Classic Fiction

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. “That these man-like creatures were in truth only bestial monsters, mere grotesque travesties of men, filled me with a vague uncertainty of their possibilities far worse than any definite fear.” Edward Prendick, the sole survivor of a shipwreck in the South Pacific, is set ashore on an island...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. "I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man – the mystery, the power, the freedom." Griffin, a stranger, arrives at the local inn of an English village, entirely shrouded in bandages. Forbidding and unfriendly, he confines himself to his...

An undisputed masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, this stunning, lavishly designed new edition of The Great Gatsby is perfect for Fitzgerald lovers and classics collectors alike. In his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the paradisiacal illusions of the post–World War One generation, only to shatter them. At the heart of this piercing and defining novel of the Jazz...

Everybody who is anybody is seen at Jay Gatsby's glittering Long Island parties. Yet Gatsby himself is reserved, unknowable. He seems always to be watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. When he finally draws the beautiful Daisy Buchanan back into his orbit, he sets in motion a series of tragedies. And F. Scott Fitzgerald gives us what...

A poetic portrait of the Roaring Twenties in New York City brought to dazzling life in this stunning collector's edition of a classic in American literature. Set in the unique atmosphere of the 1920s Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby explores the lure of decadence, superficiality, and the ever-elusive American Dream through the eyes of narrator Nick Carraway...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is now available in a stunning new hardback edition. These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death. Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night, his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing,...

Born in Newgate prison and abandoned six months later, Moll's drive to find and hold on to a secure place in society propels her through incest, adultery, bigamy, prostitution and a resourceful career as a thief ('the greatest Artist of my time') before she is apprehended and returned to Newgate. If The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders...

HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. Seeking escape from their unfulfilling marriages and monotonous lives in 1920s England, two women become transfixed by an advertisement to rent a medieval Italian castle for the month of April. Lotty Wilkins, who feels stifled by her solicitor husband, and pious Rose Arbuthnot, discontented in her relationship, are joined...

Wharton's sly and delicious novel about the ambitious social ascent of Undine Spragg, now in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with a foreword by Sofia Coppola. A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class. As...

In 1930s Italy, a young girl falls in love for the first time, with devastating consequences; introduction by Elizabeth Strout. Life was a perpetual holiday in those days... It's the height of summer in 1930s Italy, and sixteen-year-old Ginia is desperate for adventure. So begins a fateful friendship with Amelia, a stylish and sophisticated artist's model who envelops her in...

One of the most iconic characters in children’s books Join the world’s most famous travelling reporter in his exciting adventures as he travels from the land of the Soviets to America, from outer space to the depths of the ocean. There are over 1,500 pages of delight in this classic Tintin box set, the ultimate gift for any Tintin fan....

The classic tale of a young boy’s adventures on the Mississippi in the nineteenth century. Mark Twain’s classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been enjoyed by generations of readers across the world since its publication in 1876. With its humorous glimpses into life in nineteenth-century, small-town America, this novel has provided unique social commentary that continues to be discussed...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.' Miserable and down on his luck, young Huck Finn escapes his drunken father by...

Sail down the Mississippi with rascally Huck Finn! It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them. Huck Finn spits, swears, smokes a pipe, and never goes to school. With his too-big clothes and battered straw hat, Huck is...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! When I see what you know, what you have read, and seen, and thought, I feel what a nothing I am! Challenging the hypocrisy and social conventions of the rural Victorian world, Tess of the...

A classic novel that explores how the moral standards of Victorian England affected a young woman seeking her place in society. This beautiful flexibound edition also features bright foil on the cover. Thomas Hardy’s classic novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles is a masterpiece of late 19th-century literature, presenting the story of Tess, a poor girl from rural England who faces...

One of Waugh's most exuberant comedies, Scoop is a brilliantly irreverent satire of Fleet Street and its hectic pursuit of hot news. Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in...

‘Brimming from start to finish with sly humour and gothic mischief’ SARAH WATERS ‘Beguilingly clever, very sexy and seriously frightening’ GUARDIAN ‘Atmospheric, sexy, creepy… totally addictive’ KATE DAVIES, author of In At The Deep End ‘A gloriously over-the-top queer romp’ I PAPER _________________________________________________________________ ‘It’s a terrible story and one way to tell it is this: two girls in love and...

In the court of Queen Elizabeth I, the young nobleman Orlando begins his search for identity as he embarks on one of the greatest adventures in all of literature. An Everyman Classics hardback edition of Virginia Woolf's fantastical novel about a young Elizabethan nobleman whose life spans four centuries – and who transitions into a woman. History, fun, and gender...

Oliver Twist - orphan, trainee pickpocket, good boy. Elbow your way through the streets of Victorian London with Dickens's most enduring child character. 'Look here! Here's a jolly life! What's the odds where it comes from?' Meet the Artful Dodger, as roistering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four foot six. With him, you'll run down the dirty...

Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel of feminism, existentialism, and self-realization is an essential read for all lovers of classic literature. Virginia Woolf’s classic novel centres around Clarissa Dalloway, a married high-society woman in post–World War I London who is preparing for a party at her home in the evening. Acutely aware of her standing among other members of her elite social...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Mrs Dalloway follows Clarissa Dalloway, a woman of high society—vivacious, hospitable, and sociable on the surface, yet beneath, troubled and dissatisfied with her life in post-war Britain. This disillusionment is an emotion that bubbles under the surface of all of Woolf’s characters in Mrs Dalloway. The story is...

An enthralling exploration of the human experience, from the author of To The Lighthouse. On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax....

Reissue of one of the best-known novels of the 20th century – the controversial story of Humbert Humbert who falls in love with twelve-year-old Lolita. 'You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.' Humbert Humbert, a European intellectual adrift in America, is a middle-aged college professor. Haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love, he falls...

A beautiful new Deluxe Edition of Alcott's beloved novel, with a foreword by National Book Award-winning author and musician Patti Smith. Little Women is recognised as one of the best-loved classic children's stories, transcending the boundaries of time and age, making it as popular with adults as it is with young readers. The beloved story of the March girls is...

Featuring beautiful cover art from artist Laci Fowler, this fine exclusive collector's edition of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women is a must-have for book lovers or Alcott fans. Cozy up and read the sweeping family saga of the March sisters as they discover true love and sibling bonding in one of America's most beloved coming-of-age classics. The Harper Muse Classics:...

How can you forge your own path in times of war, uncertainty and hardship? Meg longs for marriage; Amy wants to be a painter; Beth is content to stay at home; while Jo wants adventure and a life without limits. Four decidedly different sisters, growing up during the American Civil War, each facing their own unique challenge. Little Women tells...

Yayoi Kusama, one of Japan's most celebrated visual artists, illustrates one of the world's most beloved works of literature. Since childhood, Kusama has been afflicted with a condition that makes her see spots, which means she sees the world in a surreal, almost hallucinogenic way that sits very well with the Wonderland of Alice. She is fascinated by childhood and...

Famously the subject of a court case, Lawrence's final novel is one of the most notorious and passionate love stories in literature. In the bleak aftermath of World War I, Constance, Lady Chatterley, is a young woman trapped in an unfulfilling marriage to an aristocrat whose war wounds have left him paralysed. With her husband's encouragement, she enters into a...

Gems of literature in a luxurious and unique design by Marjolein Bastin. The Marjolein Bastin Classics Series is a chance to rediscover classic literature in collectible, luxuriously illustrated volumes. For the first time ever, the internationally celebrated artwork of Marjolein Bastin graces the pages of a timeless classic, Jane Eyre. Beyond bringing these stories to life, Bastin’s series adds elaborately...

A gorgeous reissue of Charlotte Brontë's romantic gothic novel, featuring one of literature's most unforgettable heroines of all time. With her 1847 novel, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë created one of the most unforgettable heroines of all time. Jane Eyre is an orphan, penniless and plain, but full of courage and spirit. She has endured incredible hardship to secure her humble...

Voyager Classics – timeless masterworks of science fiction and fantasy. The classic collection of robot stories from the master of the genre. In these stories, Isaac Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics and ushers in the Robot Age. Earth is ruled by master-machines, but the Three Laws of Robotics have been designed to ensure humans maintain the upper hand:...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens tells the story of Pip, an orphan without any expectations – he has no name, no fortune, and no prospects. It is only when he begins to visit Miss Havisham,...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule. Living with his sister and her husband, Pip is an orphan without any expectations. It is only when he begins to visit a rich old woman, Miss Havisham, and her adopted niece that he begins...

James Bond is back with a bang in Penguin Classics, in the new Crime & Espionage series. 'It is not just a question of blowing up a building or shooting a prime minister. Such bourgeois horseplay is not contemplated. Our operation must be delicate, refined and aimed at the heart of the Intelligence apparat of the West.' Deep inside the...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open…’ Victor Frankenstein’s monster is stitched together...

The world's most famous work of horror fiction reissued in ORIGINALS - Penguin's iconic teen fiction series. Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss scientist, has a great ambition—to create intelligent life. But when his creature first stirs, he realises he has made a monster. A monster which, abandoned by his master and shunned by everyone who sees it, sets out to destroy...

Bram Stoker’s timeless gothic tale, now available as a Harper Perennial Olive Edition. Originally published in 1897, Dracula is one of the most enduring and influential works of literature ever written, spawning countless adaptations and reimaginings from every generation of readers. Stoker’s epistolary novel follows young English lawyer Jonathan Harker who arrives in Transylvania to meet with Count Dracula, one...

This quintessential vampire story helped to reshape the world of horror fiction. Irish author Bram Stoker introduced the character of Count Dracula and provided much of the basis of modern vampire fiction in his 1897 novel Dracula. Written as a series of letters, newspaper clippings, diary entries, and ships’ logs, the story begins with lawyer Jonathan Harker journeying to meet...

Decline and Fall is Evelyn Waugh's hilarious debut novel, now available in a wonderful new hardback edition. Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals, and fools, including Prendy, who is plagued by doubts, and Captain...

A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas and one of the best-loved comic novels of all time. We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm... Sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn a living. When she is orphaned at twenty, she decides her only...

From one of the world’s most influential writers, an evocative, morally sharp first novel that is an examination of the debasing effect of empire on occupied and occupier. Burmese Days focuses on a handful of Englishmen who meet at the European Club to drink whisky and to alleviate the acute and unspoken loneliness of life in 1920s Burma—where Orwell himself...

Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, aristocratic inhabitants, gradually becoming infatuated with them and the life of privilege they inhabit—particularly with Sebastian's remote sister, Julia. However, Charles gradually comes to recognise his spiritual and social distance...

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh is a beloved masterpiece, now available in a wonderful new hardback edition. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first...

Evelyn Waugh's classic novel of a glittering, but rapidly vanishing, privileged world. 'I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. That was unavoidable for, from his first week, he was the most conspicuous man of his year by reason of his beauty, which was arresting, and his eccentricities of behaviour, which seemed to know no bounds.' Charles Ryder,...

New in Penguin Japanese Classics - Japan's favourite novel about growing up and finding yourself. Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics - a collection of some of Japan's most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th-century writers, with covers inspired by Japanese art and design. Taking us from a sun-drenched affair in a seaside town to an underground 'ark' full of shadows and eccentrics, with...

The beloved historical novel is now available in an affordable softcover edition featuring a striking cover and distinctive interior design elements, making it ideal for lovers of classic fiction, readers in high-school and college literature courses, and fans of annual reading challenges and "Required Reading" lists. The A Tale of Two Cities softcover edition: Presents Charles Dickens's famed historical novel...

Puffin Classics - the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child. Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this bold edition of A Tale of Two Cities. Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton are alike in appearance, different in character, and in love with the same woman. In the midst of...

A classic tale of adventure from renowned French author Jules Verne. Originally published in 1872, Around the World in Eighty Days imagined for readers the possibility of circumnavigating the world when the prospect of such a feat was still in its infancy. After an argument with colleagues at London’s Reform Club, the wealthy Phileas Fogg wagers £20,000 that he can...

For the centennial of its original publication, a beautiful Deluxe Edition of one of Joyce's greatest works. A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper. For the centennial of its original publication, a beautiful Deluxe Edition of one of Joyce's greatest works—featuring a foreword by Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of the New York Times bestselling six-volume autobiographical novel...

A Passage to India is Forster's story of Anglo-Indian society under the Raj, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the 'real India', they seek the guidance of the...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are expecting a young orphan boy to help them with farm work at Green Gables. But when a skinny, red-haired girl turns up instead, immediately certain she's home, they get much more than they bargained for. Spirited, adventurous, and imaginative, Anne Shirley quickly charms...

Anne of Green Gables has been one of the world’s most charming coming-of-age stories for more than a century. Best-selling Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery published the first book in her charming series in 1908, making it a literary favourite for more than a hundred years. Published as a children’s novel, the story of Anne Shirley, an orphan, was inspired...

As the centenary of the 1918 Armistice approaches, a hardcover edition of the most famous novel to come out of World War I, drawing on the author's personal experience of trench warfare as a young conscript in the German army. In 1914, Paul Bäumer and his classmates are marched to the local recruiting office by a sentimentally patriotic form-master. On...

This classic British tale tells the story of Sara Crewe, a young girl who grows up at a boarding school run by the unkindly Miss Minchin. Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess tells the story of Sara Crewe, a young girl who has been left at a boarding school by her wealthy father. There, she displays all the attributes of...

Lewis Carroll’s beloved classic stories are reimagined in this deluxe illustrated gift edition from the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film franchise, MinaLima—designed with stunning full colour artwork and several interactive features. Originally published in 1865, Lewis Carroll’s exquisite Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass have remained revered classics for generations. The story...

All the “muchness” of Wonderland is captured in one book! Follow Alice down the rabbit hole to Wonderland and enjoy tea with the Mad Hatter, find your way with the Cheshire Cat, and play croquet with the Queen of Hearts. On the other side of the looking-glass, meet Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a host of other characters...

Scurry down the rabbit hole and step through the looking glass with this luxurious compilation of works from Lewis Carroll. Don’t be late--it’s a very important date! Witty, whimsical, and often nonsensical, the fiction of Lewis Carroll has been popular with both children and adults for over 150 years. Canterbury Classics's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland takes readers on a trip...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland begins with Alice getting very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, having nothing to do. She peeks into the book her sister is reading, but it has no pictures or conversations, leading Alice to think, "and what is the use of a...

A Dog's Heart by Mikhail Bulgakov is now available in a new translation, fresh to Penguin Classics. This is Bulgakov's surreal tale of a Moscow doctor who befriends a stray dog and performs on it a human transplant—with disastrous consequences.

Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has proved one of his most well-loved works. Ever since it was published in 1843, it has had an enduring influence on the way we think about the traditions of Christmas. The title of this classic is A Christmas...

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens brings together Dickens's delightful Christmas writings in a gorgeous new hardback edition. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, this collection is designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. After reading A...

75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.” —The New Yorker In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically...

As the tragic story unfolds, Gatsby's destructive dreams and passions are revealed, leading to disturbing consequences. A brilliant evocation of 1920s high society, The Great Gatsby peels away the layers of this glamorous world to display the coldness and cruelty at its heart. A beautiful new edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby coincides with the release...

A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love. A book that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us. Charles Bukowski was a man of intense...

The Marjolein Bastin Classics Series is a chance to rediscover classic literature in collectible, luxuriously illustrated volumes. For the first time ever, the internationally celebrated artwork of Marjolein Bastin graces the pages of the timeless American classic Little Women, the story of the March sisters and their journey from childhood to adulthood during the American Civil War. Beyond bringing these...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The animals at Manor Farm have had enough of Farmer Jones — he’s drunk, reckless and cares little for their welfare. When the boar, Old Major, shares his revolutionary plans, the animals are convinced they can thrive on their own once the despot Jones is overthrown. But as...

The classic story of the Christmas transformation of Scrooge that has remained in the public imagination for well over a century, now available in an accessible format for all readers. "Why show me this, if I am past all hope!" It's Christmas Eve and the snowy streets are full of good cheer. But this magic is "Bah! Humbug!" to Ebenezer...

The new paperback series- Penguin English Library Every idiot who goes around with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding After reading A Christmas Carol, the notoriously reclusive Thomas Carlyle was 'seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality' and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties. The impact of the story may not always...

Celebrate Paddington’s 65th Anniversary with this exquisite gift edition of the original classic story, unabridged and illustrated in glorious full colour throughout. Paddington is now a major movie star. “A bear? On Paddington station?” Mrs Brown looked at her husband in amazement. “Don’t be silly, Henry. There can’t be!” Paddington Bear had travelled all the way from Darkest Peru when...

They've all of them said 'Good-night'.So – here I am in the dark alone,There's nobody here to see;I think to myself, I play to myself,And nobody knows what I say to myself;Here I am in the dark alone,What is it going to be? Winnie-the-Pooh knows all about thinking grand thoughts, playing fun games, and saying wise words to himself. What...

Celebrate The Best Bear in all the World with this official sequel to the beloved classic children's stories by A.A. Milne. With brand-new stories from some of the most beloved children's authors writing today: Paul Bright, Brian Sibley, Kate Saunders, and Jeanne Willis – each transports you back into the Hundred Acre Wood for more adventures with Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin,...

With gorgeously redesigned covers and the original black and white interior illustrations by Ernest Shepard, these beautiful editions of the four Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne are now together in a collectible paperback boxed set—sure to delight new and old fans alike! Explore the Hundred Acre Wood with everyone’s favourite bear-of-very-little-brain, Winnie-the-Pooh! In Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh...

Revel in the magic of a Christmas tradition. The Nutcracker features the full text of Alexandre Dumas's The History of a Nutcracker, the story that inspired the classic ballet. Lavishly illustrated with more than 100 vintage drawings from the nineteenth century, this beautifully designed book kindles the spirit of the holidays through its tale of an enchanted nutcracker made human...

With a gorgeously redesigned cover and the original black and white interior illustrations by Ernest Shepard, this beautiful edition of the beloved sequel to Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner, is sure to delight new and old fans alike! Pooh and Christopher Robin’s escapades in the Hundred Acre Wood continue! Piglet, Eeyore, and other familiar friends...

The ultimate Rome story The Field of Swords by Conn Iggulden follows Julius Caesar as he leads his legions north to battle the Gallic tribes. As his successes grow, his overwhelming ambition and new alliances begin to threaten his one true friendship. Marcus Brutus played a crucial role in the conquest of Gaul, thereby restoring Caesar’s reputation as a hero...

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the number one bestseller Vagabond, this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's GRAIL QUEST series, presented in a bright and bold repackage. It is 1347. The Hundred Years War has been suspended. The truce releases English archer Thomas of Hookton to pursue his arch enemy and resume his quest for the most prized relic...

The 4th novel in the bestselling Conqueror series, continuing the life and adventures of the mighty Khan dynasty. Empire of Silver continues the epic tale of Genghis Khan's family. Though Genghis Khan is dead, his legend and legacy live on. His son, Ogedai, has built a white city on a great plain, creating a capital for the burgeoning nation. Now,...

The third novel in the No. 1 bestselling Conqueror series, following the life and adventures of the mighty Genghis Khan and his descendants. Genghis Khan has fulfilled his dream of uniting the many warring tribes of his lands into one great nation. He has taken his armies against the mighty cities of their oldest enemies. Now he finds trouble rising...

An extraordinary and dramatic depiction of the legendary Battle of Agincourt from the number one historical novelist. Azincourt, fought on October 25th 1415, St Crispin's Day, is one of England’s best-known battles, in part through the brilliant depiction of it in Shakespeare's Henry V, in part because it was a brilliant and unexpected English victory, and in part because it...