A group of young recruits join a secret academy for child spies, enduring tough training and learning surveillance, disguise and self‑defense while forging friendships and rivalries. When they are sent on their first real operation, they must put new skills to the test, outwit dangerous adults, and make difficult choices that prove their courage and loyalty.

A raw, first-person account of a career criminal’s life inside the American prison system, chronicling the brutality, codes of loyalty, and petty economies that govern inmates’ survival. The narrator describes cycles of crime, incarceration, and parole with unsentimental detail, exposing the ways institutional violence and limited choices shape behavior and identity. It’s a gritty exploration of survival, camaraderie, and the slim chances for change within a punitive system.

Paksenarrion leaves the Duke’s company to follow the path of Gird, traveling alone across a perilous land. Along the way she encounters other sentient races and heads west in search of the fabled stronghold of Luap, facing dangers that test her courage and purpose.

Paks must reconcile her identity as a hardened warrior with her human doubts while undertaking a sacred mission to find a lost elven prince. The quest provokes divine interference and forces her to face moral choices, leadership challenges, and the limits of her endurance. The novel completes her arc with a blend of military realism and mythic conflict, focusing on personal growth and high-stakes adventure.

A hostile prime minister launched the Monochrome inquiry two years earlier to investigate historical over-reaching by the British Secret Service. Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle were seconded to Monochrome and given access to classified archives, but MI5's First Desk blocked their work and the probe collapsed. On the eve of its closure an unexplained MI5 file surfaces, revealing the buried history of a classified 1994 Berlin operation that ended in tragedy and scandal and whose cover-up has rewritten thirty years of Service history.

In a grim, ash-shadowed world ruled by an apparently immortal tyrant, a streetwise orphan with latent metal-based powers is drawn into a daring plot by a charismatic rebel to ignite a revolution; as she trains in Allomancy and navigates shifting loyalties, the crew’s heist and political gambits grow into a battle that upends faith, uncovers ancient forces shaping the planet, and demands profound sacrifices as individuals confront leadership, identity, and the cost of remaking society.

A rollicking medieval adventure that follows a man raised among brigands who rises to become a feared outlaw leader, then becomes entangled in high-stakes political intrigue, shifting loyalties, romance, and revenge as feudal conflicts and struggles for power in 13th-century England threaten to destroy him and those he loves.

Ein opulent recherchierter historischer Roman, der im mittelalterlichen England spielt und das Schicksal einzelner Menschen sowie ganzer Familien in Zeiten politischer Umbrüche, Machtkämpfe und persönlicher Verrätereien verfolgt; mit dichten Beschreibungen des Alltags, klar gezeichneten Figuren, Liebes- und Loyalitätskonflikten sowie Intrigen am Hofe verwebt die Geschichte private Schicksale mit großen historischen Ereignissen und thematisiert Ehrgefühl, Aufstiegschancen und die Härte des Lebens im Spätmittelalter.

A grittily realistic retelling of the Robin Hood legend narrated by the wandering minstrel Alan-a-Dale, following a skilled archer’s journey from village life to the brutality of the Crusades and back to England as the head of a band of outlaws. The story blends bloody combat, political intrigue and rough camaraderie as the group challenges Norman corruption and the scheming of Prince John, grounding familiar mythic figures in harsh social and historical detail. Themes of loyalty, justice and the making of a folk hero run throughout as personal survival and moral choice collide on the medieval road.

It is the summer of 1939. Young Oxford don Richard Myles and his wife Frances plan their usual vacation on the continent but at a Foreign Office friend's request they agree to serve as messengers to a man involved in rescue work and anti-Nazi espionage who has gone missing. Their qualifications are minimal, limited to Richard's superb memory and their innocent appearance, and from Paris to Innsbruck and beyond they travel across a continent on the brink of war into ever deeper danger.