Brought to you by PenguinThis celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting a refreshingly eclectic variety of personal icons, from pub signs to seaside piers, from cattle grids to canal boats, and from village cricket to nimbies.First published as a lavish colour coffeet...

Penguin Presents the audio edition of The Secret Cyclist by The Secret Cyclist, read by Ben Eagle.Who is The Secret Cyclist and why all the secrecy?"Every public aspect of our lives is so tightly controlled that being truly honest is all but impossible in a newspaper interview, never mind a whole book. You try write a warts-and-all blog about your office. Question how the business is run, make sure you remember to call your boss a moron, and th...

Germania, 15 n. Christus. Es ist noch nicht lange her, dass Tausende Germanen unter den Schwertern Roms starben und einer der geraubten Legionsadler zurückgeholt werden konnte. Und doch ist Lucius Tullus mit diesen Erfolgen nicht zufrieden. Zwei Dinge muss der Centurio noch erledigen, ehe er nach Rom zurückkehrt. Erstens: auch den Adler seiner alten Legion wiederfinden. Zweitens: den Verräter Arminius töten. Aber Arminius ist ein zäher Gegner, und es gelingt ihm erneut, die germanischen St...

From 'the rising star of historical fiction' (Wilbur Smith) a new Eagles of Rome novel, by the Sunday Times bestselling author of Eagles at War.JUSTICE , HONOUR, REVENGEAD 14: Five long years have passed since the annihilation of three legions in the wilds of Germania.Demoted, battle-scarred and hell-bent on revenge, Centurion Tullus and his legionaries begin their fightback. Ranged against them is the charismatic chieftan ...

Nur die Götter können den Römern jetzt noch helfen.Germania, 9 n. Chr. Einige Stämme östlich des Rheins haben genug von den römischen Eindringlingen und planen einen Überfall. Ihr Anführer ist Arminius, ein Cheruskerfürst, der bereits lange davon träumt, die brutalen Besatzer aus seinem Land zu vertreiben. Dafür hat er sich das Vertrauen des römischen Statthalters Varus erschlichen. Nur Tullus, ein erfahrener Centurio, misstraut Arminius und warnt Varus - vergeblic...

England, 1193Will Bowman has finally returned home to England to claim both land and title as reward for his noble service in the name of the crown.Arriving in Northumberland as the new baron of Scyldemoor, Will finds a half-ruined castle on a windswept hilltop, which he must now turn into a thriving fortress to protect his people from the ever-present threat of Scots marauders led by the fearsome Red Douglas.But as Will is fighting to establish his...

The Forgotten Legion - ten thousand legionaries made captive by the Parthians - has marched to Margiana on the edge of the known world. In its midst are Romulus, Brennus and Tarquinius, all men with good reason to hate Rome. Together the trio must face the savage tribes which constantly threaten the area. But other, more treacherous enemies lurk within the ranks of the Forgotten Legion itself. When all hope is lost, the three friends' character will be tested to the utter limit.Mea...

Blut fordert Blut14 nach Christus. Fünf lange Jahre sind seit dem Gemetzel in den Wäldern Germanias vergangen, doch die überlebenden Legionäre haben die Schmach der Niederlage noch immer nicht verwunden. Vor allem der Centurio Tullus ist nur von einem Gedanken beseelt: Rache. Rache an Arminius, dem verräterischen Cherusker. Unter dem Kommando des Feldherrn Germanicus dringen Tullus und seine Kampfesbrüder tief in Feindesland vor und verwüsten zahlreiche Dörfer, um ...

AD 15. The German chieftain Arminius has been defeated, one of the lost Roman eagles recovered, and thousands of German tribesmen slain.Yet these successes aren’t nearly enough for senior centurion Lucius Tullus. Not until Arminius is dead, his old legion’s eagle found and the enemy tribes completely vanquished will he rest.But Arminius – devious, fearless – is burning for revenge of his own.Charismatic as ever, he raises another large tribal army, ...

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A SHORT STORY, NOT A FULL LENGTH NOVEL.ABOUT THE SHORT STORY’S PRICE: Hello, you lovely people. Odd to talk about money straight up, but I know that some of you might be thinking, £2.49/US$3.49/CDN$4.49/A$4.49 is a lot for a short story. Amazon takes around 2p to deliver the story to your Kindle, then takes another 50p plus as its cut. The remainder, £1.90 odd, goes to me. That's not a great deal, I hope you agree. A roughly similar story applies in foreign terr...

ONLY THE GODS CAN SAVE THE ROMANS NOWAD 9, Germania. East of the river Rhine, tribes hostile to Rome prepare a deadly ambush.Their leader is the charismatic chieftain and trusted ally of Rome, Arminius, whose dream is to drive out the brutal invaders of his land.Pitted against him are veteran centurion Lucius Tullus and the Roman provincial governor, Varus.Together with three local legions, they leave their summer camp to be...

A dazzling and ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic seas, Ocean is a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic ridge some 200 million years ago and ends with the Castilian conquest of the Canary Islands in the fifteenth century, providing a template for the methods used by the Spanish in their colonization of the New World.John Haywood argues that the perception of Atlantic history beginning with the first voyage of the celebrated navigator Christ...