Winner of the CWA Historical Dagger for Fiction
The Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year (nominee)
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'An enticing work of fiction… Taylor takes account of both a Georgian formality and a pre-Victorian laxity in social and sexual matters; he...
Smoke Jensen, Matt Jensen, Falcon And Duff Maccallister—Together For The First Time
They just wanted to get home for Christmas. . .but fate had other plans.
It's December 1890. A Texas rancher named Big Jim Conyers has a deal with...
Keen observations and a graphic style characterize the author's remarkable record of a vanishing frontier. Detailed accounts of the hardships experienced while traveling across mountains and prairies; vibrant portraits of emigrants and Western...
On the first day of the Somme enlisted railwayman Jim Stringer lies trapped in a shell hole, smoking cigarette after cigarette under the bullets and the blazing sun. He calculates his chances of survival – even before they departed for France, a...