Gwen Sly
The Lost Throne
Built high on the natural rock of Thessaly in Greece are a series of six monasteries, once there were more.…
The Land Of Summer
1880s Massachusetts: ‘Poor’ Emmaline Nesbitt, being the eldest of four sisters, had always understood from her mother that she must…
Warrior of Rome, Part One: Fire in the East
Editors' choice
Fire in the East is part one of Dr Harry Sidebottom’s Warrior of Rome series and his first novel.…
Testament
A debut novel for Alis Hawkins, Testament bridges time, beginning in the late 14th century and ending in the…
Counting the Stars
Ancient Rome in the late Republic was an unsettled place: violence, corruption and murder were a tangible part of the…
Troy: Fall of Kings
David Gemmell’s untimely death in 2006 robbed the world of a master storyteller. His wife’s involvement in the Troy trilogy…
Folly du Jour
Paris, 21 May 1927. Commander Joe Sandilands DSO of Scotland Yard lands at Le Bourget airport seconds before Charles Lindbergh…
War Brides
War Brides is the story of five young women who come together in a small Sussex village in 1939. From…
Death on the Nevskii Prospekt
Russia, terrorist capital of the world at the beginning of the 20th century. In St Petersburg the body of an…
The Shoe Queen
In Art Deco 1920s Paris when it was a second home to the Americans, the City of Lights was a…
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