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Roger Brook adventure No. II. Nov 1787 - Apr 1789 - Roger Brook - Prime Minister Pitt's most resourceful secret agent - is sent on a secret mission to the Russia of that beautiful and licentious Catherine the Great. Chosen by her to become her lover, Roger is compelled to move with the utmost care, for if it was known that not only was he spying for two countries but also having an affair with the sadistic and vicious Natalia, he would most certainly die. The story moves to Denmark and the tragedy of Queen Matilda, to Sweden and the amazing ride of King Gustavus to save Gothenburg - will Roger make it back to England and to his one great love, Georgina? Illustrated by John Holder. -
Book V of Earth's Children. Ayla and Jondalar have finally arrived at Jondalar's home, the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii. All Ayla wants is to settle down as Jondalar's mate and have children. But her unique spiritual gifts, viewed with wary eyes, still set her apart and the jealousy of Jondalar's former lover causes trouble. Cover art by Larry Rostant. -
Book V of Earth's Children. Ayla and Jondalar have reached his home, the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii. His family greet her warmly but are initially wary of the beautiful young woman, her strange accent and her tame wolf and horses. But Ayla is delighted to meet Zelandoni, the spiritual leader and healer. Ayla yearns for tranquility, to be Jondalar's mate and have children. But she will have a greater role to play in the destiny of the Zelandonii. Cover art by Larry Rostant. -
Jaxie Clackton dreads going home. His mum's dead, his old man bashes him mercilessly and he wishes he was an orphan. Then in one terrible moment his life is stripped to what he can carry and ow he can keep himself alive. There's just one person in the world who would understand hi and what he still dares to dream for. But to reach her he has to cross the vast saltlands on a trek that only a dreamer or a fugitive would dare to attempt. -
The Ship: C.S. Forester
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In this volume: The Three Strangers: Three people are brought together unaware of the connection they share. A Tradition Of Eighteen Hundred And Four: Did Napoleon land at Wessex to reconnoitre for an invasion that never happened? The Melancholy Hussar Of The German Legion: A lady neglected by her betrothed fall for another. The Withered Arm: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned... Fellow-Townsmen: What goes on behind respectable facades... Interlopers At The Knap: A tale of two pairs of star-crossed lovers. The Distracted Preacher: A clergyman lays aside his morals to help the woman he loves. An Imaginative Woman: A woman on holiday with her husband and children begins to fall in love with a poet after she reads his books. The Son's Veto: A widow might miss her one chance of happiness because of her selfish son. For Conscience' Sake: A man thinks so highly of his reputation that he prioritises it over all else - even over his conscience. A Tragedy Of Two Ambitions: Two brothers are so ambitious to get out of their social environment that they ignore moral values. On The Western Circuit: When an unhappily married lady agrees to help her young protegee write to her lover, she sets off an ongoing and ill-fated misunderstanding. To Please His Wife: A man is attracted to two women, forcing the former friends into rivalry. The Fiddler Of The Reels: A woman is seduced by a fiddler's tunes, which leads to her downfall. A Few Crusted Characters - Tony Kytes The Arch Deceiver: A man who is unsure about how he feels towards his fianceè; he returns to his former girlfriends and ends up more confused than before. A History Of The Hardcomes: Should James and Steve have married each other's wives? The Superstitious Man's Story: Strange things are happening on Midsummer's Eve. Andrey Satchel and the Parson and the Clerk: A telling of Andrey's attempt to get married while drunk! Old Andrey's Experience As A Musician: Andrey is determined to be in on the Squire's Christmas festivities by posing as a musician. Absent-Mindedness In A Parish Choir: After a very busy Christmas week and a few drinks of 'something to warm', the choir make a disgrace of themselves at church! The Winters And The Palmleys: A lonely old lady has good reason to be aloof from her neighbours. Incident In The Life Of Mr George Crookhill: Taking on another man's identity can lead to unexpected - and comical - consequences. Netty Sargent's Copyhold: A canny young lady outwits the local Land Agent. A Group Of Noble Dames - The First Countess Of Wessex: The Squire and his wife argue over an arranged marriage for their daughter. Barbara of The House Of Grebe: A young lord is determined to marry his neighbour's daughter - no matter how long it takes. The Marchioness Of Stonehenge: The beautiful and much admired Lady Caroline is bored with the continued interest of the 'right' young men and looks for intrigue instead. Lady Mottisfont: A newly-married young lady falls for the abandoned baby her husband found before the marriage. The Lady Icenway: A lovely noble lady marries a wealthy colonial trader - who may or may not be already married. Squire Petrick's Lady: As she is dying, Squire Petrick's wife has a lie on her conscience that she must confess. Anna, Lady Baxby: During the English civil War, the Baxbys are firmly on the Royalist side. But Lady Anna Baxby's brother is fighting for the Parliament. The Lady Penelope: Three suitors quarrel violently over the hand of Lady Penelope - so she agrees to marry each of them. The Duchess of Hamptonshire: Mr Oldbourne wants his daughter to marry a Duke - but she wants to marry the new curate.The Honourable Laura: An eloping couple's plans are sent awry when it's found that the prospective bride is already married. A Changed Man: A handsome young Hussar captain resigns his commission to become a preacher, taking a living in a small poor parish. The Waiting Supper: A mismatched couple, separated when very young, are destined to come together again. Alicia's Diary: A love triangle of two sisters, an artist and a lot of deception. The Grave By The Handpost: Sargent Holway commits suicide because his son wishes to be a mechanic instead of a soldier - and his son carries the guilt of his father's choice. Enter A Dragoon: A woman receives a letter from her former intended, once a corporal, but now promoted to sergeant-major. A Tryst At An Ancient Earthwork: Two friends meet on a rainy night for an illegal archaeological dig at an old Celtic fort. What The Shepherd Saw: A shepherd on night-watch observes clandestine meetings and partings on three consecutive nights. A Committee Man Of 'The Terror': Madamoiselle V meets the man responsible for the executions of her father, her uncle and her betrothed. Master John Horseleigh, Knight: A tale of mistaken motives and familial vengeance. -
Sanjay is a Bombay street child who scales the dizzying heights of the "Silver Castle" - the Indian film world - to stand at the parapet of success. Unfortunately for Sanjay, he is required to jump. In his astonishing odyssey from the gutter to the sound stages and salons of Bollywood, Sanjay meets up with every variant of sinner and would-be savior, and along the way he trades on his physical beauty and canny lingual facility to grab at luck wherever it may be had - anywhere, from in the pocket of a tourist, to the bed of a past-her-prime cinema princess. It is a true vision of an utterly false reality, the source of Sanjay's subsequent triumphs and of his ultimate misfortune. -
Rome, AD 70. August, and it's sweltering. For Marcus Didius Falco, tough private investigator, the summer holds few prospects other than spying on the senators' faithless wives. Then Falco meets the young, beautiful Sosia Camillina when he saves her from the attention of two idiot thugs, an encounter which seems to open new horizons. Then the appearance of a stolen silver pig - a silver-bearing ingot of lead - leads Falco to a plot to overthrown Emperor Vespasian. A murder swiftly follows and Falco finds himself in Britain, disguised as a slave in order to find out how, and by whom, the ingots are smuggled. -
The sorrows and joys of family life on a vast Queensland station, complete with all the harshness and beauty of the landscape as seen by child-then-adolescent Joan Whatmore. When her adventures take her into other worlds - the conventional elegance of her grandmother's house with its tea-parties and lace, the brilliance of the tropical island off the Barrier Reef where the brief idyll of her married life is spent, the grimy city where she struggles against poverty - all are recorded with vividness. Cottrell's first novel.
