John Deed is an ambitious judge. He has made many enemies during his career both as a QC and on t...

An outstanding and greatly neglected novel of the war, revolution, civil war and early Bolshevik ...

'Realise then,' said the hog, 'your unfathomableness with everything - your organic unfathomablen...

In 1936, as New Year's Eve looms, the first-class passengers on the Queen Mary's voyage to New Yo...

Idealistic and headstrong Jeremy Ashland obtains a job teaching English in the Casablanca of the ...

'The Spite of Fortune' is the story of the tumultuous life of Louisa Carolina Colleton, an 18th-c...

Colonel Michael Charteris takes command of a battalion during the beginning of the Mau Mau uprisi...

Franz Xaver Kappus, an aspiring poet, wrote to Rainer Maria Rilke for advice in 1903, but could n...

In search of adventure, Inspector Guy Pearson joins the Palestine Police Force under the British ...

In 1912, the German, Stefan Haase, is studying Theology at Oxford. There he meets James Millward ...

George Windsor Earl (1813-1865) was a noted scholar, law agent, journalist, advocate, magistrate ...