Nancy Henshaw
The Finest Type of English Womanhood
Two girls who have never met escape from the drab restrictions of post World War 2 Britain, their destination South…
Lady of the Butterflies
Editors' choice
After Cromwell, 17th-century England has entered a time of enormous changes. Politics are driven by the intense demands of religion…
The Time of Singing
AD 1173: Roger Bigod knows he must work hard for his rights and his desires. As the eldest son of…
Raven: Bloodeye
Circa 800 AD, Osric cannot remember life before his wretched existence in a Wessex coastal village. When two long ships…
The Forgotten Legion
In the dying days of the Roman Republic, anarchy rules in the capital. Three men maintain an uneasy triumvirate:…
Troy: Fall of Kings
A merciless war of attrition has reduced golden Troy to a city of starvation and scavengers. While Hektor, greatest of…
The Mutiny
India, 1857. Do not be misled by the gentle opening scene where Lady Blackstock entertains officers’ wives. They are about…
Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain
1554: At the court of Mary Tudor of England, a man and woman are joined in a battle of words…
Empire Rising
Mesopotamia, 3157 BC. A bloody tyrant is dead in Akkad, and the city is ruled by erstwhile wild man, Eskkar,…
The Butcher of Smithfield
London 1663: Lord Clarendon’s spy Thomas Chaloner returns from a foreign assignment to an unfriendly greeting from his unreasonable paymaster.…
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