Raphael Sabatini

Rafael Sabatini’s 'Turbulent Tales' is a masterful catalogue of extraordinary stories of bravery, honour, intrigue and adventure. With all the vitality of their colourful backdrops, they are stories to thrill and excite any lover of historical fiction.

Turbulent Tales

London is rife with impoverished French nobility who have escaped the horror of the French revolution. Quentin de Morlaix, sympathetic to these disenfranchised aristocrats, finds that he too has his own personal reasons to pray for an end to the Revolution. He sets off for France, and enters a life of confusion, mystery, and bloody execution.

The Marquis Of Carabas

Monsieur le Vicomte is a remarkable man – not least because, for all concerned, he had been guillotined along with numerous French aristocrats. Yet by some twist of fate he managed to escape and seek refuge in Turin. But by an even more perverse twist of fate, he is apprehended, leaving him once and for all in the hands of the gods.

Venetian Masque

With medieval Italy as a colourful backdrop, Sabatini masterfully recreates the political intrigue and misguided loyalties that reigned as the ‘Banner of the Bull’ waved victoriously over the land. Weaving deft descriptions and spirited characterisations into historical events, this is the remarkable story of the notorious Cesare Borgia.

The Banner Of The Bull

Bellarion, a young man set on joining the priesthood, is diverted from his calling to serve the Princess Valeria. He remains with her for five years, serving her faithfully despite her coldness. Yet when the time comes for him to leave, they both find that the passion and romance of Italy has left its mark...

Bellarion

The history of Frey Tomás de Torquemada is the history of the establishment of the Modern Inquisition. It is not so much the history of a man as of an abstract genius presiding over a gigantic and cruel engine of its own perfecting. Of this engine we may examine for ourselves to-day the details of the complex machinery. Through the records that survive we may observe its cold, smooth action, and trace in this the awful intelligence of its architect. But of that architect himself we are permitted to catch no more than an occasional and fleeting glimpse. It is only in the rarest and briefest moments that he stands clearly before us, revealed as a man of flesh and blood.We see him, now fervidly urging a reluctant queen to do her duty by her God and unsheathe the sword of persecution, now harshly threatening his sovereigns with the wrath of Heaven when they are in danger of relenting in the wielding of that same sword. But in the main he must be studied, not in his actions, but in his enactments-the emanations of his relentless spirit. In these he is to be seen devoutly compassing evil in the perfervid quest of good.Untouched by worldly ambitions, he seems at once superhuman and less than human. Dauntless amid execrations, unmoved by plaudits, sublimely disdainful of temporal weal, in nothing is he so admirable as in the unfaltering self-abnegation with which he devotes himself to the service of his God, in nothing so terrible and tragically deplorable as in the actual service which he renders.

Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition

Cesare Borgia, Duke of Valentinois and Romanga, has been the subject of much study and debate. In The Justice of the Duke, Sabatini reveals the true nature of this much-reviled man. This is a story of passion, revenge and murderous ambition with all the skill and ambition that has earnt Sabatini his masterly reputation.

The Justice Of The Duke

In 'Scaramouche the Kingmaker,' Sabatini’s beloved hero, Andre Louis dons his famous and much-admired disguise to embark upon a new adventure – one full of the thrill and swashbuckling action that has earnt Sabatini his place in the hall of great writers.

Scaramouche The King Maker

William of Orange may have triumphantly taken up the throne of England amid much jubilation and celebration, but there are still those who would rather he were not there at all. In this thrilling novel, Sabatini portrays all the political intrigue of seventeenth century London as these Jacobite extremists undertake their Assasination Plot.

The Stalking-Horse

Justine Caryle is the perfect English gentleman, except for the fact that he is the illegitimate son of the Earl of Ostermore and the Earl’s true heir is determined to destroy his reputation. Enemies for years, Caryll and Lord Ostermore come face to face once in a battle of revenge, jealousy and greed.

The Lion's Skin

‘He whom they called the Tavern Knight laughed an evil laugh – such a laugh as the pious might conceive on the lips of Satan.’ Thus begins Sabatini’s masterful romance of the life of a Tavern King – a story of swashbuckling adventure and murderous action.

The Tavern Knight

The Lost King' tells the story of Louis XVII – the French royal who allegedly died at the age of ten but, as legend has it, escaped to foreign lands where he lived to an old age. Sabatini breathes life into these age-old myths, creating a story of passion, revenge and betrayal.

The Lost King

King in Prussia' is a remarkable story of the formative years of the renowned king Frederic the Great.With vivid detail , powerful characterisation and a moving love story, Sabatini has created a masterly biography – and revealed an uncanny similarity between his subject and his modern counterpart, Adolf Hitler.

King In Prussia

When Priscilla Harradine travels back to England on the Centaur she has no cause to expect her journey will be remotely eventful. But also on board is Charles de Bernis - a mysterious and intriguing buccaneer. Just as their friendship blossoms, a dark figure from de Bernis' past emerges to propel them into a thrilling and perilous adventure.

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