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When Henry V became king of England in 1413 he inherited an exhausted realm. The coup d'etat in which Henry's father deposed his uncle Richard II had left deep political fault-lines, the impact of the Black Death still lingered, public finances and law and order were in crisis. To the outside world, England was irrelevant, the glorious victories over France won by Henry's grandfather Edward III at Cre¿cy and Poitiers largely forgotten.But, in ...

For the Dogs, the war has only just begun.Caught up in the siege of Calais, in the midst a brutal eleven-month blockade of a small port on the French coast, they are no longer blindly walking into the unknown. But the men still have more questions than answers about what faces them - and why. What are they really fighting for? And why does the king care so much about taking such a small French town? The Dogs aren't paid to ask questions but in...

In 17th-century England, civil war rages and witches have become pawns in a plot to oust the king. Red-haired Evey does not want to be a witch, but she cannot deny the magick coursing through her veins...

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The damage brought about by the large-scale clothing industry and the way in which technology can alleviate this, put across in terms of environmental and human cost by "Deluxe" author Thomas.

Book two of "The Nicci Chronicles" sees new alliances forged and old enemies back, with world-saving falling on the sorceress.

The author of the Pulitzer prize-winning "Titan: The Life Of John D. Rockefeller, Sr." applies the same depth of biographical engagement to Union hero of the American Civil War Ulysses S. Grant, contextualising Grant's military genius against a pre-war life characterised by personal defeats, and looking in fresh detail at Grant's two terms as president. Leonardo Di Caprio has bought rights and financed a potential Grant biopic.

Third in the "Terra Ignota" series, set in 2454. War is inevitable as three centuries of savagery and bloodlust are unleashed.

FICTION / Science Fiction / General

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Jason Bourne is on the run. The NSA believes Bourne controls the cyber weapon devised by his old friend, General Boris Karpov, capable of penetrating the heart of America's final defence: nuclear launch codes. Flushed from cover, hunted by assassins and nearly killed, Bourne must join forces with his bitterest enemy, Keyre, the Somali terrorist, whose organization Bourne once decimated. From the Greek island of Skyros to Somalia and the underb...

A gripping love story from the author of "Fractured". A woman falls in love with a shadowy stranger who saved her life.

FICTION / Fantasy / General