"The woman sat opposite and said, 'You are still in the life as Graecus the Centurion. You have defeated Boudicca, you are with your century and with your beloved son, Germanicus. Take me to the next important scene in that life. Where do you need...

It is the 1650's and Spain considers the Caribbean to be its own private sea, but England, Holland and France conspire to battle for freedom on the oceans. Set in days littered with the plunder of piracy; Ned Yorke, a loyal Royalist living in...

In the 1940 London blitz, George Ryland, a skilled engineer, and his wife Edna lose the style of life it took them years of struggle to obtain when they are bombed out of the house they own in a pleasant suburb. The nostalgic story of their small...

In the 1660's Jamaica was an uneasy island, occupied by Spain but settled by the English and French. When Admiral of the Brethren, Ned Yorke, a brave, loyal Buccaneer, learns that Spain is mounting a Caribbean fleet perhaps to protect the treasures...

It is February 1942 and the war in the Atlantic looks grim for the Allied convoys. The 'Great Blackout' has started, leaving the spy centre of Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire at a loss as to what the Nazis are planning. U-boat Command has changed...

Set 350 years in the future in a European continent ruled and dominated by men alone, society has become sterile and soulless. The single European Government enforces, by medical means, a ban on all human relationships and normal reproduction...

Some men will stop at nothing in their Lust for Gold The magic it creates The greed it can inspire The lust it brings into the hearts of Men It destroys men It brings righteous men to their knees It gives brutal strength to the evil and greedy Yet...

A battle is like lust. The frenzy passes. Consequence remains. Hannibal is an epic vision of one of history's greatest adventurers, the almost mythical man who most famously led his soldiers on elephants over the Alps. In Ross Leckie's unforgettable...

Our everyday lives are continually influenced by inventors whose ideas have led to commercial products available in most high streets across the civilised world. For the most part these creative individuals have remained relatively unknown. Yet some...

A book of stories from the world of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell illustrated by Charles Vess

Sexuality and human decency are forfeit when the code of honour between ruthless criminal gangs is abused. East London becomes battleground for a merciless vendetta of bloodshed and rampant depravity; credibility of the capital's police is put at...

A hypnosis session in a candlelit room opens the door to the long lost world of Nero's Empire in the first century A.D. where the young Auxiliary Centurion, Graecus, and his men struggle to uphold the honourable principles of their General and to...