In 1939, as the S.S. PollyAnna sails from Cardiff on yet another tramping voyage, the world is shifting into war. By the time the ship has discharged her coal, Chamberlain has warned Hitler that Brit
It is February 1355, and Oxford has exploded in one of the most serious riots of its turbulent history. Fearing for their lives, the scholars flee the city, and some choose the University at Cambridg
On a bitter winter evening in 1356, Matthew Bartholomew and Brother Michael arrive in Lincoln—Bartholomew to look for the woman he wants to marry and Michael to accept an honor from the cathedr
Put a cup of tea in your hand, and what else can you do but sit down? This new book celebrates that most British of life’s cornerstones: the tea break. There is, however, another element to thi
It’s 1917 and the Allies are determined to finally defeat a weakened Germany?everything is building up to the summer’s Big Push. Germany strikes back with U-boat attacks to starve England out, giant a
The Shrouded Walls: When her parents die in a car accident, Marianne loses her home and all her worldly goods. She faces life as a governess, until she meets Axel Branson. A lonely house in the Kent
Residents of?a?coastal town in a valley in Washington State must struggle to survive?eco-terrorism,?a rising sea, and baby sharks in this?white-knuckle?thriller??When the small town of?Melville?is cau
In the Morland Dynasty series, the majestic sweep of English history is richly and movingly portrayed through the fictional lives of the Morland family. It is 1501, and Paul, great grandson of Eleano
In the Morland Dynasty series, the majestic sweep of English history is richly and movingly portrayed through the fictional lives of the Morland family. It is 1705, and the shadow of Napoleon is fall
In 1350, Cambridge lies ravaged by the Black Death. Crime flourishes too—three harlots are found with slit throats and branded feet, a friar dies rifling a strongbox full of college chronicles,
In the winter of 1353, torrential rains are spreading fever to the poor and making travel especially hazardous along the town’s outlaw-infested roads. Then three members of the University die b
It is 1392, and Matthew Bartholomew, physician to Michaelhouse College, is called to examine some mysterious bones found in the King's Ditch. The next day he is called to the Ditch again—a stud
Stimulating and entertaining, Sotheby’s brings to life the personalities and shrewd business sense operating behind the glitz and glamour of the world’s oldest and richest auction house.
Fast-paced and wide-ranging, Gangland International considers the history of organized crime, from the Italian and American Mafia—including Capone, Dillinger, Murder Inc, Lansky, and Detroit
Doris Stokes was a celebrated medium who confounded skeptics by the uncanny accuracy of her readings in the early 1980s. In Australia she filled the Sydney Opera House and was mobbed in the streets. I
Daniel, the son of Josh and Miriam Retallick, has grown to manhood. He settles with his wife and children on a homestead in the valley of Matabeleland. But it's South Africa in the 1880s, and the Mat
John Rentoul's first biography of Tony Blair appeared in 1995, not long after the politician's election as leader of the Labour Party. Two years later Blair presided over the party's landslide electi
Welcome to South London, to one of the nicest streets in one of the country’s vilest boroughs. For the residents of Lark Grove, events collide like cars on a fogbound motorway. There’s An
Believers in the theory of nominalism have set some Cambridge colleges at the throats of those who believe them to be heretics, and Brother Michael, the Senior Proctor, is struggling to keep the peac
Edwina Currie's third political novel, This Honourable House, opens with an election resulting in a victory for a party not dissimilar to New Labour. It follows with all the sex, spin, and scandal in
