Mr. Sabatini is both a wonderfully fertile creator of exciting fiction and a stylist of distinction

The arch-swashbuckler, Captain Blood

A sword-wielding, devil-may-care adventurer

His sword carved his name across the continents - and his glory across the seas!

Dazzling - I love this book. It's beautifully written, the characters are deeply involving and the historical settings are so right - in short, Tides of War is a triumph

One of the most assured debuts in years...a modern novel that is the perfect answer to anyone who thinks the past is out of date

Tides of War is elegantly written, with passages of verve and...poignancy

A perfectly sprung novel of the sort that owes more to Hilary Mantel and David Mitchell than Patrick O'Brian or Bernard Cornwall

Love, betrayal, war and peace charge this powerful debut

Tillyard writes in fluid, largely understated prose and her descriptions are wonderful

Tillyard is a fluent and attractive chronicler of detail and some of her imaginative liberties are ingenious

This saga of lives swept up in the Peninsular War recalls Georgette Heyer at her best...impossible to put down

A thrilling romance brought to life with exquisite detail

A prodigious talent able to combine meticulous research with novelistic devices...there is much to enjoy and admire

Fluently written and impeccably researched

Gripping

It is time we stopped thinking of the historical novel as a genre, and an inferior one at that. If its ostensible subject matter means that it doesn't attempt to tell us how we live now, nevertheless a novel set back in time may, if it is good, say as much about what it is to be alive as one set in the next street or another country today. Tides of War is such a novel. It is diverting, but not a diversion

A well written, engaging read...beautifully observed

A vivid account of a couple of years in the Peninsula Campaign and a sympathetic portrait of those left behind

A delicious novel by an experienced author who captures the scientific atmosphere of the early 19th century with a devastating study of infidelity

The real life players of the Napoleonic era spring to life

Compelling

Highly assured and almost educational with its broad sweep of history

Tillyard’s achievement is in this original portray log the Regency era and its relevance to our own time

a very human tale about passion, secrets and lies.

An achingly brilliant piece of writing on passion and delusion. It's a pleasure to read from start to finish and reignites our love for fiction