Life can be very tough for a dutiful young man in the 11th Century who is poor and without prospects or “connections”. Courage, determination and a capacity to endure hardship can maybe make the man. He is still learning to “know his station” when his country is invaded. Can courage and determination serve to aid … Read more
Essex, England, 1645. With a heavy heart, Alice Hopkins returns to the small town she grew up in. Widowed, with child, and without prospects, she is forced to find refuge at the house of her younger brother, Matthew. In the five years she has been gone, the boy she knew has become a man of … Read more
The Lonely Hearts Hotel is a love story with a difference. Set throughout the roaring twenties, it is a wicked fairytale of circus tricks and child prodigies, radical chorus girls, drug-addicted musicians and brooding clowns, set in an underworld whose economy hinges on the price of a kiss. It is the tale of two dreamers, abandoned … Read more
The Emergency rumbles through the jungle, the kampongs, and towns as the communist uprising in 1950’s Malaya adds poignancy to the salutation, ‘have you eaten rice today?’ when hunger drives some terrorists to surrender. Simon Frampton returns to Malaya as a rubber planter after failing to settle into civilian life in England after the War. … Read more
‘Lady of the Plantation’ is the story of a mulatto girl surviving the brutality of slavery in Georgia in the 1800’s. Young Sylvia continues to overcome setbacks as she manages daily life on the Four Willows plantation. Love and roses are the things that help her maintain her sanity during a life of oppression. Crime … Read more
AD 144. The Antonine Wall in Western Caledonia, modern day Scotland, has been standing for two years. Centurion Andronicus and Optio Scrivinus have recently been assigned to the Roman Balmuildy Fort and are attempting to improve the men’s fitness and discipline.Soon both the old and the new world collide. The Romans find themselves amongst the … Read more
Questions about Amalia’s past become more concerning when she’s uprooted at the young age of fifteen from the only life she knows and into an abusive nobleman’s household. As a young female in nineteenth-century Spain and a dominant patriarchal society, Amalia’s choices are limited. That couldn’t be more evident than in her employer’s household. Manuel … Read more