Napoleonic Fiction

Two great fortresses stand between Wellington’s army and France, but can they be taken? The French now make their stand at the heavily fortified port town of San Sebastian and the equally well defended city of Pamplona. The sieges promise to be almost impossible, and to make matters worse a rejuvenated French army now marches to the relief of the besieged. Everything now hangs in the balance. Craven must march into the Pyrenees to stop them in their tracks, or everything that has gained will be lost. ‘A Rising Storm’ is the sixteenth novel in the ‘Craven’s War’ series, telling ...

In the long ebb of empire and memory, Aubrey’s Honour charts the final passages of two men who were never merely characters, but forces of nature shaped by war, friendship, and the sea itself. Told with the grace, gravity, and grit that fans of O’Brian’s world have come to revere, this book does not seek to inflate the legend — it seeks to understand the men beneath it. Admiral Jack Aubrey, once the thunder of the quarterdeck, now stalks the halls of power with a sailor’s unease and a tactician’s eye. Dr. Stephen Maturin, naturalist and spy, walks more quietly, but never without...

At the beginning of the 19th century, British global military power oppressed, outgunned and eventually invaded the young United States of America during the War of 1812. How did America prevail against such odds? With ships, guns and the fierce desire for freedom that lived in the hearts of American sailors. Many of these men were not even Americans yet. Some came from Ireland, including Jack Gallagher. “Gallagher's Prize” begins in southern Ireland when English law breaks up an Irish Catholic family's farmland and a young man longs for the sea. During his many adventures, Jack visits ...

The Napoleonic Wars saw fighting on an unprecedented scale in Europe and the Americas. It took the wealth of the British Empire, combined with the might of the continental armies, almost two decades to bring down one of the world's greatest military leaders and the empire that he had created. Napoleon's ultimate defeat was to determine the history of Europe for almost 100 years. From the frozen wastelands of Russia, through the brutal fighting in the Peninsula to the blood-soaked battlefield of Waterloo, this book tells the story of the dramatic rise and fall of the Napoleonic Empire.

Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Tolstoy's genius is clearly seen in the multitude of characters in this massive chronicle, all of them fully realized and equally memorable.

Robbie MacGregor has a dilemma; he has followed his heart and served the country that his father loves, but when Napoleon Bonaparte uses him as a spy to betray his mother’s country he begins to have doubts. When he is accused of murder he is left with little choice; he leaves the French or dies at the hands of unscrupulous men who abuse their positions of power. The story shifts from the desert to the sea as Robbie has to flee for his life. He finds himself lost between two worlds and both see him as an enemy.

'[A] Jane Austen-meets-Bernard Cornwell novel' Daily Mail Raw recruits march under the summer sun. But on distant shores a terrible event is about to sing its siren's song to the true soldier gentlemen of Britain. For it is 1808, and the Peninsular War is about to erupt . . . Meet the men of the...

Man of Honor. A Nation in Peril. A Truth Hidden in the Shadows. One moment of boyish bravado beneath the Pemberley oak cost George Wickham his limb, but it forged his soul. In this sweeping Pride & Prejudice reimagining, the George Wickham who arrives in Meryton is not the silver-tongued libertine of canon. He is an investigator for the Archbishop of Canterbury—a man trained to see what others miss and to listen to what remains unspoken. Supported by his lifelong brothers-in-arms, William Darcy and Colonel Richard Fitzwilliam, George has traded the sword for the quill, and the ballroom ...

Robbie Macgregor is the bastard son of a French Aristocrat and a Scottish servant. Unwanted by his father and finding himself without wealth and power, he is still despised by the masses. Forced to join the French army to avoid the guillotine, his new career gives him chance to be reborn. As a Chasseur à Cheval and through action and heroism, Robbie is involved with the capture of the Dutch Fleet on the Texel and the conquest of Malta, catching the eye of a young French General, Napoleon Bonaparte, who is quickly rising to power.

The defining battle of the Peninsula Campaign is now in sight, but can it be won? A new campaign has begun, and morale is sky high. The aim is smash the French and drive them all the way back to the border of Spain. But for Wellington to deal such a deadly blow the conditions must be perfect, and Major Craven must play his part in ensuring the enemy is setup to fail. He is despatched far to the East on the Mediterranean coast to ensure the French army there does not march North to oppose Wellington. Craven must lock the enemy army in the South if there is to be any hope of victory. ‘A ...

He thinks she trapped him. She knows she didn't. They're both wrong about everything else. Fitzwilliam Darcy never meant to marry Elizabeth Bennet. She was tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt him—until her mother's schemes forced his hand. Elizabeth did not to marry anyone, least of all the arrogant, insufferable Mr. Darcy—but her father's ultimatum left her no choice. Now they're bound together by vows neither wanted to speak, trapped in a marriage neither can escape. Darcy, convinced Elizabeth compromised him deliberately, sets harsh limits on her new life before departing for...

As the War of 1812 rages, Marcel Moreau, wounded in service with Napoleon's Grand Armée, must journey to New Orleans to find Celeste de Beaumais, a young aristocrat who has fled her family and has settled herself on a sprawling Louisiana plantation. Standing in Moreau's way are various factions in and around the city—soldiers, slave hunters, marooned slaves, and Baratarian pirates—all of whom have their own interests, and enemies.

1812. On the eve of the invasion of Russia, half-French, half-English Matthieu Carrey finds himself in the ranks of Napoleon's five hundred thousand strong army. With Tsar Alexander seemingly ill-prepared, a French victory seems certain. The Grande Armée will obliterate everything in its path. Carrey's purpose is less clear. Blackmailed into becoming a spy in the emperor's army, he hopes to follow his lover, a French actress who has gone to work in the Moscow theatre. Food and fodder grow scarce.

War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, it examines the relationship between the individual and the relentless march of history. Here are the universal themes of love and hate, ambition and despair, youth and age, expressed with a swirling vitality which makes the book as accessible today as it was when it was first published in 1869.

It’s winter 1807 and Marty gets some rare home time, but he isn’t allowed to rest peacefully the French have it in for him and Napoleon has placed a huge reward on his head, dead or alive. Unable to get to him directly they try and use his family as leverage resulting in a daring rescue and the uncovering of a mole in the Foreign Office. Then he joins up with Sidney Smith and gets involved in the rescue of the Portuguese royal family when the French invade. Hood gets him involved with Thomas Cochrane, possibly the most successful of all the frigate captains, at the Battle of Basque ...

Mr Darcy Gets Angry Author’s Note: This is a re-published variation, newly adorned with a fresh cover and enriched by nearly 10,000 additional words. With an enhanced plot direction and a refined style, this edition reflects the author’s ongoing dedication to improvement and to presenting a deeper, more compelling tale. Mr Darcy Gets Angry is a tale of angst and romance entwined with suspense, where passion, peril, and pride collide—and where love, once kindled, proves a force to challenge all obstacles. When Elizabeth Bennet and her beloved relatives, the Gardiners, accept the ...

Mme. Clicquot builds her legacy as the maker of France’s best champagne while, in the future, a modern divorcée looks to her letters for inspiration in this vibrant historical fiction novel that is “sheer, sparkling perfection” (Susanna Kearsley, New York Times bestselling author). Reims...

Napoleon continues to fiercely resist the Coalition, but can one fatal blow end it all? Wellington continues to push further in to France in pursuit of Marshal Soult, but where will the Army of the South make their stand? Soult has a sizeable army, enough to fortify and protect one major city, but which will be choose? The destruction of Soult’s army is of the utmost priority, for it will be the fatal blow from which Napoleon cannot recover. Craven must do all that he can to help track and destroy Soult. But the arrival of the potential future King of France and the soon to be restored ...

War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, it examines the relationship between the individual and the relentless march of history. Here are the universal themes of love and hate, ambition and despair, youth and age, expressed with a swirling vitality which makes the book as accessible today as it was when it was first published in 1869.

The fantasy novel you've always wished Jane Austen had written Shades of Milk and Honey is exactly what we could expect from Jane Austen if she had been a fantasy writer:Pride and Prejudice meets Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. It is an intimate portrait of a woman, Jane, and her quest for love...