Nancy Henshaw
King’s Man
Alan Dale, musician and would-be expert sword and dagger man, awaits – as does his master Earl Robert of Locksley…
The Son of the Enlightenment
1779-1785. Autocrat Empress Maria Theresa is succeeded by Joseph II, liberal and tolerant up to a point. Thamos, count of…
The Brother of Fire
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart seems well established in Vienna. In his late twenties, he and his work are sought after and…
The Silent Duchess
In 18th-century Sicily Marianna is born to a life of extravagant luxury, daughter of charming, affectionate Duke Signoretto Ucria. She…
The First Ladies of Rome
Six hundred years of the Roman Empire from Augustus to its long-drawn-out end: this is the serious work of an…
Claudius
AD 43-51. Emperor Claudius desperately needs a resounding military victory and Britain is his target. Only a union of the…
An Irish Country Village
Ulster in the 1960s. In the village of Ballybucklebo, 24-year-old Dr Barry Laverty gladly accepts a year as full-time assistant…
Broken Music
In the golden summer of 1914, Lady Sybil Foley plans a dinner party. Her husband, “self-made man” Alfred, has provided…
Captain Blood
Peter Blood, tall, spare, elegant, swarthy as a gipsy, with his startlingly blue eyes, high-bridged nose and thin, firm mouth…
Blood & Ice
Photo-journalist Michael Wilde, tormented by guilt and grief, takes on an assignment in the Antarctic, a chance to abandon the…
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