Macmillan
Heartstone
1545, and England is at war with France; the war is going badly wrong for both king and country. A…
Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr
As Henry VIII’s sixth and last wife, Katherine Parr has often been relegated to a footnote in history, or caricatured…
The Philosopher Prince
Set in 355 AD, the book follows on an earlier novel by Waters, Cast Not the Day. It opens with…
I Was Jane Austen’s Best Friend
This is a very readable “journal” which covers the period from February to April 1791 as written by Jane Austen’s…
The Ides of March
The Ides of March concentrates on the eight days leading up to and including Julius Caesar’s assassination. While Caesar is…
The Dead of Winter
This is the final book in the murder mystery trilogy featuring Inspector Madden. In wartime London, a young Polish girl…
The Sting of Justice
Editors' choice
Mara, the Brehon judge, attends the funeral of a local priest little expecting that his will not be the only…
Sea Robber
The book opens with Hector Lynch, pirate and fugitive, working for a slave trader on the Guinea Coast, West Africa.…
The Heretic’s Daughter
The year is 1692, two hundred years after Columbus discovered America, and the developing country has degenerated into an enclosed,…
Cast Not the Day
The central character of this book, set in the middle of the 4th century AD, is Drusus, a young British…
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