Elizabeth Hawksley
Den of Thieves
London, Paris, 1791. In this, the third of Cat Royal’s adventures, Cat finds herself homeless and penniless when the Drury…
The Lady Grace Mysteries: Intrigue
London, 1570. Lady Grace Cavendish, one of Queen Elizabeth I’s maids of honour, embarks on her 9th adventure. The queen…
Killing Rommel
Editors' choice
North Africa, 1942. The British Eighth Army is in trouble. The brilliant and daring tactician, Field-Marshal Rommel, and his…
Battle Fleet : Trafalgar — 1805
(1) In this third Sam Witchall adventure, Sam and his friend Richard have to work their passage home from Sydney…
Hazel
(1) London, 1913. Thirteen-year-old Hazel Mull-Dare is being brought up as a young lady – in careful isolation from anything…
In the House of the Magician
(1) 1570s, Elizabethan England. When country girl Lucy flees from her drunken father and sets off to London to find…
The Beggar of Volubilis
(1) March, 81 AD. The emperor Titus is desperate to find the lost emerald, known as Nero’s Eye. According to…
The Trojan War : A New History
In this most interesting book, Barry Strauss, an expert in ancient military history, places Homer’s The Iliad in its…
A Flag of Truce
Toulon, 1793. In this fourth John Pearce adventure, our hero, now a naval lieutenant, continues to be a thorn in…
Joe Rat
1866. Joe Rat, a ‘tosher’ who scavenges in the London sewers, is in thrall to ‘Mother’, who controls her…
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