Allison & Busby
Son of Blood
This novel deals with the tangled Italian politics, changing loyalties and ferocious conflicts leading up to the First Crusade: Western…
Deadly Legacy
This is the seventh novel featuring Inspector Faro’s daughter Rose McQuinn, who works as a private investigator. Rose agrees to…
The Queen’s Head
This paperback is a reissue of the first of the Bracewell Elizabethan mysteries originally published in 1988. Nicholas Bracewell is…
The Girl on the Beach
On a rare day out at the seaside, eight-year-old orphan Julie Monday meets the slightly older Harry Walker. It is…
The Merry Devils
Legend has it that once, during a performance of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, a real devil appeared onstage, to the terror…
Enemies at Every Turn
This is yet another instalment of the story of John Pierce, the radical son of a radical preacher and pamphleteer.…
The Trip to Jerusalem
In Elizabethan London, theatre is booming. But then come rumours of plague, and Lord Westfield’s Men theatre company must seek…
The War of the Dragon Lady
China in 1900 is a dangerous place for westerners as the peasant youth rise up forming the cult of The…
Mariana
For fans of time travel and reincarnation-themed historical fiction, this 1993 Catherine Cookson Fiction Award winner will be excitedly welcomed…
The Promise
This is an outstanding historical saga, on a par with Pilcher’s The Shell Seekers, in its family complexity. In 1948,…
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