Gillian Bradshaw

A farmer's son becomes Gwalchmai's servant and travels through Britain with this knight of the Round Table, son of the treacherous Morgawse, searching for Princess Elidan.

Hinton Rowan Helper (1829-1909) of North Carolina became one of the South's most controversial figures in the 1850s for his criticisms of slavery in The land of gold and his better known book, The impending crisis. Indeed, he found it prudent to move to New York before the Civil War, and he received diplomatic appointments in Latin America from the Lincoln administration. The land of gold (1855) draws on Helper's three years residence in California and leads him to the conclusion, "California is the poorest State in the Union." Aside from gold, he can see nothing to recommend the state economically, and his book damns the state's populace in terms of morals and intelligence. He spends three chapters dismissing San Francisco (although he later has good words for the Vigilance Committee), is disgusted by the Digger Indians at Bodega, finds fault with Sacramento, and reflects on prospecting on Yuba River and at Columbia. Some good words are reserved for Stockton, but on the whole, Helper writes to discourage emigrants from retracing his course round the Horn.

It is 1648, and the Civil War has been resurrected by a king still determined to be an absolute ruler and a parliament unable to agree how to govern without him. Blacksmith Jamie Hudson, weary and disillusioned, is forced to re-enlist, leaving his wife Lucy to struggle on alone in London: printing newsbooks, dodging the censors, and all the while supporting the Leveller demands for democracy and freedom, and hoping for a peace that will finally allow the two of them to be together again."--Publisher description.

When Marie Penthièvre of Chalandrey is abducted from her Norman priory and taken to the court of Brittany, she vows never to dishonor her family by marrying a Breton brute. There is only one man who might change her mind: Tiarán of Talensac, a handsome, skilled, and noble knight indeed. But Tiarnán does not love her, and when he marries a slip of a girl instead, Marie vows to become a nun as soon as she is able. But Tiarnán has a secret, and that slip of a girl betrays him once she learns of it. When Tiarnán disappears and is presumed dead, his widow marries his onetime rival and assumes title to his land, which steadily begins to decline under her unskilled, merciless rule. Marie knows something is wrong, and only she is clearheaded enough to rescue Tiarnán and return him to his rightful status. But can she do it before it is too late? (from the back cover)

In ancient Egypt an unlucky young man meets a wealthy dragon and together they find dangerous but exciting adventure.

Discovering that she has only six months to live, Antonia Lanchester decides to turn whistle-blower on her company, Masterpiece Home Design, which uses illegally obtained timber from rain forests, and reveal their involvement in the deaths of environmental protesters in Malaysia.

The Greek god Apollo sends a talented young magician on a quest to stop an evil queen from exterminating a small tribe of griffins.

Spring, 266 BC. When Isokrates, helmsman of the Rhodian warship Atalanta, encounters a pirate vessel off the Lycian coast, he finds himself caught up in affairs of state more deadly than the naval battles hes accustomed to. Among the pirates victims is a beautiful woman, the mistress of a king, who is fleeing to her lovers enemy with news that will start a war to engulf the whole of the east.

Gwalchmai journey's to the safety of his uncle King Arthur and his court to escape from the evil magic of his mother, Morgawse, a bitter enemy of Arthur's.

Young Archimedes is recalled home from his studies to Syracuse, where his father lies ill and the city is at war with the Romans, in a fictional portrait of the Greek mathematician and one of the world's most creative thinkers.

A story of intrigue and friendship rather than glory and battle, as a Sarmatian lord, conquered in the wars with Rome, tries to find a new way of life for himself and his men in Roman Britain in the time of Emporer Marcus Aurelius.

Paul Anderson has no idea who he is. He has no memory of working for Stellar Research. He has no recollection of the accident that caused his condition. There’s only one thing he knows for sure – he is not Paul Anderson. He is a man with no past and no future. He remembers nothing about his work at Stellar except elusive images from a classified project – images that threaten to tear his sanity apart. One woman believes him. Sensing a rare intelligence behind the fear in his eyes, Sandra Murray promises to help Paul discover the truth about who he is and what is happening. But sometimes, the truth is the last thing anyone wants to know. (from the back cover)

A fictional story set in late antiquity in the Mediterranean, mainly in the cities of Ephesus (western Turkey) and Alexandria (Egypt), about a young aristocratic girl with a gift for medicine and science who flees her home in Ephesus, disguises herself as a eunuch, and studies medicine at the school in Alexandria, eventually becoming a well respected surgeon and physician and even serving a stint in the Roman army. Her teachers and mentors include a Jewish physician practicing in Alexandria and the Archbishop Athanasius (a historical figure). Her life path takes her into the way of many adventures that reveal the social and political atmosphere of the fourth century CE (AD), including religious quarrels and scientific debates.