Historical

A Bond Broken: A Tale of Love, Loyalty, and Loss

by Nicole Bradshaw

The prequel to Unsinkable, this gripping novella tells the story of two sisters who become mortal enemies in their struggle for love and independence—until they are the only black family on the Titanic.

Corinne’s...

Salammbo

by Gustave Flaubert

"Salammbo" is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert. It is set in Carthage during the third century BCE, immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt which took place shortly after the First Punic War....

Silas Marner

by George Eliot

"Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe" is a dramatic novel by George Eliot, her most sophisticated treatments of her attitude to religion. Silas Marner is a member of a small Calvinist congregation in Lantern...

Shirley

by Charlotte Bronte

Shirley Keeldar is an orphaned heiress to a fortune, a headstrong, independent and determined young woman. The novel is set in Yorkshire during the industrial depression. The major themes are the explicit historical...

Villette

by Charlotte Bronte

After an unspecified family disaster, Lucy Snowe travels to the city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled into both adventure and romance. Lucy Snowe is a twenty-three...

The Serpent of the Valois

by Peter Mowbray

It is the year 1589, and on a cold and wet January evening, Catherine de Medici, Queen Mother of France, lies close to death. For the people of this war torn country her demise will be welcome news. This is...

Cold Revenge

Carthaginian Empire #32

by David Bowman

Forty years earlier the Vikings sent a fleet of Carthaginian galleys to the bottom of the North Sea, and left the bones of a Carthaginian army to whiten in the snows of Finland. It may have taken forty years...

Cold Water,Cold Land

Carthaginian Empire #31

by David Bowman

To stop the raids on their northern frontiers a punitive fleet is sent north to punish the remaining Viking tribes. Off the cape of Jutland the Carthaginian galleys finally find the Norse long ship is a formidable...

England Prospers

Carthaginian Empire #30

by David Bowman

Pushing north the Carthaginian forces have conquered Denmark. The Angles, the Saxons and the Franks have been overrun. The galleys of the Carthaginian fleet control the seas from Spain to Denmark. Protected...

Hamilcar

Carthaginian Empire #24

by David Bowman

Nine years ago Hansro led his punitive expeditions against the tribes west of the Rhine. Now the Emperor is on the scene and his huge army is intent on crushing the Goths once and for all. As the campaign starts,...

European Union

Carthaginian Empire #22

by David Bowman

All of Europe west of the river Rhine lies under the hand of Carthage. Ruled jointly from the south, Carthage itself, and north, Mai Dain in Britain, the empire appears to be at peace. There are three firebrands...

Caesar Victorious

Carthaginian Empire #21

by David Bowman

At the hilltop fortress of Alesia, Vercingetorix leads a desperate force of Gaulish warriors in a last stand against a Carthaginian army led by the Roman Julius Caesar. With other tribes surrounding him Caesar...

Return to Athens

Carthaginian Empire #9

by David Bowman

Handro and the forces of Carthage have won the battles but the other cities of Greece have closed their gates to him and his Spartan allies. The Spartans have stormed Corinth and reduced it to rubble. Handro...

Nemea and Coronae

Carthaginian Empire #8

by David Bowman

After ten years of bitter war, finally the combined armies of Sparta and Carthage under their charismatic leaders Lysander and Handro have the chance to put an end to the struggles between the Greek city states....

Shipwrights

Carthaginian Empire #3

by David Bowman

Carthage has a trick nobody else has realized. Their ships are mass produced. English oak is stronger than any timber available in the Mediterranean. Could this be turned to Carthage's advantage? Would an oak...

Three Kings - One Throne

by Michael Wills

In a panoramic novel against a backdrop of violence and political turbulence in the eleventh century, Ivar, a Danish orphan is enslaved to the most successful and experienced soldier of the age. He eventually...

The Journal, Lost Memoirs from the Civil War

by Beth Harlow

When Mary gave a journal to her fiancé in 1861 before he left for war, neither of them had any idea how many hands would write in it over the next four years. The little book travels back and forth across enemy...

Twenty Fathoms Down

by L. Ron Hubbard

As daring and defiant as Kirk Douglas journeying 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, there’s no stopping diver Hawk Ridley as he takes the plunge into an ocean of untold riches and danger.  Fighting off ruthless...

Shimoni's Lover

by Jenifer Levin

Yael sent four sons to war. Three returned. It is her oldest son, Shimon, who haunts them all. A gifted man and military hero, he died horribly in combat. Nadav, wounded and maimed, struggles to comprehend his...

In Different Skies

by Rebecca Wilby

In the trenches of Loos and the Somme, two disaffected young subalterns, Munro and Tate, struggle to find humour and purpose in a rapidly disintegrating world; brothers unto death - with a firmer bond than anything...