Great Britain
- Author:Shakespeare, WilliamSummary:
- Author:BRUTON, Francis ArchibaldSummary:
On 16th August 1819 around 60,000 people gathered at St. Peter’s Fields, Manchester, to rally for parliamentary reform. Shortly after the meeting began, a troop of Hussars and local yeomanry rode into the crowd, wielding...
- Author:Rose, SimonSummary:
Travelling back in time a boy fights for his life in the terrifying London of 1483.
- Author:Plaidy, JeanSummary:
The marriage of Katharine of Aragon and King Henry VIII was a right royal match. England loved the young lovers, but hardly were they wed when powerful people in Henry's court were spinning webs of intrigue around the innocent...
- Author:McKay, SinclairSummary:
A remarkable look at the day-to-day lives of the codebreakers whose clandestine efforts helped win World War II.
- Author:Orczy, Emmuska OrczySummary:
The Scarlet Pimpernel and his followers risk their lives to save the French aristocrats from the guillotine during the French revolution.
- Author:Royal, PriscillaSummary:
The murder victim, a newcomer, was disliked in Tyndal village, and no one wants one of their own hanged for the deed. Fingers quickly point to a Jewish family, refugees under the relocation provisions of King Edward’s Statute of the...
- Author:Edwards, Ruth DudleySummary:
Life in a dismal bureaucratic cul-de-sac is not what Robert Amiss expects when the British civil service lends him for a year to the British Conservation Corporation. In fact, he finds himself condemned to a non-job in a backwater,...
- Author:Rizzolo, S. K.Summary:
This well imagined, carefully detailed, and cleverly plotted debut draws on actual historical events of 1811 London. Regency London knows Constance Tyrone as the conspicuously celibate founder of the St. Catherine Society, dedicated to...
- Author:Marston, EdwardSummary:
The mysterious Simon Chaloner appears at the Queen’s Head Pub following a performance by Lord Westfield’s Men, a leading Elizabethan company of players. Then Chaloner follows producer Nicholas Bracewell and playwright Edmund Hoode home...
- Author:Gregory, PhilippaSummary:
Gregory weaves the second installment of the Cousins' War trilogy that follows Lady Margaret Beaufort as she desperately tries to ensure her son Henry VII becomes the rightful heir to the throne.
- Author:Wilde, OscarSummary:
Young and beautiful Dorian Gray wishes that a newly commissioned portrait would age in place of his splendid body. His wish is granted, and the newfound lack of consequence attracts him to dark deeds and decadence. A classic fable about...
- Author:Sparks, EdwardSummary:
Trapped in a London laboratory during a worker uprising in 1924, ex-artillery officer and physics instructor Jeremy Tuft awakens 150 years later - in a neo-medieval society whose inhabitants have forgotten how to build or operate...
- Author:Milne, ChristopherSummary:
This second part of Christopher Milne's autobiography provides an account of a young man's search for identity, of a struggling (but later thriving) bookshop, and of Milne's own family life in a small English country town.
- Author:Stross, CharlesSummary:
The Laundry Files' "fast-paced blend of espionage thrills, mundane office comedy and Lovecraftian horror" (SFX) continues as Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross assigns a day trader to a permanent position on the...
- Author:Allbeury, Ted.Summary:
- Author:Collins, WilkieSummary:
Written in 1868 and considered the first English mystery story, the moonstone is a yellow diamond of unearthly beauty originally stolen from a shrine in India.
- Author:LOVELL, Mary S.Summary:
THE MITFORD GIRLS tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are as sensational as any novel: Nancy, whose bright social existence masked an obsessional doomed love which soured her...
- Author:Pyle, HowardSummary:
Howard Pyle's heroic version of Robin Hood begins after a conflict with some foresters leads to Robin of Locksley becoming the outlaw famous for stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Each chapter tells a different tale of Robin...
- Author:Silva, DanielSummary:
Retired CIA officer Michael Osbourne is lured back to the Agency after he discovers that the Protestant gunmen have marked his father-in-law, the American Ambassador to London, for execution. He sets in motion a deadly contest of wits...