2008
The Apothecary’s Daughter
Lilly Haswell, an apothecary’s daughter from the village of Bedsley Priors, feels her luck has turned when her previously unknown…
The Mark of Edain
History for animal lovers. Aoife, the niece of Caradoc the chieftain leading the struggle against the Romans in Britain, is…
A World Away
Set in the 1580s in England and Virginia, this is the love story of Nadie, a Native American girl from…
The Camel Who Crossed Australia
In 1861 Burke and Wills became the first white men to cross the Australian continent from the south to its…
The Ingenious Edgar Jones
Picture this: A meteorite spills a shower of stars into the sky one cold February night in 1847 Oxford, England.…
Blown Away
Midway along the Florida Keys lies the island village of Islamorada. The original community was present in the early 1900s,…
A Nest of Vipers
London, 1712. Mother Hopkins is the fearsome matriarch of a young criminal gang based in the Nest of Vipers pub.…
Scarper Jack and the Bloodstained Room
London, 1860s. Eleven-year-old chimney sweep, Jack Tolchard, is inside the well-to-do Shorey family’s chimney. The walls are thin in places,…
Patrick Brontë: Father of Genius
Father of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, as well as their wastrel brother Branwell, Patrick Brontë had the misfortune to outlive…
A Voyage Long and Strange
This is a travelogue rather than a history book, written by a journalist, not an historian. The Voyage Long and…
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