Head of Zeus
The Dress
The story centers on a dress that links the lives of three separate women, transcending continents and decades to pull…
Twilight of Empire III: Battle for Rome
Battle for Rome is the third novel in Ian Ross’ Twilight of Empire series, following Constantine’s rise to power from…
The Petticoat Men
Freddie Park and Ernest Boulton are theatre folk, so Mattie Stacey thinks nothing of it when the two gentlemen sometimes…
Swords Around the Throne: Twilight of Empire II
Swords Around the Throne is the second novel in Ian Ross’ Twilight of Empire series, set amid the fallout in…
The Lost Soldier
The story begins in Dorset in 1921. Eight ash trees have been planted on a village green to commemorate eight…
Twilight of Empire: War at the Edge of the World
Aurelius Castus has worked his way up through the ranks of the Roman army – facing death and hardship –…
The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife and the Missing Corpse
You couldn’t make it up! No wonder this series of court cases was the sensation of late Victorian and Edwardian…
Twilight of Empire: War at the Edge of the World
War at the Edge of the World joins the crowded market of Roman military books in Britain, but with a…
Defiant unto Death
Editors' choice
Defiant unto Death continues Sir Thomas Blackstone’s story, begun in Master of War, and is set in France during the…
Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford, the Biography
Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) was the eldest of the aristocratic, but often scandalous, Mitford sisters. She was a successful novelist, journalist…
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