Uhtred of Bebbanburg has reputation, riches, warriors, his son at his side and a persistent sword-wound which is slowly killing him. Yet the Pagan lord is on a difficult quest. Several in fact. He is not only trying to rescue both a royal heir and his own daughter, but must also find the blade which wounded him. Harder still, he seeks to put a woman on the throne of a British kingdom - against all tradition. He believes her to be the best hope against the Vikings rampaging in the north, for she is Aethelflaed, defender of Mercia and the woman Uhtred loves. A breathtaking read. 337pp, paperback.

You wrong Uhtred of Bebbanburg at you peril, for his vengeance is terrible. Ragnall Ivarson, a savage pirate king, has abandoned his lands in Ireland and declared that fate has granted him Britain. Among his allies is Brida, once the young Uhtred's lover, now an embittered widow with warriors, a fortress, and a fiery hatred of Christians and Uhtred. Often against his will, Uhtred has long been ensnared in the battle for the kingdoms of Britain. Now his family is caught up too and horribly so. He faces enemies feared for their cruelty, but his Pagan heart burns for revenge. 'Blood, divided loyalties and thundering battles.' - The Times. 348pp, paperback.

Britain is in a state of uneasy peace. The truce between the Vikings and Saxons has brought opportunity to England's greatest warrior, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. At last he has the chance to retake the home stolen from him so many years earlier. He has made many enemies and sworn many oaths that could distract him from his ambition. New opponents join old foes and enter into the fight for England's kingdoms. But Uhtred is determined that this time nothing will stand in his way for he is the Lord of Bebbanburg and will marshal the lessons of a lifetime of war to reclaim his birthright. From the new major TV series, the original novel. 321pp, paperback.

Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg knows that peace is far from reach. Although he has won the battle for his ancestral home, rebellion looms in Mercia and invading Norsemen appear at every turn. With the country in turmoil, he comes face to face with King Skoll, a violent Norseman leading an army of ulfhedinn, or wolf warriors, hellbent on seizing a kingdom, and killing any in his path. Surrounded and outnumbered by new enemies, Uhtred must call on all his skill and courage to survive and prevent his beloved Northumbria from falling to the Viking hordes. He is a leader, warrior and rebel. 384pp, paperback.

England is in turmoil as Vikings and Saxons battle for territory. Rumours build about the fatal sickness of the King, and the country awaits an heir. A violent clash at sea forces the warrior lord Uhtred to lead his men from his Northumbrian fortress to London and plunge into the eye of the storm. An oath of loyalty, two warring kings, and a destiny he didn't choose... Two kings claim the empty throne and a new kingdom cannot be born without bloodshed. Uhtred's sword will leave one king dead and the other victorious, but sometimes it is hard to know the will of the gods. 384pp, paperback.

When the young lawyer Daniel Pitt is called from his chambers in Lincoln's Inn to identify a body, he fears that the murder victim will be his friend Kitteredge. But it turns out to be senior lawyer Jonah Drake, who for some reason had borrowed Kitteredge's distinctive coat. Drake was savagely knifed in an alley in London's disreputable Mile End, and Pitt and Kitteredge need to know why. Moneylenders, brothels, opium dens? The reputation of the chambers is at stake, and the head Marcus fford Croft is visibly uneasy. Drake was a cultured man in comfortable circumstances, dealing exclusively in cases of embezzlement, but looking at his financial records Daniel has a feeling there is something wrong. Money is being moved too often with no apparent reason. His search takes him to two possible sources, Drake's client Peterson who was lucky to escape with his life when Drake defended him for murder, and also to the shady world of the shipping tycoon Erasmus Faber. The more Daniel delves, the worse it looks for Marcus, and to complicate matters Daniel is in love with Marcus's daughter. A gripping detective novel in the authentically realised setting of Victorian London. 293pp.

Follow Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg in nine bestselling titles now in a popular BBC TV series. The Sword Song (Book 4), The Burning Land (Book 5), The Death of Kings (Book 6), The Pagan Lord (Book 7), The Empty Throne (Book 8), Warriors of The Storm (Book 9), Flame Bearer (Book 10), War of The Wolf (Book 11) and Sword of Kings (Book 12). Buy all nine paperbacks and save even more.

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A companion to The Seeker code 93131. London in 1656. Oliver Cromwell is now a king in all but name. Three conspirators, an alliance of Royalists and disillusioned Parliamentarians, plan to assassinate him, paving the way back to the throne for Charles Stuart once and for all. But the Lord Protector's most feared agent Captain Damian Seeker is preoccupied by the horrifying discovery in an illegal gambling den of the body of a man ravaged by what is unmistakeably a bear, creatures not seen in the capital since bear baiting was banned. With Royalist-turned-Commonwealth spy Thomas Faithly tracking the bear, Seeker investigates his victim. The hunt for the killer leads from Kent's coffee house on Cornhill to a German clockmaker in Clerkenwell, to the desolate Lambeth Marshes where no one should venture at night. As the motivation behind the murder becomes clearer, Seeker realises just what and who he is up against. The Royalists in exile have sent to London their greatest fighter, a man who will stop at nothing to ensure the Restoration. 410pp, paperback.

Home Place, Sussex, 1939. As the shadows of the Second World War roll in, banishing the sun-drenched days of childish games and trips to the coast, a new generation of Cazalets takes up the family's story. Louise who dreams of becoming a great actress finds herself facing the harsh reality that her parents have their own lives with secrets, passions and yearnings. Clary, an aspiring writer, learns that her beloved father Rupert is now missing somewhere on the shores of France. And sensitive, imaginative Polly feels stuck - without a vocation, without information about her mother's illness, without anything except her nightmares about the war. Beautifully and poignantly told, the novel is the second in the bestselling Cazalet Chronicles, charming, poignant and quite irresistible, to be shared and cherished. 592pp, paperback. Both volumes have family trees and were published in the early 1990s originally. Beautiful rejacketed reprint paperbacks.