HawkwoodThe Hundred Years' War is over and newly knighted Sir John Hawkswood is headed for France to make his fortune as a freebooter. Violence and extortion are rife, and the freebooters will stop at nothing to capture the Papal City of Avignon. This is only the beginning: Italy beckons, and with it, yet more battles against rival mercenaries, powerful cities and the Papal State.

Young Alexos is now officially the Archon

half-real 1950s north England

The god Kremsimir wants the head of Tamas's son

was first published by his good friend and long-time correspondent Henry Miller as the first title in the short-lived "Villa Seurat" imprint of the Paris-based Obelisk Press

it's clearly going to be one hell of a party

’ Vaishnavi Patel'A page-turner of the highest order

handsome nobleman

has returned from the city and fallen in love precipitating a clash of the generations and reviving long-buried memories

Twinkle Little Spy reveals a more mature Deighton exploring relationships between couples: professional rivals and private allies

the characters are as substantial as a down home breakfast of biscuits and ham with red-eye gravy

and outside a raging wind was buffeting the windows and howling down the chimney - not that it was the wind which had woken Tom

A fiendishly clever mystery with unexpected twists around every corner