Tells the story of Ghengis Khan's grandson, Kublai Khan, who struggles to lead his people.

Tartar raids kill the father of Temujin and banishes his family from the land; but when he grows older, he assembles a small army of men and begins raiding Tartar camps and eventually unites all the Mongol tribes together.

Conn Iggulden, the bestselling author of the Emperor, Conqueror, and Wars of the Roses series, returns to the ancient world with a ferociously violent epic.401 BC. In the ancient world, one army was feared above all others. The Persian king Artaxerxes rules an empire stretching from the Aegean to northern India. As many as fifty million people are his subjects. His rule is absolute. Though the sons of Sparta are eager to play the game of thrones ....

In the year 937, the new king of England, a grandson of Alfred the Great, readies himself to go to war in the north. His dream of a united kingdom of all England will stand or fall on one field-on the passage of a single day. At his side is the priest Dunstan of Glastonbury, full of ambition and wit (perhaps enough to damn his soul). His talents will take him from the villages of Wessex to the royal court, to the hills of Rome-from exile to exaltation....

The new novel in master storyteller Conn Iggulden's bestselling series tells the story of Pericles amid the battlefields of the Peloponnesian War.

An exclusive short story for World Book Day from one of our bestselling authors. This brilliant comic thriller will have you on the edge of your seat. Albert Rossi has many qualities. He's a man who can spot polyester at a hundred paces. He's the person you'd have on speed dial were you to find yourself at the center of a tailoring emergency. He has an excellent working knowledge of Bonnie Tyler's back catalogue. These skills are essential to a Gentleman's...

These are the first three stories of the Tollins. Yes, they do have wings, but no, they aren't fairies. Tollins are a lot less fragile than fairies. In fact, the word fragile can't really be used to describe them at all. They are about as fragile as a house brick. In "How to Blow Up Tollins" a fireworks factory comes to the village of Chorleywood and the Tollins find themselves being used as industrial supplies. Being blasted into the night sky or...

Nur um Haaresbreite ist Athen 480 vor Christus einer Katastrophe entgangen-dank der todesmutigen Krieger aus Sparta, die den Pass bei den Thermophylen lange genug gehalten hatten, um die Stadt zu evakuieren. Doch die persische Übermacht unter dem Großkönig Xerxes I. ist nach wie vor entschlossen, Griechenland endgültig in die Knie zu zwingen. Und der griechische Feldherr Themistokles wird zwar vom Volk verehrt-der Adel begegnet ihm jedoch immer...

Ein Mann. Sieben Könige. Der blutige Thron Englands. England im 10. Jahrhundert: Das Land ist geteilt und gezeichnet von jahrelangen Machtkämpfen. König 'thelstan, ein Enkel Alfreds des Großen, hat geschworen, das Reich unter einer Krone zu vereinen. An seiner Seite steht Dunstan von Glastonbury - ein Mönch, Politiker, Visionär und, in den Augen vieler, ein Verräter. Sieben Königen dient Dunstan durch Krieg, Feuer und Wahnsinn, um 'thelstans...