Early fifth century AD. The Western Roman Empire has been overrun by German tribes. Too weak to expe..

While the army of the Goths makes war, the Romans may live in peace!' AD 468. With the last Roman em..

In the mid-17th century Edmond Halley, adventurer and astronomer, visits reclusive alchemist and fea..

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Writing about writers, far from being irrelevant, is a genuine act of solidarity, supportive and ste..

In the words of Alexander McCall Smith: 'You feel the rocking of the train, you hear the sound of it..

A fantastical twist on a classic story. Thrown out of the Knip and Pynch Home for Waifs and Strays,..

Captain Anstruther and his motley crew of sky-pirates are back for more adventures! Picking up the ..

Rico knows trouble. He knows the look of it and the sound of it. He also knows to stay away from it ..

Wild places make wild people, but only some have magic blood. There are those with frozen hearts, wh..

The Blitz, London 1944. As the Luftwaffe make their last desperate assault on the city, Londoners ta..

As a young woman, Mavis Gaunt leaves post-war London to make a new life for herself in rural Devon, ..

A carefully selected edition of the letters of Van Gogh. For this great artist it is unusually diffi..

Summertime in Provence, 1926, but for Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands it's not all 'Dance and..

An exciting new collection of responses to the Revolution, by some of Russia's greatest writers of t..