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Listing books from publisher: Century
Author: Peter Smalley
Price: £18.99
out of stock
Published by: Century
Date Available: 06 May 2010
Synopsis
It was Spring 1792. HMS Expedient and her crew have survived their most perilous commission yet: the dead have been buried and the battle scars ... read more
Author: Lindsey Davis
Price: £24.99
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Published by: Century
Date Available: 03 June 2010
Synopsis
In the high summer of 77 AD, Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco is beset by personal problems. Newly bereaved and facing unexpected upheavals i ... read more
Lieutenant Fury - Signed Numbered First Edition
Author: G. S. Beard
Price: £34.99
out of stock
Published by: Century
Date Available: 02 August 2007
Synopsis
1793. War with France has only just been declared but John Fury has seen enough action for a man twice his tender age --a newly promoted naval ... read more
Author: G. S. Beard
Price: £65.00
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Published by: Century
Date Available: 03 August 2006
Synopsis
The year is 1792 - the start of the French Revolutionary Wars. A shadow hangs over John Thomas Fury in this his first voyage as a midshipman ab ... read more
Author: Tom Harper
Price: £25.00
Published by: Century
Date Available: 05 October 2006
Synopsis
August, 1098. After countless battles and sieges, the surviving soldiers of the first crusade are at last within reach of their ultimate goal: ... read more
Author: Len Deighton
Price: £15.00
out of stock
Published by: Century
Date Available: 20 September 1982
Synopsis
Deighton is, of course, a master of sprightly espionage - but his heart really seems to belong to WW II aviation (Fighter, Airshipwreck, etc.). ... read more
Author: Peter Smalley
Price: £55.00
Published by: Century
Date Available: 05 May 2005
Synopsis
1786: Captain William Rennie is on the beach and on half pay. Things weren't always so bad for him. Four years earlier Admiral Rodney had s ... read more
Author: Peter Smalley
Price: £25.00
Published by: Century
Date Available: 03 May 2007
Synopsis
It is the eve of the French Revolution and England awaits with trepidation, the news from the Continent that will propel her into war again aft ... read more
Author: Peter Smalley
Price: £45.00
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Published by: Century
Date Available: 02 July 2009
Synopsis
Spring 1791. Though deeply disturbed by a terrible incident during his previous commission, James Hayter is nevertheless on the verge of taking ... read more
Author: James Lee Burke
Price: £100.00
Published by: Century
Date Available: 01 January 1990
Synopsis
Personal tragedy has left Dave Robicheaux close to the edge. Battling against his old addiction to alcohol and haunted nightly by vivid dreams ... read more
Author: James Lee Burke
Price: £150.00
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Published by: Century
Date Available: 01 January 1992
Synopsis
The fourth Dave Robicheaux detective novel, featuring a volatile mix of Mafia drug-running and Cajun voodoo magic. Obsessed with revenge when h ... read more
Author: Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
Price: £75.00
Published by: Century
Date Available: 06 May 2004
Synopsis
Tom Sullivan is about to graduate from Princeton. He's intelligent and popular, but haunted by the violent death several years earlier of h ... read more
Author: Ann Cleeves
Price: £25.00
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Published by: Century
Date Available: 01 June 1987
Synopsis
The privately-owned island of Gillibry off the North Devon coast consists of fifty acresof sandstone and forms the perfect site for murder. Her ... read more
Author: Ann Cleeves
Price: £30.00
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Published by: Century
Date Available: 01 June 1986
Synopsis
In A Bird in the Hand Bill Doherty tells of the beginnings of his involvement with keeping birds, and also of wild bird catchers among the bird ... read more
Author: Lindsey Davis
Price: £18.99
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Published by: Century
Date Available: 05 February 2009
Synopsis
For Marcus Didius Falco, agent to the Emperor Vespasian, Alexandria holds fascination and a hint of fear. Beautiful, historic and famously unru ... read more
Author: Lindsey Davis
Price: £25.00
Published by: Century
Date Available: 03 June 1999
Synopsis
From the author of THREE HANDS IN THE FOUNTAIN and TIME TO DEPART, a crime story featuring Marcus Didius Falco who is determined to solve the m ... read more
Author: Lindsey Davis
Price: £50.00
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Published by: Century
Date Available: 17 June 1993
Synopsis
Following "The Silver Pigs", "Shadows in Bronze", "Venus in Copper" and "The Iron Hand of Mars", this M ... read more
Author: Lindsey Davis
Price: £40.00
Published by: Century
Date Available: 06 June 1996
Synopsis
Nobody was poisoned at the dinner for the Society of Oliver Oil Producers of Baetica, though in retrospect this was quite a surprise... Ini ... read more
Author: Lindsey Davis
Price: £24.99
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Published by: Century
Date Available: 05 June 2003
Synopsis
Having returned from his trip to Londinium, Falco takes up employment with Paccius Africanus and Silius Italicus, two lawyers at the top of the ... read more
Author: James Ellroy
Price: £18.99
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Published by: Century
Date Available: 19 April 2001
Synopsis
By the author of "American Tabloid", the story continues, from the assassination of JFK right through the 60s to the conflict in Viet ... read more
Aristotle and the Secrets of Life
Author: Margaret Doody
Price: £25.00
Published by: Century
Date Available: 08 May 2003
Synopsis
It is 330 B.C. The Macedonian Alexander the Great has conquered Asia Minor but now his armies are far from Athens, and those who support Atheni ... read more
Author: James Ellroy
Price: £18.99
Published by: Century
Date Available: 05 November 2009
Synopsis
It's 1968. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King are dead. The Mob, Howard Hughes and J Edgar Hoover are in a struggle for America's sou ... read more
Author: John Grisham
Price: £200.00
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Published by: Century
Date Available: 01 January 1993
Synopsis
A US State Senator is dead, and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden. The FBI want him to tell them where it is at ... read more
Author: John Grisham
Price: £25.00
Published by: Century
Date Available: 04 February 2003
Synopsis
Reluctantly, Clay Carter takes on what seems to be the mundane case of a young man charged with a random street killing. But when digging into ... read more
Author: John Grisham
Price: £25.00
Published by: Century
Date Available: 30 March 1998
Synopsis
Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake and Sweeney, a giant Washington law firm. He was a rising star, with no time t ... read more
Author: John Grisham
Price: £45.00
Published by: Century
Date Available: 01 June 1995
Synopsis
A thriller from the author of THE PARTNER. A newly-qualified lawyer is given a case against a giant insurance company accused of allowing one o ... read more
Author: Sheila Quigley
Price: £18.99
Published by: Century
Date Available: 31 March 2005
Synopsis
A young woman walks home by herself, the tapping of her high heels the only sound. At two o'clock in the morning, it's cold, the street ... read more
The Patient's Eyes: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
Author: David Pirie
Price: £45.00
Published by: Century
Date Available: 24 May 2001
Synopsis
While a young medical student at Edinburgh, Arthur Conan Doyle famously studied under the remarkable Dr Joseph Bell. Taking this as a starting ... read more
Author: Sam Barone
Price: £49.99
Published by: Century
Date Available: 18 January 2007
Synopsis
Three thousand years before the birth of Christ and the world is dominated by savage tribes of barbarians who despise the first farmers and tow ... read more
Author: Candace Robb
Price: £25.00
Published by: Century
Date Available: 03 January 2008
Synopsis
This book is a story of a callous murder, a devastating secret, and a crime of passion. In Bishopthorpe Palace, York, on September 1373, John T ... read more
Author: Karin Slaughter
Price: £20.00
Published by: Century
Date Available: 10 September 2003
Synopsis
Sara Linton, medical examiner in the small town of Heartsdale, is called out to an apparent suicide on the local college campus. The mutilated ... read more
Author: Karin Slaughter
Price: £17.99
Published by: Century
Date Available: 05 July 2007
Synopsis
It's no simple case of murder. Lena Adams has spent her life struggling to escape her past. She has only unhappy memories of Reece, the sma ... read more
Like a Charm - signed by multiple authors
Author: Karin Slaughter
Price: £45.00
Published by: Century
Date Available: 05 February 2004
Synopsis
In Like a Charm, the cream of British and American crime writers combine for a tempting collection of linked short stories. With ... read more
Author: Karin Slaughter
Price: £125.00
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Published by: Century
Date Available: 06 February 2003
Synopsis
Saturday night dates at the skating rink have been a tradition in the small southern town of Heartsdale for as long as anyone can remember. But ... read more
Author: Karin Slaughter
Price: £20.00
Published by: Century
Date Available: 23 August 2004
Synopsis
When medical examiner Sara Linton and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver take a trip away from the small town of Heartsdale - an escape from all the ... read more
Author: Karin Slaughter
Price: £200.00
Published by: Century
Date Available: 06 September 2001
Synopsis
The sleepy town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is jolted into panic when Sara Linton, paediatrician and medical examiner, finds Sibyl Adams dead in th ... read more
Author: Peter Spiegelman
Price: £9.99
Published by: Century
Date Available: 01 January 2004
Synopsis
A sharp, suspenseful first novel about white collar crime in the world of high finance. John March walked away from his family's venerable ... read more
Author: Frank Tallis
Price: £45.00
Published by: Century
Date Available: 05 May 2005
Synopsis
It is Vienna at the beginning of the last century, and Dr Max Liebermann is a young psychoanalyst - and disciple of Freud. Psychoanalysis is on ... read more
Author: Frank Tallis
Price: £30.00
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Published by: Century
Date Available: 17 January 2008
Synopsis
Vienna, 1903. In St. Florian’s military school, a young cadet is found dead – his body lacerated with razor wounds. Inspector Oskar ... read more
The Holmes Affair - SIGNED & LINED
Author: Graham Moore
Price: £34.99
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Published by: Century
Date Available: 11 March 2011
Synopsis
For over a century, the secrets of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s missing diary have lain buried. Now all that’s about to change … ... read more
Author: Lindsey Davis
Price: £35.00
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Published by: Century
Date Available: 01 June 2000
Synopsis
In the long, hot Roman Summer of AD 74, Marcus Didius Falco, private informer and spare-time poet, gives a reading for his family and friends. ... read more
Author: Lindsey Davis
Price: £20.00
Published by: Century
Date Available: 02 June 2002
Synopsis
Nobody does it better than Lindsey Davis - the unassailable mistress of the historical thriller. For Falco, a relaxed visit to Helena's rel ... read more
Author: Lindsey Davis
Price: £25.00
Published by: Century
Date Available: 01 June 2001
Synopsis
Marcus Didius Falco, once a common informer, now middle class, discovers that newly acquired rank brings associa ... read more
Wool - Exclusive Limited Edition in Slipcase (500 copies) - FEBRUARY 2013 BOOK OF THE MONTH
Author: Hugh Howey
Price: £65.00
out of stock
Published by: Century
Date Available: 27 February 2013
Synopsis
An epic story of life, love and survival at all odds and one of the most-talked and anticipated books of the year. It has drawn compa ... read more
Author: Peter Smalley
Price: £30.00
Published by: Century
Date Available: 04 May 2006
Synopsis
This work is set in 1788. HMS Expedient has returned from a perilous secret mission to the Pacific Ocean. Her Captain, William Rennie, and Firs ... read more
Author: John Grisham
Price: £45.00
Published by: Century
Date Available: 04 February 1999
Synopsis
An eccentric, reclusive billionaire looking for a way to die, burnt-out Washington litigator just out of rehab for the fourth time, and a woman ... read more
Shift (Wool Trilogy 2) - Exclusive Numbered and Slipcase Edition
Author: Hugh Howey
Price: £30.00
out of stock
Published by: Century
Date Available: 29 April 2013
Synopsis
The amazing follow-up to Wool. This edition is in a slipcase and EXCLUSIVE to Goldsboro Books. This is the World First Edition.   ... read more
Author: Hugh Howey
Price: £39.99
Published by: Century
Date Available: 25 February 2013
Synopsis
An epic story of life, love and survival at all odds and one of the most-talked and anticipated books of the year. &nb ... read more
The Last of Days - Limited Edition of 100 copies
by Paul Doherty
Synopsis
To celebrate Paul Doherty's 100th book we will have a very special numbered edition of 100 copies with ribbon. In the final ... read more
Release 06 June 2013
Publisher Headline
ISBN 978-0755397847
The Bell Between Worlds (The Mirror Chronicles)
by Iain Johnstone
Synopsis
A glorious epic fantasy in the grand tradition of CS Lewis and Philip Pullman, and a major publishing event, The Mirror Chronicl ... read more
Release 06 June 2013
Publisher Harper Collins
ISBN 978-0007491223
The Eagle's Vengeance: Empire VI
by Anthony Riches
Synopsis
The Tungrian auxiliary cohorts return to Hadrian's Wall after their successful Dacian campaign, only to find Britannia in ch ... read more
Release 22 August 2013
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 978-1444711905
The Fort
by Bernard Cornwell
Synopsis
After the great success of his book on a single battle, AZINCOURT, Bernard Cornwell has interrupted his bestselling series on the making of ... read more
Release 30 September 2010
Publisher Harper Collins
ISBN 9780007331727
Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian
by Eoin Colfer
Synopsis
The final thrilling Artemis Fowl adventure in Eoin Colfer's globally bestselling series. Let the misadventure begin - for the last time. ... read more
Release 10 July 2012
Publisher Puffin
ISBN 978-0141340814
The Sentinel - OCTOBER 2012 BOOK OF THE MONTH
by Mark Oldfield
Synopsis
Madrid, winter 1953: the snow lies thick on the ground and Comandante Guzman of the Brigada Especial is preparing a dawn raid. His job is to hu ... read more
Release 01 October 2012
Publisher Head of Zeus
ISBN 978-1908800183