Don't miss THE SHRINE, the brand new Detective's Daughter mystery - available nowA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024**'**Lesley Thomson at her considerable best - you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll never guess.' ELLY GRIFFITHS'Always a treat reading Lesley Thomson.' IAN RANKINEIGHTY YEARS OF SECRETS.1940. At Yew Tree House, recently w...

Revised and corrected by T.Forester, EsqDe vita Caesarum (Latin, direct translation: On the Life of the Caesars) commonly known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus.The work, written in 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work of Suetonius, at that time Hadrian's personal secretary, and is the largest among his surviving writings. It was dedic...

What is the value of one life in an interstellar war that has already claimed millions? And if that single life doesn’t matter, are any others worth saving?A distress signal draws Siobhan Dunmoore’s Q-ship Iolanthe, a battlecruiser disguised as a bulk freighter, away from her devastatingly successful hunt through Shrehari occupied space and plunges Dunmoore into a dark, merciless universe of competing government organizations, undercover warfare, and organ...

Siobhan Dunmoore was losing the war one ship at a time. The Shrehari Empire had burned more hulls out from under her than any other officer in the Fleet. Some said she was too aggressive. Others said too reckless. The enemy called her something else—something they spat with fear. None of it mattered. Not all her enemies wore Imperial uniforms. And the only reputation she had left was for bad luck.She was dragging another wreck home, crew half‑dead, systems failing. This time she’d ...

For a thousand years, humanity’s empire ruled the stars. Now it rots from within. A dynasty despised as illegitimate has bled the realm dry, and its latest sovereign—a mad empress—drives the Fleet into civil war. Admirals rebel. Generals turn traitor. Sibling fights sibling as the empire tears itself apart.With the Navy shattered, the frontier lies exposed. From the galactic badlands, barbarian hordes surge forward—hard men and harder worlds, bred on violence and hunger. They plund...

Captain Siobhan Dunmoore no longer enjoys the freedom to fight the Shrehari Empire on her own terms aboard the Q-ship Iolanthe. Special Operations Command has assigned her to Task Force Luckner, whose mission is replicating Iolanthe’s success on a larger scale. Unfortunately, neither her new superior, Rear Admiral Kell Petras, nor any other captain in the task force understands successful commerce raiding requires a different mindset. Instead of sheepdogs...

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For fans of Michelle Paver and Sarah Waters, the first in a haunting quartet of ghost stories set in the wilds of Scotland.'I was so impressed by Hawthorn' MICHELLE PAVER, author of Dark Matter'Delightfully brooding and gloriously gothic, Hawthorn sucked me in like the deepest bog, refusing to let me go' CJ COOKE, author of The Book of Witching'Reminded me of The Little Stranger . . . a hugely entertaining...

Captain Siobhan Dunmoore wanted to believe the long war against the invading Shrehari Empire had finally banished the ghosts of her past. But when her ship Iolanthe, a heavily armed man-of-war masked as a bulk freighter, finds itself in need of replenishment after a long patrol spent stalking human and alien foes, she is confronted with events eerily reminiscent of a past she thought buried. When evidence of treason and marauders bold enough to strike a Navy outpost leave ...

'This is Lesley Thomson at her very best; a wonderfully twisty story told with her customary warmth and brilliant eye for social detail. I loved it.' ELLY GRIFFITHSA DECADES-OLD MURDERStella Darnell knows her partner Jack is hiding something. After following him one evening, she discovers he's been consulting a psychic attempting to reach his dead mother. Feeling betrayed, Stella fears what this means for their relationship.A...

Life hasn’t been easy for Siobhan Dunmoore and many of her fellow veterans since the Shrehari War ended.The Fleet’s quick return to a mundane peacetime footing left them unmoored and incapable of fully readapting after years engulfed in an existential struggle. Meanwhile, the memories of all those hard-won lessons, paid for with humanity’s dearest blood, are fading as careerists, bureaucrats, and politicians in uniform replace the leaders who brought about the war’...

The most powerful empire in human history is rushing headlong toward destruction, ending our species’ supremacy in the known galaxy.Two men with widely divergent visions are on a mission to save civilization in at least one sector, far from the imperial capital where a demented ruler holds sway. The first, Jonas Morane, wants to create an impregnable vault containing humanity’s accumulated knowledge so those who survive the coming darkness can rebuild in decades in...