As the 1920s open, Denmark has fallen; Scandinavia and the whole of Northern Europe are under Russian occupation. The Baltic is a completely Russian lake.The newly-established Turkish Republic has lost its last foothold in Europe and Great Britain faces airborne and amphibious assault across the North Sea.In Asia however, Russia continues to lose ground. India becomes part of the Stuart Empire and, although this acquisition has been without bloodshed, nationalist aspiration...

By 1861, the General European Wars have ended and the map of the whole continent has been substantially re-drawn. For the restored Stuart dynasty, the hoped-for peace will not, however, happen.Over the next ten years, Great Britain will face riots and attempted revolution with parliamentary reform being the only possible remedy.And British North America will face the prospect of Civil War between East and West.Karl Marx, Brigham Young, Benjamin Disraeli, Abraham Lin...

The Great War has been raging for eighteen years.In celebration of Christmas, Tsar Nicholas II attends the theatre in St. Petersburg but he is not to survive the evening.His successors determine that taking part in the peace talks which Pope Benedict has mooted may well be to Russia's advantage. After deliberate delays, they travel to Rheinfelden to meet with British Prime Minister Bonar Law, French President Georges Clemenceau and American Prime Minister Woodrow Wilson....

Initially, the Easter Uprising of 1916 was judged a failure. A glorious failure certainly - but a failure. And yet, within five years, most of Ireland was independent of British rule.In this enthralling first episode of his new Celtic Trilogy, George Kearton, author of the nine-volume "House of Stuart Sequence" of alternative history, sets out how an Irish Uprising during The Great War could have succeeded.

For reasons of political expediency, United Whigs and Tories Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, has persuaded Queen Victoria to accept the title of Queen-Empress of the Stuart realms.Whilst the great and good assemble at Glenfinnan for the ceremony, vast numbers of Russian troops are on the move. Denmark is attacked; Russian forces capture Norway and the Belgian provinces of the Republic of The Netherlands. As the frontiers of France are threatened, Sweden falls to the Russians withou...

As the nineteenth century opens, Europe is in turmoil. A foreign King sits on the throne of Spain and France is in the midst of revolution. How will the restored House of Stuart deal with the challenges which abound in Europe and the Americas?With slave revolts in the West Indies, a military dictator controlling France and old enemies Austria and Prussia forming an alliance there is much to concern Great Britain and British North America. Scottish troops find themselves fighting in...

1851 – and, as a result of a double Royal suicide, England and France are at war.The chosen battleground is northern Spain – but this is only the first part of Europe to feel the dreadful effects of The General European Wars.Conflict spreads northwards, from Tyneside to Dunkirk and into Belgium and the Netherlands.Denmark is threatened with conquest and, in the east, the Russian Tsar gathers an army of nearly 400,000 men to achieve a long-held desire; to turn the Ba...

As the twentieth century approaches, politics and extreme weather have combined to turn the world upside down and the changes are still happening.Germany is gone; Central and Western Europe now try to adjust to new realities.A series of natural disasters sweep across the Stuart realms and an American millionaire's tendency to seasickness changes the shape of international trade for ever.Trying to kill the monarch becomes an international obsession whilst a British p...

It is January 1st, 1746.The victorious Jacobite armies, led by Prince Charles Edward Stuart, are entering London.George II has been forced into exile in Hanover and James Stuart will shortly be crowned as King James III."The King Shall Have His Own Again" tells the story of a restored Stuart monarchy up to the year 1800 and how history, as we know it, could have changed.From French India to Drumossie Moor, from Australia to the Caribbean, from Yorktown to Ma...

The Jacobite Uprising of 1745 is one of those parts of British history that we all think we know a little bit about. The romantic story of "Bonnie Prince Charlie" and his gallant Highlanders invading England, only to turn back at Derby and subsequently be defeated at Culloden is part of the cultural glue that holds 'Great Britain' together.But what if things had turned out differently?Could the Prince and his Scottish, Irish, Welsh and English supporters have reached London...

What if Remain had won in 2016? What if Britain had never joined the EEC? What if groups other than Europe had decided to unite?In this EU-themed collection from Sea Lion Press and edited by Tom Black (Agent Lavender, Shuffling the Deck, Zonen), you will find some worlds very like our own, and others very dissimilar indeed. Questions as simple as “what if Maastricht failed?” are posed, along scenarios as complex as an ideologically-reversed Cold War or a federalised Britis...