Buy books 1, 2 and 3 in the series and save even more. Set includes Blooding Of The Guns, Sixty Minutes For St George and Patrol To The Golden Horn. Paperbacks.

The first of the fast-paced Regency-set duet which continues with 95176 How to Marry a Marquis. When Caroline Trent is kidnapped by Blake Ravenscroft, she doesn't even try to elude this dangerously handsome agent of the crown. After all, she's been running from unwanted marriage proposals. Yes, Blake believes she's a notorious spy named Carlotta De Leon, but for six weeks until her 21st birthday, when she'll gain control of her fortune, hiding out in the titillating company of a mysterious captor is awfully convenient - and maybe just a little romantic too. Blake Ravenscroft's mission is to bring 'Carlotta' to justice, not to fall in love. His heart has been hardened by years of intrigue, but this little temptress proves oddly disarming and thoroughly kissable. Suddenly the unthinkable becomes possible - could this mismatched couple be destined for love? By the master of historical romance, 377pp in paperback.

A second funny and fast paced Regency-set duet from Julia Quinn, the bestselling author of the beloved Bridgerton novels. When Elizabeth Hotchkiss stumbles upon a copy of 'How to Marry a Marquis' in her employer's library, she's convinced someone is playing a cruel joke. With three younger siblings to support, she knows she has to marry for money, but who might have guessed how desperate she's become? Although a guidebook to seduction might just be the thing she needs, what harm could there be in taking a little peek? James Sidwell, the Marquis of Riverdale, has been summoned to rescue his aunt from a blackmailer, a task that requires him to pose as the new estate manager, and his primary suspect is his aunt's companion, Elizabeth. Intrigued by this alluring young woman with the curious little rulebook, he gallantly offers to help her find a husband - by practicing her wiles on him. But when practise becomes all too perfect, James decides that there is only one rule worth following - that Elizabeth marry her marquis. 'Light, pacy and full of feisty heroines.' - Guardian. 372pp. Paperback.

Born in Colombo, Judith Dunbar spends her teenage years at boarding school while her beloved mother and younger sister live abroad with her father. When her new friend Loveday Carey-Lewis invites Judith home for the weekend at Nancherrow, her beautiful family estate on the Cornish coast, it is love at first sight. With the family's generosity and kindness, Judith flourishes from a naïve girl into a confident young woman, but the gathering storm of war cannot be ignored and Judith herself has far to travel before at last coming home. Enjoy the sun-drenched Cornish days which give way to the rolling clouds of war in this serene and beguiling story. A chunky 1016 page paperback with fairly large print.

A witty and dazzling Regency romance. During their annual Christmas pilgrimage to Scotland to visit their aged uncle in his decrepit castle, the Comte de Rocheforte and his cousin Earl of Oakley are presented with rather unique gifts. Their Uncle is determined that his ancient (if not so honourable) birthright be secured before he dies, and since neither nephew seemed in enough of a hurry to wed, the old reprobate has taken matters into his own hands. He has raided an English Lord's Christmas party and kidnapped four lovely would-be brides for his heirs to choose from, alongside one very angry duke! It's a party/kidnapping not to be missed by the collaboration of historical romance authors Eloisa James, Connie Brockway and Julia Quinn, author of Bridgerton. 371pp, fairly large print, paperback.

By the author of over 30 books who was awarded an OBE for Services to Literature, this book shows an acute understanding of the contradictions people felt during the war. Occasionally panoramic and more often intimate, Rachel Billington balances a detailed and highly researched picture of the life of an RAF Spitfire pilot with the travails and ambitions of a young woman too often on her own. The result is both a gripping story of war and a sensitive love story through the connecting stories of these young people and their wider families, and against a background of southern county airfields, London, Oxford, Dorset and France. Billington brings the world of wartime England, now over 80 years in the past, back to life. The writer herself lives with her husband in London and in the oldest continuously inhabited house in Dorset. This experience novelist always keeps us guessing how her characters will end up. 352pp, paperback.

Devour alone by candlelight this gothic, suspenseful and seductive treat. There is a canny and complicated heroine and a final twist that will make you gasp out loud. On the day of her grandmother's funeral, Marta discovers that she is to become governess at Fyneshade, her charge the young daughter of the owner, Sir William Pritchard. All is not well at Fyneshade. Sir William is mysteriously absent, and his son and heir Vaughan is forbidden to enter the house. Marta finds herself drawn to him despite the warnings of the housekeeper that Vaughan is a danger to all around him. But Marta is no innocent to be preyed upon. Guided by the dark gift taught to her by her grandmother, she has made her own plans, and it will take more than a family riven by murderous secrets to stop her. With dark flashes of Jane Eyre and The Turn of the Screw with a witchy governess scratching out secrets from the dark walls holding so many ghoulish secrets. Large format softback, 364pp.

The Times: 'The masterpiece of one of the most important and overlooked British women writers of the twentieth century, with a new introduction'. Orlando King is a trilogy about a beautiful young man, raised in a remote and eccentric wilderness, arriving in 1930s London and setting the world of politics ablaze. In a time of bread riots and hunger marches, with the spectre of Fascism casting an ever-lengthening shadow over Europe, Orlando glidingly cuts a swathe through the thickets of business, the corridors of power, the pleasure gardens of the Cliveden set, acquiring wealth, adulation, a beautiful wife, and a seat in Parliament. But the advent of war brings with it his downfall, and his daughter Agatha, cloistered with him in his banishment, is left to pick through the rubble of his smoking, ruined legacy. "Elegant and muscular, powerful and razor-sharp, here is Greek tragedy and political saga all in one, a glittering exorcism of the inter-war generation's demons". Please do not overlook this superb evocation of that sticky, feverish time which has just the right mixture of doomed fun and faintly lascivious despair. 608pp, paperback.