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Listing books from publisher: Bantam Press

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£55.00

A Call to Arms

Author: Allan Mallinson

Price: £55.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 04 March 2002

 

Synopsis

The last two years have not been good ones for Matthew Hervey. His beloved wife Henrietta is dead and, believing that he can no longer remain i ... read more

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£45.00

An Act of Courage

Author: Allan Mallinson

Price: £45.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 01 March 2005

 

Synopsis

Christmas 1826 finds Matthew Hervey of the 6th Light Dragoons alone and a prisoner. Captured by the Spanish, he is locked up in the notori ... read more

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£400.00

A Close Run Thing

Author: Allan Mallinson

Price: £400.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 04 March 1999

 

Synopsis

Waterloo, 1815. As the war against Bonaparte rages to its bloody end upon the field of Waterloo, a young officer goes about his duty in the ran ... read more

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£50.00

Rumours of War

Author: Allan Mallinson

Price: £50.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 01 March 2004

 

Synopsis

Portugal, 1826. Newly returned from India, Matthew Hervey joins a party of officers sent to lend support to the Portugese regent. But the Penin ... read more

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£45.00

Company Of Spears

Author: Allan Mallinson

Price: £45.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 01 March 2006

 

Synopsis

All looks set fair Major Matthew Hervey: news of a handsome legacy should allow him to purchase command of his beloved regiment, the 6th Light ... read more

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£70.00

The Sabre's Edge

Author: Allan Mallinson

Price: £70.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 03 March 2003

 

Synopsis

The year is 1824; the Sixth Light Dragoons are still stationed in India, and the talk in the officers' mess is of war. The Burmese ar ... read more

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£20.00

The Chains of Albion

Author: Edwin Thomas

Price: £20.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 01 June 2004

 

Synopsis

July, 1806. Commanding a prison-hulk in the Medway guarding French captives, Martin Jerrold thinks his war can't get much better. He's ... read more

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£25.00

The Blighted Cliffs

Author: Edwin Thomas

Price: £25.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 02 July 2003

 

Synopsis

Set in the early nineteenth century, a wonderfully entertaining, swashbuckling adventure series, with a dashing hero, for whom life - and love ... read more

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£75.00

Awakening

Author: S. J. Bolton

Price: £75.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 23 April 2009

 

Synopsis

How did it all begin? I suppose it would be the day I rescued a new-born baby from a poisonous snake, heard the news of my mother's death a ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£30.00

Shadow Dancer

Author: Tom Bradby

Price: £30.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 02 January 1998

 

Synopsis

Colette McVeigh: mother...widow...terrorist. A woman who has lived the Republican cause for all of her 29 years. A woman whose brothers are bot ... read more

UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author

£75.00

The Accident Man

Author: Tom Cain

Price: £75.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 02 July 2007

 

Synopsis

Meet the Accident Man, Samuel Carver is a good guy who makes bad things happen to bad people. Drug-baron's helicopter develops mechanical f ... read more

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£12.99

The Survivor

Author: Tom Cain

Price: £12.99

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 28 July 2008

 

Synopsis

The Accident Man is back ...Samuel Carver makes bad accidents happen to worse people. He's very good at his job. But nobody's perfect. ... read more

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£25.00

The Small Boat of Great Sorrows

Author: Dan Fesperman

Price: £25.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 04 August 2003

 

Synopsis

Vlado Petric, former detective in war-torn Sarajevo, has left his beloved homeland to join his wife and daughter in Germany, where he scratches ... read more

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£19.99

The Warlord's Son

Author: Dan Fesperman

Price: £19.99

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 05 July 2004

 

Synopsis

'The sun did not rise in Peshawar. It seeped - an egg-white smear that brightened the eastern horizon behind a veil of smoke, exhaust and d ... read more

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£20.00

Perfectly Pure and Good

Author: Frances Fyfield

Price: £20.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 03 March 1994

 

Synopsis

When Sarah Fortune, with her impeccable qualifications and chequered history, is sent to a small town in Norfolk, she goes willingly. Sorting o ... read more

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£20.00

Blind Date

Author: Frances Fyfield

Price: £20.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 05 February 1998

 

Synopsis

How do you make people love you? Emma Davey, who loved gemstones and life, found it easy. Everyone loved her. Until someone put a black bin lin ... read more

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£15.00

The Thief Taker

Author: Janet Gleeson

Price: £15.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 01 September 2004

 

Synopsis

Agnes Meadowes is cook to the Blanchards of Foster Lane, the renowned silversmiths. Her quiet world of culinary activity, preparing jugged hare ... read more

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£85.00

Take No Farewell

Author: Robert Goddard

Price: £85.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 01 July 1991

 

Synopsis

Geoffrey Staddon had never forgotten the house called Clouds Frome, his first important commission and the best thing he had ever done as an ar ... read more

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£25.00

Days without Number

Author: Robert Goddard

Price: £25.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 01 March 2003

 

Synopsis

Nick Paleologus is summoned to the unyielding bosom of his family to help resolve a dispute which threatens to set his brothers and sisters aga ... read more

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£30.00

Sea Change

Author: Robert Goddard

Price: £30.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 02 November 2000

 

Synopsis

It is January 1721. London is reeling from the effects of the greatest financial scandal of the age, the collapse of the South Sea Bubble. Will ... read more

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£20.00

Dying to Tell

Author: Robert Goddard

Price: £20.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 05 November 2001

 

Synopsis

It is autumn in the Somerset town of Glastonbury. Lance Bradley is idling away his life there as usual when he receives a call for help from th ... read more

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£75.00

In Pale Battalions

Author: Robert Goddard

Price: £75.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 19 May 1988

 

Synopsis

Six months after her husband's sudden death, Leonora Galloway sets off for a holiday in Paris with her daughter Penelope. At last the time ... read more

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Beyond Recall

Author: Robert Goddard

Price: £25.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 05 June 1997

 

Synopsis

A murder mystery that moves between a wedding party in 1981 and a murder in 1947. Chris Napier decides to delve into the events of the past to ... read more

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£18.00

Ritual

Author: Mo Hayder

Price: £18.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 10 March 2008

 

Synopsis

Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact ... read more

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UK First Edition / First Printing

£18.99

A Wanted Man: (Jack Reacher 17)

Author: Lee Child

Price: £18.99

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 03 September 2012

 

Synopsis

  Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories t ... read more

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£25.00

Target

Author: Simon Kernick

Price: £25.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 19 June 2009

 

Synopsis

Did someone try to kill me or am I going mad? When writer Rob Fallon gets drunk one night and ends up joining his best-friend's girlfriend, ... read more

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£85.00

The Business of Dying

Author: Simon Kernick

Price: £85.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 01 July 2002

 

Synopsis

It's a typical cold November night and DS Dennis Milne, a very untypical policeman, is in the car park of the Traveller's Rest hotel aw ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£12.99

Mission Flats

Author: William Landay

Price: £12.99

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 02 June 2003

 

Synopsis

Nothing much happens in Versailles, Maine - until a body is found in a cabin up by the lake. The dead man turns out to be from the Boston DA ... read more

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£45.00

The Murder Exchange

Author: Simon Kernick

Price: £45.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 02 June 2003

 

Synopsis

When ex-mercenary Max Iversson is introduced to nightclub owner Roy Fowler, he senses immediately that the man's trouble. Fowler wants secu ... read more

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£12.99

Dirty Little Lies

Author: John Macken

Price: £12.99

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 01 March 2007

 

Synopsis

Reuben Maitland runs the Uk's most elite crime squad, working only on the highest-profile cases, tracking down the country's most vicio ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£20.00

The Merry Devils

Author: Edward Marston

Price: £20.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 01 January 1989

 

Synopsis

Lord Westfield's Men, an Elizabethan acting company, is presenting a new play, "The Merry Devils." Contrary to the stage directio ... read more

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£150.00

Garnethill

Author: Denise Mina

Price: £150.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 01 May 1998

 

Synopsis

Maureen O'Donnell wasn't born lucky. A psychiatric patient and survivor of sexual abuse, she's stuck in a dead-end job and a secret ... read more

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£45.00

Exile

Author: Denise Mina

Price: £45.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 03 August 2000

 

Synopsis

The last time Maureen O'Donnell saw Ann Harris, she was sitting in her office in the Glasgow Women's Shelter smelling of a long binge o ... read more

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£50.00

The Field of Blood

Author: Denise Mina

Price: £50.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 01 April 2005

 

Synopsis

When Brian Willcox is found brutally battered to death next to a suburban railway line in Glasgow, it is assumed that the toddler is the victim ... read more

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£35.00

Resolution

Author: Denise Mina

Price: £35.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 01 November 2001

 

Synopsis

Maureen O'Donnell is facing the darkest episode in her life. She owes more than she makes in a year in back taxes; Angus Farrell, the psych ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£12.99

The Crystal Skull

Author: Manda Scott

Price: £12.99

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 01 January 2008

 

Synopsis

21.12.12 The date is set. Time is running out. Hidden for four centuries, a crystal skull of exquisite beauty has just been found by Stella Cod ... read more

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£35.00

The Waiting Time

Author: Gerald Seymour

Price: £35.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 05 February 1995

 

Synopsis

On a winter's night at the height of the Cold War, in a small town on the Baltic coast off East Germany, a young man is dragged from the se ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£14.99

The Mayor of Lexington Avenue

Author: James Sheehan

Price: £14.99

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 01 September 2006

 

Synopsis

Jack Tobin is a trial lawyer with a searing-hot reputation in Miami, far removed from his scrappy youth on the streets of New York. But when a ... read more

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The Death Pit

Author: Tony Strong

Price: £20.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 03 June 1999

 

Synopsis

When young academic Terry Williams goes to a remote corner of the Scottish Highlands, she's simply intending to edit the letters of Catheri ... read more

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£200.00

The Nizam's Daughters

Author: Allan Mallinson

Price: £200.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 02 March 2000

 

Synopsis

Fresh from the battle of Waterloo, Matthew Hervey, newly appointed aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington, is sent on the most secret of missio ... read more

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£25.00

Man of War

Author: Allan Mallinson

Price: £25.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 01 March 2007

 

Synopsis

Captain Sir Laughton Peto, recently engaged to Matthew Hervey's sister, Elizabeth, has just taken command of HMS Prince Rupert, the only th ... read more

UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author

£19.99

Now You See Me - SIGNED, LINED & DATED

Author: S. J. Bolton

Price: £19.99

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 26 May 2011

 

Synopsis

Keep telling yourself it’s only fiction… The pulse-pounding breakout thriller of 2011 read more

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£14.00

Sweet Gum

Author: Jo-Ann Goodwin

Price: £14.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 16 February 2006

 

Synopsis

Eugene Burnside joined The Firm before he left school, running drugs. Clever and ambitious, Eugene's now 28 and definitely going places bec ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£18.99

Gone Tomorrow

Author: Lee Child

Price: £18.99

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 23 April 2009

 

Synopsis

Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because they're nervous. By definition they're all ... read more

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£30.00

Boudica: Dreaming the Bull

Author: Manda Scott

Price: £30.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 02 February 2004

 

Synopsis

In AD 60, Boudica, war leader of the Eceni, led her people in a final bloody revolt against the occupying armies of Rome; the culmination of ne ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

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£14.99

Blood Count

Author: Robert Goddard

Price: £14.99

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 31 March 2011

 

Synopsis

The breathtaking new race-against-the-clock thriller from the master of the triple cross   Product Description There&rsquo ... read more

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£55.00

Birdman

Author: Mo Hayder

Price: £55.00

Published by: Bantam Press

 

Synopsis

Greenwich, south-east London. The Met's crack murder squad, AMIP, is called out by nervous CID detectives to a grim discovery. Five bodies, ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£29.99

The Night Listener

Author: Armistead Maupin

Price: £29.99

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 14 September 2000

 

Synopsis

Gabriel Noone is a late-night radio story teller who receives endless manuscripts. When "The Blacking Factory", the story of a child ... read more

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£24.99

Raven: Odin's Wolves - SIGNED, STAMPED & NUMBERED (x/100)

Author: Giles Kristian

Price: £24.99

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 14 April 2011

 

Synopsis

We lusted for an even greater prize...the one prize that can never be lost or stolen or burnt. And we would find it in Miklagard... Raven a ... read more

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£125.00

A Regimental Affair

Author: Allan Mallinson

Price: £125.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 05 March 2001

 

Synopsis

The year is 1817, and Captain Hervey has returned from India to an England in turmoil. The clamour for parliamentary and economic reform is bri ... read more

UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author

£19.99

Hereward

Author: James Wilde

Price: £19.99

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 25 June 2011

 

Synopsis

Book Description Thrilling, action-packed historical debut that rescues one of England's forgotten heroes from the mists of early medie ... read more

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£12.99

Defender of Rome

Author: Douglas Jackson

Price: £12.99

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 18 August 2011

 

Synopsis

Gaius Valerius Verrens returns to Rome from the successful campaign against Boudicca in Britain. Now hailed a ‘Hero of Rome’, Valer ... read more

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£12.99

Egypt: The Book of Chaos (Rai Rahotep 3

Author: Nick Drake

Price: £12.99

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 04 August 2011

 

Synopsis

Egypt, 1320 BC   The future of Egypt lies in the hands of chief detective Rahotep when he undertakes a clandestine mission across ... read more

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Signed & Dated by the author.

£24.99

Gone Tomorrow

Author: Lee Child

Price: £24.99

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 23 April 2009

 

Synopsis

Susan Mark, the fifth passenger, had a big secret, and her plain little life was being watched in Washington, and California, an ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

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£12.99

Siege

Author: Simon Kernick

Price: £12.99

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 19 January 2012

 

Synopsis

London is under attack.   People are dead. Many more lives hang in the balance as a group of highly trained gunmen storm the histo ... read more

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£100.00

Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle (Boudica 1)

Author: Manda Scott

Price: £100.00

Published by: Bantam Press

 

Synopsis

Dreaming the Eagle , the first volume of Manda Scott's "Boudica" sequence, is as much about establishing our sense of the issues ... read more

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£500.00

The Da Vinci Code

Author: Dan Brown

Price: £500.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 01 July 2003

 

Synopsis

*** COMES WITH A LOOSELY INSERTED SIGNED BOOKPLATE *** In The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown masterfully concocts an intelligent and lucid thrill ... read more

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£16.99

Fault Line

Author: Robert Goddard

Price: £16.99

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 02 April 2012

 

Synopsis

    A search for missing documents in an international mining company becomes a voyage into dangerous waters.   ... read more

£100.00

Garnethill

Author: Denise Mina

Price: £100.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 01 May 1998

 

Synopsis

Maureen O'Donnell wasn't born lucky. A psychiatric patient and survivor of sexual abuse, she's stuck in a dead-end job and a secret ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

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£12.99

Hereward -The Devil's Army

Author: James Wilde

Price: £12.99

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 19 July 2012

 

Synopsis

The action-packed story of Hereward, forgotten hero of English history, continues in James Wilde's second brutal and bloody novel... ... read more

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£12.99

The Bleeding Land - SIGNED & PUBLICATION DATED

Author: Giles Kristian

Price: £12.99

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 26 April 2012

 

Synopsis

England 1642: a nation divided. England is at war with itself. King Charles and Parliament each gather soldiers to their banners. Across the la ... read more

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Dead Scared

Author: S. J. Bolton

Price: £12.99

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 26 April 2012

 

Synopsis

When a Cambridge student dramatically attempts to take her own life, DI Mark Joesbury realizes that the university has developed an unhealthy r ... read more

£30.00

Bad Luck And Trouble

Author: Lee Child

Price: £30.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 02 April 2007

 

Synopsis

You do not mess with the Special Investigators! The events of 9/11 changed Jack Reacher's drifter life in a practical way. In addition to h ... read more

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£65.00

Echo Burning

Author: Lee Child

Price: £65.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 21 June 2001

 

Synopsis

Loner Jack Reacher gets a lift from seductive Carmen Greer, but it comes with a few hitches: a dangerous husband, a small town with secrets, an ... read more

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UK First Edition / First Printing

£30.00

Nothing to Lose

Author: Lee Child

Price: £30.00

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 24 March 2008

 

Synopsis

Two small towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, nothing but twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher can't find a ride, so he ... read more

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£12.99

Rome: The Eagle Of The Twelfth

Author: Manda Scott

Price: £12.99

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 24 May 2012

 

Synopsis

They are known as the Legion of the Damned...   Throughout the Roman Army, the Twelfth Legion is notorious for its ill fortune. It ... read more

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£14.99

The Last Caesar

Author: Henry Venmore-Rowland

Price: £14.99

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 21 June 2012

 

Synopsis

AD 68. The tyrant emperor Nero has no son and no heir.   Suddenly there's the very real possibility that Rome might be ... read more

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UK First Edition / First Printing

£14.99

Avenger of Rome (Gaius Valerius Verrens 3)

Author: Douglas Jackson

Price: £14.99

Published by: Bantam Press

Date Available: 16 August 2012

 

Synopsis

" " Rome, summer 66AD and Nero's agents mercilessly hunt down the last survivors of the Piso Conspiracy. Yet, despite purging t ... read more

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The Wolves of the North (Warrior of Rome 5)

by Harry Sidebottom

 

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In the fifth novel in Harry Sidebottom's acclaimed and bestselling Warrior of Rome historical fiction series, Ballista returns in Warrior o ... read more

 

Release 05 July 2012

Publisher Michael Joseph

ISBN 978-0718155933

The Death Sculptor

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The Death Sculptor

by Chris Carter

 

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'Good job you didn't turn on the lights ...' A student nurse has the shock of her life when she discovers her patient, prosecutor D ... read more

 

Release 16 August 2012

Publisher Simon & Schuster

ISBN 978-0857203007

A Private Business: A Hakim and Arnold Mystery

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A Private Business: A Hakim and Arnold Mystery

by Barbara Nadel

 

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2012: London is hosting the Olympics and the East End is at the centre of the world. Yet surrounding the glamorous Olympic Park are some of the ... read more

 

Release 05 July 2012

Publisher Quercus

ISBN 978-0857387738

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The Lion Wakes

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The Lion Wakes: The Kingdom Series - SIGNED, PRE-PUB DATED & DOODLED

by Robert Low

 

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The first novel in a major new series as Robert Low moves from the Vikings to the making of Scotland. It is 1296 and Scotland is in turmoi ... read more

 

Release 12 April 2011

Publisher Harper Collins

ISBN 978-0-00-733791-0

The Power of Six

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The Power of Six - Exclusive Slipcase Edition - September Book of the Month 2011

by Pittacus Lore

 

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We are the last defence. I've seen him on the news. Followed the stories about what happened to John Smith. To the world he's a mys ... read more

 

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Publisher Penguin

ISBN 978-0718156480

Irenicon: Book One

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Irenicon: Book One - SIGNED, LINED, DATED & DOODLED

by Aidan Harte

 

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The river Irenicon was blasted through the middle of Rasenna in 1347 and now it is a permanent reminder to the feuding factions that nothing ca ... read more

 

Release 29 March 2012

Publisher Jo Fletcher Books

ISBN 978-0857388964

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