Julian Rathbone

El detective Chris Shovelin viaja a Mombasa para investigar la muerte del hijo de un millonario. Ahora cuenta con algo de dinero ydecide tomarse unas vacaciones en Kenia, pero todo se complica cuando sufre el asalto de una banda y su compañera de viaje,Danielle, desaparece de repente. A partir de entonces empiezael verdadero safari: un asalto en Nairobi, encuentros con leones,un guerrero masai, una huida por las alcantarillas, golpes, explosiones, disparos y un asesino demente son algunas de las diversiones que Shovelin encontrara en su camino.

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 battle which affected the destinies of every English man and woman. With rare skill, Rathbone vividly recreates a civilisation that stubbornly remains alive in the collective memory to this day, and so identifies the roots of the still-held belief that every English person is born free and should stay free. Tender romance, savage war, courtly intrigue and some wry humour combine to make THE LAST ENGLISH KING an exhilarating roller-coaster ride into our past.

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 Wellingtons funeral, cause the Peterloo riot to happen? Was it Charlie who fingered the Cato Street Conspirators? Did Shelley really drown by accident? And at the opening of the Great Exhibition was it he who saved the Queen from being blown up?With dark undertones in its revelations of the orchestrated state repression that followed the Napoleonic Wars, A Very English Agent drives a horse, well, a donkey and cart, through the early years of the nineteenth century in a rumbustious, funny, sexy, teeming novel, worthy of the times it describes.

Reyes de Albión se estructura en forma de cajas chinas, y cada historia contiene otras historias adicionales, lo que da una sensación de sumergir al lector en el centro del pasado, en este caso del momento cumbre de la Guerra de las Rosas que enfrento a yorkistas y lancasterianos.Ali ben Qatar es un mercader al servicio de un principe como guia en la busqueda de su hermano Jehani, desaparecido en Europa. El relato de su viaje por Asia, Africa, Francia y hasta Inglaterra sirve de excusa a diversas conversaciones sobre costumbres, religiones, sistemas politicos, ciencia y filosofia. Y a su llegada a Inglaterra se ven envueltos en el conflicto y, tras pasar una etapa presos en la Torre de Londres, y a la vista de lo barbaro que es el pueblo ingles, deciden regresar a la India.

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 battles. From the moment in early childhood when Joseph hurls a stone at a playmate and makes an evil enemy for life, to the last page when he climbs a hill in North Spain accompanied by a donkey, a giantess, and a new-born babe, and blunders into a battle, he takes the reader by the elbow and hurries him ''will he or will he not'' across the terrible years that saw the birth of our own times. Racy, picaresque, but with an underlying seriousness, JOSEPH is a panoramic novel of the Spanish Penisular War, revealing as Goya did its grotesqueries and ironies as well as its horrifying waste of life. Rathbone''s wit, sensitivity and confident grasp of the subject are superbly matched to this brilliant historical scene. JOSEPH has never before been published in paperback.

El detective Chris Shovelin viaja a Mombasa para investigar la muerte del hijo de un millonario. Ahora cuenta con algo de dinero y decide tomarse unas vacaciones en Kenia, pero todo se complica cuando sufre el asalto de una banda y su compañera de viaje, Danielle, desaparece de repente. A partir de entonces empieza el verdadero safari: un asalto en Nairobi, encuentros con leones, un guerrero masai, una huida por las alcantarillas, golpes, explosiones, disparos y un asesino demente son algunas de las diversiones que Shovelin encontrará en su camino.

A la muerte del rey conocido como Eduardo el Confesor, subió al trono inglés Harold II, quien, después de vencer a los noruegos en Stamforbridge, fue derrotado y murió 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 clan levantisco de Harold.

Eddie Bosham (aka Charlie Boylan) is in prison on a murder charge. But hes not worried. Hes 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 finches on the islands vary. In Texas, staunchly loyal to whichever side will win, he spies for General Santa Anna at the Alamo and, with the help of Emily Morgan, the ravishingly beautiful Yellow Rose of Texas, for Sam Houston at San Jacinto. Eddie works the Mississippi riverboats as a cardsharp. Caught cheating, he is forced to jump ship and inadvertently stumbles across the secret that will launch the Californian Gold Rush. Finally, having traversed the girth of a nation, his disgraceful saga ends, back east, at a highly inflammatory revivalist meeting.

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 Harolds 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 battle which affected the destinies of every English man and woman. With rare skill, Rathbone vividly recreates a civilisation that stubbornly remains alive in the collective memory to this day, and so identifies the roots of the still-held belief that every English person is born free and should stay free. Tender romance, savage war, courtly intrigue and some wry humour combine to make The Last English King an exhilarating roller-coaster ride into our past.

England, 1460: The War of the Roses. Rival factions - Lancastrians and Yorkists - are hacking each other to death in a conflict that only the English could name after a beautifully-scented flower. Its not an ideal climate for tourists - but three exotic travellers from the Far East are not here for pleasure. Theyve come to find a missing kinsman. The English, however, are truly strange. Most of the indigenous population are of the cowed peasant variety whilst any noble who cant trace his ancestry to Norman Conquest isnt, really, an awfully nice chap. In between battles of the most astonishing brutality they convey respects instead of affection, make love strangely (and briefly) and amuse themselves by playing a game with an inflated bladder that is in everyway a war except its called footie. The Indians think theyre mad. They also have this horrible suspicion that one day they will rule the world... A wonderfully offbeat take on medieval England at its most brutal and savage, KINGS OF ALBION snatches history, imbues it with the spirit of Rider Haggard and Joseph Conrad, turns it on its head, invites scintillating speculation and, best of all, renders it into a fabulously readable novel.

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 Companys native soldiers rise up against their British officers. Thus begins the most savage episode in our imperial history. Caught up in the violence is pretty Sophie Hardcastle, a young wife and mother newly arrived from England. As she searches for her infant son, missing in the chaos, Sophie finds herself bearing witness to atrocities on both sides.Moving, sombre and thrilling, Rathbones tale is told on a grand scale, ranging from the Cannings in Government House to the heroism of the humblest soldiers and peasants. It is as exhilarating as any Victorian adventure story, and yet, with its unflinching examination of religious fanaticism and the horrors of war, THE MUTINY also carries a powerful message for the modern world.