When desperately private writer Imogen George offered to marry Peter Watson it wasn't just to save a friend but to secure her own future. With her eyesight failing and no other prospects for marital bliss on the horizon, surely it wouldn't be too horrible to marry without the benefits of love. When Peter gains a title and fortune a week before they're set to wed, the right thing to do is release him to spare him the burden of her limited future. Peter...

Two years ago, Devan MacArthur's plans to marry Isobel MacGregor were pushed aside when a feud broke out between their clans and he's been trying to repair the relationship ever since. But his plans are thwarted once again when his brother announces his betrothal to Isobel. Devastated, he knows he should let her go. But his good intentions go awry when he sees her again and decides that he'll stop at nothing to have her. Approx. 4,500 words (18 pages)...

Dr Rowland Berkley is an upper-middle-class intellectual, revolted by the modern world and his own existence. Weary of the optimism of his well-meaning brother Joseph, who works as manager of a factory owned by magnate John Calhoun, Rowland divides his time between study, vapid social engagements and bouts of existential disgust. He seeks respite in his work as a philosopher of phrenology, initially unconcerned by the murky methods through which his...

Sent to Dublin to bury her father's ashes, Molly Devoy searches for his past, a life that he kept hidden. She will uncover a world in which children were taken from their parents at the behest of the Irish Free State and the Catholic Church. Guided by a well-meaning college professor, Molly finds that her journey will take her to a place where she will confront the legacy of her father's secrets, a legacy that has left her emotionally crippled.

Here is a story true based on the real-life, extraordinary exploits of Captain Luke Ryan. It is an epic, little known story of adventure, war, heroism, love, intrigue and betrayal. Ryan, a common smuggler, turned to privateering and ultimately inflicted more damage on the British Navy during America's War of Independence than his more famous counterpart, John Paul Jones. This brilliant, fearless and flamboyant soldier's story is told in three books:...

April 1890.Shipwrecked and orphaned on New Zealand's wild west coast, eleven year old David Campbell is taken under the wing of a kindly widow on her rugged, remote sheep station, where he grows into a strong, quiet young man. He flourishes in the idyllic community of Wairata, where he finds friendship, love, and belonging. But war has raised its ugly head in the British Empire and David finds himself dragged unwittingly into the South African conflict,...

1874: Das katholische, vom Kulturkampf zerrissene Münster wird Schauplatz bestialischer Morde. Die preußische Geheimpolizei wittert ihre Chance, den seit Langem verhassten Bischof Brinkmann loszuwerden, da die Verbrechen einen religiösen Hintergrund haben. Der in Münster geborene Geheimpolizist Heinrich Maler wird in seine Heimatstadt zurückgeschickt, um Beweise für eine Beteiligung Brinkmanns „zu finden". Die Spuren führen zu einer spiritistischen...

Die große Erzählerin Clara Viebig hat in diesem Düsseldorf-Roman die Zeit von 1830-1900 beschrieben und dabei die Erfahrungen ihrer Kindheit und Jugend verarbeitet. Sie bietet dem Leser ein Panorama der geschichtlichen Entwicklung dieser Jahre aus der Perspektive der kleinen Leute. Dabei bildet der Gegensatz zwischen Preußischem und Rheinischem ein Leitmotiv, dass den ganzen Roman und das Leben seiner Protagonisten durchzieht. Josefine Rinke,...

It is 1291 and the armies of the Mamluk Sultan Al-Ashraf Kahlil have besieged the fortress city of Acre. Once again Brother Ronan MacAlasdair will be called upon to defend the Faith in a desperate attempt to hold onto the last vestige of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Winner of the 2011 Reader Views Literary Award for Historical Fiction.First they tried to deny her.Then they tried to destroy her.But she survived to discover nuclear fissionand spark the race for the atomic bomb.Imagine a story of hate and greed, intrigue and danger, war and destruction, the slaughter of the innocents on a biblical scale and the collapse of empire. And imagine at the centre of it all one little woman, brilliant but shy, victimized...