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Captain Alatriste by Arturo Perez-Reverte
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Perez-Reverte wrote the Captain Alatriste series as a homage to the adventure books that had been his own initiation into the world of reading as a boy - books such as Dumas's The Three Musketeers.Captain Alatriste is a swordsman for hire in Spain in the 1620s - a time when Court intrigue is high and th ...Show more
Captain Alatriste: The Adventures of Captain Alatriste by Arturo Perez-Reverte
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A swordsman for hire in Spain in the 1620s - a time when Court intrigue was high and the decadent young king had dragged the country into a series of disastrous wars. As a hired 'blade', Alatriste becomes involved in many political plots and must live by his wits.
Pirates of the Levant by Arturo Perez-Reverte
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'This was a time where Spain was revered, feared and hated in the easterly seas; where the devil had no color, no name and no flag, and where the only thing needed to summon hell on earth (or sea for that matter) was a Spaniard and his sword' Alatriste is back - this time on the high seas! Accompanied b ...Show more
Pirates of the Levant ; bk. 6 by Arturo Perez-Reverte
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Captain Alatriste
'This was a time where Spain was revered, feared and hated in the easterly seas; where the devil had no colour, no name and no flag, and where the only thing needed to summon hell on earth (or sea for that matter) was a Spaniard and his sword' Alatriste is back - this time on the high seas! Accompanied ...Show more
Purity of Blood (#2 Captain Alatriste) by Arturo Perez-Reverte
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A woman has been found in a sedan chair in front of a church, strangled. In her hand is a pouch containing fifty escudos and a handwritten - but unsigned - note bearing the words 'For masses for her soul'. The chief constable Martin Saldana confides in his old friend and comrade in arms, Diego Alatrist ...Show more
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A provocative literary thriller that playfully pays tribute to classic tales of mystery and adventureLucas Corso is a book detective, a middle-aged mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found dead, leaving behind part of the ori ...Show more
The King's Gold by Arturo Perez-Reverte
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The year is 1626, and a battle-weary Captain Alatriste and his companions sail home from the on-going war in Flanders. He returns to a Spain that is rotten to the core, as gold from the Americas floods into the port of Seville, brought by the country's infamous treasure fleet. As various factions within ...Show more
The Painter of Battles by Arturo Perez-Reverte
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A man lives alone in a watchtower by the sea. On the circular walls of the tower he is painting a grand mural - the timeless landscape of a battle. He is a former war photographer, and the painting is his attempt to capture the photo he was never able to take; to encapsulate, in an instant, the meaning ...Show more
The Purity of Blood by Arturo Perez-Reverte ( tr from Spanish Margaret Sayers Peden)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A woman has been found in a sedan chair in front of a church, strangled. In her hand is a pouch containing fifty escudos and a handwritten - but unsigned - note bearing the words 'For masses for her soul'. The chief constable Martin Saldana confides in his old friend and comrade in arms, Diego Alatriste ...Show more
The Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte (tr from Spanish Andrew Hurley)
$22.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Spanning continents and decades and encompassing sensuality, cruelty, treachery and corruption, this is P
The Siege by Arturo Perez-Reverte
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Cadiz, 1811. Spain is battling for independence while America is doing the same. But in the streets of the most liberal city in Europe other battles are taking place. A serial killer is on the loose, flaying young women to death. Each of these murders takes place near the site where a French bomb has ju ...Show more
The Siege by Arturo Perez-Reverte
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Cadiz, 1811. While the city is under siege from the marauding French army, an even greater menace is lurking within the city walls: a serial killer is on the loose, flaying young women to death. Each of these murders takes place near where a French bomb has just fallen. In order to find the murderer, po ...Show more