“I think something terrible happened here”

2025: When Amy and her husband buy an old property on Oxford’s High Street with plans to open a new coffee shop, the discovery of a mural painted on a wall hints at a story that has lain dormant for centuries. Before long, Amy is seeing and hearing echoes of the past, and a young woman who once lived there. As the penny university reveals its secrets, will Amy’s growing obsession with the past lose her everything she has in the present?

1656: Abandoned by her lover and pregnant, Tilly is sent from the small village of Islip to live with cousins in Oxford where she will work in their coffeehouse. She is soon drawn into the excitement of her new life in the city, until the return of a nightmare from her past changes the course of her future. As the time for her child to arrive draws closer, Tilly is faced with a difficult decision; does she turn her back on everything she has hoped for and settle for a different life? She follows her instinct

If death offered you one last curtain call, would you step into the spotlight?
Lydia Caldwell, a Gen Alpha theatre kid, has rules: no romance, no friends, no impossible dreams. Focus on acting. Then she dies onstage.
When her spirit is pulled through the theatre’s ghost light portal, Lydia lands in the Bowery Theatre of 1849 New York City, disguised as a living human. To move on, she must complete the ghost light’s task: perform one final time.
Lydia meets Copeland Doyle, a musician with a smile that honestly should be illegal, and Ida Rose Blair, a haughty socialite promoting women’s rights in a world determined to cage her. Soon, Lydia is breaking every rule: falling for Copeland, encouraging Ida Rose’s aspirations, and dodging a hostile ghost in a city bristling with xenophobia, nativism, and rival gangs.
As New York hurtles toward violence, Lydia must choose between her afterlife destiny and the beautiful connections and the unexpected romance that make her yearn to stay.

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.

Coming Sept. 23, 2026. At the turn of the century, twenty-three-year-old Paul Tietjens is a gifted classical pianist with dreams of greatness and a non-refundable ticket to Europe to study with the master composers of his time.
But when the bank calls in the debt on his family’s Missouri farm, Paul forgoes his dream to save them from financial ruin. Desperate to find a new road to success, he moves to up-and-coming Chicago, where he persuades author L. Frank Baum to collaborate on a comic opera of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, setting the stage for the defining cultural touchstone that we know today.
Paul embarks on his opera with high hopes, but scandal threatens his soaring ambition when he falls in love with his best friend’s beautiful but married sister, and his fears grow as the Wizard of Oz demands not only his talent but his soul.

Isabel Morton’s prominent Nova Scotia family wants the best for their twenty-four-year-old daughter—a suitable marriage—but Isabel will have none of it. She wants to be free, even if it means she must live as an “old maid” in a garret. Then she meets William Wishart, who offers her the freedom to follow her own stars if she marries him.
But how does a woman follow her own stars in a culture where women are the property of their fathers, or if married, their husbands, and are to be meek, pious, and subservient? With no access to representative government, no right to vote, how can women be free? Isabel tries to find a way through many twists and turns of fate until, at last, she realizes that freedom for herself is not enough; she chooses to work for women's suffrage in order to gain freedom for all women and their daughters and granddaughters.
Spanning the years 1837 to 1873 and based on the author’s own family, this work of historical fiction follows Isabel from bucolic Upper Dyke V

In a land torn by crusade and rebellion, honor is earned in blood.

1205. Richard Fitz Simon has fled England after his title was usurped, joining the Livonian Order of Swordbrothers – a German brotherhood of warrior-monks fighting to bring the word of God to the pagan frontier. After slaying the Lithuanian champion at the Battle of Rodenpois, Richard is celebrated by the Order and their Semigallian allies.

Yet his position remains precarious. Jealous rivals question his right to stand among the brotherhood, and his master, Knight-brother Rudolf, is enraged by Richard’s disobedience. When dark secrets from Lübeck resurface, Richard also finds himself at odds with Bishop Albert, head of the Christian mission in Livonia. As he struggles to reconcile faith, duty and identity, he is drawn into a brutal world of suspicion and bloodshed.

Bound by faith. Forged in battle. Haunted by doubt.

1242: Wounded at the Battle on the Ice, English knight Richard Fitz Simon becomes a prisoner of Prince Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod. Intrigued by his captive, Alexander orders his scholar to record Richard’s life story.

Richard’s chronicle begins in 1203, when betrayal shatters his training for knighthood and forces him to flee England. In Lübeck, he finds work with a ruthless salt merchant and becomes entangled in an illicit affair – until scandal and violence drive him onward once more.

Seeking purpose, Richard joins the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, a militant order bent on bringing Christendom to the pagan Baltic. In the harsh outpost of Riga, he faces not only enemy tribes beyond the walls, but suspicion, ambition, and betrayal within – while grappling with doubts that threaten his faith.

When a vast pagan army threatens to overwhelm the commandery, Richard must choose what kind of man – and believer – he will become.

Acadian Shorelines relays the hijinks and heartaches of teenager Tommy Breau growing up in the late 1960s in a small Acadian fishing village in Nova Scotia, where American radio broadcasts of pop music, world news, and baseball come in more clearly than the Habs games from Montreal. Hilarious and heart-breaking in equal measure and featuring a rich cast of smart but clueless friends, wished-for girlfriends, and a loving if strict family, Acadian Shorelines has the adult Tommy looking back and wondering whether the French Catholic upbringing he was so eager to escape may have been the best years of his life.

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."