Head of Zeus
Lizzie’s War
The setting of this novel is WW2, but the chief character also has her own personal struggles. The action centres…
The Workhouse Children
The arrestingly beautiful heroine of this story is 18-year-old Cara Flowers, raised in comfort by her wealthy grandmother. The whereabouts…
Black Robe
The black robe of the title is a Jesuit missionary, Father Laforgue, who arrives in 17th– century French Canada hoping…
Silk and Song
The book begins in China in 1292. The main character, Wu Johanna, is a direct descendant of Marco Polo, the…
Christmas Angels
This is a story of a 1950s hospital and the poor community in Liverpool it serves. The theme throughout, inside…
The Coven
The second instalment in Graham Masterton’s Beatrice Scarlet series sees our titular heroine face even more trials and tribulations as…
Alfred’s Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age
The title Alfred’s Britain is misleading, and the sub-title better explains the contents of the book. For sure Alfred figures…
False Lights
The strapline of this book is: ‘What if Napoleon, instead of Wellington, had won the Battle of Waterloo?’ Well, apparently…
Cathar
François de Beaufort is a knight in the Languedoc region of southern France at the end of the 13th century.…
The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God’s Holy Warriors
The Templars gives you what it says on the cover: a narrative history of the Knights Templar, and it is…
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