The 4th novel in the bestselling Conqueror series, continuing the life & adventures of the mighty Khan dynasty. Genghis Khan is dead, but his legend & his legacy live on. His son Ogedai has built a white city on a great plain & made a capital for the new nation. Now the armies have gathered to see which of Genghis' sons has the strength to be khan. The Mongol empire has been at peace for two years, but whoever survives will face the formidable might of their great enemy, Chinas Song dynasty. The great leader Tsubodai sweeps into the west: through Russia, over the Carpathian mountains & into Hungary. The Templar knights have been broken & there is no king or army to stop him reaching France. But at the moment of Tsubodai's greatest triumph, as his furthest scouts reach the northern mountains of Italy, Tsubodai must make a decision that will change the course of history forever. ...

Just what was it like to be alive in that marvellous post-war moment when innovative new British aircraft made their debut, & pilots were the rock stars of the age? In this book, the author fuses his own memories of being a schoolboy plane spotter with a ruefully realistic history of British decline
- its loss of self confidence & power.
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In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer & builder of aircraft
- a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric.
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The epic story of the rise & fall of one of the most powerful & opulent dynasties in history. It is 1494 when the ruler of Ferghana dies in an extraordinary accident. His only son, twelve-year-old Babur, faces a seemingly impossible challenge. Young Babur is determined to live up to the example of his great ancestor, Tamburlaine -- Timur the Warrior -- whose conquests transformed the face of the earth from Delhi to the Mediterranean, from wealthy Persia to the wildernesses along the Volga. But he is dangerously young to inherit a kingdom. Before Babur can summon enough warlords to declare him the rightful king of Ferghana, plots against his crown, even his life, are hatching. & soon, as his obsession with Timur's legacy & the fabled city of Samarkand grows, & Babur becomes a man, he will discover that even the bravest & most fearless leader can be betrayed. With the wisest of advisers & most courageous of warriors by his side, Babur can achieve a great destiny & found an empire in India, but every step of his journey will be fraught with danger, in a world of tribal rivalries, rampaging armies & ruthlessly ambitious enemies. ...

The year 1588 marked a turning point in our national story. Victory over the Armada transformed us into a seafaring nation & it sparked a myth that one day would become a reality
- that the nation's new destiny, the source of her future wealth & power lay out on the oceans. This book tells the story of how the navy expanded from a tiny force to become the most complex industrial enterprise on earth; how the need to organise it laid the foundations of our civil service & our economy; & how it transformed our culture, our sense of national identity & our democracy. Exploring deeper into the themes raised by the television series, Brian Lavery documents the progress of the Royal Navy from late Tudor times to the First World War. He discusses its relationship with the state & the British people, analyses the tactics & initiative that created dramatic victories, & the failures and incompetence that lead to disaster. Rising through the administrative brilliance of Pepys, Anson & Lord Sandwich & the inspirational leadership of Blake, Hawke & Nelson, the Royal Navy became the most powerful force in the world. But the conviction of Britain's navy as undisputed ruler of the waves encouraged a sterility in strategic thinking & complacency during the 'long peace' of the nineteenth century leading to the bruising experience of the Battle of Jutl&.
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From the master of dystopia, comes his heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Based on J. G. Ballard's own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy's life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai
- a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation & survival, of internment camps & death marches. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. Rooted as it is in the author's own disturbing experience of war in our time, it is one of a handful of novels by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered but judged.
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Britannia has been subdued & an epic new chapter in Marcus Valerius Aquila's life begins. Posted to the Second Tungrain auxiliary cohort's original home in Germania Inferior, Marcus finds a very different world from the turbulent British frontier
- but one with its own dangers. Tungrorum, the centre of a once-prosperous farming province, a city already brought low by the ravages of the eastern plague that has swept through the empire, is now threatened by an outbreak of brutally violent robbery. A bandit chieftain called Obduro, his identity always hidden behind an iron cavalry helmet, is robbing & killing with impunity. His sword
- sharper, stronger & more deadly than any know to the Roman Army
- is a lethal symbol of his unstoppable power. & now he has moved beyond theft & threatens to destabilize the whole northern frontier of the empire.


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Outrageous, ingenious & indomitable, Teresa Cornelys was a unique figure in 18th century Europe whose private life & professional dealings scandalized society. A Venetian opera singer & adventuress, she arrived in England in 1759, leaving a trail of debts & lovers across Europe. She was 36 years old, destitute & the mother of Casanova's child. Within months, she had acquired one of the finest mansions in London's West End
- Carlisle House, Soho Square
- where she successfully launched the captital's first night-club. For two decades her extravagant concerts, balls & masquerades were frequented by royalty, aristocrats & politicians. She defied conventional morality, the law, the limitations of her sex, & even old age.

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In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker, investigated a woman's claim that, aged four, she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government. At first incredulous, Margaret discovered that this was just the tip of an enormous iceberg. ...