The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Humour and heart-racing tension are brought to the forefront as author Steven Veerapen concludes his Elizabethan spy thriller series with Assassination, a story packed with plot twists amid a compelling and fully realised historical backdrop. Following the journey of...
Richard the Lionheart is one of medieval history’s best-known figures. Arguments over whether he was a great warrior or a terrible king abound, and are unlikely to ever reach a satisfactory conclusion. Ben Kane peels back layers of myth and supposition, and allows a...
Porphyry & Bones In 1463, the Bosnian town of Jajce lies in a pile of smouldering rubble. From the wreckage, a young queen flees, carrying in her arms some of the most valuable possessions in all of Christendom: the relics of St Luke. It is here that Peter Sandham...
Its every young person’s dream -- to find out that one of your relations has a secret but fascinating past, and that they want to take you on a road trip through Europe to reveal all. This is the premise of The Diplomat's Wife, and the journey is every bit as exciting...
Alistair Forrest’s Agents of Rome series is set in the wake of the infamous assassination of Julius Caesar in 44BC. Following the lives of the cunning and honourable centurion, Titus, and his humorous, brave, if somewhat audacious, right hand man, Crispus, the three...
Paul Bernardi’s Thurkill’s Rebellion picks up immediately where the second instalment of the Huscarl Chronicles left off. Forced back onto the run thanks to the fallout of the bloody events of Thurkill’s Battle, the protagonist finds himself in a new position of...
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Summer Reads from Sharpe BooksAlan Bardos Author of The Dardanelles ConspiracyGary Sheffield’s Forgotten Victory: The First World War: Myths and Realities, is an incredibly readable piece of historical analysis, that challenges the lions led by donkeys view of Haig...
Simon Turney, what prompted you to choose the period that you wrote your first book in? The majority of my books are set within the Roman empire. Rome has been my love and my focus since I first visited Hadrian’s Wall at the age of 6. I first wrote Roman fiction in an...
Nicola Cornick, what prompted you to choose the period that you wrote your first book in? My very first book was a Regency romance inspired by my enjoyment of Georgette Heyer’s writing more than anything else! However, when I changed genre to write dual-time...
