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Sharpe Books publishes both new and established writers. Our list of authors and estates include Clement Attlee, Saul David, Michael Jecks, Adam Zamoyski, and Peter Tonkin. Our focus is on publishing Historical Fiction, Crime/Thrillers, Biographies and History titles. As well as publishing new books, we also specialise in re-publishing and re-promoting previously published works, where rights have reverted to the author or estate.

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Sharpe Books encourages brand-building and publishes a variety of series, in different genres. I would encourage anyone interested in submitting to Sharpe Books to check out some of our authors and series beforehand (such as R.N. Morris, John Pilkington, Paul Walker, JA Ironside). We regularly break books into the top 100 of Amazon and work with authors to build their profile, as well as promote and re-promote books in an ongoing way.

Should you be a more established novelist, we would be happy to chat to you about producing a series of novellas, which can work around other projects.

Thank you.

Please visit our website at http://sharpebooks.com for more information on submissions and our catalogue.

Book Reviews

Mark Turnbull’s latest novella, The King’s Spy, is a fast-moving thriller set in the turbulent world of the English Civil War. Captain Maxwell Walker is a widowed Royalist cavalry officer and seasoned veteran of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Following the disastrous defeat at Naseby, Maxwell is tasked with retrieving the possessions of the ...

Caesar’s Sword: The Red Death, by David Pilling

David Pilling is a prolific author of historical fiction. With interests ranging from the Byzantine Empire, the post-Roman period in Britain and the British and Irish Civil Wars, he has written numerous tales of blood and chivalry across these eras. Caesar’s Sword: The Red Death is

The Dardanelles Conspiracy, by Alan Bardos

The 1915-16 Gallipoli Campaign is one of the most infamous of theatres of the First World War. The loss both in terms of casualties and pride was unparalleled for Allied forces. The campaign attempted to take the Dardanelles Straits by ship, and through them, reach Constantinople. And this is where Alan Bardos’s compelling protagonist Johnny Swift returns – we follow Swift from disgrace at ...

Continuing his passion for sixteenth century history, Steven Veerapen takes the reader on a thrilling adventure with his latest spy novel, The Queen’s Gold. Based on historical figures and events, accompanied with a fast pace and unexpected turns, Veerapen has created a gripping ...

In Peter Tonkin’s new novel, the third instalment of The Trojan Murders series, Odysseus greets King Euenos and asks, “Do you remember me?” The answer is yes. This is a world we are familiar with, a well-trod path through history and literature. But using ...

Deliverance is the final instalment of John Pilkington’s gripping trilogy, which returns to 17th century England and the life of the now-retired Justice Robert Belstrang.Despite Belstrang’s plans for quiet, the world seems to have other ideas, and what follows resonates especially well with the today's ...

In Paul Bernardi’s Thurkill's Battle, the second instalment of The Huscarl Chronicles series, Thurkill finds himself sworn into the service of Wessex’s last prince. Where Thurkill’s Revenge left a boy, we come back to our hero as a ...

Indomitable is the third title in Matthew Willis’ Fortress of Malta series and follows on from the events of the previous two books, Harpoon and Bastion. This time the protagonist of the series, Clydesdale, returns to Malta in Operation Pedestal, a vital

Michael Ward proves, once again, his knowledge and love of Stuart London. After setting the tone with Rags of Time, The Wrecking Storm, his latest effort and second in the Thomas Tallant series, raises the bar and drives the reader through the streets of an already torn apart pre-Civil War ...

Land of Fire has Britain in 455AD and in turmoil. The departure of the Roman Empire has left warring factions in a country of many different peoples, from Saxon to Druid, creating a tumultuous world where corrupt kings such as the formidable Vortigern abuse their power to gain maximum control.It is into this crisis, a world at tipping point, ...

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 books narrate a fascinating, fast-paced story of battles, betrayal, espionage,

Porphyry & BonesIn 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 begins an exceptional piece of historical fiction, opening his story with a hard-to-forget image of a land scarred by ...

Pat Hobby: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Other “Great” Character

It is perhaps fitting - given his lack of fame and success - that many of you will have never heard of Pat Hobby. Hobby was a character who featured in several F. Scott Fitzgerald short stories towards the end of the author’s life, while he was working in Hollywood. Hobby is a forty-nine-year-old scriptwriter whose best days are long behind him. Rather than reaching out for some green light ...

War and Religion May Seem Unlikely Bedfellows, But History Suggests Otherwise.

War and ReligionWhilst writing Siege, I was fortunate enough to speak to a number of historians who were experts in the First Crusade. One of their unifying comments on the subject was that the participants were genuinely motivated by faith. They were true believers. Christians. Even before hearing their arguments, however, I was already ...

Rewriting History: Why We Need A Wider Appreciation Of World War Two

Rewriting HistoryThere seems to be an increasingly alarming trend nowadays for some people to consider that the story of the Second World War was the story of the Holocaust. They may mention the Holocaust in any word association exercise with the Second World War - or posit that the Allies went to war in order to end the Holocaust. This trend is particularly taking root in the young, I ...

Oskar Potiorek: The Most Infamous Man in History You’ve Never Heard Of,

When it was announced that Franz Ferdinand, the Heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, would visit Bosnia to attend manoeuvres in June 1914. It fell to General Oskar Potiorek, the military governor to organise the visit.This was a task Oskar Potiorek threw himself into with an extraordinary eye for detail. He over saw all arrangements, from ensuring that the Archduke’s wine would be served ...

Geoffrey Chaucer: A Renaissance Man in the Middle Ages, by Philip Gooden

In the winter of 1359 a young English soldier was taken prisoner during the siege of Reims, the holy city where French kings were anointed. The captive Englishman was a page in the household of Prince Lionel, one of the sons of King Edward III, and the siege was a (failed) operation during one of the King’s incursions across the Channel in pursuit of the French throne.The teenage prisoner

King George VI and Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, carrying their gas masks, went to a special service in Westminster Abbey. Churchill also arrived, explaining that he could only stay for ten minutes. The government had, in their very English way, managed to avoid an official day of prayer, in case it smacked of desperation, but still knew that the churches around the nation could be ...

Five Nights to Malta: Operation Pedestal

“The Navy had always regarded the island as the keystone of victory in the Mediterranean...it should be held at all costs.” Admiral A.B. Cunningham, commander-in-chief Mediterranean Fleet during Operation Pedestal.In the summer of 1942, a small island in the heart of the Mediterranean became the motivation for titanic battles in the sea and air. To the Allies, Malta was an essential ...

Summer Reads from Sharpe Books

Alan Bardos

Author of The Dardanelles Conspiracy

Many people of a certain age will recognise this quote without any difficulty. If you don't then I can only offer sympathy and suggest that there is a Monty Python-shaped hole in your movie and comedy education - specifically, in this case, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Released in 1975 and up there with Life of Brian as two of the greatest comedy films of their era, if ...

Anatomy of a Disaster: The Easter Day Massacre

211 Squadron had been in Greece for five months before they were effectively destroyed. They came from Egypt before that, one of the first RAF units to be dispatched to the Balkans by the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Middle East Command, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore. The Easter Day MassacreWith an official strength of 12 Blenheim Mark Is, ...

The Porphyry War is set in the medieval Mediterranean during the aftermath of the Byzantine Empire’s fall. At its heart are a pair of underappreciated historical figures; two women of shared heritage and surprising influence. Byzantium's.Mara Brankovic was born to a mother from an imperial Byzantine ...

The Enemy Within: The Assassination Attempt on Alexander II

It was to be the People’s Will’s most daring act yet. A bomb attack inside the Winter Palace itself. The People’s Will was an extremist revolutionary group active during the reign of Tsar Alexander II. Advocating acts of violence and terror, they sentenced the tsar, whom they considered a criminal, to death. Their manifesto of regicide was based on the belief that the tsar’s death would bring

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