With the Scottish king David safely under lock and key in London, George Crandall can turn his attention to making Capelburgh secure against the dreaded Black Death. A stone mason and a barber are already on his staff, now he adds an alchemist who can make aqua vitae, a sovereign remedy against infection. First, however, he must deal with a girl who doesn't talk, an invasion of Egyptians, and a black-robed inquisitor. Through two years of fear he keeps his people safe, but disaster falls i...

I am an experienced and popular preacher. I believe that anyone can preach provided God has called them to do so. Although God can speak through the most feeble of sermons, yet as good workmen we should do our best to make our messages interesting and acceptable to our hearers.In this book I share 40 years of preaching experience, recognising that what works for me may not work for you. My prayer is that at least some of the ideas in this book will help you become a more effective ...

Arxes, a young man of Corinth, is both delighted and dreadfully embarrassed: his father is about to buy him a slave girl of his very own! Love follows its usual rocky course until the girl hears an itinerant Jewish philosopher talking in her own language. The big question is, can Lucius, Arxes' Roman friend, get the girl he wants?The book has extensive footnotes which quote original sources to give a dramatic picture of life in ancient Greece.

Despite its isolation, Capelburgh continues to be a refuge to a wide range of mediaeval folk - a former Templar Knight, a man who doesn't want a wife, a group of Scottish captives who want to go home rich, even a tentative atheist. This peaceful world is threatened when the Scots attack and capture Berwick-upon-Tweed and King Edward III orders massive retaliaion. George Crandall finds himself playing host to royalty and in return is knighted - and then expected to take part in what he know...

Following the unexpected death of his friend and mentor, Dr Thoroughgood, George Crandall returns to the Twenty-second Century to visit him before he dies. Then Hilda and her children return to the Thirteenth Century for a visit and things get really complicated when, the day after they leave, Hilda's son George returns, eight years older, and determined to accompany George on the disastrous invasion of France in 1359. George records in stark detail the disintegration of King Edward's hope...

When circumstances make it necessary for George Crandall to retire from his position as Lord of Capelburgh in favour of Ranulf, his son, he has leisure to go on pilgrimage with his beloved wife, Margaret. First, though, the formalities of the succession must be arranged and for that a sixteen year old girl proves invaluable. Wandering around Mediaeval England is all very well in summer, but as winter draws on George finds his thoughts turning towards the comforts of Twenty-second Century h...

There may be official peace between Scotland and England, but lawlessness still reigns in the Debatable Lands along the border. As Lord of Capelburgh, George Crandall finds himself reluctantly drawn into executing judgement on robbers, fraudsters, and noble murderers. In the midst of it all he can't resist planting the idea for an epic poem in the mind of a talented author, the young Geoffrey Shoemaker. Alas, his successes bring him to the attention of authority and George and his son Ranu...

When the Black Death returns to England for the second time George Crandall is ready to stand another siege - but fate conspires that he ends up in Newcastle as the plague reaches that city. With mounting horror he sees the death toll rise and gladly takes to the sea to escape - only to discover that plague is a shipmate! Just when he thinks that things are finally settling down again, nature strikes a deadly blow at Capelburgh and George and his household are lucky to escape with their li...

When the French philosopher and scientist Blaise Pascal made his famous wager, it was widely deemed to be an unanswerable argument for Christianity. In the three centuries since, however, other arguments have been advanced that seem to nullify Pascal's Wager.But do they? Pascal's argument was a cynical approach to theology - and so long as you are a cynic, neither science nor the problem of evil nor the complications of miracles detract from the force of the wager.Pascal's ...

To his horror, Alec Hughes realises that the attractive young girl he met by Niagara Falls is trying to kill herself - and that's a waste of a perfectly usable body. Gradually he persuades her to give her body to him and let him kill her - but what exactly is "her"? Can Kayley die yet keep her body alive? As they explore the issue together, their relationship slowly changes and Alec discovers the sinister link between the girl he now loves and missing student Barbara Leeson. Meanwhile Kayl...

This is a rollicking "Boys' Own" tale of the Crusades with battles, sieges, spies and an imperious, red-haird girl who knows what she wants and goes for it. Those who worry about such things can rest assured that it all ends happily - well, more or less happily. Boy gets girl, girl gets boy, with lots of adventures along the way.

When Nick Hawthorne makes a killing on shares in Martian Zinc, he celebrates by buying Cherie Bonson, the famous pop star - or at least, the Robomate version, complete with "Genuine People Personality".And that is the start of his problems, because Cherie Bonson is vain, volataile and very far from being the girl of his dreams. It takes an ex-girlfriend and some very expensive computer chips to sort things out, but not in the way Nick had expected.