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Captain Alatriste by Arturo Perez-Reverte
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Perez-Reverte wrote the Captain Alatriste seies 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
Captain Alatriste: The Adventures of Captain Alatriste by Arturo Perez-Reverte
$35.00 NZD
Category: World 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.
Purity of Blood (#2 Captain Alatriste) by Arturo Perez-Reverte
$35.00 NZD
Category: World 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 King's Gold by Arturo Perez-Reverte
$39.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$28.00 NZD
Category: World 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 Painter of Battles by Arturo Perez-Reverte
$39.00 NZD
Category: World 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 Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte (tr from Spanish Andrew Hurley)
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Spanning continents and decades and encompassing sensuality, cruelty, treachery and corruption, this is P
The Siege by Arturo Perez-Reverte
$40.00 NZD
Category: Historical 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 Sun Over Breda by Arturo Perez-Reverte
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Flanders, 1625. After his tussles with the Inquisition and the intrigue of the Spanish court, Captain Alatriste has returned to the mud and desperation of the long war in Flanders. This is Inigo's first experience of war and the realities of hand to hand combat. It is on the battlefield that he will fin ...Show more
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