935 AD, Norway. Recovering from horrendous injuries, Einar finds himself alone – and unable to fight. The Wolf Coats have left to protect the new King of Norway, and Einar is not strong enough to defeat his rival, Eirik, who has seized Orkney despite Einar being the rightful Jarl. Eirik’s men are raiding the Norwegian […]
Under Country by Jonathan Trigell
This is the story of the miners’ strike: the sudden shock of poverty; the camaraderie; the brutality. It is the story of one man’s fight for redemption, as the wounds of an embattled generation hardened to scars. There was blood on coal, it didn’t come for free. But it drove the factories and the steel […]
The King’s Cavalier by Mark Turnbull
It’s November 1647. King Charles I has been defeated and is in captivity. Captain Maxwell Walker, a veteran royalist cavalryman, is still grieving over his wife’s murder. But he has finally gone home to his beloved sons. England, however, is far from at peace. Yorkshire proves as scarred as the rest of the kingdom and […]
The Fair Botanists by Sara Sheridan
It’s the summer of 1822 and Edinburgh is abuzz with rumours of King George IV’s impending visit. In botanical circles, however, a different kind of excitement has gripped the city. In the newly-installed Botanic Garden, the Agave Americana plant looks set to flower; an event that only occurs once every few decades. When newly-widowed Elizabeth […]
The Master of Measham Hall by Anna Abney
1665. It is five years since King Charles II returned from exile, the scars of the English Civil Wars are yet to heal and now the Great Plague engulfs the land. Alethea Hawthorne is safe inside the walls of the Calverton household as a lady’s companion waiting in anticipation of the day she can return […]
The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley by Sean Lusk
Born in Leadenhall Street in London in 1754, raised amongst the cogs and springs of his father’s workshop, Zachary Cloudesley has grown up surrounded by strange and enchanting clockwork automata. He is a happy child, beloved by his father Abel and the workmen who help bring his father’s creations to life. He is also the […]
Acts of Love and War by Maggie Brookes
It’s 1936 and there’s civil war in Spain, a world on the brink of chaos. 21-year-old Lucy feels content with her life in Hertfordshire, not least because she lives next door to Tom and Jamie, two very different brothers for whom she has equally great affection. But her comfortable life is turned upside down when […]
The Wall by Douglas Jackson
In AD400, Rome and its Empire are failing. Veteran cavalry commander Marcus Flavius Victor sets out with his regiment to make what may be his final tour of the forts along Hadrian’s Wall. Through a combination of military prowess, brutality and bribery, Marcus has spent 20 years keeping the savage Picts at bay. Feared by […]