Weidenfeld & Nicolson

The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet

By Arturo Pérez-Reverte - By Margaret Jull Costa (trans.) - Published 2009

Genres:

Adventure

In this fifth book in the adventures of Captain Alatriste, the captain and his page, soldier in training Íñigo Balboa, experience a respite ...Read Review

Under this Unbroken Sky

By Shandi Mitchell - Published 2009

Genres:

Literary

Lured by promises of prosperity and fertile land for farming, Theo Mykolayenko and his family immigrated to Canada to escape the political and ...Read Review

Testament of Youth

By Vera Brittain - Published 2009

Genres:

MilitaryNonfiction

What more can one say about this classic autobiography? It is one of those books that absolutely everyone should read; and not just ...Read Review

The Rose of Sebastopol

By Katharine McMahon - Published 2007Published 2009

Genres:

Literary

In The Rose of Sebastopol the horrors of the Crimean War are described by a most unlikely narrator—Mariella Lingwood, a young English ...Read Review

Wedlock: The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore

By Wendy Moore - Published 2009

Genres:

Nonfiction

When Mary Eleanor Bowes’ father dies, she’s left one of the richest heiresses in mid-18th-century England. She cultivates her interests in ...Read Review

1918: A Very British Victory

By Peter Hart - Published 2008

Genres:

Nonfiction

1918 is an account of the last year of the Great War on the Western Front, leading to the collapse of the German army. ...Read Review

The King’s Gold

By Arturo Pérez-Reverte - Published 2008

Genres:

Adventure

King Philip IV, ruler of the Spanish empire in 1626, is expecting a large shipment of gold bullion from the West Indies. Swordsman-for-hire Captain ...Read Review

The Spies at Warsaw

By Alan Furst - Published 2008 (UK)Published 2008 (US)

Genres:

Thriller

In the autumn of 1937, Warsaw was still a city at peace, although wary eyes looked to the West with anxiety. Germany was firmly ...Read Review

Other People’s Daughters: The Life and Times of the Governess

By Ruth Brandon - Published 2008

Genres:

Nonfiction

The governess has played a more important role in literature than she was ever afforded in real life. Most did not have the ...Read Review

The Abyssinian Proof

By Jenny White - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

  1453. The eve of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks. Isaak Metochites prepares to flee the city with his family, taking ...Read Review