It is 1667 and the mighty naval war between the Dutch and the English still rages. Sir Francis Courtney and his son Hal, in their fighting caravel, are on patrol off southern Africa, lying in wait for a galleon of the Dutch East India Company returning from the Orient laden with spices, timber and gold... 'The scope is magnificent and the epic scale breathtaking ... Wilbur Smith is one of thos benchmarks agains whom others are compared' - The Times 'Meticulous research supports constant excitement in a fast-moving tale' - Washington Post
Asakawa is a hardworking journalist who has climbed his way up from local-news beat reporter to writer for his newspaper’s weekly magazine. A chronic workaholic, he doesn’t take much notice when his seventeen-year-old niece dies suddenly – until a chance conversation reveals that another healthy teenager died at exactly the same time, in chillingly similar circumstances. Sensing a story, Asakawa begins to investigate, and soon discovers that this strange simultaneous sudden-death syndrome also affected another two teenagers. Exactly one week before their mysterious deaths the four teenagers all spent the night at a leisure resort in the same log cabin. When Asakawa visits the resort, the mystery only deepens. A comment made in the guest book by one of the teenagers leads him to a particular vidoetape with a portentous message at the end: Those who have viewed these images are fated to die at this exact hour one week from now. Asakawa finds himself in a race against time – he has only seven days to find the cause of the teenagers’ deaths before it finds him. The hunt puts him on the trail of an apocalytpic power that will force Asakawa to choose between saving his family and saving civilization.
The new generation of Courtneys stake their claim on the wilderness of Southern Africa in this brilliant new novel from the celebrated international bestselling author. At the close of Wilbur Smith's bestselling Monsoon, Tom Courtney and his brother Dorian battled on the high seas and finally reached the Cape of Good Hope to start life afresh. In this spellbinding new novel, the next generation of Courtneys are out to stake their claim in Southern Africa, travelling along the infamous 'Robber's Road'. It is a journey both exciting and hazardous, that takes them through the untouched wilderness of a beautiful land filled with warring tribes and wild animals. At heart a story of love and hatred, vengeance and greed, Blue Horizon is an utterly compelling adventure from one of the world's most celebrated novelists.
Sharpe, Having Just Received His Commission, Faces His Toughest Battle Yet In This Return To India, The Terrain Of The Bestselling Sharpe'S Tiger. Repackaged In The Fantastic New Sharpe Look. It Is 1803 And Sir Arthur Wellesley'S Army Is Closing On The Retreating Mahrattas In Western India. Marching With The British Is Ensign Richard Sharpe, Newly Made Into An Officer And Wishing He Had Stayed A Sergeant. Spurned By His New Regiment, He Is Sent To The Army'S Baggage Train And There Finds Corruption, Romance, Treason And Enemies Old And New. Sergeant Hakeswill Wants Sharpe Dead, And Hakeswill Has Powerful Friends While Sharpe Has Only An Orphaned Arab Boy As His Ally. And Waiting With The Cornered Mahrattas Is Another Enemy, The Renegade Englishman, William Dodd, Who Does Not Envisage Defeat, But Only A Glorious Triumph. For The Mahrattas Have Taken Refuge In Gawilghur, The Greatest Stronghold Of India, Perched High On Its Cliffs Above The Deccan Plain. Who Rules In Gawilghur, It Is Said, Rules India, And Dodd Knows That The Fortress Is Impregnable. There, Behind Its Double Walls, In The Towering Twin Forts, Sharpe Must Face His Enemies In What Will Prove To Be Wellesley'S Last Battle On Indian Soil.
A millionaire is murdered and Inspector Felse, after sifting through the few shreds of evidence, finally arrests Kitty Norris, his teenaged son Dominic's first love. A young man's infatuation soon becomes something far more dangerous, though, as Dominic takes on Kitty's cause--in direct opposition to his father's investigation.
" Et soudain, elle eut comme une vision : c'était un soir d'été, il faisait chaud, des enfants jouaient sous les arbres fruitiers, une jeune femme était assise sur le mur. La maison était pleine de vie et de bruits, oubliés le silence et la solitude d'une vieille femme que personne n'attendait quand elle revenait. La maison avait une histoire, sans doute plus heureuse autrefois qu'aujourd'hui. " Barbara et Ralph viennent d'arriver à Westhill Farm pour passer Noël et tenter de sauver leur couple, quand une violente tempête de neige s'abat sur la région. Prisonniers de la vieille demeure, sans chauffage, sans téléphone et sans provisions, ils se retrouvent face à la réalité de ce qu'est devenu leur mariage. Mais alors qu'elle cherche de quoi faire du feu, Barbara découvre un manuscrit, le récit de Frances Gray, la femme qui vivait là autrefois avec sa sœur. Elle se plonge alors dans cette vie mouvementée, en 1910... Un grand roman sur des femmes engagées et passionnées, éprises de liberté.
Whilst German tanks surround Leningrad during September 1941, two families struggle to stay alive. As winter grips the city first the furniture is burnt, then the books, but some may not live to see another day
When Kurt Austin, the leader of a courageous National Underwater & Marine Agency exploration team, rescues beautiful marine archaeologist Nina Kirov off the coast of Morocco, he becomes the next target of Texas industrialist Don Halcon. A madman bent on carving a new nation out of the southwestern United States and Mexico, Halcon's scheme hinges on Nina's recent discovery involving Christopher Columbus, and a priceless pre-Columbian antiquity buried in the battered remains of the sunken Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria. Only Kurt Austin and his crack NUMA team stand between Halcon and the Andrea Doria's silent steel hull - and if their deadly mission fails, Halcon will ride to power on a wave of death and destruction.
Franca Palmer ne se sent plus le courage de supporter les exigences de son métier d'enseignante, de son mari, du quotidien. Sur un coup de tête, elle décide de rompre avec tout ce qui, jusque-là, était sa vie. Elle choisit de se réfugier à Guernesey, où elle sait qu'elle trouvera cette chaleur qui lui manque tant auprès de la propriétaire de la roseraie du Variouf, un délicieux village du sud de l'île. Très vite, une amitié empreinte de pudeur et de réserve naît entre la jeune Allemande et son hôtesse, Béatrice Shaye, septuagénaire de fraîche date, qui partage sa vaste demeure avec Hélène Feldmann, de dix ans son aînée. Mais une aura de mystère plane sur la roseraie. Franca va bientôt découvrir que tous les indices semblent mener au passé des deux femmes, à l'époque où l'île était occupée par les troupes allemandes. Peu à peu, les passions s'exacerbent. Passé et présent se rejoignent. Un drame est sur le point d'éclater...
An investigation into the sudden deaths of rare whales sends National Underwater Marine Agency crew leader Kurt Austin to the Mexican coast, where he and his crew stumble upon a white goddess legend and an eco-extortionist set on controlling the world's fresh-water supply.
