Arvet efter Arn

Historien känner honom som Birger Jarl, Stockholms grundare och Sveriges skapare. Men sagan om Birger är mycket större än så. Arn Magnusson må ha varit ett helgon. Det var sannerligen inte Birger. Men han var en segrare som inte vek undan för moraliska eller praktiska hinder på sin väg från yngling i Västra Götaland till riksbyggare. Författare: Jan Guillou

Uppläsare: Tomas Bolme

Förlag: Piratförlaget

Biggles i öknen

Major Biggelswoth, vanligen kallad Biggles, fick efter sina insatser i slaget om Storbritaninen uppdraget att bege sig på ett mycket hemligt uppdrag till Sahara. Både Biggles och has grupp av elitpiloter, visste att deras uppdrag skulle bli både farligt och påfrestande. Men det blev ännu värre. När de fick klart för sig att det var det tyska flygaresset von Zoyton de hade emot sig, fanns det tillfällen som även Biggles kände en krypande olust. Just von Zoyton var som en av de få i Luftwaffe som var utrustad med en Messerschmidt 109 E och därför en av de få med möjlighet att framgångsrikt möta en Spitfire i strid… Författare: W.E. Johns

Uppläsare: Tomas Löfdahl

Förlag: Adelphi Audio

Blue at the Mizzen

This is the twentieth book in Patrick O'Brian's highly acclaimed, bestselling series chronicling the adventures of lucky Jack Aubrey and his best friend Stephen Maturin, part ship's doctor, part secret agent. The novel's stirring action follows on from that of The Hundred Days. Napoleon's hundred days of freedom and his renewed threat to Europe have ended at Waterloo and Aubrey has finally, as the title suggests, become a blue level admiral. He and Maturin have – at last – set sail on their much postponed mission to Chile. Vivid with the salty tang of life at sea, O'Brian's writing is as powerful as ever whether he writes of naval hierarchies, night actions or the most celebrated fictional friendship since that of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Blue at the Mizzen also brings alive the sights and sounds of revolutionary South America in a story as exciting as any O'Brian has written. Författare: Patrick O'Brian

Uppläsare: Robert Hardy

Förlag: Harper Collins

Brödraskapet

London 1260. Vännerna Will och Garin tränas att bli tempelriddare i ordens högkvarter. Baybars startar ett skoningslöst krig mot de kristna för att driva ut dem från Heliga landet. Mellan Will och Garin står Elwen, en ung kvinna och systerdotter till en hög tempelriddare. Dessa tre blir indragna i ränkerna kring en hemlig skrift, Boken om graal, skriven av Anima Templi, en andlig grupp – ett hemligt brödraskap – inom själva orden, som insett att judendom, kristendom och islam har en gemensam kärna och förespråkar försoning mellan de tre religionerna. Politik, passion, konspirationer och krig – Brödraskapet är en berättelse som rymmer allt det man kan önska sig av en riktigt underhållande historisk roman. Författare: Robyn Young

Uppläsare: Magnus Roosmann

Förlag: Norstedts Audio

Clarissa Oakes

All the elements that have made Patrick O'Brian's astonishing series one of the most highly praised works in contemporary fiction are here in Clarissa Oakes – the narrative grip, the impeccable ear for dialogue, the humour and the unsurpassed capacity to create and recreate a rich and true friendship between two men in the late eighteenth century. Captain Jack Aubrey sails away from the hated Australian prison colonies in his favourite vessel the Surprise, pondering on middle age and sexual frustration. He soon becomes aware that he is out of touch with the mood of his ship: to his astonishment he finds that in spite of a lifetime's experience he does not know what the foremost hands or even his own officers are thinking. They know, as he does not, that the Surprise has a stranger aboard: and what they, for their part, do not know is that the stranger is potentially as dangerous as a light in the powder magazine itself. Författare: Patrick O'Brian

Uppläsare: Robert Hardy

Förlag: Harper Collins

Den dansande djävulen

Flera hundra meter ner i den mörka gruvan arbetar 13 årige Tyko med att leta efter silver, som ska bekosta 'Den dansande djävulens' överdådiga fester ovan jord. Men så kommer söndagen som förändrar allt 'Den dansande djävulen' är den första delen i en oupphörligt spännande och suggestiv trilogi av Martin Widmark om Tyko och hans resa genom tre världar. En resa som utsätter honom för livsfarliga uppdrag och för honom allt närmare sanningen om sitt ursprung. Författare: Martin Widmark

Uppläsare: Jakob Eklund

Förlag: Bonnier Audio

Desolation Island

Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon, Stephen Maturin, sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy — and a treacherous disease which decimates the crew. The ingredients of a wonderfully powerful and dramatic O'Brian novel are heightened by descriptive writing of rare quality. Nowhere in contemporary prose have the majesty and terror of the sea been more effectively rendered than in the thrilling chase through an Antarctic storm in which Jack's ship, under manned and out gunned, is the quarry not the hunter. Författare: Patrick O'Brian

Uppläsare: Robert Hardy

Förlag: Harper Collins

English Passengers

The Reverend Geoffrey Wilson sets out from England, in the summer of 1857, with an expedition to find the Garden of Eden, which he is convinced lies on the island of Tasmania. Unknown to him, others in the party have very different agendas, notably the surgeon, Dr Potter, who is developing a revolutionary and sinister thesis of his own on the races of man. To complicate matters further, the ship Wilson has hurriedly chartered, crewed by Captain Kewley and his secretive Manxmen, is in fact an ill starred smuggling vessel, its hidden compartments filled with contraband brandy and tobacco. As the vessel journeys haplessly southwards, in Tasmania itself an Aboriginal named Peevay recounts his people's struggle against the invading British, who prove as lethal in their good intentions as in their cruelty. This is no Eden but a world of hunting parties and colonial ethnic cleansing. As the English passengers near Peevay's land, their bizarre notions ever more painfully at odds with reality, it grows clear that a mighty collision is approaching. Författare: Matthew Kneale

Uppläsare: Simon Callow

Förlag: Harper Collins

Fyrtornet i Son-Li

Tyko Flores äventyr fortsätter i Den andra världen, som inte bara har två solar och två regnbågar utan även en galen furste, som matar huvudstaden Son Lis hajar med slavar. Men den största överraskningen är Julius, som visar vara sig en annan än den Tyko trodde... 'Fyrtornet i Son Li' är den andra delen i en oupphörligt spännande och suggestiv trilogi av Martin Widmark om Tyko och hans resa genom tre världar. En resa som utsätter honom för livsfarliga uppdrag och för honom allt närmare sanningen om sitt ursprung. Författare: Martin Widmark

Uppläsare: Jakob Eklund

Förlag: Bonnier Audio

Georges Secret Key to the Universe

An OUT OF THIS WORLD adventure from Lucy and Stephen Hawking Författare: Lucy and Stephen Hawking

Uppläsare: James Goode

Förlag: Random House

HMS Surprise

H.M.S. Surprise follows the variable fortunes of Captain Jack Aubrey's career in Nelson's navy as he attempts to hold his ground against admirals, colleagues and the enemy, accepting a mission to convey a British ambassador to the East Indies. The voyage takes him and his friend Stephen Maturin to the strange sights and smells of the Indian sub continent, and through the archipelago of spice islands where the French have a near overwhelming superiority. Rarely has a novel managed to convey more vividly the fragility of a sailing ship in a wild sea. Rarely has a historical novelist combined action and lyricism of style in the way that O' Brian does. His superb sense of place, brilliant characterisation, and a vigour and joy of writing lift O'Brian above any but the most exalted of comparisons. Författare: Patrick O'Brian

Uppläsare: Robert Hardy

Förlag: Harper Collins

Life Of PI

After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang utan, a 450 pound Royal Bengal tiger and Pi – a 16 year old Indian boy. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary pieces of literary fiction of recent years. Författare: Yann Martel

Uppläsare: Kerry Shale

Förlag: Harper Collins

Lords of the Bow

The brand new novel from the No.1 bestselling author of Emperor, his series on Julius Caesar. The second in the bestselling new Conqueror series on Genghis Khan, it is a wonderful, epic story which Conn Iggulden brings brilliantly to life. Författare: Conn Iggulden

Uppläsare: Russell Boulter

Förlag: Harper Collins

Master and Commander

Master and Commander is the first of Patrick O'Brian's now famous Aubrey/Maturin novels, regarded by many as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. It establishes the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Stephen Maturin, who becomes his secretive ship's surgeon and an intelligence agent. It contains all the action and excitement which could possibly be hoped for in a historical novel, but it also displays the qualities which have put O'Brian far ahead of any of his competitors: his depiction of the detail of life aboard a Nelsonic man of war, of weapons, food, conversation and ambience, of the landscape and of the sea. O'Brian's portrayal of each of these is faultless and the sense of period throughout is acute. His power of characterisation is above all masterly. This brilliant historical novel marked the début of a writer who has grown into one of the most remarkable literary novelists now writing, the author of what Alan Judd, writing in the Sunday Times, has described as 'the most significant extended story since Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time'. Författare: Patrick O'Brian

Uppläsare: Robert Hardy

Förlag: Harper Collins

Pelle Svanslös på nya äventyr

Alla vet vem Pelle Svanslös är. Han har under årtionden varit storfavorit hos många svenska barn. Här är alla de lustiga berättelserna ur den näst första samlingen ur Pelle Svanslös serien. Vi möter de välkända och roliga gurerna – Pelle själv, med den avbitna svansen, Maja Gräddnos, Elaka Måns och hans vapendragare Bill och Bull för att nämna några. Staden Uppsala bildar bakgrund till historierna som sedan de publicerades för första gången 1937 har kommit i ständigt nya upplagor. Den trivsamma stämningen som finns bland kattorna får alla att känna sig tillfreds och Elaka Måns är inte värre än att vi strax förstår att honom klarar Pelle Svanslös av. Författare: Gösta Knutsson

Uppläsare: Marie Robertsson

Förlag: Adelphi Audio

Polyhymnias guld

Tyko Flores äventyr fortsätter i Den tredje världen där Tykos mamma hålls fången. Men för att komma dit måste de först ta sig över det livsfarliga havet och sedan vidare genom De dödas stad. Ledsagade av den fruktade Ormapan! De tre artisterna från vaudevillen lyckas rädda alla barnen genom att beslagta ett skepp. Tillsammans startar de sin spännande resa över havet för att finna Den tredje världen, där Tykos mamma hålls fången. De farliga havsströmmarna hotar att dra ner dem i djupet och när sedan Ormapan kommer flygande i en märklig farkost tror alla att slutet är nära. Men Ormapan visar sig tvärtom vara en snäll varelse, som hjälper Tyko, Julia och de andra att finna ingången till De dödas stad, där Tykos mamma hålls fången. De dödas stad är en mörk plats som suger all energi från Tyko. Men den svarta boken uppmanar honom att inte ge upp. Ska Tyko äntligen få återförenas med sin mamma? Författare: Martin Widmark

Uppläsare: Jakob Eklund

Förlag: Bonnier Audio

Post Captain

Patrick O'Brian is regarded by many as the greatest historical novelist now writing. Post Captain, the second novel in his remarkable Aubrey/Maturin series, led Mary Renault to write: 'Master and Commander raised dangerously high expectations; Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them.' This tale begins with Jack Aubrey arriving home from his exploits in the Mediterranean to find England at peace following the Treaty of Amiens. He and his friend Stephen Maturin, surgeon and secret agent, begin to live the lives of country gentlemen, hunting, entertaining and enjoying more amorous adventures. Their comfortable existence, however, is cut short when Jack is overnight reduced to a pauper with enough debts to keep him in prison for life. He flees to the continent to seek refuge: instead he finds himself a hunted fugitive as Napoleon has ordered the internment of all Englishmen in France. Aubrey's adventures in escaping from France and the debtors' prison will grip the reader as fast as his unequalled actions at sea. Författare: Patrick O'Brian

Uppläsare: Robert Hardy

Förlag: Harper Collins

Riket vid vägens slut

Den tredje och avslutande delen i berättelsen om Arn Magnusson och Cecilia Algotsdotter och Sveriges tillkomst i slutet av 1100 talet. Efter tjugo års botgöringstjänst återvänder Arn till Västra Götaland. Med sig hem för han kunskap och invandrare som blir förutsättningen för en helt ny tid, och som av det lilla bondelandet Västra Götaland skapar det nya Sverige. Författare: Jan Guillou

Uppläsare: Tomas Bolme

Förlag: Piratförlaget

Rubinen

Säsongens sista galamiddag på Stockholms slott närmar sig. En krigsskadad före detta legosoldat, som inbillar sig att han är ättling till en av Sveriges medeltida kungar, planerar ett attentat. Han tänker spränga sig fram till tronen. Och någonstans på slottet gömmer sig rubinen, ett smycke som sägs bära på en förbannelse. Erik Lagerfelt, svensk fotograf och reporter bosatt i Paris, beslutar sig för att göra ett reportage om galamiddagen för att få en chans att leta efter rubinen. När legosoldaten är på väg att sätta sina planer i verket korsas hans och Eriks vägar. De har mötts förut, konfrontationen blir våldsam och upplösningen i Herman Lindqvists nya färgstarka äventyrsroman är helt oväntad. Författare: Herman Lindqvist

Uppläsare: Herman Lindqvist

Förlag: Norstedts Audio

Sharpe's Battle

In the spring of 1811, while quartered in the crumbling Portuguese fort of San Isidro, Richard Sharpe and his men are attacked by an elite French unit commanded by the formidable Brigadier Loup, and suffer heavy losses. Sharpe has already clashed once with Loup, and the Frenchman has sworn to have his revenge.After the attack, Sharpe is faced with the ruin of his career and reputation, as the army's high command tries to blame him for the disaster. With thousands of French troops massing at a tiny village nearby, Sharpe's only hope is to redeem himself on the battlefield. To save his honour, Sharpe must lead his men to glory in the narrow streets of Fuentes de Oñoro. Författare: Bernard Cornwell

Uppläsare: Paul McGann

Förlag: Harper Collins

Sharpe's Devil

Five years after the Battle of Waterloo, Sharpe's peaceful retirement in Normandy is shattered by a plea for help. An old friend, Don Blas Vivar, is missing in Chile, reported dead at rebel hands – a report his wife refuses to believe. She appeals to Sharpe to find out the truth. So it is that the reluctant Sharpe and his constant companion in adventure, Patrick Harper, find themselves bound for Chile via St Helena, where they have a fateful meeting with the fallen Emperor Napoleon. Sharpe and Harper are convinced that they are on their way to collect a corpse; neither can imagine the dangers that await them in Chile. Författare: Bernard Cornwell

Uppläsare: Sean Bean

Förlag: Harper Collins

Sharpe's Escape

Sharpe's Escape takes place in the summer of 1810, once again in the Peninsular War. The French are mounting their third and most dangerous invasion of Portugal. Captain Richard Sharpe with his company of redcoats and riflemen meets the invaders on the gaunt ridge of Bussaco. But there, despite a stunning British victory, the French are not stopped and the army have to fall back. Sharpe has made enemies among the Portuguese and during the retreat through Coimbra, he and Sergeant Harper are lured into a trap designed to kill them. With the help of an Englishwoman, Sharpe survives, but is cut off from the army. He has to rejoin his regiment if the command is not to fall to the ambitious Lieutenant Slinbsby. At the Lines of Torres Vedras, the vast defences built to stop the French before Lisbon, Sharpe confronts his enemies in a climactic battle. Författare: Bernard Cornwell

Uppläsare: Paul McGann

Förlag: Harper Collins

Sharpe's Fortress

It is 1803 and Sir Arthur Wellesley's army is closing on the retreating Mahrattas in western India. Marching with the British is Ensign Richard Sharpe, newly made into an officer and wishing he had stayed a sergeant. Spurned by his new regiment, he is sent to the army's baggage train and there finds corruption, romance, treason and enemies old and new. Sergeant Hakeswill wants Sharpe dead, and Hakeswill has powerful friends while Sharpe has only an orphaned Arab boy as his ally. And waiting with the cornered Mahrattas is another enemy, the renegade Englishman, William Dodd, who does not envisage defeat, but only a glorious triumph. For the Mahrattas have taken refuge in Gawilghur, the greatest stronghold of India, perched high on its cliffs above the Deccan Plain. Who rules in Gawilghur, it is said, rules India, and Dodd knows that the fortress is impregnable. There, behind its double walls, in the towering twin forts, Sharpe must face his enemies in what will prove to be Wellesley's last battle on Indian soil. Författare: Bernard Cornwell

Uppläsare: Paul McGann

Förlag: Harper Collins

Sharpe's Fury

In the winter of 1811 the war seemed lost. All Spain has fallen to the French, except for Cadiz which is now the Spanish capital and is under siege. Wellington and his British army are in Portugal, waiting for spring to spark the war to life again. Richard Sharpe and his company are part of a small expeditionary force sent to break a bridge across the River Guadiana. What begins as a brilliant piece of soldiering turns into disaster, thanks to the brutal savagery of the French Colonel Vandal who is leading his battalion to join the siege of Cadiz. Sharpe extricates a handful of men from the debacle and is driven south into the threatened city. There, in Cadiz, he discovers more than one enemy. Many Spaniards doubt Britain's motives and believe their future would be brighter if they made peace with the French, and one of them, a baleful priest, secures a powerful weapon to break the British alliance. He will use a beautiful whore and the letters she received from a wealthy man. The priest will use blackmail, and Sharpe must defeat him in a sinister war of knife and treachery in the dark alleys of the city. Yet the alliance will only survive if the French siege can be lifted. An allied army marches from the city to take on the more powerful French and, once again, a brilliant piece of soldiering turns to disaster, this time because the Spanish refuse to fight. A small British force is trapped by a French army, and the only hope now lies with the outnumbered redcoats who, on a hill beside the sea, refuse to admit defeat. And there, in the sweltering horror of Barossa, Sharpe finds Colonel Vandal again. Sharpe's Fury is based on the real events of the winter of 1811 that led to the extraordinary victory of Barossa, the battle which saw the British capture the first French eagle of the Napoleonic Wars. Författare: Bernard Cornwell

Uppläsare: Paul McGann

Förlag: Harper Collins

Sharpe's Gold

Bold, professional and determined, Richard Sharpe embarks on a desperate mission. He must recover the treasure, vital to the success of the war, now hidden behind enemy lines. The gold is in the possession of a powerful guerrilla leader, feared by ally and enemy alike. And he has no love for Sharpe, the man who has stolen his woman. But Sharpe's fiercest battles lie with the British officers, ignorant of his deadly secret and mistrustful of his ruthless methods. Författare: Bernard Cornwell

Uppläsare: Paul McGann

Förlag: Harper Collins

Sharpe's Havoc

It is 1809 and Lieutenant Sharpe, who belongs to a small British army that has a precarious foothold in Portugal, is sent to look for Kate Savage, the daughter of an English wine shipper. But before he can discover the missing girl, the French onslaught on Portugal begins and the city of Oporto falls. Sharpe is stranded behind enemy lines, but he has Patrick Harper, he has his riflemen and he has the assistance of a young, idealistic Portuguese officer. Together, they have to find the missing girl and extricate themselves from the entanglements cast by Colonel Christopher, a mysterious Englishman who has his own ideas on how the French can be ejected from Portugal. Those ideas are as fantastic as they are dangerous, but the French are rampant, Lisbon is threatened and Christopher sees Sharpe and his riflemen as the only obstacles to his subtle scheme. But there is a newly arrived British commander in Lisbon, Sir Arthur Wellesley, and just when Sharpe and his men seem doomed, Sir Arthur mounts his own counter attack, an operation that will send the French army reeling back into the northern mountains. Sharpe becomes a hunter instead of the hunted and he will exercise a dreadful revenge on the men who double crossed him. Sharpe's Havoc is a classic Sharpe story, a return to Portugal in the company of Sergeant Patrick Harper, Captain Hogan and Sharpe's beloved Greenjackets. Författare: Bernard Cornwell

Uppläsare: Paul McGann

Förlag: Harper Collins

Sharpe's Prey

It is 1807 and Sharpe, back from India and Trafalgar, has joined the newly formed Greenjackets – but his career is in ruins, and his future in the army apparently hopeless. He is rescued from disgrace by General Sir David Baird, an old comrade from India, who needs a 'disposable' man for a mission in Copenhagen. An army is travelling to the Danish capital to enforce British policy, but unless Sharpe can complete the mission against enemies as subtle and clever as any he has ever faced, that army will meet disaster. Författare: Bernard Cornwell

Uppläsare: Paul McGann

Förlag: Harper Collins

Sharpe's Sword

Richard Sharpe is once again at war. But this time his enemy is a single man – the ruthless, sadistic Colonel Leroux. Sharpe's mission is to safeguard El Mirador, the spy whose network of agents is vital to the British victory. So Sharpe must enter a new world of political and military intrigue. And in the unfamiliar surroundings of aristocratic Spanish society, his only guide is the beautiful Marquesa – a woman with her own secrets to conceal… Författare: Bernard Cornwell

Uppläsare: Paul McGann

Förlag: Harper Collins

Sharpe's Tiger

Throughout the series, there are references to Sharpe's early soldiering life in India. With the same meticulous research and attention to detail that is found in the Peninsular War books, Bernard Cornwell has sumptuously recreated the 1799 campaign against Seringapatam which made the British masters of southern India, a campaign that pitted brutalized soldiers against an ancient and splendid civilization. Sharpe, the rest of his battalion and rising star of the general staff Arthur Wellesley, are about to embark upon the siege of the island citadel of the Tippoo of Mysore, Seringapatam. The British must remove this potentate from his Tiger Throne, but he has gone to great lengths to defend his city from attack. When a senior British officer is captured by the Tippoo's forces, Sharpe is offered a chance to attempt a rescue and infiltrate the Tippoo's forces. Sharpe needs no invitation to get away from the tyrannical Sergeant Hakeswill, but once inside the dangerous world of the Tippoo he realises he will need all his wits just to stay alive, let alone save the British army from catastrophe. Set against the background of dazzling wealth, ruinous poverty, gorgeous palaces, sudden cruelty and pitiless battles, Sharpe's Tiger is his greatest adventure yet. Författare: Bernard Cornwell

Uppläsare: Sean Bean

Förlag: Harper Collins

Sharpe's Trafalgar

His voyage home should be a period of rest, but his ship is riven with treachery and threatened by the Revenant, a French sea raider that is terrorising British shipping in the Indian Ocean. Betrayed and defeated, Sharpe is imprisoned on the Ile de France, doomed to rot there until the war ends. But an unlikey ally secures his escape into a British warship that is hunting the Revenant. That hunt turns into a pursuit as the French ship races home, and when she encounters the combined French and Spanish fleets of Cadiz, it seems Sharpe's enemies are safe. But over the horizon is another fleet, led by Nelson, and Sharpe's revenge will come when the two armadas meet on a calm October day off Cape Trafalgar. Författare: Bernard Cornwell

Uppläsare: Paul McGann

Förlag: Harper Collins

Sharpe's Triumph

As millions of readers came to know Bernard Cornwell's brilliant creation Richard Sharpe as he fought his way through the Peninsular War, so they discovered that Sharpe had started his soldiering career in India. In 1997, Sharpe's Tiger finally lifted the veil on this exciting early life and became the biggest selling Sharpe novel of all. Now, the year is 1804 and young Sergeant Richard Sharpe is still in India where, following his successes in Sharpe's Tiger, he is on the trail of a renegade East India Company officer. The pursuit takes him through the vicious siege of Ahmednuggur to the bloody battlefield of Assaye where the future Duke of Wellington won what he considered to be his greatest victory, with Richard Sharpe, naturally, at his side. Full of the action and drama and atmosphere that have made this series so immensely popular with both readers and television viewers, Sharpe's Triumph will be one of the most eagerly awaited novels of the year. Författare: Bernard Cornwell

Uppläsare: Paul McGann

Förlag: Harper Collins

Star Wars Revenge of the Sith

Based on the screenplay of the movie, Star Wars: Episode III, the audiobook brings the epic full circle, revealing at last just how the young Jedi, Anakin Skywalker, became the most evil villain in the galaxy, Darth Vader, and father to Luke and Leia. When the story opens, the Clone Wars are still in full cry, and numerous Jedi have already been lost. Författare: Mattew Stover,George Lucas

Uppläsare: Jonathan Davis

Förlag: Random House

Starbuck Chronicles 2 - Copperhead

A copperhead is a turncoat a northerner who sympathises with the South. Captain Nate Starbuck, forced out of his beloved Legion by the enmity of its founder, General Washington Faulconer, becomes caught up in a dangerous double game of espionage. He is given no choice but to travel from a prison cell in Richmond, Virginia, to the secret centre of the high Northen command in a desperate attempt to thwart Yankee strategy which threatens to overwhelm the South. Starbuck plays a difficult and complex game of bluff and betrayal in a winner takes all effort to save his own life and return to the Legion but at a high cost to his personal and professional loyalties as a friend and a man of war. Författare: Bernard Cornwell

Uppläsare: David Rintoul

Förlag: Harper Collins

Starbuck Chronicles 3 - Battle flag

Captain Nate Starbuck, yankee fighting for the Southern cause, has to survive and win with his ragged Company in the bitter struggle not only against the formidable Northern army but equally in opposition to his own superiors who would like nothing better than to see Nate Starbuck dead and dishonoured. Starbuck's courage is tested to the limit in his desperate manoeuvres to retrieve his own and the Legion's honour in this the thrid narrative of Bernard Cornwell's sweeping epic of the American Civil War. Författare: Bernard Cornwell

Uppläsare: David Rintoul

Förlag: Harper Collins

Starbuck Chronicles 4 - The Bloody Ground

Right at the moment Nate Starbuck begins to doubt his own courage, the Faulconer Legion is spitefully stripped from him and he is given command of the Yellowlegs a battalion of cowards, malingerers, stragglers, skulkers and convicts led by cowards and bullies. In order to restore the honour of the Special Battalion, Starbuck pits himself and his Yellowlegs against the Union army at Sharpsburg in one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War. But not all his enemies are northerners: among his own ranks are white demons, bad as they come, whose rifles, revolvers and resentments are aimed at Starbuck's back. Författare: Bernard Cornwell

Uppläsare: David Rintoul

Förlag: Harper Collins

Sword song

Our hero, Uhtred, has been made Governor of London. This fourth book in the series is set mostly in London and covers Alfred's building of fortified towns to hold Wessex and his push into Mercia. Författare: Bernard Cornwell

Uppläsare: Jamie Glover

Förlag: Harper Collins

Tempelriddaren

I den andra delen i trilogin om Arn har huvudpersonen hunnit fylla 27 och är redan en ärrad veteran bland korsfararna i Det heliga landet. Under tiden har Cecilia, hans ungdomskärlek hemma i Sverige, fött deras barn; en gosse som växer upp hos Arns farbror Birger Brosa. Cecilia ber om undret att Arn ska komma tillbaka, och även Birger som manövrerar slugt i de svenska maktstriderna, hoppas på Arns återkomst. Författare: Jan Guillou

Uppläsare: Tomas Bolme

Förlag: Piratförlaget

The Commodore

Jack Aubrey's long service is at last rewarded: he is promoted to the rank of Commodore and given a squadron of ships to command. His mission is twofold – to make a large dent in the slave trade off the coast of Africa and, on his return, to intercept a French fleet set for Bantry Bay with a cargo of weapons for the disaffected among the Irish. Invention and surprise follow at every turn in this tale of nineteenth century seamanship, as rich, as compelling, as masterly as any of its predecessors. Författare: Patrick O'Brian

Uppläsare: Robert Hardy

Förlag: Harper Collins

The Eye in the Door

The Eye in the Door was the richly deserving winner of the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize, the second volume in Pat Barker's brilliant Regeneration Trilogy. Written with immense power, it is the story not just of one young man suffering from the trauma of war, but from a generation, condemned to the unending slaughter of the trenches, and all the charged agony of class and gender that had its own bitter harvest. But for all the pain she portrays, Barker's novel, with its wry humour and exquisite observation, explodes with life. Författare: Pat Barker

Uppläsare: Paul McGann

Förlag: Harper Collins

The Far Side of the World

It is still the War of 1812. Patrick O'Brian takes his hero Jack Aubrey and his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin on a voyage as fascinating as anything he has ever written. They set course across the South Atlantic to intercept a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. If they do not come up with her before she rounds the Horn, they must follow her into the Great South Sea and as far across the Pacific as she may lead them. It is a commission after Jack's own heart. Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world of secret intelligence. Aubrey has to cope with a succession of disasters – men overboard, castaways, encounters with savages, storms, typhoons, groundings, shipwrecks, to say nothing of murder and criminal insanity. That the enemy is in fact faithfully dealt with, no one who has the honour of Captain Aubrey's acquaintance can take leave to doubt. Författare: Patrick O'Brian

Uppläsare: Robert Hardy

Förlag: Harper Collins

The Fortune of War

Captain Jack Aubrey, RN, arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a despatch vessel. But the war of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen's past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance. Författare: Patrick O'Brian

Uppläsare: Robert Hardy

Förlag: Harper Collins

The Ghost Road

1918, and Billy Prior is in France once again, a real test case for the 'shell shock' therapies practised at Craiglockhart War Hospital where, with Wilfred Owen, he was a patient. Prior experiences a late summer idyll, some days of perfect beauty, before the final battles in a war that has destroyed most of his generation. In London, Prior's psychologist, William Rivers, tends to his new patients, more young men whose lives and minds have been shattered. And remembers the primitive society on Eddystone Island where he studied as an anthropologist before the war. Gathering together both experiences, he sees the gulf between them narrow... Challenging and harrowing, brilliantly incisive yet always compassionate, Pat Barker's Booker Prize winning novel is magnificent listening. Författare: Pat Barker

Uppläsare: Paul McGann

Förlag: Harper Collins

The Grail Quest 3 - Heretic

In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a truce. But for Thomas of Hookton, the hero of Harlequin and Vagabond, there is no end to the fighting. He is pursuing the grail, the most sacred of Christendom's relics, and is sent to his ancestral homeland, Gascony, to engineer a confrontation with his deadliest enemy, Guy Vexille. Once in the south country Thomas becomes a raider, leading his archers in savage forays that will draw his enemy to his arrows. But then his fortunes change. Thomas becomes the hunted as his campaign is destroyed by the church. With only one companion, a girl condemned to burn as a heretic, Thomas goes to the valley of Astarac where he believes the grail was once hidden and might still be concealed, and there he plays a deadly game of hide and seek with an overwhelming enemy. Then, just as Thomas succeeds in meeting his enemy face to face, fate intervenes as the deadliest plague in the history of mankind erupts into Europe. What had been a landscape of castles, monasteries, vineyards and villages, becomes death's kingdom and the need for the grail, as a sign of God's favour, is more urgent than ever. Författare: Bernard Cornwell

Uppläsare: Tim Pigott-Smith

Förlag: Harper Collins

The Hundred Days

With the Napoleonic wars looking all but over, Jack Aubrey was already on his way across the Atlantic to try his fortunes under the flag of the young Chilean republic when Napoleon escaped from Elba. Hurriedly appointed to command a squadron flying the broad pennant of a Commodore, Jack was made flag officer in all but name, to operate within and without the Mediterranean on a number of difficult and dangerous missions in an atmosphere of confused political allegiances and with whatever ships could be scraped together at a moment's notice. Conspiracy in the Adriatic, in the Berber and Arab lands of the southern shore of the Mediterranean, night actions, fierce pursuits and the natural wonders of a still uncolonised North Africa all exert their pull on Jack, now ageing – wheezing indeed as he hauls himself aloft – and his old friend Stephen Maturin in this the nineteenth novel in a series that has, like the service it depicts, carried all before it. The latest Aubrey Maturin novel brings alive the sights and sounds of North Africa as well as the great naval battles in the days immediately following Napoleon's escape from Elba. Författare: Patrick O'Brian

Uppläsare: Robert Hardy

Förlag: Harper Collins

The Innocent

The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty five year old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British American surveillance team. Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life and to lose his unwanted innocence. The promise of his new life begins to be fulfilled as Leonard becomes a crucial part of the surveillance team, while simultaneously being initiated into a new world of love and sex by Maria, a beautiful young German woman. It is a promise that turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening a night when Leonard Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed. Författare: Ian McEwan

Uppläsare: Anton Lesser

Förlag: Harper Collins

The Last Kingdom

The Last Kingdom is set in the England of the ninth and tenth centuries. These were the years when the Danish Vikings had invaded and occupied three of England's four kingdoms, and when King Alfred, his son and grandson fought back and won the freedom of the country again. The story is seen through the eyes of Uhtred, a dispossessed English nobleman. Captured as a child and raised by the Danes, he now finds his allegiances divided. But the one thing he knows is that he wants to recover his father's land, the fort by the wild northern sea that we now know as Bamburgh. Bernard Cornwell is a master of historical fiction and this new series looking with a fresh light at Alfred the Great, his kingdom and his legacy will be as outstanding and as popular as the Grail Quest and the Warlord Chronicles. Författare: Bernard Cornwell

Uppläsare: Jamie Glover

Förlag: Harper Collins

The Letter of Marque

Jack Aubrey is a naval officer, a post captain of experience and capacity. When The Letter of Marque opens he has been struck off the Navy List for a crime he has not committed. With Aubrey is his friend and ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, who is also an unofficial British intelligence agent. Maturin has bought for Aubrey his old ship the Surprise, so that the misery of ejection from the service can be palliated by the command of what Aubrey calls a 'private man of war' – a letter of marque, a privateer. Together they sail on a voyage which, if successful, might restore Aubrey to the rank, and the raison d'etre, whose loss he so much regrets. Around these simple, ostensibly familar elements Patrick O'Brian has written a novel of great narrative power, exploring his extraordinary world once more, in a tale full of human feeling and rarely matched in its drama. Författare: Patrick O'Brian

Uppläsare: Robert Hardy

Förlag: Harper Collins

The Lords of the North

The year is 878 and Wessex is free from the Vikings.Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, helped Alfred win that victory, but now he is disgusted by Alfred's lack of generosity and repelled by the king's insistent piety. He flees Wessex, going back north to seek revenge for the killing of his foster father and to rescue his stepsister, captured in the same raid. He needs to find his old enemy, Kjartan, a renegade Danish lord who lurks in the formidable stronghold of Dunholm. Uhtred arrives in the north to discover rebellion, chaos and fear. His only ally is Hild, a West Saxon nun fleeing her calling, and his best hope is his sword, with which he has made a formidable reputation as a warrior. He will need the assistance of other warriors if he is to attack Dunholm and he finds Guthred, a slave who believes he is a king. He takes him across the Pennines to where a desperate alliance of fanatical Christians and beleaguered Danes form a new army to confront the terrible Viking lords who rule Northumbria. 'The Lords of the North' is a powerful story of betrayal, romance and struggle, set in an England of turmoil, upheaval and glory. Uhtred, a Northumbrian raised as a Viking, a man without lands, a warrior without a country, has become a splendid heroic figure. Författare: Bernard Cornwell

Uppläsare: Jamie Glover

Förlag: Harper Collins

The Mauritius Command

Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command – until his friend, and occasional intelligence agent, Stephen Maturin, arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope, under a Commodore's pennant. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captains – Lord Clonfert, a pleasure seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity can push his crews to the verge of mutiny. Based on the actual campaign of 1810 in the Indian Ocean, O'Brian's attention to detail of eighteenth century life ashore and at sea is meticulous. This tale is as beautifully written and as gripping as any in the series; it also stands on its own as a superlative work of fiction. Författare: Patrick O'Brian

Uppläsare: Robert Hardy

Förlag: Harper Collins

The Nutmeg of Consolation

Patrick O'Brian is regarded by many as the greatest living historical novelist writing in English. In The Nutmeg of Consolation, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin begin stranded on an uninhabited island in the Dutch East Indies, attacked by ferocious Malay pirates. They contrive their escape, but after a stay in Batavia and a change of ship, they are caught up in a night chase in the fiercely tidal waters and then embroiled in the much more insidious conflicts of the terrifying penal settlements of New South Wales. It is one of O'Brian's most accomplished and gripping books. Författare: Patrick O'Brian

Uppläsare: Robert Hardy

Förlag: Harper Collins

The Surgeon's Mate

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by despatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attentions of two privateers soon become menacing. The chase that follows through the fogs and shallows of the Grand Banks is as thrilling, as tense and as unexpected in its culmination as anything Patrick O'Brian has written. Then, among other things, follows a shipwreck and a particularly sinister internment in the notorious Temple Prison in Paris. Once again, the tigerish and fascinating Diana Villiers redresses the balance in this man's world of seamanship and war. Författare: Patrick O'Brian

Uppläsare: Robert Hardy

Förlag: Harper Collins

The Thirteen-Gun Salute

For all Jack Aubrey's life he has triumphed, often sensationally, over the dangers of the sea and the violence of the enemy. But his rashness, his guilelessness, his indiscretion have time and time again enabled his rivals to prevent him reaping his just rewards. The nadir was reached in The Reverse of the Medal when, the victim of a skilful frame up, he was convicted of fraud and struck off the Navy list just as he was coming within sight of flag rank. The subsequent exposure of the conspiracy, coupled with his brilliant success in command of a privateer, had brought him to a position where Their Lordships were more or less bound to reinstate him. This, as the present book opens, they have done, and he and his old friend Dr Maturin are sailing on a secret mission with a hand picked crew, most of them shipmates from the adventures and lucrative voyages of earlier years. Författare: Patrick O'Brian

Uppläsare: Robert Hardy

Förlag: Harper Collins

The Wine-Dark Sea

At the opening of a voyage filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are in pursuit of a privateer sailing under American colours through the Great South Sea. Stephen's objective is to set the revolutionary tinder of South America ablaze to relieve the pressure on the British government which has blundered into war with the young and uncomfortably vigorous United States. The shock and barbarity of hand to hand fighting are sharpened by O'Brian's exact sense of period, his eye for landscape and his feel for a ship under sail. Författare: Patrick O'Brian

Uppläsare: Robert Hardy

Förlag: Harper Collins

The Yellow Admiral

Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey. Even Jack's exploits at sea turn sour in the storm waters off Brest. Worst of all, in the spring of 1814 peace breaks out. But Stephen Maturin returns from a mission in France with news that the Chileans require the service of English officers. Jack is savouring this reprieve for his career when he receives an urgent despatch ordering him to Gibraltar: Napoleon has escaped from Elba. Författare: Patrick O'Brian

Uppläsare: Robert Hardy

Förlag: Harper Collins

Treason's Harbour

Uniquely among authors of naval fiction, Patrick O'Brian allows his characters to develop with experience. The Jack Aubrey of Treason's Harbour has a record of successes equal to that of the most brilliant of Nelson's band of brothers, and he is no less formidable or decisive in action or strategy. But he is wiser, kinder, gentler too. Much of the plot of Treason's Harbour depends on intelligence and counter intelligence, a field in which Aubrey's friend Stephen Maturin excels. Through him we get a clearer insight into the life and habits of the sea officers of Nelson's time than we would ever obtain seeing things through their own eyes. There is plenty of action and excitement in this novel, but it is the atmosphere of a Malta crowded with senior officers waiting for news of what the French are up to, and wondering whether the war will end before their turn comes for prize money and for fame, that is here so freshly and vividly conveyed. Författare: Patrick O'Brian

Uppläsare: Robert Hardy

Förlag: Harper Collins

Vägen till Jerusalem

I den första delen i trilogin om Arn befinner vi oss i 1100 talets Västra Götaland. Vid 19 års ålder döms Arn Magnusson, tidigt moderlös som vuxit upp hos cisterciensermunkarna vid Varnhems kloster, att åka som tempelriddare till Jerusalem som straff för en otillbörlig kärleksaffär. Författare: Jan Guillou

Uppläsare: Tomas Bolme

Förlag: Piratförlaget