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In "Blackbeard; Or, The Pirate of Roanoke," B. Barker weaves a captivating narrative that explores the tumultuous life of the infamous pirate Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard. Set against the backdrop of early 18th-century America, the novel combines vivid historical detail with an adventurous literary style that draws readers into the turbulent seas of the Caribbean and the southern colonies. Barker's writing is marked by rich descriptive passages and a keen attention to the socio-politi...

Blackbeard was one of the most feared and notorious of the historical pirates. His legend still resonates some three hundred years after his bloody and courageous end. Here is his fantastic story of piracy, loyalty, and betrayal.

"Excellent. One of the most interesting and original fantasy worlds I've seen in years." —Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning authorA brilliantly imagined saga of honor, glory, and warfare, The Bone Ships is the epic launch of a new series from British Fantasy Award winner, RJ Barker.*British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel, winnerTwo nations at war. One prize beyond compare.

In a city of ancient automata, strange spirits, and sleeping gods, a cleric of death finds his own life on the line in this vividly imagined fantasy murder mystery from the acclaimed author of The Bone Ships and Age of Assassins.Irody Hasp is a Mortedant, a cleric tasked with reading the last thoughts of the dead—though no one thanks him for it. No Mortedant is popular, but Irody is scarcely tolerated even by the other members of ...

Constantly stifled by the rules of Society, spirited Rebecca Rowley enjoys finding ways to quietly—or not so quietly—rebel. But riding bareback and avoiding nosy neighbors are nothing compared to the thrilling secret she is keeping from her family.When Rebecca’s quick thinking saves the life of a young girl, she unwittingly attracts the attention of the child’s dashing brother, Lieutenant Nicholas Avery. As that attention turns flirtatious, Rebecca is forced to tell him the truth: ...

**“A splendid fantasy work, full of RJ’s trademark invention." —Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning authorOur lands are wild with gods. Our woods are wild with monsters...**Cahan is known as a Forester—a man capable of navigating the dangerous forests of Crua like no one else. But once he was more. Once he was a warrior.Udinny serves the goddess of the lost, a keeper of the small and helpless. When Udinny needs to venture into the Wy...

"A whole lot of swashbuckling awesomeness. A definite winner!" —John Gwynne, author of The Shadow of the GodsA brilliantly imagined epic fantasy of honor, glory, and warfare, Call of the Bone Ships is the action-packed sequel to RJ Barker's The Bone Ships.Dragons have returned to the Hundred Isles. But their return heralds only war and destruction.When a horde of dying slaves are discovered in the bowels o...

The Historian meets Under the Skin in this searingly provocative literary horror novel about one woman’s determination to stay alive at any terrifying cost.**In Osaka, two strangers, Jake and Mariko, miss a flight, and over dinner, discover they've both brutally lost loved ones whose paths crossed with the same beguiling woman no one has seen since.Following traces this mysterious person left behind, Jake travels from country to country g...

A Journey Through Interior Design gathers fourteen influential texts into a capacious history of the furnished room, moving between practical household guidance, architectural principle, decorative arts, and social commentary. Its range extends from prescriptive manuals and illustrated advice to more reflective accounts of taste, comfort, and domestic display. Seminal discussions of proportion, color, furniture, textiles, and garden-adjacent domestic spaces reveal interior design as both a...

"You fear the forest.. It is not foolish." His words rang like bells in the clearing, each face reacting to their din. "But the forest does not hate you, it does not hunt you. It simply does not care about you."From British Fantasy Award-winning author RJ Barker comes the second installment in a new epic fantasy trilogy set in a forest straight out of darkest folklore with outlaws fighting an evil empire and warring deities.The Forester known as Ca...

A young apprentice to an assassin becomes embroiled in a conspiracy that could destroy a kingdom in a brilliant epic fantasy debut by David Gemmell Award-nominated author RJ BarkerTo catch an assassin, use an assassin...Girton Club-foot has no family, a crippled leg, and is apprenticed to the best assassin in the land. He's learning the art of taking lives, but his latest mission tasks him with a far more difficult challenge: to save a lif...

**“Calls to mind such early moderns as Hemingway and Fitzgerald...Some of the most powerful antiwar literature in modern English fiction.”—**The Boston GlobeThe first book of the Regeneration Trilogy—a Booker Prize nominee and one of Entertainment Weekly’s 100 All-Time Greatest Novels.In 1917 Siegfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue serving as a British officer in World War I. His r...