A glorious classic fantasy combining the magic of Ursula Le Guin's The Wizard of Earthsea with the epic mastery of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody one young boy will become a walking enigma. Born on the wrong side of the sheets Fitz son of Chivalry Farseer is a royal bastard cast out into the world friendless & lonely. Only his magical link with animals
- the old art known as the Wit
- gives him solace & companionship. But the Wit if used too often is a perilous magic & one abhorred by the nobility. So when Fitz is finally adopted into the royal household he must give up his old ways & embrace a new life of weaponry scribing courtly manners; & how to kill a man secretly as he trains to become a royal assassin.

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Assassin's Creed: Renaissance" is the thrilling novelisation by Oliver Bowden based on the game series. 'I will seek Vengeance upon those who betrayed my family. I am Ezio Auditore di Firenze. I am an Assassin...'. The Year of Our Lord 1476
- the Renaissance: culture & art flourish alongside the bloodiest corruption & violence. Bitter blood-feuds rage between the warring political families of Italy. Following the murder of his father & brothers Ezio Auditore di Firenze is entrusted with an ancient Codex the key to a conspiracy that goes back to the centuries
- old conflict between the shadowy Templar Knights & the elite Order of Assassins. Ezio must avenge the deaths of his kinsmen & in doing so fulfil his destiny & live by the laws of the Assassin's Creed. Truth is written in blood " Assassin's Creed: Renaissance" is based on the phenomenally successful gaming series. Fans of the game will love these stories. Other titles in the series include " Assassin's Creed: Forsaken' " Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood" " Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade" & " Assassin's Creed: Revelations". Oliver Bowden is the pen-name of an acclaimed novelist."

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Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood" is the thrilling novelisation by Oliver Bowden based on the game series. 'I will journey to the black heart of a corrupt Empire to root out my foes. But Rome wasn't built in a day & it won't be restored by a lone assassin. I am Ezio Auditore da Firenze. This is my brotherhood.' Rome once mighty lies in ruins. The city swarms with suffering & degradation her citizens living in the shadow of the ruthless Borgia family. Only one man can free the people from the Borgia tyranny
- Ezio Auditore the Master Assassin. Ezio's quest will test him to his limits. Cesare Borgia a man more villainous & dangerous than his father the Pope will not rest until he has conquered Italy. & in such treacherous times conspiracy is everywhere even within the ranks of the brotherhood itself..." Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood" is based on the phenomenally successful gaming series. Fans of the game will love these stories. Other titles in the series include " Assassin's Creed: Renaissance" " Assassin's Creed: Forsaken" " Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade" & " Assassin's Creed: Revelations". Oliver Bowden is the pen-name of an acclaimed novelist."
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Assassin's Creed: Forsaken" is the latest thrilling novelisation by Oliver Bowden based on the phenomenally successful game series. 'I am an expert swordsman. & I am skilled in the business of death. I take no pleasure in my skill. Simply I am good at it.' 1735
- London. Haytham Kenway has been taught to use a sword from the age he was able to hold one. When his family's house is attacked
- his father murdered & his sister taken by armed men
- Haytham defends his home the only way he can: he kills. With no family he is taken in by a mysterious tutor who trains him to become a deadly killer. Consumed by his thirst for revenge Haytham begins a quest for retribution trusting no one & questioning everything he has ever known. Conspiracy & betrayal surround him as he is drawn into the centuries old battle between the Assassins & the Templars. The world of the Assassin's has become far more lethal than ever before. " Assassin's Creed: Forsaken" is based on the phenomenally successful gaming series. Fans of the game will love these stories. Other titles in the series include " Assassin's Creed: Renaissance" " Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood" " Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade" & " Assassin's Creed: Revelations". Oliver Bowden is the pen-name of an acclaimed novelist."


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Assassin's Creed: Revelations" is the thrilling novelisation by Oliver Bowden based on the game series. Older wiser & more deadly than ever Master Assassin Ezio Auditore embarks on an epic journey to find the lost library of Altair
- a library that may hold the key to defeating the Templars for ever. However a shocking discovery awaits him. The library holds no only a hidden knowledge but also the most unsettling secret the world has ever known; a secret the Templars hope to use to control humankind's destiny. Five keys are needed to access the library
- to find them Ezio must travel to the troubled city of Constantinople where a growing army of Templars threaten to estabalize the Ottoman Empire. Walking in the footsteps of his predecessor Altair Ezio must defeat the Templars for the final time. For the stakes have never been higher & what started as a pilgrimage has become a race against time..." Assassin's Creed: Revelations" is based on the phenomenally successful gaming series. Fans of the game will love these stories. Other titles in the series include " Assassin's Creed: Renaissance" " Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood" " Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade" & " Assassin's Creed: Forsaken". Oliver Bowden is the pen-name of an acclaimed novelist."

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Adelia Aguilar is to accompany 10-year-old Princess Joanna on her thous&-mile journey to marry the King of Sicily. They must take with them the legendary sword Excalibur. & so Adelia sets sail with the golden princess & her lavish procession of nobles musicians servants laundresses grooms luggage & treasure. But when members of the procession begin to die & it looks as though Adelia is to blame there are dangerous accusations of witchcraft. Meanwhile one traveller armed with a brilliant disguise & a personal vendetta has been watching Adelia all too closely. He wants Adelia dead.. .but he wants her to suffer first. ...

The gripping finale to Robin Hobb's classic Farseer trilogy. Keystone. Gate. Crossroads. Catalyst. Fitz is about to discover the truth about the Fool's prophecy. Having been resurrected from his fatal tortures in Regal's dungeons Fitz has once more foiled Regal's attempts to be rid of him. Now back in his own body & after months of rehabilitation Fitz begins the painful & slow process of learning the ways of a man again. Under the watchful eye of Burrich old King Shrewd's Stablemaster Fitz must learn to cast off the wild but carefree ways of the wolf & enter once more the human world: a world beset ever more viciously by the relentless Red Ship Raiders who are now left free to plunder any coastal town they please. But more immediately a world in which he finds he is utterly alone. Regal has stripped the kingdom of its riches & retired to the inland city of Tradeford. Of Verity on his quest to find the legendary Elderings there has been no word; Molly Kettricken & the Fool have all vanished. Unless Fitz can find Verity & help him in his quest the Six Duchies will perish & there will be no safe place to live. ...

The forces of King Charles are victorious; their Parliamentarian enemies in deep crisis. In the west the crucial port city of Bristol has fallen & Royalist eyes fall quickly upon neighbouring Gloucester. Its walls are weak its garrison under strength & its governor
- Sir Edward Massie
- suspected of harbouring sympathy for the King. Stryker & his men are with the army as it converges on Gloucester still reeling from the loss of a close friend at the bloody Battle of Stratton. Ordered to infiltrate the rebel city on a mission to discover whether Massie will indeed surrender Stryker reluctantly embarks upon his most desperate mission yet. But Gloucester's defenders are more resolute than any had imagined & catastrophe soon befalls him. With his life seemingly forfeit Stryker is spared by an unlikely saviour; Vincent Skaithlocke his former commander. The mercenary has returned to England to fight for Parliament & offers Stryker his protection. As old friends adjust to life fighting for opposing sides Stryker begins to question his own loyalties.. .but a chance discovery makes him realise that all in Gloucester is not what it seems for a hidden menace threatens his own life & that of King Charles himself.

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Never told before Assassination is the revelation of a 1000-year curse that has shaken the monarchy from Canute to Elizabeth II. After years of painstaking research David Maislish uncovers the murder or attempted murder of every single King & Queen. Here is English history without the things that sent us to sleep in school; instead brought to life with a series of royal murders & near murders. Read how a quarter perhaps as many as half of our Kings & Queens were killed
- even one in the twentieth century. It is all in Assassination
- the Royal Family's 1000-year curse.

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This book is the fully documented story of Marilyn Monroe's death
- a heart-stopping account of the events that led to the circumstances
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