Adventure
Alamut
Bartol’s novel is set in 11th century Persia. The title is the name of the castle over which the self-proclaimed…
Troy: Fall of Kings
A merciless war of attrition has reduced golden Troy to a city of starvation and scavengers. While Hektor, greatest of…
The Sun’s Bride
The Eastern Mediterranean, 246 BC. The Rhodian warship Atalanta and her naked crew (that got your attention) come across and…
The Invention of Everything Else
In 1943 Louisa and her father Walter live alone in a house in Hell’s Kitchen. Louisa is a chambermaid…
The Castaways
In this third novel in the early 19th century-set Curse of the Jolly Stone series, Tom Tin and his…
The Hartlepool Monkey
The legend of the Hartlepool Monkey is well known in the North East of England in that in the early…
A Rational Romance
Rosamund Beauvais is left homeless when her grandfather loses everything in a card game with Elliot Malvern. As a man…
In the Heroic Age of Basil ll : Emperor of Byzantium
Set at the end of the 10th century and the beginning of the 11th, this story is about two…
Nobody’s Prize
Readers may be familiar with the legends and myths of Jason and the Golden Fleece, Medea, Hercules, and Helen…
Annette Vallon
Although I’m not a fan of novels written by men from a woman’s point of view, Annette Vallon disposed of…
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