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Sharpe has lost his command but is determined to win it back in an assault on the fortress town of Badajoz. Heroism and action in the Napolenoic wars by a masterful storyteller.

There is no joy in Helen Merlin's household, no love. Her mother cowers to her severe and controlling father and Helen tries to follow suit. But she yearns to be loved and made to feel special. When she meets an actor - whose profession is a common and dishonest one in the eyes of her father - on the way home from market one day, Helen is swept off her feet.

Cornwall in the 1780's... After a grim war in America, Ross Poldark returns to his land and his family. The joyful home-coming is soured for his father is dead, his estate is derelict and the girl he loves is engaged to marry his cousin.

Lovely Katherine Penn longs to have her play performed, a near impossibility in the stuff environs of Cambridge. Playwrights are considered rogues, but she's quite proper...isn't she?

Alan Furst again proves himself the master of his proven terrain - behind the lines of Nazi occupation in France during WWII. Leading on from the successful The world at night, this thrilling tale of espionage sees Jean Casson broke, hiding under a false name and about to commit fully to the Resistance.

Carrie Preston is used to hard work - oldest of ten, with an imcompetent mother and a drunken father, she struggles to find food for the younger children. But nothing could have prepared her for the day fate deals her family the cruellest of hands, rendering the Prestons more helpless and desperate than ever.

Cornwall, 1854: Alice Rowe is rescued from the workhouse by the Rev. Arnold Markham to work in his parsonage as a housemaid. When the Reverend dies of a sudden heart attack, she faces an uncertain future.

Clare Hamilton is just nine years old when her childhood is abruptly ended with the death of both her parents in the typhoid epidemic of 1946. When her Granny Scott dies, she seizes her chance to return to Salter's Grange to take care of her grandfather.

A fire destroys the modest coal haulage business their father Jack has built, leaving Jack broken and his family wondering how they will survive.

In this novel, Kalgoorlie is brought to life through the lives and times of two families, one Australian and one Italian. From the heady early days to the gold rush, to the horrors of the First World War, to the shame and confrontation of post-war riots, it tells the story of Australia itself and the people who forged a nation out of a harsh and unforgiving land.