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Bernard Cornwell Untitled 1

Bernard Cornwell

The new novel in Bernard Cornwell's number one bestselling series The Warrior Chronicles, on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg.
Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC

Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC

Bernard Cornwell

A novel by Bernard Cornwell that follows the enormous success of his Arthurian trilogy (The Winter King, Enemy of God, and Excalibur) tells the tale of three brothers and of their rivalry that creates the great temple.
The Fort

The Fort

Bernard Cornwell

‘Captivate, kill or destroy the whole force of the enemy’ was the order given to the American soldiers. THE FORT is the blistering novel from worldwide bestseller Bernard Cornwell.
The Empty Throne: A Novel

The Empty Throne: A Novel

Bernard Cornwell

With this eighth entry in the epic Saxon Tales series, we are reminded once again why New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell is “the most prolific and successful historical novelist in the world today” (Wall Street Journal).
The Flame Bearer (The Last Kingdom Series, Book 10)

The Flame Bearer (The Last Kingdom Series, Book 10)

Bernard Cornwell

The brand new novel in Bernard Cornwell’s number one bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. BBC2’s major TV show THE LAST KINGDOM is based on the first two books in the series.
Unnatural Exposure

Unnatural Exposure

Patricia Cornwell

The circumstances of death broadcast a clear and horrifying message: the killer is armed with the most lethal weapon on earth - smallpox. For more about Patricia Cornwell and her books visit her website on www.patricia-cornwell.com
1356

1356

Bernard Cornwell

Go with God and Fight Like the Devil. The remarkable new novel by Britain’s master storyteller, which culminates at the Battle of Poitiers.
Fallen Angels

Fallen Angels

Bernard Cornwell

A highly entertaining, wonderfully colourful story, now revealed to be written by one of our favourite historical novelists.
Azincourt

Azincourt

Bernard Cornwell

A unique novel, looking at one the greatest battles, a battle that was a turning point in history, from many points of view, by a master storyteller.
A Crowning Mercy

A Crowning Mercy

Bernard Cornwell

A highly entertaining, wonderfully colourful story, now revealed to be written by one of our favourite historical novelists.
Harlequin (The Grail Quest, Book 1)

Harlequin (The Grail Quest, Book 1)

Bernard Cornwell

Harlequins are lost souls, so loved by the devil that he would not take them to hell, but left them to roam the earth.
Scoundrel

Scoundrel

Bernard Cornwell

Paul Shanahan, the owner of a yacht delivery business in Belgium, now lives a peaceful existence after a terrorist-active life.
Sea Lord

Sea Lord

Bernard Cornwell

A splendid thriller of skullduggery and smuggling, politics and passion, in the Carribean waters, with a twentieth-century Sharpe at the helm.
The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur

The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur

Bernard Cornwell

Uther, the High King of Britain, has died, leaving the infant Mordred as his only heir.
The Last Kingdom

The Last Kingdom

Bernard Cornwell

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 ...
Gallows Thief

Gallows Thief

Bernard Cornwell

1820s Britain: after the wars with France, when unemployment was high and soldiers could be paid off, when the government was desperately afraid of social unrest, any crime was drastically punished and thousands were hung.
Waterloo (#11)

Waterloo (#11)

Bernard Cornwell

June 1815: The Duke of Wellington, the Prince of Orange, and Napoleon will meet on the battlefield--and decide the fate of Europe With the emperor Napoleon at its head, an enormous French army is marching toward Brussels.
Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three ...

Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three ...

Bernard Cornwell

From the New York Times bestselling author comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever fought—a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the two-hundreth anniversary of Napoleon's last stand ...
The Absurd in Literature

The Absurd in Literature

Neil Cornwell

Neil Cornwell's study, while endeavouring to present an historical survey of absurdist literature and its forbears, does not aspire to being an exhaustive history of absurdism.
V.F. Odoevsky: His Life, Times and Milieu

V.F. Odoevsky: His Life, Times and Milieu

Neil Cornwell

Based upon published and unpublished sources in Russia and the West, Cornwell paints a portrait of one of Russia's central figures, though little known in the West.
Seminary Boy

Seminary Boy

John Cornwell

One of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years, the acclaimed writer John Cornwell has finally written his own story, and the story of a choice he had to make between the Church and a life lived outside its confines.
Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three ...

Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three ...

Bernard Cornwell

Published to coincide with the battle's bicentennial in 2015, Waterloo is a tense and gripping story of heroism and tragedy—and of the final battle that determined the fate of nineteenth-century Europe.
Flesh and Blood

Flesh and Blood

Patricia Cornwell

No.1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the next enthralling thriller in her high-stakes series starring Kay Scarpetta—a complex tale involving a serial sniper who strikes chillingly close to the forensic sleuth herself.
Son of the Morning

Son of the Morning

Mark Alder

Mark Alder has brought the epic fantasy of George R.R. Martin to the vivid historical adventure of Bernard Cornwell and has a created a fantasy that will sweep you to a new vision of the Hundred Years War.
Breaking Faith: Can the Catholic Church Save Itself?

Breaking Faith: Can the Catholic Church Save Itself?

John Cornwell

In Breaking Faith, Cornwell explains why he left the Church but returned to it after twenty years because he 'couldn't do without it' and because he is convinced that Catholicism still has the power to make the world a better place.
KILLER'S WAKE

KILLER'S WAKE

BERNARD CORNWELL

“Well, I only got a good look out my window at his back.” “After you picked out Larry Moody in the lineup—from looking at his back—did the men in the lineup turn around?” “Yes, sir, they did.” “Was that the first time you saw Larry Moody's face?
Hitler's Scientists: Science, War and the Devil's Pact

Hitler's Scientists: Science, War and the Devil's Pact

John Cornwell

In a rich and fascinating history John Cornwell tells the epic story of Germany's scientists from the First World War to the collapse of Hitler's Reich.
American Biography: A New Cyclopedia

American Biography: A New Cyclopedia

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David Conwell was born in Province- town, October 27, 1818, the son of David Service and Eleanor (Perry) Cornwell. The name was originally spelled with an "r ," Cornwell, but David Conwell-s mother, after the death of her young husband, ...
Incidences

Incidences

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Daniil Kharms Neil Cornwell ... Plummeting Old Women and Other Stories, Lilliput Press, Dublin, 1989 The translation of 'Yelizaveta Bam' first appeared in Daniil Kharms and the Poetics of the Absurd, edited by Neil Cornwell, Macmillan Press, ...
The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession

The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession

John Cornwell

The Dark Box is an erudite and personal history; Cornwell draws on his own memories of Catholic boyhood, and weaves it with the story of confession from its origins in the early church to the current day, where its enduring psychological ...

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