Item category 2: Book

The fourteen new stories in To Cut a Long Story Short follow in the tradition of Jeffrey Archer's storytelling, with a variety of characters, subjects and settings, but all with a twist in the tail.

One summer’s day, a dying stranger carrying great wealth in gold comes to the settlement of Ratharryn. The three sons of Ratharryn’s chief each perceive the great gift in a different way. The eldest, Lengar, the warrior, harnesses his murderous ambition to be a ruler and take great power for his...

A title in the new ART AND ARTISTS series. Illustrated with colour, black and white photographs and drawings, an examination of the work of artists from Palaeolithic times, through ancient cultures and civilisations all over the world up to the 14th and 15th centuries AD.

Sergeant Richard Sharpe witnesses a murderous act of treachery by an English officer who has defected from the East India Company to join the Mahratta Confederation. In the hunt for the renegade Englishman, Sharpe penetrates deep into enemy territory where he is followed relentlessly by his worst...