From the heart of Parliament to the jungles of South-East Asia, the junior British MP Richard Reynolds is taken on a terrifying journey of discovery that leads the UK to the brink of war. Only he has the knowledge to prevent a disaster unfolding in Asia, and with the fear of dark forces at work at home, Richard has his own very personal reasons ......
The Auspicious Time is a novel focusing on life in Beijing before and after the founding of New China, observing the earthshaking changes around them from the perspective of a child named Auspicious. It is a children's novel with deep Beijing charm and Chinese feelings. With restrained and peaceful brushstrokes and poetic and tender narratives, ......
Melbourne , Australia, it is 1955. A four-year old child, Isla, is seated at a piano. She digs out her scrunched sheet music from her school bag, flattens it out and places it before her. She looks about an unfamiliar room, where windows frame the wild unforgiving
landscape of the Orkney Islands, before resting her tiny fingers on the old upright ......
Publius Ovidius Naso (43BC - 17/18AD), known as Ovid, was known as much for his disgrace as for his poetry. By pleasing his contemporaries, befriending patricians and subtly mocking the emperor Augustus, he was transformed from a provincial outsider to Rome's darling - and, for some, its corrupter. Banished without trial to a remote port on the ......
Tam the Bamford is the most reviled football fan on the Isle of Guff, but when his mother dies, he buys a 50% share in the Guff Rovers and becomes their gaffer.
Dave Allenson, a security guard, stops Peter Hore from tearing down the net of the Iranian goal in the 1997 play-off against Australia, setting off an alternate timeline of Australian football. This book traces the course of "what if".
“All I need is three days of fog,” Napoleon told his admirals, and they would have his greatest enemy at their mercy and the world at his feet.
It is 1803, and Britain and France are on the eve of war. Captain Nathan Peake, still in command of the sloop Falaise, is recruited to coordinate a secret operation to land agents and weapons ......
Hannah Lynch (Dublin 1859 – Paris 1904), restless wanderer, cosmopolitan, cultural observer and commentator, was the author of feminist fiction, travel writing and journalism.