LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david ebsworth

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  • Telford’s Odyssey
    David Ebsworth
    A novel in ten acts, following the misadventures of correspondent Jack Telford, from 1945 until his death in 1983. A series of linked long short stories, and short novellas, brought together in Telford’s Odyssey.’Odysseus had it easy,’ said Jack Telford. ’Only adrift for ten years after his war. But me? It’s taken me forty!’ Forty years before he could finally come home. And al...
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    24,21 €

  • Death Along The Dee
    David Ebsworth
    Alfred and Ettie Palmer are back for another stunning standalone Victorian mystery.Wrexham, 1884. Eight years earlier they’d been warned never again to interfere with police business. But it seems their skills are needed once more. A body deliberately drowned but left abandoned on the banks of the River Dee. A mysterious tattoo. Then two further murders, each more bizarre than ...
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    23,62 €

  • Blood Among The Threads
    David Ebsworth
    He only sought the truth. But some truths are best left buried.Wrexham, 1876. Meet Alfred Neobard Palmer, an unlikely hero. 'It was a death which had brought him here. Death by snake venom, of all things.' Palmer - and his more courageous sweetheart, young Ettie Francis. A series of accidental deaths which increasingly seem - well, more than simply accidental. Deaths luring Pal...
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    23,69 €

  • The House on Hunter Street
    David Ebsworth
    Liverpool, 1911. The life of young Cari Maddox is already complicated enough. Holding together her fractious Welsh family...her suffragette’s struggle for women’s rights...her guilty secrets. And that’s before the arrival of her deranged ’cousin’, Tom Priddy. Then the plight of African Kru seaman, Amos Gartee, already on strike at the Harrington Dock. All this, and a River Mers...
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    27,09 €

  • Mistress Yale’s Diaries, The Glorious Return
    David Ebsworth
    1689 and the wife of English East India Company Governor Elihu Yale risks the six-month sea voyage from old Madras to her home in London with her youngest children. But after twenty years away, it’s a city Catherine now barely recognises – built anew after the Great Fire and occupied by William the Third’s soldiers in the wake of the Glorious Revolution. Yet some things never c...
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    23,58 €

  • The Doubtful Diaries of Wicked Mistress Yale
    David Ebsworth
    1721, and elderly Catherine Yale discovers that second husband Elihu’s will has left her no bequest except the slur of branding her a 'wicked wife.' True, her private journals are filled with intimacies: her inner thoughts about life in Old Madras, where the East India Company’s intrigues are as complex as any in the Mughal Emperor’s court; and the espionage she has und...
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    27,68 €

  • Hasta que Caiga el Telòn
    David Ebsworth
    Octubre 1938. El corresponsal de prensa extranjero, Jack Telford, está huyendo por el norte de España, territorio que se encuentra ahora en manos del franquismo. Acaba de matar a una figura importante y cercana al Generalísimo. Telford es así un hombre buscado. Tres enemigos mortales diferentes le pisan los talones durante los últimos días de la Guerra Civil Española, en una pe...
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    23,37 €

  • Until the Curtain Falls
    David Ebsworth
    October 1938, and foreign correspondent Jack Telford is on the run in northern Spain, territory now controlled by Franco’s fascists. And he’s killed somebody close to the Generalísimo’s heart. Telford’s a hunted man, and hunted by three different and deadly enemies. In a climactic chase from Madrid to the Republic’s last outpost, in Alicante, during the closing days of the Span...
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    23,46 €

  • The Song-Sayer’s Lament
    David Ebsworth
    In the lands once named Britannia by the Empire and its vanished Legions, the Oak Seers’ song-sayers still weave their words into the lore by which everyday life is ordered, into the myths and sagas of hero-tales, and into the very fates that will determine whether the years ahead shall be bathed in shining light or plunged into a terrible darkness.In his fifth novel, David Ebs...
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    24,64 €

  • The Last Campaign of Marianne Tambour
    David Ebsworth
    On the bloody fields of Waterloo, a battle-weary canteen mistress of Bonaparte’s Imperial Guard battalions must fight to free her daughter from all the perils that war will hurl against them - before this last campaign can kill them both.'Superb! David Ebsworth has really brought these dramatic events to life. His description of the fighting is particularly vivid and compelling...
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  • The Kraals of Ulundi
    David Ebsworth
    1879 - the British army has suffered one of the worst defeats in its history at the hands of the Zulu King Cetshwayo. Now the British seek revenge and a second invasion of Zululand is about to take place.Within the Zulu regiments charged with repelling the assault is Shaba kaNdabuko − driven by ambition to share the glory of battle, to bring honour and cattle to his family.Mean...
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    23,37 €

  • The Assassin’s Mark
    David Ebsworth
    September 1938. Spain’s Civil War has been raging for two years, the outcome still in the balance. But rebel General Franco is so confident of winning that he has opened up battlefield tourism along the country’s north coast.Jack Telford, a left-wing reporter, finds himself with an eccentric group of touristson one of the War Route’s yellow Chrysler buses. Driven by his passion...
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    23,50 €