This is the third book in the "House of Niccolo" series. Set in 15th-century Cyprus, this novel continues the saga of Nicholas van der Poel, international mercenary who started out as a dyer's apprentice, as he plays for the highest stakes with the greatest super-powers in Europe.
It is 1667 and the mighty naval war between the Dutch and the English still rages. Sir Francis Courtney and his son Hal, in their fighting caravel, are on patrol off southern Africa, lying in wait for a galleon of the Dutch East India Company returning from the Orient laden with spices, timber and gold... 'The scope is magnificent and the epic scale breathtaking ... Wilbur Smith is one of thos benchmarks agains whom others are compared' - The Times 'Meticulous research supports constant excitement in a fast-moving tale' - Washington Post
Pathologist Ando is at a low point in his life. His small son's death from drowning has resulted in the break-up of his marriage and he is suffering traumatic nightmares. Work is his only escape, and his world is shaken up by a series of mysterious deaths that seem to be caused by a deadly virus.
The new generation of Courtneys stake their claim on the wilderness of Southern Africa in this brilliant new novel from the celebrated international bestselling author. At the close of Wilbur Smith's bestselling Monsoon, Tom Courtney and his brother Dorian battled on the high seas and finally reached the Cape of Good Hope to start life afresh. In this spellbinding new novel, the next generation of Courtneys are out to stake their claim in Southern Africa, travelling along the infamous 'Robber's Road'. It is a journey both exciting and hazardous, that takes them through the untouched wilderness of a beautiful land filled with warring tribes and wild animals. At heart a story of love and hatred, vengeance and greed, Blue Horizon is an utterly compelling adventure from one of the world's most celebrated novelists.
Sharpe, Having Just Received His Commission, Faces His Toughest Battle Yet In This Return To India, The Terrain Of The Bestselling Sharpe'S Tiger. Repackaged In The Fantastic New Sharpe Look. It Is 1803 And Sir Arthur Wellesley'S Army Is Closing On The Retreating Mahrattas In Western India. Marching With The British Is Ensign Richard Sharpe, Newly Made Into An Officer And Wishing He Had Stayed A Sergeant. Spurned By His New Regiment, He Is Sent To The Army'S Baggage Train And There Finds Corruption, Romance, Treason And Enemies Old And New. Sergeant Hakeswill Wants Sharpe Dead, And Hakeswill Has Powerful Friends While Sharpe Has Only An Orphaned Arab Boy As His Ally. And Waiting With The Cornered Mahrattas Is Another Enemy, The Renegade Englishman, William Dodd, Who Does Not Envisage Defeat, But Only A Glorious Triumph. For The Mahrattas Have Taken Refuge In Gawilghur, The Greatest Stronghold Of India, Perched High On Its Cliffs Above The Deccan Plain. Who Rules In Gawilghur, It Is Said, Rules India, And Dodd Knows That The Fortress Is Impregnable. There, Behind Its Double Walls, In The Towering Twin Forts, Sharpe Must Face His Enemies In What Will Prove To Be Wellesley'S Last Battle On Indian Soil.
In the 14th century, dark days fell on the Church as two popes, one in Rome and the other in Avignon, each supported by different political empires, struggled for supremacy. Hearing of a secret which may bring them victory, one side hired a mercenary to retrieve this priceless information. Thomas of Hookton is an English archer. When his village is sacked by raiders, he escapes and becomes an archer in the army of King Edward III. The King and his son are going to France with a great force of knights and men-at-arms, led by great lords. But it is the archers, the common men, who will decide the success or failure of the invasion.
The classic Number One bestseller from award-winning author Vikram Seth.
A millionaire is murdered and Inspector Felse, after sifting through the few shreds of evidence, finally arrests Kitty Norris, his teenaged son Dominic's first love. A young man's infatuation soon becomes something far more dangerous, though, as Dominic takes on Kitty's cause--in direct opposition to his father's investigation.
In 1861, after centuries of isolation, Japan finally has opened its doors to the West, and Lord Genji, a young nobleman with a gift for prophecy, joins forces with a group of Christian missionaries, a mysterious geisha, and a legendary swordsman to embark on a harrowing odyssey toward an ultimate battle. A first novel. Reprint.
Una coppia di giovani avvocati tedeschi di successo decide di passare il Natale in Inghilterra, in una isolata casa di campagna. Il loro matrimonio è in crisi e Barbara spera che qualche giorno passato in solitudine con Ralph possa servire a risolvere la crisi. La sera stessa dell'arrivo una violenta tempesta di neve li blocca in casa. Barbara si imbatte casualmente nel diario di Frances Gray, la vecchia proprietaria della casa. La lettura del manoscritto affascina la giovane che scopre una donna straordinaria, in grado di sfidare le convenzioni, ma a poco a poco, da quelle pagine segnate dal tempo, emerge anche un terribile segreto, la cui scoperta metterà Barbara in grave pericolo.
