Adventure
The Raven, the Lion and the White Dragon
This is Book One of the Bellême series. Books Two and Three have already been published. In this fast-paced story…
An Irregular Regiment
The setting is the Napoleonic Wars, and the subtitle is: A Novel from the Battle of Bussaco to the Battle…
Inquisition
Inquisition is not your usual Grail quest. David Gibbins has created a 21st-century version with Jack Howard, hero of nine…
Knives in the South
1592. Knives in the South is the second chronicle of the adventures of Sir Robert Carey, swashbuckling dandy and cousin…
The Ballade of Mary Reede
John Tanner, a young Englishman trained as a ship’s carpenter and groomed for command of a merchant vessel of his…
The Baltic Prize
The Baltic Prize takes us to Scandinavia at the beginning of the 19th century. The Anglo-Russian War, September 1807–1812, took…
Brewer’s Revenge
Commander William Brewer is reveling in his first opportunity to captain a ship. To be sure, the HMS Revenge is…
I Survived: The Children’s Blizzard, 1888
Chicago-born 11-year-old John Hale’s family has moved to the Dakota prairie, and he contends with the challenges of farming in…
The King’s Salt
In Book Four of the Smithyman Saga, it is 1778, and Sir Thomas Smithyman and his comrades remain loyal to…
Jack Fortune: And the Search for the Hidden Valley
I had not read anything by Sue Purkiss before, and this novel, set in 1768, turned out to be a…
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