Published in 1932, Graham Greene’s gripping spy thriller unfolds aboard the majestic Orient Express as it crosses Europe from Ostend to Constantinople. Weaving a web of subterfuge, murder and...

The Mediterranean, 1943... The Rob Roy. A tiny machine, just 230 feet from stem to stern. In peacetime she would have trawled for cod. Now her catch is deadlier by far. Lieutenant-Commander Ian...

Adriatic, 1940s... Curtis was the pro. He could steer a sub through a saloon and no one would notice. Duncan was the grumbler, more at home in the Aussie Outback than twenty fathoms under the...

This is the fourth and final volume in the acclaimed ‘Emperor' series, in which Conn Iggulden brilliantly interweaves history and adventure to recreate the astonishing life of Julius Caesar.

On a stormy night in small-town America, a couple, desperate and soaked to the skin, knock on a stranger’s door. When Martha, a retired schoolteacher, answers their knock, her world changes for...

It is 1805 and Ensign Richard Sharpe is on his way home from India to join the newly formed Green Jackets. The voyage should be a period of rest but his ship is riven with treachery and threatened...

The gripping tragic-comedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinean town tells the story of Charley Fortnum, the 'Honorary Consul', a whisky-sodden figure of dubious authority, who is...

Spring 1802. Richard Bolitho is summoned to the Admiralty to receive his orders for a difficult and thankless mission... The recent Peace of Amiens is already showing signs of strain as old...

November 1941. Lt Ralph Trewin, DSC, arrives at Singapore as second-in-command of the shallow-draughter HMS Porcupine.

To Trewin, still shocked from wounds received during the...

Newly promoted, Major Richard Sharpe leads his small force into the biting cold of the winter mountains. His task is to rescue the well-born women held hostage by a rabble of deserters. But one of...

June 1793, Gibraltar and the gathering might of revolutionary France prepares to engulf Europe in another bloody war. As in the past, Britain will stand or fall by the fighting power of her fleet....

M thinks he has an easy case for 007, just what he needs after a near-fatal brush with SMERSH. But on arriving in Jamaica to look for a missing agent and his secretary, Bond learns that the...

It is 1805, and Napoleon prepares to invade England. Asked by the Admiralty to risk a shameful death, Hornblower agrees to a dangerous mission – turning spy to light a powder trail to...

Graham Greene's first novel, written when he was twenty-one and published in 1929, tells the story of Andrews, a young man running and hiding from the fellow smugglers he has betrayed, and...

Nigel Davenport reads this thrilling collection of short tales from master storyteller Frederick Forsyth .Deception, blackmail, murder, revenge - these are themes of stories that move from...