The old ways are dying, and a mighty empire is reaching out across the sea.
Britannia, 42AD. The wild island at the fringe of the known world is in chaos.

Cunobelin, High King of the Britons, is dead. His heirs, warrior princes Togodubnos and Caratacos, have spurned the careful alliances that kept the irresistible might of the Roman Empire from Britannia’s shores for so long.

In this land of warriors, druids and kings, riven by conflict, orphan boy Cullen must fight for survival within a tribe he despises. Captured by the Catuvellauni after a brutal raid on his own Atrebates tribe, he must find his purpose swiftly if he is to avoid the murderous attentions of the chief druid.

As the Britons turn inward, jostling for dominion, avaricious eyes look on from across the Narrow Sea. The mighty legions gather…

This is the epic story of Britain on the cusp of the Roman conquest, of a clash of civilisations and the last cries of resistance from a doomed way of life.

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It’s 1878 and Eva Carmichael is excited to begin her new life in Australia. Her parents and five of her siblings are with her on board the Loch Ard from London, which after three months at sea is just one day’s sail from Melbourne. But late into that last night, the Loch Ard strikes rocks and sinks and all perish except Eva and a midshipman, Tom Pearce. These teenagers face a gritty struggle for survival on the wreckage-strewn shore of a remote gorge. Yet, after a dramatic rescue by a local farmer, the two young people find they must then tackle grief and growth as overnight they become inspirational but unwilling heroes across Australia and around the world.

Some stories are lost to the ravages of time… this one will not be

Emelin Lambert is an eleven-year-old orphan in medieval England, who has an incredible gift in illuminating manuscripts. She's also quick-witted, mouthy, and nearly always in trouble.

One terrible day, her last relative is killed and Emelin ends up being in possession of a manuscript that belongs to Geoffrey Chaucer. She cannot stay safely in her home with the manuscript so she begins a grim wintery journey to what she hopes will be safety.

Along the way Emelin meets a boy named Wolf who rescues her from a violent thief. Together, Wolf and Emelin flee to Reading Abbey.

The journey makes Wolf deathly ill and Emelin learns that she cannot always depend on others. She will have to fight alone, so she battles the adult world, and she battles fear. She puts her gift to work with the hope that her skills might help her and Wolf survive.

In 1898, Elliot is 12 when his friend Isaac gives him Alice’s old book. But Alice is dead and, when Elliot opens the book, he finds notes and drawings that Alice has pencilled in around the margins. Isaac says the marks are just scribbles but Elliot’s curiosity is triggered and he wonders if they’re actually clues. Step by step, Elliot unravels Alice’s notes. He doesn’t know what they’re pointing at until he’s caught up in a battle against the Coopers who are on a mission to cheat Isaac’s and Alice’s families of their properties near the Hawkesbury River in NSW. But there’s another battle going on too, inside Elliot, and it becomes a challenge he was not prepared to face again.

In April 1975, Saigon was a dangerous place. US forces had left Vietnam two years prior, and the northern and southern governments were functioning as two countries following the Paris Peace Accords of 1973. But by early 1975, communist forces had begun making their way southward to depose the S. Vietnamese government and "unify" the country. Knowing his family could face execution if they stayed, Chau Nguyen, a Lt Col and S. Vietnamese C-130 pilot, hatched a daring plan to save his family - his wife, Mai and their two children, Mai's parents, and her three younger brothers. Uncommon Cargo is based on the true story of the Nguyen family's race to escape South Vietnam and reach freedom. It would not be without heartache, tragedy, and despair but it is also a story of love, strength of family, and determination. Much has been written about the American war experience in Vietnam, but little chronicles the lives of the families who survived it. Uncommon Cargo is the story of one that did.

A young woman in Edwardian England is expected to behave with propriety, especially if she is the daughter of a vicar. But Harriet Loxley’s family is not as staid as you might imagine and when Harriet leaves Nottingham for London to pursue her studies it is with her family’s support. What she doesn’t tell them is that she also intends to seek out the Women’s Social and Political Union and the notorious Christabel Pankhurst.

Harriet’s fight for the vote plays out against the background of her family’s ups and downs in the Nottingham lace industry and her own struggle to realize her potential in a society that sets limits on women.

‘A smartly plotted historical novel offering an intriguing insight into the Suffragette movement and what they were fighting for. Highly recommended!’ – The Wishing Shelf

Sir Francis Burdett, the 5th Baronet of Bramcote, has, for the most part, been forgotten by history. He was a member of the English House of Commons for 48 years, from 1796 to his death. For most of his career in Parliament, he was a “radical reformer” and the champion of the Westminster rabble that he represented. In addition to parliamentary reform, he championed free speech, prison reform, the Catholic emancipation, and the elimination of flogging. He survived an affair with Lady Oxford, a duel with James Paull, and two prison sentences. For several days in 1810, there were riots (and deaths) in the streets of London, as the government attempted to imprison Sir Francis in the Tower of London. This may have been as close as the English ever came to a French-style Revolution. The book takes the form of “an interview with a dead man.” The answers, for the most part, reflect his letters and speeches -- on the hustings and in the House of Commons.

How significant is love? Is your life worth risking for it? John, a biracial Canadian lawyer living in the Victorian era, faces a difficult decision when he travels to Texas to settle his father's estate and encounters a woman named Virginia. Upon learning of his deceased grandfather's will, John Livingston defies his father's wishes and travels to Texas to sell the inherited plantation. In Texas, John rescues Virginia, a woman he meets, but their love is threatened by Harrison Connell, a plantation owner who wants her. John and Virginia's adventure to Canada is threatened by Harrison Connell's pursuit, leaving John to weigh the value of love against his life.

Building upon a thesis proposed by Arthur Gray, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, this book contains a history play which dramatizes how Henry Goodyer, Thomas Burdett, and Raphael Holinshed, via a literary salon called the “Polesworth Circle,” educated, trained, and supported two of England’s most notable poets and playwrights, Michael Drayton and William Shakespeare. The book begins with an introduction (the six premises of the play) and an overview (abstract, cast, setting, time). The play, which consists of nine acts, begins with a prologue - a brief history of England and Polesworth.

Two cousins, one the son of an English lord and other the son of a German prince, reunite in the summer of 1914 for an idyllic holiday at the family estate in Norfolk.
As they explore their own forbidden feelings for each other, the international situation worsens. Ultimately they are separated as war is declared and serve in the British Army and the German Navy. Both witness the horrors of war but their resolve to be reunited remains unbroken despite the obstacles they might face once the war is over.

It is the dawn of the second millennium. Two royal Scottish children are swept away from their families—Macbeth to the perilous royal court of his grandfather, Gruach to the remnants of the goddess-worshiping Picts. Macbeth learns that blood bonds are easily severed while Gruach finds her path only to lose it when she’s summoned back to the patriarchal world. They struggle with gaining and losing power, guided and misguided by prophecy and politics as their paths converge in a fiery bid for royal succession. Upon the Corner of the Moon separates literary legend from reality, immersing readers in a story about the real rulers who changed the face of Scotland. Some legends are true, and the truth sometimes becomes a legend—or a lie. This novel masterfully dovetails the Macbeth legend and the truth without sacrificing either.

"Nieman has woven a masterful story with the attention to detail of a historian and the lyrical skill of a seasoned poet." Books for Readers

The Air Ministry kept it secret - they didn't want their failure known. It was the biggest explosion ever on UK soil, not caused by enemy warfare. Bombs were being stored and refurbished in disused alabaster mines, under fields in Staffordshire, for the war effort. The store wasn't properly supervised and the resultant explosion left a crater as big as six football pitches, into which a whole farm disappeared. The explosion erupted in a mushroom cloud, containing earth, trees, cattle, and 20 ton chunks of alabaster, that descended, crashing through buildings for miles around. The explosion was recorded in Geneva and heard in London. Survivors were trapped underground, desperately trying to escape the toxic gas pervading the tunnels. Rescue services were called from all over, attempting to get to them but bring held back by the gas. Bodies were still being recovered years afterwards. This is a history that should never be allowed to be forgotten.