Sr Arthur Wellesley's Talavera Campaign

Summer, 1809. Sergeant Joshua Lock and Captain John Killen ride deeper into Napoleon's Spain, a part of Sir Arthur Wellesley’s British army.
With Killen ordered to report on how far he believes Wellesley’s new allies can be trusted, Lock, serving away from his childhood friend, falls foul of a murderous local bandit.
And in a region mired in ancient superstition and myth, will either discover the dragon rumoured to prowl the wilderness of Castille is a chimaera of folklore, or horribly real?

Return to Portugal and the Combat at Amarante.

Spring, 1809. Sergeant Joshua Lock and Captain the Honourable John Killen are ordered to sail back to Portugal to contact a missing Exploring Officer working behind French lines. But even if they survive a gauntlet of enemies on the journey, delivering the vital message Killen carries may still not be enough to save Sir Arthur Wellesley’s imminent British re-invasion from ultimate failure.

"I really hope that Jonathan Hopkins continues this excellent series."
"...the book is a page turner..."

Sir John Moore's march through Spain and the retreat to Corunna.

Autumn 1808. The French army is gone from Portugal...except for one man. And what he has stolen is deadly secret.
Sergeant Joshua Lock and Captain the Honourable John Killen pursue the spy deep into Spain ahead of Sir John Moore’s British army - a force now ordered to fight the French alongside Spanish troops. But instead of helping their new allies, the Spaniards seem to have turned against them.
Whilst unbeknown to the bickering allies, Bonaparte himself is storming through Spain with but a single purpose......to destroy every ‘mangy English leopard.’

"Another highly enjoyable cavalry tale..."

From first meeting to the Battle of Vimeiro.

Joshua Lock and The Honourable John Killen are social opposites. Thrown together by a terrible accident, their ensuing friendship has to survive bigotry and separation. When military duty takes the two young men to Portugal, both must fight to save their regiment from disaster in the first great cavalry charge of the Peninsular War.

"Promising start to a Napoleon era cavalry series."
"Cracking read with some solid characters and well written action."

**Your choices determine survival.**

*Lanista of the Iron Sand* is an **interactive historical adventure**—a modern gamebook where **you decide what happens next**.

Enter the Roman arena as a former soldier forced to fight, scheme, and endure as every decision shapes your fate.

This is not a traditional novel.
It is a **choice-driven narrative** inspired by classic adventure gamebooks, where the reader is an active participant in the story.

**Features:**
- Interactive, choice-based storytelling
- Multiple story paths and endings
- Historically grounded Roman setting
- Designed for readers who enjoy agency, consequence, and replayability

Your fate is not predetermined.
Your survival depends on the choices you make.

Long before treaties and boundaries, the Creek people lived in harmony with the land. At the heart of this story is Shinbone, a young Creek with quiet strength and wisdom who becomes Chief. Hue a young white settler and Nizhoni, Shinbone’s daughter

Squeezed out of her summer plans with her friends by the Briars estate’s new owners, thirteen-year-old Emily must now care for that little boy from Canada’s West—while dealing with her own anxieties.
Emily throws herself into the challenge, and her friendship with Jackie blossoms.
But when following up on leads in a book, they discover a threat to their home. Emily and Jackie dig in to fix it.
Hmmm … When’s a win not a winner?
And those pesky Indigenous spirits Emily picked up last winter—they’re going wild.

The Briars Believed may be enjoyed as a standalone novel. It picks up from the end of The Briars Between in July 1919 and builds on the author’s family and Jackson’s Point lore.
This heartfelt coming-of-age tale, set against the backdrop of a turbulent time in Canadian history.
If you love shows like CBC’s Anne with an E and the works of Louise Erdrich, you’ll feel right at home in this series.
“Readers will enjoy history brought to life with warm

Hitler's Blitzkrieg erupts across Western Europe, thrusting British Private Bill Brooks into the hellish maw of modern war. Commanded by his elder brother, Lieutenant Jameson Brooks, Bill confronts staggering German assaults in the blood-soaked fields of Belgium and France. As the war darkens, Bill's hopes of making it to his French bride, Augusta, and keeping her safe from the Nazi wave, look more impossible.

In London, Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister on the very day the German offensive begins. Haunted by the ghosts of his Gallipoli failure, he battles a fractious Parliament, a contentious War Cabinet, wavering French allies, and the German steamroller.

As Bill claws for survival on the front lines, Winston fights to keep Britain in the war. Torn between conflicting duties, doubts and desires, both men wrestle with soul-crushing decisions that alter their lives and the course of history.

The ring is the key to Hannah’s future, but first she must unlock its past

1645: A widow of nearly two years, Catherine is content with a quiet life looking after her young daughter, until she catches the eye of a wealthy Royalist. He gives her a unique, engraved ring as a talisman for good luck, but these are turbulent times. As she is drawn into a secret relationship she finds herself pitted against his family and her own father, caught in a deadly battle of wills driven by the ambitions of men, from which no-one can emerge victorious.

2019: When Hannah finds the ring buried in her garden, she is fascinated and intrigued. Who had owned it and how had they lost it? Focused on peeling back the layers of history, Hannah doesn’t realise that a web of deceit is tightening around her. Then a series of events threaten her security and warn her that she may not be the only one interested in the ring.

1560, Berwick-upon-Tweed, northern England

Following the unexpected death of her father, a series of startling discoveries about the business she inherits forces Isabella Gillhespy to re-evaluate everything she understands about her past and expects from her future.
Facing financial ruin, let down by people on whom she thought she could rely, and suspected of crimes that threaten her freedom, Isabella struggles to prove her innocence.
But the stakes are even higher than she realises. In a town where tension between England and her Scottish neighbours is never far from the surface, it isn’t long before developments attract the interest of the highest authority in the land, Sir William Cecil, and soon Isabella is fighting, not just for her freedom, but her life. She must use her wits and trust her own instincts to survive.
Lady of the Quay introduces an enticing new heroine who refuses to be beaten, even as it becomes clear that her life will never be the same again.

Set against the terminal decline of the Qing Dynasty, The House of He follows a visionary patriarch in Guangzhou who executes a strategic dispersal of his six children across the globe to establish a borderless infrastructure of capital and intelligence. From the boardrooms of New York and the military-industrial machine of Tokyo to the high-stakes 1935 Silver Crisis in Hong Kong and the pivotal OCBC merger in Singapore, the He siblings navigate the existential tension between national allegiance and the cold, technical maneuvers of familial survival.

This is a work of "Financial Noir"—a chronicle of a lineage that transcends the nation-state to emerge as a clandestine architect of the nascent global order. For the thinking reader who prizes geopolitical strategy and the "Hard History" of the twentieth century, The House of He is a definitive narrative concerning the winning, losing, and ultimate auditing of an era.

Wealthy Chicago socialite Isabelle Bordner has lost her family to a deadly Typhoid outbreak. Heartbroken and alone, she travels to London in search of a new life...and a purpose that will heal her heart. Angus, an old Irish Wolfhound, wanders the dark alleyways of London, lost and alone, until his destiny unexpectedly entwines with Isabelle's. Together they embark on a remarkable journey: to inspire the animal welfare movement in America and endure an unforgettable voyage abord the RMS Titanic.

"I loved this book! From the beginning I was totally engrossed. A wonderful story with beautifully detailed and meaningful characterizations. I felt as though I was there on the Titanic with the vivid descriptions of the decor of the ship and the passengers. Absolutely a must read for anyone with a heart that has experienced the love of a dog and if you haven't had that, you will want it after reading this heart warming book."- Amazon reviewer.