Russell's ebook Library
The Shape of Things to Come
H. G. Wells
When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind a powerful legacy - an unpublished 'dream book'.Inspired by visions he has experienced for many years, it appears to be a book written far into the...
Shards of Earth
Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Final Architecture [1]: From the author of the thrilling science-fiction epic Children of Time* , winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award. Shards of Earth is the first high-octane, far-future space adventure in Adrian Tchaikovsky' Final ...
Shards of Honor
Lois McMaster Bujold
Cordelia Naismith [1]: Cordelia Naismith, Betan Survey Captain, was expecting the unexpected: hexapods, floating creatures, odd parasites...She was not, however, expecting to find hostile humans on an uninhabited planet. And she wasn't really expecti...
Sharpe's Battle
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe [12]: As Napoleon threatens to crush Britain on the battlefield, Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe leads a ragtag army to exact personal revenge against a French general known for his acts of terror. Sharpe's Battle takes Richard Sharpe and his company ...
Sharpe's Christmas
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe Extra [2]: A Richard Sharpe short story, featuring scenes of action and adventure at Christmas.'You'll like Irati,' Colonel Hogan said. 'It's a nothing place, Richard. Hovels and misery, that's all it is and all it ever will be, but that's whe...
Sharpe's Company
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe [13]: To stem the Napoleonic tide, Sharpe must capture a fortress — where his wife and infant daughter are trapped — while protecting himself from a fellow officer determined to destroy him.
Sharpe's Devil
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe [21]: An honored veteran of the Napolenic Wars, Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe is drawn into a deadly battle, both on land and on the high seas.The year is 1820, and military hero Richard Sharpe has quietly passed the years since the Battle of Waterl...
Sharpe's Eagle
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe [8]: After the cowardly incompetence of two officers besmirches their name, Captain Richard Sharpe must redeem the regiment by capturing the most valued prize in the French Army — a golden Imperial Eagle, the standard touched by the hand of Na...
Sharpe's Enemy
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe [15]: This novel concerns a band of deserters who hold Lady Farthingale (wife of Sharpe's superior) and other women hostage along the Spanish-Portuguese border during the winter of 1812.
Sharpe's Escape
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe [10]: It is 1810, and in Napoleon's determination to conquer Portugal — and push the British back to the sea — he sends his largest army yet across the Spanish frontier. But between the Portuguese border and Napoleon's seemingly certain victor...
Sharpe's Fortress
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe [3]: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803.Sir Arthur Wellesley's army is closing on the retreating Mahrattas in western India.Marching with the British is Ensign Richard Sharpe, newly made an officer, wishing he had stayed ...
Sharpe's Fury
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe [11]: The year is 1811. With the British army penned into a small part of Portugal, and all of Spain fallen to the invader except for the coastal city of Cádiz, the French appear to have won their war. Captain Richard Sharpe has no business be...
Sharpe's Gold
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe [9]: With Wellington outnumbered, the bankrupt army's only hope of avoiding, collapse is a hidden cache of Portuguese gold. Only Captain Richard Sharpe is capable of stealing it — and it means turning against his own men.
Sharpe's Havoc
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe [7]: Lieutenant Richard Sharpe finds himself fighting the ruthless armies of Napoleon Bonaparte as they try to bring the whole of the Iberian Peninsula under their control.Napoleon is advancing fast through northern Portugal, and no one knows ...
Sharpe's Honor
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe [16]: An unfinished duel, a midnight murder, and the treachery of a beautiful prostitute lead to the imprisonment of Sharpe.Caught in a web of political intrigue for which his military experience has left him fatally unprepared, Sharpe becomes...
Sharpe's Prey
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe [5]: The year is 1807, and Richard Sharpe is back in England, where his career seems to have come to a dead end.Loveless, destitute, and relegated to the menial tasks of quartermaster, Sharpe roams the streets of London, pondering a bleak futu...
Sharpe's Regiment
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe [17]: Richard Sharpe returns to England to save the regiment.Major Sharpe's men are in mortal danger - not from the French, but from the bureaucrats of Whitehall. Unless reinforcements can be brought from England, the regiment will be disbande...
Sharpe's Revenge
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe [19]: It is 1814. There are rumours that Napoleon is dead, or has run away, but Sharpe has one last, battle to fight before he can lay down his sword - it is the battle for Toulouse.Little does he know it will be one of the bloodiest conflicts...
Sharpe's Rifles
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe [6]: Lieutenant Richard Sharpe and a detachment of riflemen join the assault of a strong French force holding the Holy City of Santiago de Compostela.Cut off from the rest of the army and surrounded, their only hope of escape is to accept the ...
Sharpe's Siege
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe [18]: An adventure novel set in Napoleonic France, where Richard Sharpe finds himself leading a small force of riflemen in support of an ambitious and inept naval Captain's schemes.
Sharpe's Skirmish
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe Extra [1]: This is a stand-alone short story.It is the summer of 1812 and Richard Sharpe, newly recovered from the wound he received in the fighting at Salamanca, is given an easy duty; to guard a Commissary Officer posted to an obscure Spanis...
Sharpe's Sword
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe [14]: The bitter rivalry between Sharpe and the ruthless Frenchman Colonel Leroux is brought to life against the vivid canvas of the Peninsular War.
Richard Sharpe is once again at war. But this time his enemy is a single man - the ruthless,...
Sharpe's Tiger
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe [1]: In a battery of events that will make a hero out of an illiterate private, a young Richard Sharpe poses as the enemy to bring down a ruthless Indian dictator backed by fearsome French troops. The year is 1799, and Richard Sharpe is just b...
Sharpe's Trafalgar
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe [4]: Chronicling Sharpe's involvement in the famous Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, Sharpe's Trafalgar finds the young ensign captive on a French warship and in gravest peril on the eve of the one of the most spectacular naval confrontations in h...
Sharpe's Waterloo
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe [20]: It is 1815. Sharpe is serving on the personal staff of the Prince of Orange, who refuses to listen to Sharpe’s reports of an enormous army, led by Napoleon, marching towards them. The Battle of Waterloo commences and it seems as if Sharp...
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