Seeking to turn the clock back several centuries, a dedicated group of intellectuals and servicemen set out to restore English royal prerogatives and regain lost colonies and dominions by taking advantage of political unrest in a number of countries. Through intrigue, guile, patronage, flattery and inducements they achieve some of their aims, but emotional problems frustrates others and personal ambitions intrude fatally. The tense action is gripping, unpredictable and exciting. Women read...

Kumi Takura, acclaimed Taiso in the shoguns sixteenth century samurai army, returns home after a long absence to find his sick father is about to lose his province for non-payment of tax dues. Discovering the taxes have been collected and converted by his fathers unscrupulous chancellor Takura dispenses quick justice only to find settling one dispute leads to others until he finds himself fighting a full scale war to achieve justice, but his actions lead his sweetheart and a suspicious sho...

The best-selling autobiography of Australia's favourite military leader and Australia's newest Governor-General.the best-selling autobiography of Australia's favourite military leader and Australia's newest Governor-General. 'this book is my personal story, from boyhood to battlefield and beyond, written in my own words, reflecting on my life.' In 1999, General Peter Cosgrove was thrust into the full glare of the nation's spotlight following his appointment as Commander of the Inter...

As regional warlords divide Japan, one rogue Samurai will sacrifice everything—apart from his honor—in this thrilling sixth-century epic.Japan, 1532. In the Age of the Warring States, nothing is as it appears. The young Emperor, Go-Nara, has been reduced to ceremonial irrelevance. After a failed assassination attempt on the royal figurehead, an anonymous samurai is coerced into a suicide mission that will test his skills to the limit. He must face this cha...

During those fateful weeks before Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, a fragment of radio intercept had referred to Qubth-ut-Allah, a devastating secret weapon that could rain death and destruction on the Allied forces.Despite Allied scepticism, Major Mike Martin, an SAS man who can pass as an Arab, is sent into Kuwait to assess Iraqi strength and help the resistance. What he discovers there takes him into the heart of Baghdad, where he is to 'run' the Iraqi spy known as ...

An "absorbing and fast-moving" saga of Korea as experienced by one unforgettable family, from the Nobel Prize–winning author ( The New York Times )."The year was 4214 after Tangun of Korea, and 1881 after Jesus of Judea." So begins Pulitzer Prize–winning author Pearl S. Buck's The Living Reed, an epic historical novel seen through the eyes of four generations of Korean aristocracy.As the chronicle begins,...

A wickedly funny take on life under the Thatcher government by the prize-winning author of Bournvlile.It is the 1980s and the Winshaw family are getting richer and crueller by the year:Newspaper-columnist Hilary gets thousands for telling it like it isn't. Henry's turning hospitals into car parks. Roddy's selling art in return for sex. Down on the farm Dorothy's squeezing every last pound from her livestock. Thomas is making a killing on the stock ...

Honour, duty, vengeance... The way of the Samurai. A thrilling new adventure from a bold new voice in historical fiction, for fans of Conn IgguldenScholar. Warrior. Samurai.His name was Bennosuke, son of the great Munisai Shinmen, known throughout the empire as one of the greatest warriors who ever lived.His destiny was to become a great warrior like his father - a Samurai, one of the most feared and respected in the world.But before fame comes action, and B...

John Birmingham, a worldwide bestselling author, with a fabulous story in the 'Without Warning' trilogy.A 'What if' story of the Cold War ... a small piece of alternate history of the period told via a biography of one of its players, Lieutenant Branch McKinnon, an adventurer in a different post-WWII world of American isolationism. this alternate history from a very popular and bestselling Australian writer gives the reader a different perspective on history and where we are now!

Francis Urquhart’s eventful career as Prime Minister comes to a spectacular end in the final volume in the Francis Urquhart trilogy – now reissued in a new cover.He schemed his way to power in ‘House of Cards’ and had a memorable battle of wills with the new king in ‘To Play the King’. Now Francis Urquhart is about to take his place in the record books as the longest-serving Prime Minister this century. Yet it seems the public is tiring of him at last, and the movement to force him...

In this medieval adventure, a female warrior must prove herself as a samurai to survive during the Warring States period in Japan.For the Samurai, death is not to be feared. It is to be embraced.Japan 1533—A nation in turmoil. Rival warlords battle for supremacy while common folk struggle to survive in a land laid waste by endless war.Tengu, an orphaned girl, must navigate the lawless hinterlands if she is to survive and achieve her ambition to beco...

The definitive inside account of the Falklands War, written by Margaret Thatcher herself.On 21 May 1982, the British people watched with a mixture of pride and fear as their troops landed under heavy aerial bombardment at San Carlos Bay in the Falkland Islands. Since 1833 the islands had been under British sovereignty, and when Argentina launched a full-scale invasion on 2 April 1982 Margaret Thatcher decided to retaliate swiftly and aggressively. Over the following days a task for...