This innovative study shows how printing and translation transformed English literary culture in the Renaissance. Focusing on the century after Caxton brought the press to England in 1476, Coldiron illustrates the foundational place of foreign, especially French language, materials. The book reveals unexpected foreign connections between works as different as Caxton's first printed translations, several editions of Book of the Courtier, sixteenth-century multilingual poetry, and a royal Ar...

Stone Cold - Cold Burn - Cold FusionStone ColdBrian Hatcher has a lot of nerve, I thought I'd never see his face again.He left the police force to join the Iron Tornadoes, the very gang my brother was investigating.I hate him.I should hate him.I want to hate him.He has turned his back on everything he used to stand for.Yet I want him, even though he’s turned into a stone cold biker.C...

Aranthur is a student. He showed a little magical talent, is studying at the local academy, and is nothing particularly special. Others are smarter. Others are more talented. Others are quicker to pick up techniques. But none of them are with him when he breaks his journey home for the holidays in an inn. None of them step in to help when a young woman is thrown off a passing stage coach into the deep snow at the side of the road. And none of them are drawn into a fight to protect her.

She feels frozen in place. Until a pair of prison escapees descends on her hometown…Montana. Former MP Cache Iron’s future is as clear as the whiteout conditions blanketing town. Raised among generations of strong-willed men, the feisty woman spent much of her restless childhood exploring the backcountry of her family’s ranch. And now that unique knowledge is suddenly in demand when she’s contracted to help police track down two suspected killers.With the b...

Aranthur is a student. He showed a little magical talent, is studying at the local academy, and is nothing particularly special. Others are smarter. Others are more talented. Others are quicker to pick up techniques. But none of them are with him when he breaks his journey home for the holidays in an inn. None of them step in to help when a young woman is thrown off a passing stage coach into the deep snow at the side of the road. And none of them are drawn into a fight to protect her.

The ninth Inspector Castang murder mystery is "a heady pleasure" in which "learning the identity of the miscreant is only one of the delights" ( Publishers Weekly).Recently promoted to Commissaire of a small province in northeastern France, Inspector Castang must tread lightly when the wife of a prominent wine merchant is murdered. Especially since the victim's sister is very well-connected in political circles. Castang has his work cut out for him, especia...

Best selling author of COLDIRONSPOILS OF WAR a.k.a The Thieves1846President Polk believes in Manifest Destiny—the United States should extend to the Pacific Ocean. Mexico’s states California and New Mexico block him. Polk has a solution for that. He orders General Zachary Taylor take an army to Corpus Christi.Sixteen year old Charlie Bell lies about his age and joins Taylor's Army and marches with the 4,500 men to the Rio Grande. In a fierce battle with the ...

Tattercoats lives with her cold grandfather and has just two friends: a servant, Malkin, and a gooseherd, Pug. When an invitation arrives to a ball at the queen’s court, Tattercoats is desperate to go—how can Malkin and Pug help her get there?First published in 1998, Cold Iron is an enticing novel of fantasy and magic inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Cinderella-like fairytale ‘Tattercoats’, set in Elizabethan England.Sophie...

LEFT FOR DEAD, ALL HE WANTED FROM LIFE WAS TO KILL HIS KILLERSCOLDIRON COMES BACKLuke Coldiron was a hard man—but not as hard as the bullets ripping through his flesh. That's what a vicious army deserter named Jubal Clason and a renegade Indian warrior named Ghost Walker figured when they left his riddled body at the bottom of a ravine. They lifted his gold and rode off back to the mountains, where they thought they were as safe as being in church.They were wrong. W...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.She feels frozen in place. Until a pair of prison escapees descends on her hometown…Montana. Former MP Cache Iron’s future is as clear as the whiteout conditions blanketing town. Raised among generations of strong-willed men, the feisty woman spent much of her restless childhood exploring the backcountry of her family’s ranch. And now that unique knowledge is suddenly in demand when she’s contracted to help poli...

HE WAS HAIR-TRIGGERED FOR TROUBLE IN A LAND WHERE YOU LIVED OR DIED BY YOUR GUNSJUDGE AND EXECUTIONER - HARD MAN IN A HARD LANDIn a trackless territory where a man had to be as hard as cold-forged steel to survive, Luke Coldiron was harder than any man who tried to stand in his path. His strength, nerve, and guns had carved him a sprawling horse-breeding ranch out of the wilderness, and made him master of all he surveyed.But now from south of the border came a Mexic...

A collection of seventeen ghost tales, whittled down from a total of almost 200 submitted from writers both established and unknown, bring a selection both paying homage to the tradition of the ghost story and placing it firmly in the context of our own times.Thus, ghosts appear on football terraces, from cancer wards, on the floor of TV shows, on the late night service bus, over a Sunday dinner and at a supermarket checkout. These terrifying tales pay homage to the traditions of t...