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*A brand new companion to the Last Kingdom series, Uhtred's Feast, is available to pre-order now*

 BBC2 and Netflix series THE LAST KINGDOM is based on Bernard Cornwell's bestselling novels on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. THE LORDS OF THE NORTH is the third book in the series.

 Uhtred wants revenge. He wants the land and castle that is his. He wants his treacherous uncle to pay for taking them.

 Heading north with his lover, former nun Hild, he finds chaos as the Vikings battle among themselves to consolidate their hold on the region. At the heart of it are men from Uhtred's past - Sven the One-Eyed and Kjartan the Cruel, men of vicious reputation. Still, he has matched such men before.

 Then Uhtred suffers a betrayal to rival the treachery that deprived him of his birthright. It will leave him trapped with no hope of escape .

 Uhtred of Bebbanburg's mind is as sharp as his sword. A thorn in the side of the priests and nobles who shape his fate, this Saxon raised by Vikings is torn between the life he loves and the cause he has sworn to serve.

The Lords of the North

A Richard Sharpe short story, featuring scenes of action and adventure at Christmas.

 'You'll like Irati, ' Colonel Hogan said. 'It's a nothing place, Richard. Hovels and misery, that's all it is and all it ever will be, but that's where you're going for Christmas.'

 Sharpe was sent to Irati because maybe the French were going there. The garrison planned to march at Christmas in the hope that their enemies would be too bloated with beef and wine to fight, but Hogan had got wind of their plans and was now setting his snares on the only two routes that the escaping French could use. One, the eastern road, was by far the easier route, for it entered France through a low pass, and Hogan guessed it was that route that the French would choose. But there was a second road, a tight, hard, steep road, and that had to be blocked as well and so the Prince of Wales's Own Volunteers, Sharpe's regiment, would climb into the hills and spend their Christmas at a place of hovels and misery called Irati.

 Soldier, hero, rogue - Sharpe is the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty, he joined the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears.

Sharpe’s Christmas

The first book in Bernard Cornwell's bestselling series on the American Civil War.

 It is summer 1861. The armies of North and South stand on the brink of America's civil war.

 Nathanial Starbuck, jilted by his girl and estranged from his family, arrives in the capital of the Confederate South, where he enlists in an elite regiment being raised by rich, eccentric Washington Faulconer.

 Pledged to the Faulconer Legion, Starbuck becomes a northern boy fighting for the southern cause. But nothing can prepare him for the shocking violence to follow in the war which broke America in two.

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Guerre d'Espagne, Talavera de la Reina, Juillet 1809. Placé sous les ordres du colonel Simmerson, un officier britannique aussi incompétent qu'ambitieux, le lieutenant Richard Sharpe doit recourir à l'insubordination pour sauver son régiment d'une attaque meurtrière des Français. Son intervention décisive n'empêche pourtant pas la victoire de leurs chasseurs à cheval, qui parviennent à capturer l'un des deux drapeaux du régiment britannique. Accusé par le colonel Simmerson d'avoir provoqué cette disgrâce, Richard Sharpe ne voit qu'un seul moyen de restaurer son honneur tout en continuant à servir au mieux les intérêts de sir Arthur Wellesley, commandant en chef de l'armée britannique en Espagne : capturer une " aigle " de l'armée française lors de la prochaine offensive alliée sur Madrid et s'illustrer ainsi par un acte de bravoure extraordinaire.

L'aigle de Sharpe - Richard Sharpe et la campagne de Talavera, juillet 1809

A collection of the first four installments of Bernard Cornwell's bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, "like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer, London)-the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series. The Saxon Tales Collection includes: The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman, Lords of the North, and Sword Song. Starting with The Last Kingdom, this is the exciting-yet little known-story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred the Great, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of England's four kingdoms. This thrilling adventure-based on existing records of Cornwell's ancestors-depicts a time when law and order were ripped violently apart by a pagan assault on Christian England, an assault that came very close to destroying England."History comes alive."-Boston Globe

The Saxon Tales Collection: Books #1-4 - The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman, Lords of the North, and Sword Song

From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, compelling installments 12-15 in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty's Army. SHARPE'S TIGER The year is 1799, and Richard Sharpe is just beginning his military career. An inexperienced young private in His Majesty's service, Sharpe becomes part of an expedition to India to push the ruthless Tippoo of Mysore from his throne, posing as a deserter to make contact with a spy held prisoner in his city. Picking his way through an exotic and alien world. Sharpe realizes that one slip will mean disaster. And when the furious British assault on the city finally begins, Sharpe must take up arms against his true comrades to preserve his false identity, risking death at their hands in order to avoid detection and thus to foil the Tippoo's well-set trap. SHARPE'S TRIUMPH India, 1803. It is four years since Richard Sharpe earned his sergeant's stripes at the siege of Seringapatam, and four years in which Sharpe seems to have discovered the easiest billet in the British army. But that comfort is shattered when he witnesses a murderous act of treachery by an English officer who defects from the East India Company to join a mercenary army commanded by Sharpe's nemesis, Anthony Pohlman. After being ordered to join the hunt for the renegade officer, Sharpe finds himself caught up in the historic battle of Assaye, where he is plunged into the white heat of battle-if he can survive. SHARPE'S BATTLEQuartered in a crumbling Portuguese fort, Richard Sharpe and his men are attacked by an elite French unit, led by an old enemy of Sharpe's, and suffer heavy losses. The army's high command blame Sharpe for the disaster and his military career seems to be ruined. His only hope is to redeem himself on the battlefield. So with his honour at stake, against an overwhelming number of French troops, Sharpe leads his men to battle in the narrow streets of Fuentes de Oñoro. SHARPE'S DEVILFive years after the Battle of Waterloo, Sharpe's peaceful retirement in Normandy is shattered. An old friend, Don Blas Vivar, is missing in Chile, reported dead at rebel hands - a report his wife refuses to believe. She appeals to Sharpe to find out the truth. Sharpe, along with Patrick Harper, find themselves bound for Chile via St. Helena, where they have a fateful meeting with the fallen Emperor Napoleon. Convinced that they are on their way to collect a corpse, neither man can imagine that dangers that await them in Chile.

The Sharpe Collection: Books #12-15 - Sharpe's Devil, Sharpe's Battle, Sharpe's Tiger, and Sharpe's Triumph

Bataille des Arapiles, juillet 1812. Envoyé spécial de l'Empereur en Espagne, le redoutable colonel Leroux vient enfin de découvrir l'identité du mystérieux El Mirador-à la tête du plus grand réseau d'espionnage oeuvrant contre Napoléon depuis la ville de Salamanque - lorsqu'il se fait capturer par le capitaine Richard Sharpe et ses hommes. Le colonel Leroux réussit à leur dissimuler son identité et, dès le lendemain, s'échappe et se réfugie dans la ville proche de Salamanque, dont les troupes britanniques et espagnoles achèvent l'encerclement. Mais l'identité du français est bientôt découverte et sa capture devient une priorité absolue pour le commandement britannique. Richard Sharpe reçoit l'ordre, une fois l'assaut donné aux trois forteresses françaises de la ville de Salamanque, de remettre la main sur cet homme susceptible d'ébranler tout le réseau d'espionnage britannique. Une mission pour laquelle il faudra compter avec l'influence de la mystérieuse marquise de Casares el Grande y Melida Sahada, une femme aussi belle que redoutable, et dont l'issue culminera dans la bataille des Arapiles, en plein mois de juillet 1812.

L'épée de Sharpe - Richard Sharpe et la campagne de Salamanque

*SHARPE'S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now*

 Three classic Richard Sharpe adventures.

 Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805

 Ensign Richard Sharpe is on his way home from India. He is sailing with the Royal Navy, who are hunting a formidable French warship, the 'Revenant', carrying a secret treaty that may prove lethal to the British.

 Richard Sharpe and the Expedition to Copenhagen, 1807

 Lieutenant Richard Sharpe, newly returned to England, is offered a new job: go to Copenhagen, help deliver a bribe, and stop a war. To him, it seems easy. But the bribe is to stop the Danes allowing the French to possess their battle fleet, big enough to replace every warship lost at Trafalgar.

 Richard Sharpe and the French Invasion of Galicia, January 1809

 Britains's forces are retreating towards Corunna during a bitter winter, with Napoleon's victorious armies in pursuit. Lieutenant Richard Sharpe and a detachment of Riflemen are cut off from the rest of the army and surrounded.

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