A sinister Gothic tale in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of UsherNew England, The 1890sWhen a young doctor begins work at an isolated mental asylum, he is expected to fall in with the shocking regime for treating the patients. He is soon intrigued by one patient, a strange amnesiac girl who is fascinated by books but cannot read. He embarks upon a desperate experiment to save her but when his own dark past begins t ...
George MacDonald Fraser’s uproarious bestselling Flashman series, now available in one complete ebook for the first time.THE COMPLETE FLASHMAN PAPERS is the entire collection of Flashman’s perilous missions across the world. Spanning from 1839 right through to 1894 the incorrigible Flashman fears all evil and when it comes to voluptuous queens and princesses he has be known to waver from his mission. Filled to the gunnels with escapades of unwav ...
Conn Iggulden’s bestselling Emperor series, now in one complete eBook for the first time.Rome uncovered.This is the astounding life of Julius Caesar, chronicled here in all five novels from Conn Iggulden’s bestselling and magnificent EMPEROR series.Iggulden brings to life the glorious, gritty Roman world that held such vast power in its hands. These epic novels brilliantly interweave history and adventure, and expose the ambition and rivalry, br ...
The first four books in Conn Iggulden’s acclaimed Emperor series brilliantly interweave history and adventure to recreate the astonishing life of Julius Caesar: the greatest Roman of them all. Now in one complete eBook for the first time.THE GATES OF ROME, THE DEATH OF KINGS, THE FIELD OF SWORDS, THE GODS OF WAR.From the spectacle of gladiatorial combat to the intrigue of the Senate, from the foreign wars that secure the power of the empire to t ...
The first two novels in an epic series about Queen Emma of Normandy, set in 11th-century England when Vikings are on the brink of invasion. A standout series of seduction, war, betrayal and unrequited love from an outstanding new voice in historical fictionSHADOW ON THE CROWNIn 1002 AD Emma, a young Norman girl, must take her place as bride to England’s King ?thelred, a ruler who is looking for nothing more than a political pawn to protect his s ...
For Harry Youngblood, escaping from prison is going to be easy.But escaping his past could cost him his life…Twenty years inside for one third of a million pounds: that was the price Harry Youngblood was paying.Drummond is Youngblood’s cellmate. He is also intelligence agent Paul Chavasse, working undercover. And when Youngblood is broken out, Chavasse tags along for the ride.His objective is to break the crime ring headed by the Baron, to whom ...
The timeless Higgins classic…Captain Hugh Lomax's last view of Kyros had been as a German prisoner of war. The picturesque beauty of the Greek Islands hiding their blood-drenched history and the terrifying carnage that took place years earlier.But there are questions still unanswered. Lomax knows he was innocent, and as he returns to Kyros he begins to remember things he had long since buried in the back of his mind; the deadly mission he u ...
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Scotland Yard ask the Beresfords to infiltrate a gang to find the source of counterfeit money. Delighted at the chance to use the methods of Edgar Wallace, they revel in gambling, drinking and the affections of the opposite sex while chasing a trail of crisp counterfeit notes… ...
Get all five Tommy & Tuppence adventures for the first time in one ebook.Tommy and Tuppence, two young people short of money and restless for excitement, embark on a daring business scheme – Young Adventurers Ltd.Their advertisement says they are ‘willing to do anything, go anywhere’, and their first assignment plunges them into more danger than they ever imagined. In their second book they take over Blunt’s International Detective Agency, and i ...