Marilyn Sherlock
Centuries of Change
I am sure that Ian Mortimer needs little introduction to most of us. His grip on our history is one…
The Traitor’s Mark
Editors' choice
Henry VIII is on the throne. The monasteries have been shut down, the monks and nuns evicted, the land and…
A Cruel Necessity
John Grey has returned to his native Suffolk from studying law at Cambridge. After an evening in the local pub…
For a Father’s Pride
For this story we are taken back to Victorian Yorkshire in the year 1871. Here we find Daisy Fraser living…
The Silk Tree
There came certain monks who promised Emperor Justinian Augustus that they would provide the means for making silk from Sinae…
The Winter Crown
Editors' choice
Continuing the story of Eleanor of Aquitaine, this book follows the middle years of her reign as Queen to Henry…
Kingdom
Scotland in the late 13th and early 14th centuries was firmly under the heel of England’s King Edward I, who…
Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims
At the beginning of the Wars of the Roses, we meet Sister Katherine, a nun from Lincoln Priory. On the…
Aphrodite’s Island
The story begins in 1955. EOKA (National Organisation of Cypriot Struggle) is launching a military campaign to unite the island…
Beatrice and Benedick
Written as a prequel to Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, this book tells what might have happened prior to the…
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