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A Very English Agent
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Dwarfish Charlie Boylan carries a loaded pistol into the House of Commons. A can of worms waiting to be opened, he was a police spy for nearly forty years. He wants a pension and what he knows will get it! Did he, between Waterloo and Wellington's funeral, cause the Peterloo riot to happen? Was it Charlie who fingered the Cato Street Conspirators ...
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Birth of a Nation
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Eddie Bosham (aka Charlie Boylan) is in prison on a murder charge. But he's not worried. He's innocent, and, anyway, he has hidden proof of a ghastly scandal that could bring down the monarchy. Taking up his memoirs from where we left him, marooned on the Galapagos Islands, we find Eddie offering a young Charles Darwin an explanation of why the ...
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The Mutiny
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For its British population, the India that swelters in the late spring of 1857 is a place of amateur theatricals, horseracing and flirtations under the aegis of the omnipotent East India company. But a brutal awakening lies in store for the complacent British: one May night, after thirty years of abuse, the East India Company's native soldiers ...
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Joseph: The Life of Joseph Bosham, Self-Styled 3rd Viscount of Bosham, Covering the Years from 1790 to 1813
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Spain - 1808 to 1813 - where Revolution collides with Reaction, a British Army with a French; the Spain of Goya, where ignorant armies clash and from under them all comes the voice of Joseph: by birth European, by education enlightened, and living in Salamanca which suffered a new invasion every six months and saw one of Wellington's greatest ...
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Brandenburg Concerto
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Four trainloads of assorted ammunition have gone missing deep in the woods between Germany and Russia. There are plenty of people willing to lend a hand with the search. Renata Fechter, eco-cop is there against her old adversaries, the Sheen Associates - and then there are the real bad guys.
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The last English king
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On the Sussex Downs in 1066, the psychotic William and his gang of European mercenaries began the process which fragmented a civilisation. Walt, the last of King Harold's bodyguard, the one who survived Hastings, wanders across Asia Minor in the company of Quint, an intellectual renegade monk. On the way he unfolds the events that led up to the ...
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Greenfinger
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Accidents Will Happen
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The Eco-Cops, a band of outcasts from regular police corps, have been created to combat ecological crime. Their boss, Renata Fechter, has been given the thankless command to remind her that she is a woman in a man's world. Now her squad is set on the trail of a group dumping illegal toxic wastes.
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Intimacy
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David Querubin, soprano and castrato, is plagued by memories of an affair with his mother. These precious memories have been dismissed by doctors as fantasy, so destroying his reason to live. A young woman, obsessed with becoming his pupil, sets out to determine the truth of his recollections.
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Wellington's War: 2his Peninsular Dispatches
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Julian Rathbone has made a selection from Wellington's Peninsular dispatches and letters and added his own dramatic explanatory narrative. In this way he has presented the living history of the successful Peninsular campaign through the words of the man who did more to direct its outcome than any other - Wellington himself.
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Kings of Albion
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During the Wars of the Roses in the mid-15th century, an Arab named Ali visits England on a mission to locate the missing brother of an Indian prince. The plot encompasses a cross-dressing monk, a plot to kill the king of England, a stint in the tower, and of course the raging civil war.
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King Fisher lives
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A last resort--for these times
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As Bad as It Gets
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Chris Shovelin, the Bournemouth Private Investigator with a marital problem, is on the move again. Coming out of Mombasa where he has been checking out the unsuspicious death of a millionaire's son in a scuba accident, he's made enough money to treat himself to a safari. But Danielle (call me Danny) recruits him to be her minder before leaving him ...
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A Spy of the Old School
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Blame Hitler
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Thomas hates his job, he drinks too much, and he realizes that from boyhood he has been driven to be better than his father. Thomas dreams of the man who became a stranger the day he joined up - and who was there to blame but Hitler? The novel entwines domestic life with history at the sharp end.
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Trajectories
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Richard Somers, ex-rock star, is bored. Then back into his life comes his sister Hannah-Rosa and her troupe of travelling dancers, bringing a disc describing human origins in a Garden of Eden on the shores of an African lake. The result is an apocalyptic vision which is both prophecy and warning.
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Homage
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Chris Shovelin is a private eye, investigating petty theft in a sleepy British seaside town. An ex-alcoholic, ex-hippy and ex-bigshot investigator, middle age has had a calming, numbing effect on him. But all this is to change when he is summoned to La Jolla, California, by an old PI friend from the sixties, Wilbur Jefferson. Shovelin figures it ...
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El Ultimo Rey Ingles
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A la muerte del rey conocido como Eduardo el Confesor, subio al trono ingles Harold II, quien, despues de vencer a los noruegos en Stamforbridge, fue derrotado y murio en la memorable batalla de Hastings (1066) e Inglaterra fue conquistada por los normandos. Con esta muerte concluia una violenta y convulsa etapa de la historia protagonizada por el ...
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The Euro-Killers
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Sand Blind
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When Arnold Cartwright is recruited by a company working in commercial aircraft control, it soon becomes clear to him that his job is not as innocent as it seems, and that his true employer is the Iraqi government. A post-Cold War thriller by the author of "The Pandora Operation".
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The Indispensable Julian Rathbone
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A personal selection of pieces by this British master including his novel Lying in State.
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Lying in state
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Watching the detectives
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The crystal contract
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This thriller combines high adventure, politics, romance and danger on a global scale. It is the story of a man's mission to penetrate and destroy an international conspiracy of cocaine and political power in Switzerland. Previous titles by this author include "Zdt" and "Lying in State".
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