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A Certain Threat (The Merriman Chronicles Book 1)
“With Revolutionary agents travelling between Ireland and England and war with France inevitable, the English government is anxious to uncover…
The Frozen Dream
“Three ships voyage to the Arctic resulting in three very different fates — historical fiction based on the Willoughby-Chancellor expedition…
Pirates and Promises
Pirates, wreckers, galley slaves, magic tricks, unusual battle tactics and storms… In 1615, twins Jack and Becca Tremayne lost their…
Hell and High Water
England, 1752. Caleb, a boy of mixed race, is deserted when his loving father, a puppeteer, is wrongly accused of…
Albemarle
Albemarle is the story of a ship—and a battle for the control of a river—which had strategic consequences in the…
The Lily and the Rose
In 1761 the North American colonies are a bone of contention. Timber and fur provide wealth for their British and…
Cassia
This is the third book in Craft’s Xanthakos Family Trilogy, but it is not necessary to read the first two…
Water Ghosts
James McCafferty would rather be anywhere else than on this Chinese Junk his mother has forced him onto. Meant to…
Waterloo: The Bravest Man
With the Bicentenary of Waterloo this year, Swanston’s novel takes us into the thick of the campaign. We experience both…
Lifeline Across the Sea: Mercy Ships in the Second World War
Clausewitz famously coined the phrase ‘total war’ and defined it as an ideal state. This did not mean, as some…
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