Torn between loyalty and sworn oaths, the warrior king Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg faces his greatest ever battle - and prepares for his ultimate fate...
18) Vagabond
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Grail Quest (Bernard Cornwell) volume 2
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In Harlequin, Thomas of Hookton travelled to France as an archer and there discovered a shadowy destiny, which linked him to a family of heretical French lords who sought Christendom's greatest relic. Having survived the battle of Crécy, Thomas is sent back to England, charged with finding the Holy Grail. But Thomas is an archer and when a chance comes to fight against an army invading northern England he jumps at it. Plunged into the carnage of...
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Bestselling author Bernard Cornwell takes us into the heart of the Elizabethan era, long one of his favourite periods of British history. Young Richard Shakespeare, an actor struggling to make his way in a company dominated by his estranged older brother William. As the growth of theatre blooms, their rivalry - and that of the playhouses, playwrights and actors vying for acclaim and glory - propels a high-stakes story of conflict and betrayal.
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