Gazelle historical fiction 2018

Gazelle Book Services Historical Fiction 2018

Forthcoming Titles Historical Romance Pre-16th Century Settings 16th Century Settings 18th Century Settings 19th Century Settings 20th Century Settings Bestselling Titles

New and Forthcoming Titles

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Historical Romance

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Pre-16th Century Settings

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16th Century Settings

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18th Century Settings

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19th Century Settings

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20th Century Settings

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Bestselling Titles

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Forthcoming Titles A Fortunate Man Translated by Paul Larkin At the height of his powers, the son of a poor religious minister, Per Sidenius, is a ‘Fortunate Man’. He has the whole of the approaching twentieth century in his grasp: a fabulously rich Jewish heiress as a soon to be wife; burgeoning fame as a forward and free thinking man of the ‘New Age’; success in having put his sorry childhood behind him. But just as he reaches the lofty heights of bourgeois success, Per begins to deeply question his life. A series of events then unfold which Nobel Prize winning author Henrik Pontoppidan describes with unflinching honesty and intensely human passion. Here is the hectic foment of social debate, the unrepentant greed of finance sharks, the hot coals of pure and illicit love. Then the biggest questions of all -- who am I and what have I to do? With A Fortunate Man [Lykke-Per] one of Denmark’s greatest ever writers manages not only to sound the depths of his nation’s soul but also to paint a huge European canvas stretching from vintage Copenhagen to the sultry heat of Rome at the turn of the nineteenth century. A truly breath-taking novel, heralded by such influential figures as Thomas Mann and Georg Lukács as a seminal work, which places Henrik Pontoppidan alongside Dostoevsky and Charles Dickens as one of the true greats of modern European literature. Henrik Pontoppidan (1857-1943) was a major Danish realist writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 for “his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark”. His novels include The Promised Land, A Fortunate Man and The Kingdom of the Dead.

Reviews: “The author of A Fortunate Man is a full-blooded storyteller who scrutinizes our lives and society so intensely he ranks within the highest class of European writers. As a true conservative, he maintains the grand style of narration in a world of stunted spirituality; as a true revolutionary, he sees in prose above all a judicial power. With that charming, indeed gripping, stringency which is the secret to art, he judges his time and, as a true poet, points to a purer humanity.”—Thomas Mann (1927) PB 9788763544245 £30.50 January 2018 Museum Tusculanum Press 855 pages

Arise the Dead I The Great War Elizabeth Langridge This story -- part memoir, part historical fiction -- spans a period of one hundred years, from 1914 to 2014, with the main emphasis being on the years of the two World Wars. It concentrates on the lives of real people--the author's parents, the author, a young pilot from New Jersey in WW1, and others--as well as some fictional characters, who all lived through one or both of the wars and were profoundly affected personally by them. Arise the Dead I focuses on World War I where the author’s dad took part in the Battle of Loos (September 1915) and where he was wounded.

PB 9781771832816 £19.50 March 2018 Guernica Editions 275 pages

Arise The Dead II World War Two Elizabeth Langridge This story--part memoir, part historical fiction--spans a period of one hundred years, from 1914 to 2014, with the main emphasis being on the years of the two World Wars. It concentrates on the lives of real people--the author’s parents, the author, a young pilot from New Jersey in WW1, and others--as well as some fictional characters, who all lived through one or both of the wars and were profoundly affected personally by them. Arise the Dead II focuses on World War Two where the home of the author's parents was bombed in late 1940 during the 'blitz' on London.

PB 9781771832847 £19.50 March 2018 Guernica Editions 275 pages

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I am Mrs Jesse James Pat Wahler The long and bloody Civil War is at an end. Zee Mimms, the dutiful and reserved daughter of a preacher, is tasked with nursing her cousin, Jesse James, back to health after he suffers a nearfatal wound. During Jesse's long convalescence, the couple falls in love, but Jesse's resentment against the Federals runs deep. He has scores to settle. For him, the war will never be over. Zee is torn between deferring to her family's wishes or accepting the hard realities of life with an outlaw--living under an assumed name and forever on the run. For her, the choices she makes mean the war is only beginning.

PB 9781943075461 £15.50 April 2018 Blank Slate Press 280 pages

Immortal Water Brian Van Norman Immortal Water offers a unique portrayal of the very human fear of ageing. The novel depicts two men from two time periods: the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon in the 16th Century and a retired teacher named Ross Porter in contemporary times, both in the midst of life altering crises. Inside parallel plots the two men form an obsession with a quixotic search for the mythical fountain of youth. The protagonists sparkle into fullness as each is depicted in his struggle to remain vital while age slowly steals his significance away.

PB 9781771832434 £19.50 March 2018 Guernica Editions 362 pages

Lords of St Thomas Jackson Ellis In the Mojave Desert, at the southern end of the isolated Moapa Valley, sat the town of St. Thomas, Nevada. A small community that thrived despite scorching temperatures and scarce water, St. Thomas was home to hardy railroad workers, farmers, shopkeepers, teachers, and a lone auto mechanic named Henry Lord. Born and raised in St. Thomas, Lord lived in a small home beside his garage with his son, Thomas, his daughter-in-law, Ellen, and his grandson, "Little" Henry. All lived happily until the stroke of a pen by President Coolidge authorizing the construction of the Boulder (Hoover) Dam. Within a decade, more than 250 square miles of desert floor would become flooded by the waters of the Colorado River, and St. Thomas would be no more. In the early 1930s, the federal government began buying out the residents of St. Thomas, yet the hardheaded Henry Lord, believing the water would never reach his home, refused to sell. It was a mistake that would cost him -- and his family -- dearly.

PB 9780999076682 £16.50 March 2018 Green Writers Press 160 pages

Nathan and the Lions of Lodz Fighting Against the Occupation Edgar Miskin After Germany invades Poland, Jews are relocated from villages and towns to ghettos and concentration camps. As adults are taken away from one country district near Lodz, a number of young Jews escape and make their way to a rendezvous hut in the forest of Las Lagiewnicki. It is in this forest where they resolve to live together and attack the German war effort whenever possible. They elect Nathan Kochinski, age 19, as the interim leader of their group. Soon, teenagers from all over Lodz join the group in the forest, and they name themselves the Lions of Lodz, derived from a battle in World War I between Germany and Russia where the combats were described as lions. The Lions of Lodz carry out two daring operations: a successful raid on a German village headquarters and the destruction of a German night train carrying supplies. Soon after, the Lions of Lodz join the underground Polish Home Army and become fully trained soldiers of the Intelligence Platoon. They continue aiding against the German army, including digging an underground tunnel into the ghetto to transport food, medical equipment, and clothing.

PB 9789655242041 £22.99 April 2018 Urim Publications 280 pages

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The Comedian Clem Martini Titus Maccius Plautus' career is on the decline. Once renowned for bringing Greek comedies to the Roman world, now he struggles to stage a single play. Unlucky with money and unlucky in love, Plautus faces the world with wry dignity. This could be the performance that brings back fame and fortune, or the one that ends it all. Engaging, thoughtful, and funny, The Comedian dives into the rough and tumble world of arts in its infancy. Clem Martini draws on his talent and experience to bring to life the signs and sounds of a world where playwrights suffered and succeeded - but mostly suffered.

PB 9781552389775 £19.50 February 2018 University of Calgary Press 272 pages

The Hawkman A Fairy Tale of the Great War Jane Rosenberg LaForge A great war, a great love, and the mythology that unites them; The Hawkman: A Fairy Tale of the Great War is a lyrical adaptation of a beloved classic. Set against the shattering events of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, at the tale's heart are an American schoolteacher, dynamic and imaginative and an Irish musician, homeless and hated, who have survived bloodshed, poverty, and sickness to be thrown together in an English village. Together they quietly hide from the world in a small cottage. Too soon, reality shatters their serenity, and they must face the parochial community. Unbeknownst to all, a legend is in the making - one that will speak of courage and resilience amidst the forces that brought the couple together even as outside forces threaten to tear them apart.

PB 9781944995676 £15.50 June 2018 Amberjack Publishing 280 pages

The Leper Steve Thayer The Leper is a book for our times. Heartbreaking, revealing, apocalyptic. And John Eric Severson is the kind of hero we just don't see in literature anymore, one both very human but undaunted by his humanity. As a Marine Corps captain during the First World War, he is lost in the forests of Germany and unknowingly leads his bedraggled men into a leper colony. Five years later in America's heartland, he is an idealistic schoolteacher in a tough, working-class neighborhood, where earning a high school diploma is something most of his students can only dream about.

Severson finds happiness and love until the fateful day he is diagnosed with leprosy and literally chased from the school. Stalked by the ghost of his past, Severson begins an odyssey that takes him down the Mississippi River into the heart of darkness.

PB 9780999538500 £14.50 April 2018 Conquill Press 420 pages

The Saga of Nathan An Epitome of Leadership Edgar Miskin This book contains two exciting installments of Nathan Kochinski's adventures as they continue after World War II. Many couples from the Lions of Lodz travel to Palestine after the war ends.

Their trip is no less than exciting as they travel across Europe from Poland by land, water, and air to reach Palestine despite British efforts to inhibit them. The struggle for freedom does not end once arriving there. After settling in a kibbutz, the couples continue to fight as they join the underground army, the Haganah, to defend against Arab attacks. In "Nathan in Palestine in 1946 and Israel in 1948," Nathan Kochinski's skills as a leader continue to shine. After traveling to Palestine and joining the Haganah, Nathan is promoted to the rank of captain. While proving himself to be a great leader, he sees the lack of communication and organisation between other settlements near his kibbutz and proposes his company as the mobile reserve of the area.

PB 9789655242058 £22.99 April 2018 Urim Publications 280 pages

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The Twelfth Transforming Pauline Gedge Pauline Gedge returns to ancient Egypt to reveal the mysterious reign of Akhenaten, the impetuous pharaoh who threatened to ruin his country. The dramatic story of Akhenaten's disastrous ruling is also the tale of Empress Tiye, a mother struggling to save her land from the catastrophe of her son's choices. Gedge's vivid descriptions of imperial court life among the lushness of the Nile and the desiccation of the desert lands will enthrall readers seeking an evocative tale of power, dynasty, family and curses, all set in enchanting ancient Egypt.

About the Author: Pauline Gedge's books have been published in several languages and have won many awards. Her first novel, Child of the Morning, was an international best seller. She won the Writers Guild of Alberta Best Novel of the Year Award for The Twelfth Transforming. She lives in Alberta, Canada.

PB 9780912777290 £18.50 April 2018 Chicago Review Press 416 pages

Historical Romance A Suitable Affair Erica Taylor Despite being beautiful and wealthy, Lady Susanna Macalister’s marriage prospects are rather lacking. Unwilling to let an opportunity pass her by, she decides a loveless marriage is better than spinsterhood, as it will allow her to continue her charities. The life of Ian Carlisle, the Earl of Westcott, has been overshadowed by darkness and guilt for the past decade. Having abandoned his family when he was eighteen, Ian’s position within a secret division of the government has provided him an escape from the guilt he feels over the death of his sister. When the Earl's horse almost tramples Susanna in the middle of Hyde Park, Ian embraces the chance encounter as a possibility for redemption, for Susanna’s soon-to-be fiancé is the man Ian holds responsible for the death of his sister. Can this damaged lord hope to absolve the guilt he feels for failing his beloved sister by saving this vibrant, and unsuspecting lady from a similar fate? And will this charity-minded well-bred lady, who is not the perfectly bound book as Ian assumes, be willing to take a chance on the unstable earl, when something more dignified and permanent is well within reach?

PB 9781944995157 £12.99 June 2017 Amberjack Publishing 332 pages

For Love of the Duke Christi Caldwell After the tragic death of his wife, Jasper, the 8th Duke of Bainbridge buried himself away in the dark cold walls of his home, Castle Blackwood. When he is coaxed out of his self-imposed exile to attend the amusements of the Frost Fair, his life is irrevocably changed by his fateful meeting with Lady Katherine Adamson. With her tight brown ringlets and silly white-ruffled gowns, Lady Katherine Adamson has found her dance card empty for two Seasons. After her father’s passing, Katherine learned about the unreliability of men, and is determined to depend on no one, except herself. Until she meets Jasper. In a desperate bid to avoid a match arranged by her family, Katherine makes the Duke of Bainbridge a shocking proposition -- one that he accepts. Only, as Katherine begins to love Jasper, she finds that the arrangement agreed upon is not enough. And Jasper is left to decide if protecting his heart is more important than fighting for Katherine’s love.

PB 9781633921030 £7.99 July 2017 Spencer Hill Contemporary 336 pages

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More Than a Duke Christi Caldwell Polite Society doesn't take Lady Anne Adamson seriously. However, Anne isn't just another pretty young miss. When she discovers her father betrayed her mother's love and her family descended into poverty, Anne comes up with a plan to marry a respectable, powerful, and honorable gentleman— a man nothing like her philandering father. Armed with the heart of a duke pendant, fabled to land the wearer a duke's heart, she decides to enlist the aid of the notorious Harry, 6th Earl of Stanhope. A scoundrel with a scandalous past, he is the last gentleman she'd ever wed... however, his reputation marks him the perfect man to school her in the art of seduction so she might ensnare the illustrious Duke of Crawford. Harry, the Earl of Stanhope is a jaded, cynical rogue who lives for his own pleasures. Having been thrown over by the only woman he ever loved so she could wed a duke, he's not at all surprised when Lady Anne approaches him with her scheme to capture another duke's affection. He's come to appreciate that all women are in fact greedy, title-grasping, self-indulgent creatures. And with Anne's history of grating on his every last nerve, she is the last woman he'd ever agree to school in the art of seduction. Only his friendship with the lady's sister compels him to help. What begins as a pretend courtship, born of lessons on seduction, becomes something more, leaving Anne to decide if she can give her heart to a reckless rogue, and Harry must decide if he's willing to again trust in a lady's love.

PB 9781633921047 £12.50 December 2017 Spencer Hill Contemporary 322 pages

The Curse of the Braddock Brides Erica Obey Lord Hardcastle, a single man with a title and a slew of poor female relations, may be in need of a wife, but that doesn’t mean American heiress Libba Wadsworth is interested. Not with the mysterious, orchid hunter Will Ransome lurking about. Rather than endure yet another awful Coming-out Season of boring balls and vacuous visits from suitors, Libba Wadsworth, in one of her more self-indulgent moments, contemplates the romantic thrill of throwing herself off Cora’s Leap to go down in history as yet another of the cursed Braddock Brides. She knows full well she won’t do it, but still ... the men she’s had to endure season after season certainly made a leap into the abyss appealing. Until one Lord Hardcastle comes to call and Will Ransome, claiming to be Hardcastle’s batman and an adventurous orchid hunter, shows up. But can she trust either of them? And, more importantly, are they really who they claim to be? The Curse of the Braddock Brides is the first in a series of historical romances inspired by the stately homes of the Hudson Valley.

PB 9781940442181 £15.50 April 2017 Walrus Publishing 310 pages

The Love of a Rogue Christi Caldwell Lady Imogen Moore hasn't had an easy time of it since she made her Come Out three Seasons ago. With her betrothed, a powerful duke breaking it off to wed her sister, she's become the tons favorite piece of gossip. Never again wanting to experience the pain of a broken heart, she's resolved to make a match with a polite, respectable gentleman. The last thing she wants is another reckless rogue. Lord Alex Edgerton has a problem. His brother, tired of Alex's carousing has charged him with chaperoning their remaining, unwed sister about ton events. Shopping?

No, thank you. Attending the theatre? He'd rather be at Forbidden Pleasures with a scantily clad beauty upon his lap. The task of chaperone becomes even more of a bother when his sister drags along her dearest friend, Lady Imogen to social functions. The last thing he wants in his life is a young, innocent English miss. Except, as Alex and Imogen are thrown together, passions flare and Alex comes to find he not only wants Imogen in his bed, but also in his heart. Yet now he must convince Imogen to risk all, on the heart of a rogue.

PB 9781633921054 £12.50 February 2018 Spencer Hill Contemporary 190 pages

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The Phoenix The Story of a Love That Endured the Winds of World War II Peter M Kalellis On the enchanting Greek island of Lesbos, currently suffering a brutal Nazi occupation, olive heiress Nina Cambas is torn between her religious calling to the convent and her love for Danny, a brave American serviceman whose missions occasionally take him to concentration camps. Can their love endure the war and Nina's sense of duty? This gripping, spiritually informed love story, set amidst the turbulence and tragedy of World War II and the Holocaust, will appeal to fans of historical romances and military history alike.

PB 9780824599157 £19.00 October 2017 Crossroad Publishing Company 368 pages

Pre-16th Century Settings Death of the Pharaoh Can Alpguvenc As a historian of culture, Alpguvenc tells us the non-violent struggle of Moses against Pharaoh in this novel. Other prominent characters of the novel are the vizier Haman, Pharaoh’s wife Asiya, his daughter Sinuha, and his cousin Tiye. The story takes place in the second half of 13th century BC. General facts are based on the Islamic sources. On the background of the struggle against persecution, the doors of a very different world are pushed open for us: the novel presents insight into Ancient Egypt’s education, economy, medicine and other fields along the plot.

PB 9781935295877 £11.99 May 2017 Blue Dome Press 280 pages

Kingdom of the Wicked Book One -- Rules Helen Dale 784 ab urbe condita -- 31 AD. Jerusalem sits uneasily in a Roman Empire that has seen an industrial revolution and now has cable news and flying machines -- and rites and morals that are strange and repellent to the native people of Judaea. A charismatic young leader is arrested after a riot in the Temple. He seems to be a man of peace, but among his followers are Zealots and dagger-men sworn to drive the Romans from the Holy Land. As the city sinks into violence, the stage is set for a legal case that will shape millennia -- the trial of Yeshua Ben Yusuf. Intricately imagined and ferociously executed, this is a stunning alternative history and a story for our time.

PB 9781925642247 £30.99 October 2017 Wilkinson Publishing 352 pages

Krishna's Heretic Lovers The Story of Chandidas & Rami -- A Novel Mary Angelon Young This book recounts the legendary love story of Chandidas and Rami, 14th-century Bengalis. He is a young Brahmin priest who renounces his caste status to become an heretical poet-musician wandering the byways of India with a small band of mystics and bards. Rami is a beautiful 20year-old widow, of low caste, living with her two children. To survive, she washes the clothes of local villagers. An overwhelming magnetism of love and fate compels them to come together against prevailing religious and social customs. Rami leaves all of her familiar world behind to travel, sing and praise the Divine with her beloved Chandidas, along the dusty roads of Bengal.

Krishna’s Heretic Lovers is an historical romance that blends fiction and fact, love and sex, action and spiritual teachings, politics, and true characters with the authentic poetry written by the revered poet Chandidas (later known as the “Father of Bengali poetry”). The synthesis of these elements, together with rare insight into the practices of a genuine tantric sect, creates an unforgettable alchemy for readers.

PB 9781942493198 £22.99 December 2016 Hohm Press 368 pages

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Something Unremembered Della Dennis One would hardly think an outlying college town on the prairies would be the place a woman from the 15th century would choose to reveal her story, but when Janine begins to discover the story of Madeleine of Beauvais interpolated in the pages of her beloved books about the history of art and culture, an enigmatic presence begins to form. Mystified by references to Madeleine which seem to appear in her books only to disappear again, and unhappy with her own restless ever-aftering, Janine becomes preoccupied with uncovering the secrets of Madeleine's life.

PB 9780995064546 £13.99 February 2017 Stonehouse Publishing 332 pages

The Prisoner of Al-Hakim Bradley Steffens It was the Islamic Golden Age. Across the Middle East and North Africa, mosques and libraries hummed with scholarly activity. But in a small house near the center of Basra, one man, Alhasan Ibn al-Haytham, was troubled by what he read. The ancient Greeks were brilliant abstract thinkers, but their theories remained disconnected from the natural world. Just as Alhasan was setting out on his quest to unite theoretical models with physical reality, he was summoned to Egypt by Caliph Al-Hakim Bi-amr Allah, the sixth ruler of the Fatimid dynasty, to survey the Nile and devise a plan for taming it. He resisted going, but discovered at the end of a dagger he had no choice. Along the way, he was attacked by bandits, laid low by illness, accused of heresy, stripped of his books and papers, and imprisoned. Would he ever find a way to resume his studies? The only person who visited him was Sadeem bint Mourad, the young woman who delivered his meals. Could she help? Would she?

PB 9781682060162 £13.99 May 2017 Blue Dome Inc 248 pages

16th Century Settings Katharina and Martin Luther The Scandalous Love Story at the Heart of the Reformation Asta Scheib Illustrious German novelist Asta Scheib offers a remarkable window into the intensity and depth of one of history's most notable marriages, told from Katharina's viewpoint. Starting from the dramatic night that Katharina and her fellow nuns were smuggled out of the convent to the decisive moments of the reformation itself, this novel is sure to inspire and delight.

PB 9780824523664 £16.50 October 2017 Crossroad Publishing Company 240 pages

Windigo Moon A Novel of Native America Robert Downes The great love of Blue Heron and Red Bear sustain an Ojibwe clan as it struggles to survive war, famine, and the coming of foreign explorers bearing deadly diseases. The blood feud between two rival warriors over the love of Ashagi, a strong-willed woman of great beauty and greater determination threads through this story of one Ojibwe clan on the cusp of great change. A young woman from a peaceful village, Ashagi (Blue Heron) is abducted in a raid conducted by the Sioux, the ancestral enemies of her clan, and made a concubine of a fat, slovenly chief who already has two wives. When she is rescued by Misko (Red Bear), an Ojibwe youth, the two fall in love and a lifelong bond is formed. But Nika, Misko's rival, demands that Misko surrender Ashagi to replace his brother who was killed during a raid involving the young warriors' two clans. As Nika's pride and obsession with Ashagi eats away at his sanity, greater danger for the whole Ojibwe way of life creeps ever closer.

PB 9781943075362 £15.50 September 2017 Blank Slate Press 330 pages

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18th Century Settings Argimou A Legend of the Micmac Samuel Douglass Smith Huyghue, Gwendolyn Davies Both an adventure-laced captivity tale and an impassioned denunciation of the marginalization of Indigenous culture in the face of European colonial expansion, Douglas Smith Huyghue’s Argimou (1847) is the first Canadian novel to describe the fall of eighteenth-century Fort Beauséjour and the expulsion of the Acadians. Its integration of the untamed New Brunswick landscape into the narrative, including a dramatic finale that takes place over the reversing falls in Saint John, intensifies a sense of the heroic proportions of the novel's protagonist, Argimou.

Even if read as an escapist romance and captivity tale, Argimou captures for posterity a sense of the Tantramar mists, boundless forests, and majestic waters informing the topographical character of pre-Victorian New Brunswick.

Its snapshot of the human suffering occasioned by the 1755 expulsion of the Acadians, and its appeal to Victorian readers to pay attention to the increasingly disenfranchised state of Indigenous peoples, make the novel a valuable contribution to early Canadian fiction. Situating the novel in its eighteenth-century historical and geographical context, the afterword to this new edition foregrounds the author's skilful adaptation of historical-fiction conventions popularized

by Sir Walter Scott and additionally highlights his social concern for the fate of Indigenous cultures in nineteenth-century Maritime Canada.

PB 9781771122474 £19.50 May 2017 Wilfrid Laurier University 250 pages

Blackbeard's Legacy Barbara N McLennan Blackbeard and his fleet sail the Atlantic coast and Caribbean capturing many ships and enriching themselves. Andrew Morgan from Virginia, Blackbeard’s gunner, invests his shares with a banker in Philadelphia. Andrew visits friends in Virginia and agrees to bring along young Benjamin Harrison on one of his spring voyages. Ben, raised as nephew to Sarah Harrison Blair, is eighteen, has just completed his studies, and has been promised in marriage to a daughter of King Carter of Virginia. Ben witnesses Blackbeard’s election as captain and impresses Blackbeard with his education and family background. Blackbeard allows him to become assistant navigator on his ship and Ben is included, along with the navigator, in meetings of the ship’s officers. When they get to the Bahamas, Ben, who has made enemies, duels with the previous assistant navigator. He also meets the governor of Jamaica and becomes aware of the dangers awaiting Blackbeard and other privateers. Upon their return to the mainland Andrew marries his banker’s daughter and is present when Blackbeard blockades Charles Towne harbor.

Ben, who has received a small ship from Blackbeard for his hard work at sea, returns to Virginia and is elected burgess. Ben meets Governor Spotswood and participates in Spotswood’s fall in Virginia politics. Ben also learns of Spotswood’s plan to murder Blackbeard and travels to Ocracoke trying to warn the captain. There, from another ship, he witnesses Blackbeard’s assassination at the hands of Spotswood’s hired killers. Andrew and Ben live through the aftermath: trials, executions, political recrimination from London and North Carolina, Spotswood’s seizure of large tracts of property, and Spotswood's eventual replacement as governor. This is followed by marriages, new families, new businesses, the growth of trade and manufacturing, and fond memories of Blackbeard.

About the Author: Barbara McLennan has published eight books and numerous magazine and journal articles on various political, economic, and historical subjects. For two years she contributed columns and articles on local customs and local history to NorthernNeck.com, a local online newspaper serving the Rappahannock region of Virginia.

PB 9780998087320 £12.99 August 2017 Barbara McLennan 264 pages

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Evelina Frances Burney The first novel by the prolific 18th century writer, "Evelina" is a light-hearted epistolary novel chronicling a young lady's rise in Regency England society. Evelina, having been raised in the country and sheltered from the evils of London, is suddenly thrust into the height of upper class society and introduced to her ridiculous and self-important grandmother. What follows is an entertaining tale of love, friendship, and growing up, told with the wit and charm that inspired, and was admired by, Jane Austen.

About the Author: Frances Burney was the Daughter of famed Music Historian, Charles Burney, she became a literary sensation soon after she released her first book, Evelina, in 1778.

PB 9780995064522 £13.99 February 2017 Stonehouse Publishing 410 pages HB 9780995064539 £23.50 February 2017 Stonehouse Publishing 410 pages

The Bermuda Privateer William Westbrook Hailed as groundbreaking by David Donachie, author of the John Pearce Naval Series and the Privateersman Mysteries - "All sea stories should tell you something new, and The Bermuda Privateer meets that criterion in spades. Fast paced and covering an area new to me; I was enthralled by the author's encyclopedic knowledge of the Caribbean. There are battles and conspiracies galore, with engaging characters and thrilling actions." Nicholas Fallon is captain of the schooner Sea Dog, a privateer that is fast, beautiful and deadly. Unbound by Royal Navy tradition, Fallon enjoys total independence in where he goes, how he fights, and whom he takes as crew. A woman - Beauty McFarland - is his first lieutenant. It's 1796, and Sea Dog 's owner, Ezra Somers, employs Fallon to protect his Caribbean salt trade from French privateers and pirates. Wicked Jak Clayton is especially ruthless. When the two meet just off the Bahamas, even Fallon's cunning can't overcome their mismatch in firepower and desertion by a cowardly ally.

Later, in Bermuda, Fallon is enlisted by the Royal Navy to intercept a Spanish flotilla carrying gold and silver to France. But a massive hurricane halts the British attack on the Spanish transports, driving several ships, including Fallon's, onto the Florida shore. Held by Spanish soldiers, Fallon and the surviving crew escape by turning enemies into friends. Once free, only one mission remains. Wicked Jak Clayton must die! The Bermuda Privateer is an action-filled sea story with layered storylines and a modern storyteller's voice.

HB 9781590137444 £21.99 August 2017 McBooks Press 328 pages

The Wealth of Jamestown Barbara N McLennan This book follows the development of a new people and the birth of a nation. William Roscoe, a young Virginia planter and sheriff of Yorktown and Gloucester, and Sarah Harrison, seventeenyear-old daughter of one of Virginia’s wealthiest planters, are in love and engaged to be married.

But Sarah’s father, Benjamin Harrison II, forces Sarah to break the engagement and marry James Blair, lobbyist, church bureaucrat and Commissary of the Church of England, with connections to the Board of Trade in England. Sarah retains her dowry and wealth, and while Blair goes to England to lobby for a college of which he’d be President, she continues her relationship with William. Sarah and William buy two sailing ships, and William begins trade with pirates in the new city of Charles Towne. With King William’s War with France finished, commerce and trade open up and Virginia planters become very wealthy -- William becomes a member of the House of Burgesses. But Blair returns, reclaiming his status and seeking power over all of Virginia.

PB 9780998087306 £12.99 August 2017 Barbara McLennan 238 pages

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The Wealth of Virginia Barbara N McLennan Nominated for a literary award by the Library of Virginia for 2016, The Wealth of Virginia received the following review from Kirkus: "McLennan’s historical novel depicts America at a tenuous stage in its early history, when wealth, violence and political unease were all starting to swell. Sarah Harrison Blair is the sort of historical figure who demands fictional interpretation.

Married to one of the founders of the College of William & Mary, the (as characterised in McLennan’s novel) loathsome James Blair, Sarah has the business acumen and independent streak to rival any of Colonial America’s male adventurers. She is neither shy with a pistol nor afraid to work alongside the laborers in her family’s tobacco fields, if that’s what will get the job done. (“Darlin’, welcome to Virginia justice,” she tells one man. “If you keep still, I won’t blow your head off.”) The Colonial Virginia world in which Sarah operates needs people like her. It’s something of a free-for-all, with ineffectual governors coming and going, uncertainty about where to establish the colony’s capital (Williamsburg is being considered), and perpetual tensions and threats of fighting. Yet it’s also a place where democratic values are coalescing, a development made all the more evident in contrast to London, which Sarah and James visit.

There, they encounter poverty and abuse all but directly caused by the old system. They also come across some truly rip-roaring excitement, complete with duels and romance. An informative rendering of pre-Revolutionary America, with an inspiring female protagonist.

PB 9780998087313 £12.99 August 2017 Barbara McLennan 246 pages

19th Century Settings A Walk on Broken Glass Elisabeth, Empress of Austria Gloria M Allan Born of royal blood, 15-year-old Elisabeth (Sisi) is a free-spirited child of nature with no social graces to speak of when Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria, falls madly in love with her. In 1854, as the new Empress of Austria, she is swept into the harsh world of the Habsburg Empire with its power struggles and political intrigues. Elisabeth’s mother-in-law is determined to crush her spirit and her husband has a roving eye that never misses the next pretty lady. But Elisabeth is no ordinary women. In the face of adversity, her determination emerges unbounded and she makes her beauty one of her strengths. While blazing her own path to power and freedom, true love enters her life. This is a compelling story of Elisabeth’s loves, tragedies and triumphs. Her love of Hungarians brought about her greatest achievement -- helping to influence the formation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Reviews: "...impresive storytelling. A beautifully crafted novel marked by memorable characters, language that has flair, and an intricate plot that engages attention. Highly recommended." -- Midwest Book Review PB 9781926991795 £15.50 August 2017 Granville Island Publishing 314 pages

One American Dream A Family History Bernard Beck The only thing Jack Rubin ever wanted was to be a real American. A Jewish immigrant from Poland, he arrives in New York City in the late 1800s and begins his American journey by pulling himself up by the bootstraps. But his success doesn't satisfy him, and when he struggles while raising a headstrong daughter through the roaring twenties, he feels like a failure. Only when he finds himself helping those less fortunate during the Great Depression does Jack realize that he's been a real American all along.

PB 9781944995096 £15.50 March 2017 Amberjack Publishing 268 pages

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Redemption Yvonne Harris In this sweeping saga, Yvonne Harris tells the poignant stories of Robert and Alice, two young people who join the 1846 wagon train to cross North America on their way to the West Coast.

Seeking a better life, thirteen-year-old Robert leaves his impoverished family in Iowa and accompanies the main group as it follows the well-established Oregon Trail to the Pacific Northwest. Alice, a lovely young widow, is forced to follow a husband she despises on the difficult trek even when he insists on taking the Hastings Cutoff with a small party from the wagon train who forego the longer route for a virtually unknown trail touted as a short cut to the West Coast.

Alice's husband's hasty decisions dramatically alter the course of their lives; instead of reaching the green fields of California, the party finds themselves trapped on the wrong side of the snow and ice-capped Sierra Nevada with almost nothing left in the way of supplies. Both eventually make their way to Victoria and the BC Interior in search of gold. They encounter the American militia, intent on taking over the Fraser River from the tribes, and Chief Spintlum, who chooses peace over war and saves his people from a massacre. The story is based on the historical accounts of settlers traveling west on the Oregon Trail, the tragic account of the Donner Party and the search for gold on the Fraser River. In preparing to write this narrative, the author climbed the Donner Pass and traveled the Oregon Trail and the Fraser River attempting to recreate the passage across a virtually unknown land.

PB 9781896124650 £17.99 November 2017 Dragon Hill Publishing 448 pages

The Girl from Old Nichol Betty Annand Born into extreme poverty in the very worst of the London slums, young Gladys Tunner strives to survive her circumstances, including her alcoholic parents. Desperation and dreams for a better life are a constant. Her childhood best friend and protector Toughie looks after her until she’s forced to escape and run for her life, creating an elaborate masquerade that leads to both love and heartbreak. This rich and compelling historical novel takes you from the streets of London to the manor houses of the English countryside where it has you rooting for Gladys, not just to survive, but to thrive.

PB 9780997237795 £15.50 January 2017 Amberjack Publishing 368 pages

The Insurrectionist A Novel Herb Karl A compelling historical novel, “The Insurrectionist” follows the militant abolitionist John Brown from his involvement in Bleeding Kansas to the invasion of Harpers Ferry and the dramatic conclusion of his subsequent trial. Meticulous historical detail blends with dramatic personal descriptions to reveal critical episodes in Brown's life, illuminating his character and the motives that led up to the Harpers Ferry invasion, giving readers a complete picture of the man who has too often been dismissed as hopelessly fanatical. Brown's friendship with Frederick Douglass and their ongoing debate on how to end slavery, his devoted family who stands by him despite the danger, and his struggles to secure funding and political favour for his cause against deeply entrenched politicians, makes for a surprisingly contemporary story of family, passion, race, and politics.

PB 9781613736333 £15.50 February 2017 Chicago Review Press 336 pages

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The Language of Trees A Novel of Utopian Dreams Steve Wiegenstein The inhabitants of Daybreak, a quiet 19th-century utopian community, are courted by a powerful lumber and mining trust and must search their souls as the lure of sudden wealth tests ideals that to some now seem antique. And the courtship isn't just financial. Love, lust, deception, ambition, violence, repentance, and reconciliation abound as the citizens of Daybreak try to live out oft-scorned values in a world that is changing around them with terrifying speed.

PB 9781943075386 £14.99 September 2017 Blank Slate Press 214 pages

The Woman from Dover Betty Annand Stung with the bitter loss of the life she had built, Gladys's story from The Girl from Old Nichol continues with Gladys as a housekeeper for the wealthy widower, James Hornby. Reunited with Toughie for one night before he leaves for New York with his bride, their romantic interlude leaves Gladys alone and pregnant. Fearing the workhouse, Gladys confesses all to James, who offers to marry her and legitimize Toughie's baby. The new family lives happily, adding a daughter of their own. When Toughie returns years later as a widower, he meets his son and begs Gladys to travel to New York with him. Torn between the man she has loved since childhood and a comfortable life of luxury for herself and her children, Gladys faces a decision that will only lead to devastation; no matter what choice she makes, someone will be hurt and abandoned.

PB 9781944995409 £15.50 December 2017 Amberjack Publishing 330 pages

Yankee Stranger Elswyth Thane, Leila Meacham Williamsburg, Virginia, is once more the scene in this second book of Thane's series, but the time is now the 1860s. Some of the characters are the descendants of those in the first novel, Dawn's Early Light , and Grandmother Day, who was 16 when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, is now 95. Once, she can remember, it was Massachusetts that was threatening to secede instead of South Carolina. And when she was a girl they never seemed to think much about Yankees, one way or the other. But when a Yankee comes to Williamsburg in the tense autumn of 1860 and red-haired Eden Day falls heels over head in love with him, her great grandmother takes the long view—besides, she likes him herself. The story moves from Williamsburg to Richmond to Washington and back again during the dreadful years between Fort Sumter and Appomattox. In addition to the fictitious characters, Jeb Stuart and General Lee, Pickett, Magruder, and Stonewall Jackson are all seen through the eyes of the men who followed them into battle.

PB 9781613738160 £11.50 May 2017 Chicago Review Press 328 pages

20th Century Settings Lady of the Realm Hoa Pham One day there will be peace in Vietnam. But not before more war. Touched by the Lady of the Realm, Liên dreams of bones and bodies under the sea. The prescient warnings from the Lady weigh heavily on Liên, who is burdened by her inability to save everyone. But she knows that the Lady speaks most to those who listen. Set against the background of the Vietnam/American war we follow Liên’s path across five decades that are punctuated by endless war and suffering. Yet even in the most desperate of times, Liên refuses to be ruled by fear and anger and persists in her hope for a peaceful future. But will hope be enough?

PB 9781925581133 £12.95 September 2017 Spinifex Press 98 pages

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Roads A Novel Marina Antropow Cramer When Nazi forces occupy the beautiful coastal city of Yalta, Crimea, everything changes.

Eighteen-year-old Filip has few options; he is a prime candidate for forced labor in Germany. His hurried marriage to his childhood friend Galina might grant him reprieve, but the rules keep shifting. Galina's parents, branded as traitors for innocently doing business with the enemy, decide to volunteer in hopes of better placement. The work turns out to be horrific, but at least the family stays together. By winter 1945, Allied air raids destroy strategic sites; Dresden, a city of no military consequence, seems safe. The world knows Dresden's fate. Roads is the story of one family lucky enough to escape with their lives as the city burns behind them. But as the war ends, they are separated and their trials continue. Looking for safety in an alien land, they move toward one another with the help of refugee networks and pure chance. Along the way, they find new ways to live in a changed world - new meanings for fidelity, grief, and love.

PB 9781613735565 £15.50 May 2017 Chicago Review Press 368 pages

The Hand That Signed the Paper Helen Dale As war crimes prosecutions seize Australia, Fiona Kovalenko discovers that her own family is implicated in the darkest events of the twentieth century. This is their story. First published under an assumed identity, The Hand that Signed the Paper remains one of the most celebrated and controversial books in recent Australian literature. With a new introduction by the author, it continues to raise urgent questions about history, responsibility and truth. \

PB 9781925642230 £23.50 October 2017 Wilkinson Publishing 140 pages

The New Vine Robert Marrone New roots and shoots: a place of artistic possibilities. In post World War II Italy, Passero, the son of a winemaker killed by the Nazis, commits an impetuous act. He kidnaps a young orphaned girl and offers her up in exchange for his own freedom. His actions create a lifelong connection with her culminating in an adulterous affair in Toronto in the 1960s, while he is building a life with another woman. The union produces an illegitimate son named Ethan, who, in time, becomes an artist and inherits the vineyard once belonging to Passero’s family. The vineyard, as the artist discovers, is a place where truth extends from fiction, a place for new roots and shoots, a place where God and art interweave and become interchangeable. “What do you think you are, Vincenzo? A sparrow? Is that what you think you are a passero?” It was the sparrows, sadly, that had been dying in the nets. -- From The New Vine PB 9781771831475 £19.50 May 2017 Guernica Editions 274 pages

The President's Sandbox LBJ And The Khe Sanh Terrain Model - A Novel Gary Foster The year 1968 proved to be the defining year for the U.S. Marines fighting in Vietnam. One month after the New Year, the Tet Offensive shook the world. Just prior to that, the Marines were besieged at Khe Sanh, and would be so for 89 days. Khe Sanh was one of the most dramatic and complicated conflicts of the entire war. President Lyndon Johnson used a little-known scale model to help him visualize the complexities of the battles that were taking place around Khe Sanh in Quang Tri Province. This novel relates the intricacies of the White House, Hanoi, Saigon, the main characters on both sides and the times. Set in both Vietnam and the USA, the novel traces events from early December 1967 through April 1968.

PB 9781555717964 £24.50 April 2017 Hellgate Press 565 pages

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The Shadow of the Strongman Martín Luis Guzmàn Edited and translated by Gustavo Pellon A searing novel of the post-1910 Mexican revolutionary era that itself challenged the Mexican political establishment, Guzmàn's The Shadow of the Strongman (La Sombra del Caudillo) stands beside Azuela's The Underdogs (Los de abajo) in the pantheon of Mexican fiction. Unmasking the years of political intrigue and assassination that followed the Revolution, the novel was adapted in the 1960 film La Sombra del Caudillo , which was banned in Mexico for thirty years.

About the Author: Martín Luis Guzmán (1887 - 1976) was a Mexican journalist and novelist who served under Pancho Villa, and was the author of a five-volume biography of Villa. Gustavo Pellon is Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, University of Virginia.

PB 9781624666278 £15.99 October 2017 Hackett Publishing 280 pages 5 illus HB 9781624666285 £45.99 September 2017 Hackett Publishing 280 pages

Waiting for Stalin to Die Irene Guilford From communism to Toronto: struggling to adapt. This book is set in 1949 Toronto and depicts Lithuanian refugees who, having escaped communism but still shaken from war, DP camps, and loss of home, try to resume normal life. Vytas, a young doctor who saves the life of a child in High Park, gains admittance to medical school but is haunted by grief over a lost love. Maryte, a seamstress whose affair with a German officer won freedom for herself and her mentally limited brother, struggles to take care of him. Justine, a concert pianist raped during the war, strives to regain stability, music, and love. Father Geras, an illegitimate child steered into the priesthood by his mother’s lover, finds purpose in exile. "He dreams of Vilnius. Night after night he dreams of the city which he left, though he did not wish to. And he dreams of Lidia, his lost love." -- from Waiting for Stalin to Die PB 9781771831536 £15.50 May 2017 Guernica Editions 170 pages

Bestselling Titles Sand of the Arena A Gladiators of the Empire Novel The Gladiators of the Empire Novels James Duffy In AD 63 the long arm of the Roman Empire stretches across the European continent and the gladiatorial games are awash in blood and glory. For Quintus Honorius Romanus, son of one of the richest men in Rome, everything is as it should be--as long as he can sneak off to the arena for a little entertainment. Things go drastically wrong, however, when Quintus loses his family, his social standing, and his name to an imposter. Faced with a life of menial slavery, Quintus joins a gladiatorial school instead and begins a game of high stakes, as he vows to bring down the usurper who stole his life.

About the Author: James Duffy is an Emmy award-winning television writer and producer and the owner of his own production company. He lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Reviews: "Duffy recreates in gory detail the world of Roman gladiators, complete with largerthan-life characters and plenty of fast-paced, sanguinary action... [an] entertaining read." -Publishers Weekly PB 9781590131244 £16.50 October 2006 McBooks Press 416 pages

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The Fight for Rome A Gladiators of the Empire Novel James Duffy Continuing the adventures of Quintus Honorius Romanus (aka Taurus) -- legendary gladiator of ancient Rome -- this second book in the series picks up in AD 68, when the emperor is dead, and the throne is up for grabs. Three contenders square off to take control of the government, and as civil unrest begins to build, Quintus and his friends, the beast hunter Lindani and the gladiatrix Amazonia, are forced to fight with the legionnaires of Rome in what will soon become bloody civil war. Meanwhile, in a remote corner of the empire, Quintus' former slave, Lucius Calidius, plots another rise to power--and not even Quintus will stand in his way.

About the Author: James Duffy is an Emmy award-winning television writer and producer and the owner of his own production company. He lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Reviews: "A well-written story of ancient Rome, comparable to novels written by Simon Scarrow and Michael Curtis Ford . . . an exciting portrayal of gladiatorial combat." -- The Historical Novels Review HB 9781590131121 £22.99 September 2007 McBooks Press 408 pages

In the Mouth of the Tiger Lynette Silver, Derek Emerson Elliott This is an epic story of adventure, love, mystery and intrigue set in Malaya, in the colourful and turbulent years before and after World War II. Nona Orlov, a young Russian refugee abandoned in colonial Penang, falls in love with an Englishman who offers escape from her tawdry hand-tomouth existence and catapults her into a world of mansions, expensive cars, well-bred horses and luxurious yachts. But Denis Elesmere-Elliott is much more than the urbane, wealthy manabout-town that he appears, and Nona is plunged into a dark world of treachery, violence and sudden death. As the mysteries multiply, Nona realises that, if she is to survive, her courage must match those of the tigers that frequent the jungles around her.

About the Author: Lynette Silver is a military historian, the author of a number of books on Australian history.

PB 9781863514576 £18.99 July 2014 Sally Milner 500 pages

Notes from Underground Roger Scruton Set in the twilight years of the Czechoslovak communist regime, recalled from the suburbs of Washington, this novel describes a doomed love affair between two young people trapped by the system. Roger Scruton evokes a world in which every word and gesture bears a double meaning, as people seek to find truth amid the lies and love in the midst of betrayal. The novel tells the story of Jan Reichl, condemned to a menial life by his father's alleged crime, and of Betka, the girl who offers him education, opportunity and love, but who mysteriously refuses to commit herself.

About the Author: Roger Scruton is a freelance writer and philosopher, who rescued himself from the academy twenty years ago. He currently lives in rural Wiltshire, England. He has held posts in the American Enterprise Institute, and in the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is the author of 40 books, including five works of fiction, and composed two operas. He is widely known on both sides of the Atlantic as a public intellectual with a broadly conservative vision.

HB 9780825307287 £23.99 March 2014 Beaufort Books 216 pages

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Place of Repose A Tale of Saint Cuthbert’s Last Journey Katharine Tiernan The year is 875, and the Danish king of York, Halfden Ragnarsson, is carrying fire and sword across Northumbria: the once-great Christian country is at the mercy of the heathen. The monks of Lindisfarne flee, taking the relics of Saint Cuthbert and the Lindisfarne Gospels with them. Their journey in search of a new home for the Saint lasts for seven years, and changes the lives of the brothers for ever. It is a tale of ambition and intrigue, revenge and reconciliation -- and for the youngest of the brothers, of true love lost and found. This gripping novel makes a distant world vital, vivid and appealing to the contemporary reader. An extraordinary story combines with the skilful and engaging re-creation of characters and relationships at this fateful moment in the survival of Northumbria.

About the Author: Katharine Tiernan was brought up in Northumberland close to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, and brings her deep knowledge and love of the area to this remarkable story.

PB 9780992605704 £8.99 August 2013 Four Corners/Tapestry 188 pages

In Pursuit of Glory William H White Oliver Baldwin, recently back from the Barbary Wars, sets sail in the U.S. frigate Chesapeake on a routine patrol. The patrol becomes anything but routine when the ship is confronted by the 50gun HMS Leopard outside the Virginia Capes. Commodore James Barron refuses the British captain's orders to produce Royal Navy deserters, and the Leopard fires into the American frigate with disastrous results. Following the ensuing court-martial, a new captain takes command of Chesapeake to enforce the Jeffersonian Embargoes on the Atlantic seaboard, with Oliver Baldwin still in his crew. Baldwin's adventures continue, encountering more ships of the Royal Navy, going to battle with the HMS Macedonian , and, ultimately, witnessing the actual beginnings of the War of 1812. Steeped in accurate U.S. naval lore and told through well-constructed characters, this chronicle provides a fascinating glimpse into a lesser-known period of crucial importance to both the development of the fledgling United States and her Navy.

PB 9781888671179 £16.50 May 2008 Tiller Publishing 352 pages b/w illus

Saint Patrick's Battalion James Alexander Thom They were proud and doomed, Irish rogue cannoneers under a green silk banner, fighting against their former comrades-in-arms to defend Catholic Mexico against the invading U.S. Army. Their choices were to win, die in battle, or hang as deserters. To the Mexicans they were heroic saviours, but they were seen as despicable traitors by the West Point officers who faced their grapeshot and cannonballs on every major battlefield Matamoros to Mexico City. Survivors of the Irish battalion's deadly gunnery would later lead armies against each other in Civil War, many of them - Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Braxton Bragg -- ironically deemed the same sort of traitors. This astonishing true tale from an almost forgotten war is told through the eyes of two boys who know and admire the idealistic Irish leader John Riley: an Army camp errand boy who keeps a diary, and a Mexican military school cadet whose widowed mother becomes the Irishman's tragic lover.

PB 9780979924071 £14.50 March 2009 Blue River Press 288 pages b/w illus

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The Katyn Order A Novel Douglas W Jacobson A pre-Cold War spy thriller of courage and resistance. The German war machine is in retreat as the Russians advance. In Warsaw, Resistance fighters rise up against their Nazi occupiers, but the Germans retaliate, ruthlessly leveling the once-beautiful city. American Adam Nowak has been dropped into Poland by British intelligence as an assassin and Resistance fighter. During the Warsaw Uprising he meets Natalia, a covert operative who has lost everything—just as he has.

Amid the Allied power struggle left by Germany's defeat, Adam and Natalia join in a desperate hunt for the 1940 Soviet order authorizing the murders of 20,000 Polish army officers and civilians.

PB 9781590136478 £16.50 May 2012 McBooks Press 424 pages

Threads West An American Saga Reid Lance Rosenthal "Book One - the #1 bestselling Threads West-winner of eight national awards in the categories of Historical Fiction, Romance and Western. This is the namesake novel of the sweeping Threads West, An American Saga multi-era series compared by reviewers and authors to Lonesome Dove, Centennial, and Louis L'Amour. Called by some The " Gone With The Wind of the West" and applauded by others as "rings true and poignant, as authentic and moving as Dances with Wolves." The tale bursts with the adventure, romance and promise of historical America and the West. The epic saga of Threads West, An American Saga begins in 1854 with the first of five, richly textured, complex generations of unforgettable, multicultural characters. The separate lives of these driven men and independent women from Europe and America are drawn to a common destiny that beckons seductively from the wild and remote flanks of the American West. Swept into the dangerous currents of the far-distant frontier by the mysterious rivers of fate, the power of the land and the American spirit, their journeys are turbulent quests intertwined with romance and adversity, passions and pathos, despair and triumph.

PB 9780982157619 £14.50 October 2010 Rockin SR Publishing 240 pages

Showdown at the Red Lion The Life & Time of Jack McLoughlin Charles van Onselen Johannesburg was -- and is -- the Frontier of Money. Within months of its founding, the mining camp was host to organised crime: the African "Regiment of the Hills" and "Irish Brigade" bandits.

Bars, brothels, boarding houses and hotels oozed testosterone and violence, and the use of fists and guns was commonplace. Beyond the chaos were clear signs of another struggle, one to maintain control, honour and order within the emerging male and mining dominated culture. In the underworld, the dictum of "honour among thieves", as well as a hatred of informers, testified to attempts at self-regulation. A "real man" did not take advantage of an opponent by employing underhand tactics. It had to be a "fair fight" if a man was to be respected. This was the world that "One-armed Jack" McLoughlin -- brigand, soldier, sailor, mercenary, burglar, highwayman and safe-cracker -- entered in the early 1890s to become Johannesburg's most infamous "Irish" antihero and social bandit. McLoughlin's infatuation with George Stevenson prompted him to recruit the young Englishman into his gang of safe-crackers but "Stevo" was a man with a past and primed for personal and professional betrayal. It was a deadly mixture. Honour could only be retrieved through a Showdown at the Red Lion.

PB 9781868426225 £24.50 January 2015 Jonathan Ball Publishing 515 pages b/w photos & illus

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Halfhyde Ordered South The Halfhyde Adventures Philip McCutchan The old iron-clad Meridian steams south on her last journey under the British flag, on route to her new home in the Chilean Navy. Using the transfer of the ship as cover, Halfhyde and Watkiss are on a covert operation to protect British interests in South America from the encroaching Germans. Soon Halfhyde has an added mission: he must help a detective from the Metropolitan Police track down and intercept a traitorous civil servant who has escaped from prison and is on the run for South America.

Reviews: "Halfhyde is a fine hero, insubordinate and ingenious." -- The New York Times PB 9781590130711 £19.99 March 2005 McBooks Press 272 pages

Guns to the Far East The Phillip Hazard Novels V A Stuart The Crimean War has ended at last, and Phillip Hazard finds himself in China, serving under the fiery Commodore Keppel. The British pull off a rousing victory against a Chinese junk fleet at Fatsham Creek, but later Hazard is dismayed to hear of the Great Mutiny in India. Worried that his two sisters are caught up in the brutal conflict, he joins British relief forces fighting to reach the besieged northern Indian towns of Cawnpore and Lucknow.

PB 9781590130636 £18.50 February 2005 McBooks Press 240 pages

Peter Wicked A Matty Graves Novel The Matty Graves Novels Broos Campbell Set in the early 19th century amid the ships and seamen of a nascent United States Navy, Lieutenant Matty Graves is recovering from his ordeal during the slave rebellion in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Dómingue when he is ordered to Washington to answer questions about the death of his former captain. On home soil he must deal with the mystery and shame surrounding his birth as well as the attractions of his best friend's sister. But when he is offered a command of his own, he seizes the opportunity to seek his fortune and make a name for himself, even if it means destroying those closest to him.

Reviews: "Nautical adventure fans will welcome Campbell's third novel [about] intrepid Matty Graves. Graves proves equally resourceful at navigating bureaucratic [U.S. Navy] minefield[s] and steering a steady course through . . . the Caribbean." -- Publishers Weekly HB 9781590131527 £22.99 September 2008 McBooks Press 320 pages

A Fine Boy for Killing The Sea Officer William Bentley Novels Jan Needle Under sealed orders for a long, arduous voyage, Captain Daniel Swift dispenses shipboard law with an iron fist to forge an efficient crew from a ragged group of unwilling, inexperienced "volunteers".

Reviews: "Such tales can easily fall prey to convention, but in Needle's hands the [frigate] Welfare comes alive with rich, compelling characters and vivid imagery. There are no white knights here and no one-dimensional villains; as much as one hates Swift, he is a refreshingingly unpredictable character in an invigorating story." -- Publishers Weekly, 18 September 2000 PB 9780935526868 £17.50 October 2000 McBooks Press 320 pages

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Five Smooth Stones A Novel Ann Fairbairn This gripping bestseller, first published in 1966, has continued to captivate readers with its wideranging yet intimate portrait of an America sundered by racial conflict. David Champlin is a black man born into poverty in Depression-era New Orleans who makes his way up the ladder of success, only to sacrifice everything to lead his people in the civil rights movement. Sara Kent is the white girl who loves David from the moment she first sees him, and who struggles against his belief that a marriage for them would be wrong in the violent world he has to confront. And the "five smooth stones" are those the biblical David carried against Goliath. By the time this novel comes to its climax of horror, bloodshed, and hope, readers will be convinced that its enduring popularity is fully justified.

Reviews: "A courageous novel ... David is a marvelously well-done character." -- Library Journal PB 9781556528156 £20.99 April 2009 Chicago Review Press 768 pages

The Brave Captains The Phillip Hazard Novels V A Stuart As the Russian cavalry prepares to launch a full-scale attack to seize Balaclava, the British find themselves in desperate straits. Dangerously outnumbered, they are hoping for reinforcements, but in the meantime they must hold their ground, calling for heroism that will test the courage of even the bravest man. Dodging bursting shells and Russian Cossacks, Hazard proves that the bluejackets fight as well on land as they do at sea.

Reviews: "The author's command of the smallest detail of the period is impressive. A historical novel of scholarship." -- Yorkshire Post PB 9781590130407 £18.50 July 2003 McBooks Press 240 pages

The Valiant Sailors The Phillip Hazard Novels V A Stuart Sailing beneath the ominous cloud of war between Turkey and Russia, the frigate Trojan is on her way to the Black Sea, carrying on board a mysterious passenger, a young woman whose identity must be concealed by orders of the Admiralty. Although First Lieutenant Phillip Hazard is captivated by the charming young woman, he has a far more pressing concern: the Trojan's captain is a sadistic despot--and quite possibly insane.

Reviews: "The redoubtable Commander Hazard has won a permanent place in historical fiction and he places his author in the foremost ranks of the writers in this field." -- Yorkshire Gazette & Herald PB 9781590130391 £19.00 July 2003 McBooks Press 272 pages

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