Rex Hellyer - an aspiring poet and novelist - leaves home to start a new life. He seeks to find the inspiration to write by living in a Second World War pillbox overlooking an Essex village. He is helped at first in this venture by the landowner's daughter, Alice. Then the villagers become suspicious of him and his new life turns to disaster.This is a compelling story of hope mingled with despair - a black comedy where humour and tragedy mix in equal measures.

Soldier To MartyrThe story of St. Alban told in a modern setting.Albanus is a soldier who has fought against the totalitarian regime that has taken over his country in a region of Eastern Europe. Exhausted by the long war, he travels to the capital city where, in order to survive, he is forced to work for the new government. A Christian priest he had met on his journey to the city now slowly converts him to his faith, although Christianity is proscribed by the regime.A...

The excavation of a well at a Roman villa site in Somerset brings together a man and a woman of greatly differing ages and backgrounds – Anthony, in his mid-sixties, a retired civil servant, and Giuditta, thirty years his junior, a beautiful Italian.She shares his archaeological passion. They both have their secrets, which slowly become clear as the well is dug. What is found deep beneath the earth and what is exposed of their livesmake a dangerous dichotomy.The past l...

A story of archaeology, of war and romance, retold from true events.Having worked for the gifted and much-loved the Reverend James Joyce excavating the Roman town at Silchester in the 1870s, George Maple later joins the Rifles regiment and fights in wars in South Africa, where he is badly wounded. Now reunited with an earlier employer - Lord Selborne, the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain - at his grand house in the Hampshire village of Blackmoor, he finds himself increasingly haunt...

SupaPodia increasingly dominates the globe. In its underground living chambers, known as SupaPods, everything needed by its population of Podders is entirely free.But is this a paradise or a hell? Dr. Julian Foster, who has entered a SupaPod as a staff member, discovers the truth. He escapes into the old outer world and begins a battle against the SupaPods and the ruling Eliti class which controls them. He is assisted by Tina, daughter of the High Director of SupaPodia. Her Christi...

BATTLE…..REVENGE…..REDISCOVERY…..It is 122AD and the Emperor Hadrian is visiting Britannia…Hadrian wants to learn about the uprising of Queen Boudica sixty years earlier, which nearly drove the Romans out of the province. In particular, he wishes to visit the sites of the battles that were fought then - sites which even in his own day were growing hazy in memory but in our own time have long been lost. The final battle that defeated Boudica...

FIRST BITE tells a story with the background of the use in psychiatry in the 1960s of the hallucinogenic drug, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25).Fernley Park Rehabilitation Centre in Surrey is an institution where the anxious and the obsessive, the alcoholic, the traumatised, and the sexually repressed, are sent to be treated, many with the new drug therapies that are the particular specialisation of the innovative and anarchistic Dr. Marius Locker. The patients know his unit as t...

Dissolution 1940 is a story of love and war, set against the imagined background of a Nazi invasion and occupation of England.It is September 1940, and Rosa Winterfield, the matron of a boys’ school in Kent, escapes ahead of the invading German Army with a young Home Guardsman, Jonny Munton. The two survive a terrifying journey, eventually reaching East Anglia. Out of the close intimacy of their ordeal, they find love for each other. As the nation capitulates to Nazi power, they de...

Julius Caesar comes into his own as a man, warrior, senator, husband, and leader in this stunning novel of Ancient Rome, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Emperor: The Gates of Rome.“Utterly marvelous . . . Historical fiction of the highest order . . . [brings] Julius Caesar to life in a truly magical, electrifying way.”—Toronto TelegramIn a sparsely settled region of North Africa, a band of disheve...

**The novel that sparked the hugely popular Murdoch Mysteries television series celebrates its 25th anniversary.Includes a new introduction and a previously unpublished short story featuring the young Detective Murdoch.**In the cold Toronto winter of 1895, the unclad body of a young woman is found naked and frozen in a quiet laneway. Acting Detective William Murdoch, driven by pity for the girl and the desire to secure his promotion, is determined to pursue every l...

The epic new novel in Conn Iggulden’s bestselling EMPEROR series: this special edition eBook features an exclusive short story by the author.Julius Caesar has been assassinated. A nation is in mourning. Revenge will be bloody.Rome’s great hero Julius Caesar has been brutally murdered by his most trusted allies. While these self-appointed Liberatores seek refuge in the senate, they have underestimated one man: Caesar’s adopted son Octavian, a man whose name will echo through...

A splendid thriller of skullduggery and smuggling, politics and passion, in the Carribean waters, with a twentieth-century Sharpe at the helm.