14 Ergebnisse.

He only sought the truth. But some truths are best left buried. Wrexham, 1876. Meet Alfred Neobard Palmer, an unlikely hero. "It was a death which had brought him here. Death by snake venom, of all things." Palmer - and his more courageous sweetheart, young Ettie Francis. A series of accidental deaths which increasingly seem - well, more than simply accidental. Deaths luring Palmer and Ettie, slowly but surely, towards a terrifying climax th...

A handy volume that provides twenty stopping points around a two-mile self-guided walk to discover some of Wrexham''s hidden history. ''You don''t need old photos'', say the authors, ''to recreate the past here. Just this guidebook and a bit of imagination.

Liverpool, 1911. The life of young Cari Maddox is already complicated enough. Holding together her fractious Welsh family...her suffragette's struggle for women's rights...her guilty secrets. And that's before the arrival of her deranged 'cousin', Tom Priddy. Then the plight of African Kru seaman, Amos Gartee, already on strike at the Harrington Dock. All this, and a River Mersey on the verge of revolution, of rebirth. Mysteries to be solved. ...

Swear, ' Leclerc shouted, 'that you will never lay down your arms until our colours, our beautiful colours, are flying afresh onStrasbourg Cathedral!'Headstrong newspaperman Jack Telford's weapon is his pen, but the oath he's taken at Kufra will still bind his fate to the passions and perils of the men and women who shape his life - his personal heroes, like the exiled Spanish Republicans now fighting for Free France. But from Oran and Casabla...

1700 and East India Company Governor Elihu Yale is back in London, seemingly intent on reconciliation with his wife Catherine after ten years of separation. But those ten years have given her a taste of independence that she's not ready to easily surrender. The ghosts of her previous life continue to haunt her, however - yet another former foe returned with her husband and seemingly still intent on revenge. And a more evil enemy still, in the ...

1689 and the wife of English East India Company Governor Elihu Yale risks the six-month sea voyage from old Madras to her home in London with her youngest children. But after twenty years away, it's a city Catherine now barely recognises - built anew after the Great Fire and occupied by William the Third's soldiers in the wake of the Glorious Revolution. Yet some things never change, and the secrets she thought she'd left behind in Fort St. Ge...

1721, and elderly Catherine Yale discovers that second husband Elihu's will has left her no bequest except the slur of branding her a 'wicked wife.' True, her private journals are filled with intimacies: her inner thoughts about life in Old Madras, where the East India Company's intrigues are as complex as any in the Mughal Emperor's court, and the espionage she has undertaken, despite the danger into which it has thrust both herself and her c...

Octubre 1938. El corresponsal de prensa extranjero, Jack Telford, está huyendo por el norte de España, territorio que se encuentra ahora en manos del franquismo. Acaba de matar a una figura importante y cercana al Generalísimo. Telford es así un hombre buscado. Tres enemigos mortales diferentes le pisan los talones durante los últimos días de la Guerra Civil Española, en una persecución que lleva desde Madrid hasta el último puesto avanzado de...

October 1938, and foreign correspondent Jack Telford is on the run in northern Spain, territory now controlled by Franco's fascists. And he's killed somebody close to the Generalísimo's heart. Telford's a hunted man, and hunted by three different and deadly enemies. In a climactic chase from Madrid to the Republic's last outpost, in Alicante, during the closing days of the Spanish Civil War, Jack will learn hard lessons about the conflict betw...

September 1938. Spain's Civil War has been raging for two years, the outcome still in the balance. But rebel General Franco is so confident of winning that he has opened up battlefield tourism along the country's north coast. Jack Telford, a left-wing reporter, finds himself with an eccentric group of touristson one of the War Route's yellow Chrysler buses. Driven by his passion for peace, Telford attempts to uncover the hidden truths benea...

1744, and the country is threatened by civil war as the exiled Stuarts attempt to recover their lost throne. Their Manchester supporters will use any means to raise support for the Jacobite Cause, but those loyal to the current monarchy are determined to stop them. As opposing forces gather, the fates of both sides will lie in the hands of one man.

1879 - the British army has suffered one of the worst defeats in its history at the hands of the Zulu King Cetshwayo. Now the British seek revenge and a second invasion of Zululand is about to take place. Within the Zulu regiments charged with repelling the assault is Shaba kaNdabuko - driven by ambition to share the glory of battle, to bring honour and cattle to his family. Meanwhile, new British soldiers are shipped out to replace thos...

On the bloody fields of Waterloo, a battle-weary canteen mistress of Bonaparte's Imperial Guard battalions must fight to free her daughter from all the perils that war will hurl against them - before this last campaign can kill them both. "Superb! David Ebsworth has really brought these dramatic events to life. His description of the fighting is particularly vivid and compelling." - Andrew W. Field, author of 'Waterloo: The French Perspecti...

In the lands once named Britannia by the Empire and its vanished Legions, the Oak Seers' song-sayers still weave their words into the lore by which everyday life is ordered, into the myths and sagas of hero-tales, and into the very fates that will determine whether the years ahead shall be bathed in shining light or plunged into a terrible darkness. In his fifth novel, David Ebsworth brings to life the stories of young warlord Ambros Skyhound,...