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C.S. Forester
A twisting psychological thriller of a family caught in a murderous trap of their own making
Mr Marble is in serious debt, desperate for money to pay his family's bills…
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The midshipman who was seasick in Spithead … Shaking off this label, a shy and lonely 17-year-old, Horatio Hornblower, embarks on a memorable career in Nelson’s navy on HMS Justinian…
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The second of C.S.Forester’s classic seafaring adventure bestsellers featuring the intrepid hero of Nelson’s navy, Horatio Hornblower.
At the Universal Advertising Agency on the Strand, London, a murder is being planned. Three men have been discovered taking bribes and face the grim prospect of the dole queue…
It’s May, 1810 - and thirty-nine-year-old Captain Horatio Hornblower has been handed his first ship of the line …Though the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland is ‘the ugliest and least desirable two-decker…
Horatio Hornblower is in possession of confidential dispatches from Bonaparte after a vicious hand-to-hand encounter with a French brig. The admiralty rewards Hornblower by sending him on a dangerous espionage…
The Good Shepherd was described as one of the best novels of 1955. In it, C.S. Forester departs from the age-of-sail Hornblower genre that made him famous to focus on…
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Marjorie, a young woman, arrives home one summer evening and finds her sister, dead, with her head in the oven. She looks peaceful, as if she is asleep. Their mother…
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It’s April 1803, and the Peace of Amiens is failing as Horatio Hornblower takes a three-master on a vital reconnaissance mission …On the day of his marriage to Maria, Hornblower…
It’s June, 1808 - and off the Coast of Nicaragua Captain Horatio Hornblower has his hands full …Now in command of HMS Lydia, a thirty-six-gun frigate, Hornblower has instructions to…
The seventeen-year-old Hornblower became notorious as soon as he stepped on board ship - as the midshipman who was seasick in Spithead. But he was soon to gain his sea…
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An omnibus edition comprising three of C. S. Forester’s seafaring tales featuring Horatio Hornblower. This edition offers the opportunity to collect the three early adventures, Mr Midshipman, Lieutenant Hornblower, and…
An omnibus edition incorporating four of Forester’s novels about Hornblower, including Flying Colours , The Commodore , Lord Hornblower and Hornblower in the West Indies , which describe his adventures…
An exhilarating, suspenseful naval thriller set in the Second World War, as gripping as Nicholas Monsarrat’s The Cruel Sea
Now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks.
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One vital convoy can break Mussolini’s stranglehold on Malta - but it is intercepted in the Mediterranean by enemy warships… This title recounts life aboard a British warship during some…
After near disaster on board a canal barge, Horatio Hornblower is given his first assignment as Captain, taking charge of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop that will act as flagship…
A humiliated and shipless captive of the French, Horatio Hornblower faces execution unless he can escape and make a triumphant return to England …Forced to surrender his ship, HMS Sutherland…
Dispatched to northern waters to protect Britain’s Baltic interests, Horatio Hornblower must halt the advance of Napoleon’s empire into Sweden and Russia. With the fate of Europe balanced on a…
Sir Horatio Hornblower has received strict orders to embark upon a grave and perilous mission to recapture the Flame in the Bay of Seine, where the brutal and foul-tempered Lieutenant…
It’s 1815, the Napoleonic Wars are over. Yet peace continues to elude Horatio Hornblower overseas …As an admiral struggling to impose order in the chaotic aftermath of the French wars…
Now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks.It’s 1942.
It’s 1942. America has just joined the war.
Greyhound, an international convoy of…
Includes the stories Hornblower and the Atropos , The Happy Return , and A Ship of the Line .
Mr Marble is in serious debt, desperate for money to pay his family’s bills, until the combination of a wealthy relative, a bottle of Cyanide and a shovel offer him…
Marjorie had never seen a dead body until she got home one tranquil summer evening and found her sister Dot lying on the kitchen floor in a pretty dress, with…
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Presents the story that tells of Napoleon’s plans to invade England. This book features the story in which Horatio Hornblower is in possession of confidential dispatches from Bonaparte after a…
In this book Captian Hornblower sails his first ship of the line to the Spanish station, where he harries French communications under the glowering menace of Napoleon’s onshore gun batteries.
Forester’s masterpiece of suspense. A middle-aged bank clerk with a mountain of debt and an extravagant wife commits a murder in secret. Later, a profitable investment brings him a fortune…
