2008
Black Diamonds: The Downfall of an Aristocratic Dynasty and the Fifty Years That Changed England
Beginning during the 19th century and ending in the 21st, Black Diamonds is the story of the end of an…
The Ship of Brides
Editors' choice
If you like stories that pull you in quickly, are filled with emotional drama, and provide a vivid atmosphere of…
Faro’s Daughter
The richest man in town, and an inveterate bachelor at 35, Max Ravenscar isn’t in the habit of losing his…
When Women Were Warriors: Books I, II & III
Wilson’s utterly remarkable trilogy set in Bronze Age Britain opens with spirited young Tamras being sent to the household of…
A Place Beyond Courage
Chadwick takes the reader back to the turmoil of 12th-century England in this novel. John FitzGilbert inherited his position as…
Storks in a Blue Sky
The novel begins in a rainy 18th-century North Devon, England. It is a story of many things, which are wound…
Amazulu
The year is 1818, and Shaka, the warrior king of the Zulus, is on the verge of consolidating a vast…
Kinmer’s Lea
Twelve-year-old Edwin goes to stay with his Gran at Kinmers Lea, her old house near Hastings. Somehow he and Gran…
Walls of Jericho
Jonathan Hopkins’ novel is an engaging Sharpe- or Flashman-style romp. It’s the story of an unlikely friendship between two youths…
Call of a Distant Shore
Due to increasing unrest and violence in his birthplace of Hochdorf, Germany, in the 1750s, Michael Heber impulsively decides to…
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