From the era of wooden sailing ships and Europe’s golden age of exploration, the story of famed British navigator Henry Hudson tells a classic tale of courage, ambition, and treachery on the high seas. As the leader of four Arctic...

The third book in the gripping wartime drama series set around a town's department store. It's 1943 and young Lily Collins is throwing herself into a welcome home party for her friend Beryl's husband. Shyly starting to be more than just...

Caught within the eddy of a drab retirement, Lewis Sullivan lives less than a mile from his childhood home. He spends his days anticipating visits from his grown daughter. Evenings are spent at his second favourite pub. But when an old...

By 1987, David Bowie was at a creative, critical, and commercial low. His most recent album was dismissed by the music press, his latest tour written off as a disaster. Fifteen years after becoming the most colourfully controversial...

Cornwall, England, 1193. Eleanor of Aquitaine, the indomitable dowager queen, has ordered all of England onto a war footing while her son King Richard languishes in a German dungeon. Gwendolyn de Cardinham, the defiant wife of an absent...

From the ancient times to the present day, the story of England has been laced with drama, intrigue, courage and passion--a rich and vibrant narrative of heroes and villains, kings and rebels, artists and highwaymen, bishops and...

Britain, 1045: The Normans are circling, waiting their turn to pounce on the English throne and wrest it away from the Anglo-Saxon barons. Godiva is the powerful wife of Earl Lovric of Mercia. Intrigue and powerplay undermine her trust...

George III is portrayed as not only a competent ruler during most of his reign, but also as a patron of the arts and sciences, a man of wit and intelligence. Indeed, he was a man who greatly enhanced the reputation of the British...

The revised text of "Frozen in Time" expands on the history of nineteenth century British Arctic exploration and specifically the Franklin expedition, placing it in the context of other expeditions of the era, including those commanded...