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HWA Sharpe Gold Crown shortlist giveaway!

22 October 2018 By Editor

HWA Gold Crown shortlist 2018

It’s time for the third and last 2018 Historia HWA Crowns shortlist giveaway! This time we’re giving all six novels on the Sharpe Books Gold Crown award shortlist to one winner. Follow the instructions below to enter.  You’ve got four chances to win and can enter using any or all of the options: 1. Sign up to […]

Blood’s Game by Angus Donald

17 September 2018 By Editor

Cover of Blood's Game by Angus Donald

London, Winter 1670. Holcroft Blood has entered the employ of the Duke of Buckingham, one of the most powerful men in the kingdom after the King. It is here that his education really begins. With a gift for numbers and decoding ciphers, Holcroft soon proves invaluable to the Duke, but when he’s pushed into a […]

Thomas Blood and the Theft of the Crown Jewels

4 October 2017 By Angus Donald

On May 9, 1671, at a little before 7am on a chilly spring morning, a tall, handsome, middle-aged man calling himself Thomas Ayliffe, and dressed in the severe black gown and square white collar of a humble country parson, presented himself at the door of the Irish Tower in the northeast corner of the Tower of London. He […]

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