Martin Bourne
Mosaic of an Unquiet Time
This novel is set in 1963 in the fictional British colony of As Areias, an archipelago located off the coast…
Roman Games
Rome, 96 AD. The city’s labyrinthine politics have brought the Emperor Domitian to the final stages of paranoia, manifest in…
The Judas Blade
Betsy Brand, an actress in the relaxed culture of Restoration England, is doing well financially, but her friends and family…
Scotland Yard’s First Cases
Joan Lock has written several books on the British police. This title describes the most significant cases handled by Scotland…
The Sword of Damascus
Jarrow in the Dark Ages. Also the cold and wet ages, a particularly wearing combination for Brother Aelric, aged 94.…
Agent of Rome: The Siege
Its eastern provinces are being gobbled up by the aggressive (and suspiciously Arabesque) Palmyrans, and the Roman Empire, shown as…
The Beauty Chorus
The title is a slang term for the female volunteers of the ATA (Air Transport Auxiliary) who in World War…
Shadow Country
Originally written as one enormous 1500‑page novel, Shadow Country was released as three separate volumes in the 1990s. This version…
The Pirate Devlin
After the success of Pirates of the Caribbean and its sequels, walking the plank, pieces of eight and buried treasure…
Sure and Certain Death: A Francis Hancock Mystery
Francis Hancock is a middle-aged, half-English, half-Indian undertaker whose London “manor” is being systematically dismantled by Hitler’s Luftwaffe in World…
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