Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 ' Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning ' says Thomas More 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues & all the gaolers will owe him money.' England the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust & need comes Thomas Cromwell first as Wolsey's clerk & later his successor. Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith a political genius a briber a charmer a bully a man with a delicate & deadly expertise in manipulating people & events. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament & a king who fluctuates between romantic passions & murderous rages. From one of our finest living writers Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel one that explores the intersection of individual psychology & wider politics. With a vast array of characters & richly overflowing with incident it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society moulding itself with great passion & suffering & courage. ...

Winners of the Man Booker Prize in 2009 & 2012. This elegantly presented double-hardback slipcased set is available for a limited time only. The perfect gift for any book lover. ' Wolf Hall' & ' Bring Up the Bodies' both winners of The Man Booker Prize in 2009 & 2012 respectively are the first two instalments in Hilary Mantel's Tudor trilogy. They have gathered readers & praise in equal & enormous measure. They have been credited with elevating historical fiction to new heights & animating a period of history many thought too well known to be made fresh. Through the eyes & ears of Thomas Cromwell the books' narrative prism we are shown Tudor England the court of King Henry VIII. Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith a political genius a briber a charmer a bully a man with a delicate & deadly expertise in manipulating people & events. In ' Wolf Hall' we witness Cromwell's rise beginning as clerk to Cardinal Wolsey Henry's chief advisor charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. He is soon to become his successor. By 1535 when the action of ' Bring Up the Bodies' begins Cromwell is Chief Minister to Henry his fortunes having risen with those of Anne Boleyn Henry's second wife. Anne's days though are marked. Cromwell watches as the king falls in love with silent plain Jane Seymour sensing what Henry's affection will mean for his queen for England & for himself. ...

It is three hundred years since the world toppled on its axis & civilisation was destroyed. In this savagely reshaped world ruled by brigands & war-makers a rider seeks a lost city. Pursuing a dream to calm the violence in his soul Jon Shannow the brigand slayer desires only peace. But from the Plague Lands emerges a fresh terror. The Lord of the Pit & his hellborn army seek to plunge mankind into a new satanic era. Seemingly invincible they make a fatal mistake. They take Shannows woman for blood sacrifice. & find themselves facing the deadliest warrior of the new age. Jon Shannow
- The Jerusalem Man.
...

Grubbs Grady treads new ground in this the eighth dramatic title in the Demonata. But beware
- Trespassers will be eaten! We spot
...

The first book in the bestselling Conqueror series featuring Genghis Khan & his descendants. 'I am the land & the bones of the hills. I am the winter.' Temujin the second son of the khan of the Wolves tribe was only eleven when his father died in an ambush. His family were thrown out of the tribe & left alone without food or shelter to starve to death on the harsh Mongolian plains. It was a rough introduction to his life to a sudden adult world but Temujin survived learning to combat natural & human threats. A man a small family without a tribe was always at risk but he gathered other outsiders to him creating a new tribal identity. It was during some of his worst times that the image of uniting the warring tribes & bringing the silver people together came to him. He will become the khan of the sea of grass Genghis. ...

As a direct result of the capture of the British steamer City of Baghdads secret code books by the German surface raider Atlantis in July 1940 the Nazis were able to de-cypher Admiralty convoy plans with deadly effect. Admiral Doenitz aware of the movements of the Allied convoys marshalled as many of his U-boats as possible. This book describes the resulting appalling Allied losses suffered by four convoys during the Autumn of 1940. The first convoy SC2 consisting of fifty-three merchantmen was attacked in early September by four U-boats. Due to poor weather only five ships were lost. Shortly afterwards HX72 sailing from Nova Scotia lost eleven of its forty-one ships to five Type VIIC U-boats. Top Aces Otto Kretschremer & Joachim Schepke who penetrated inside the columns accounted for nine. No less than nine U-boats attacked SC7 in October 1940. Of thirty-five merchantmen a staggering twenty were lost. Despite being a fast convoy with ten escorts HX79 also fared terribly losing twelve ships. In total forty-eight merchantmen were sunk & seven more damaged without any U-boat losses at all.A superbly researched & authoritative account of the darkest hours of the Battle of the Atlantic The Wolf Packs Gather is a tragic account of unprecedented losses of seamen ships & cargo from these merciless attacks on the four convoys. The Author a much published & distinguished historian & Merchant Navy captain is well qualified to describe not only the German tactics but the inadequacies of the Allied counter-measures. ...

Alone in the world Sophie dreams of being someone special but she could never have imagined this. On a school trip to Russia Sophie & her two friends find themselves on the wrong train. They are rescued by the beautiful Princess Anna Volkonskaya who takes them to her winter palace & mesmerises them with stories of lost diamonds & a tragic past. But as night falls & wolves prowl Sophie discovers more than dreams in the crumbling palace of secrets. ...

The gripping second novel in the Oathsworn series charting the adventures of a band of Vikings looking for the return of the Rune Sword that will lead them to Attilas Hoard A band of brothers known as the Oathsworn committed only to each other & feared by many rises again setting sail on the wolf sea in search of vengeance & glory. Washed up in a hostile city battle-weary & out of luck the Oathsworn lie waiting for their reluctant leader the young Orm to bring them back once more to wealth & warfare. But Orms prized sword the legendary Rune Serpent is gone stolen by the rapacious Starkad & with it the runes writ upon the hilt that only Orm can decipher. The Oathsworn embark on a dangerous mission to reclaim their precious sword as they pursue the elusive Starkad across the turbulent wolf sea. Unafraid to fight & cunning in the ways of men they wreak violence & bloody revenge on their enemies. Caught up in the treacherous battles in the East between the rulers of Constantinople aided by hordes of Viking mercenaries & the Arabs their adventures will take them from Greece to Jerusalem across the treacherous wolf sea where only the hunting hungry dare set sail. Epic adventure broad in scope & bloody in action The Wolf Sea is the stunning second novel in the Oathsworn series. ...

What do you run from? Katelyn had only been in Wolf Springs a short time before she was bitten by a werewolf. & now she carries that creature's curse in her veins. But she's not alone. Wolf Springs is home to a hidden family of werewolves the Fenners
- except they swear none of them bit her. Apparently there's a monster on the loose
- something wild & uncontrollable. & to make matters worse Katelyn's struggling to resist her own animal urges. Especially around Trick & Justin. Should she follow her heart
- or her instincts? A red-hot sequel to WOLF SPRINGS: UNLEASHED.


...

When Katelyn starts at her new school the only person she knows is the handsome & intriguing Trick Sokolov an acquaintance of her grandfather. Shes surprised when the popular Cordelia Fenner invites her home & when she meets Cordelias hot cousin she begins to think her new life might be ok after all. But as she spends time with the family she realises that the Fenners are harbouring a deep dark secret. Every bone in Katelyns body tells her that the Fenners are mad bad & dangerous to know
- but how can she give up her only friend & how can she ignore the way Justin sets her blood on fire with a single look? Katelyn finds herself caught between three major werewolf clans who have been at war with each other for centuries
- a war it seems that Katelyn is destined to end.

...