"The Twilight of Magic" was written in 1930 by Hugh Lofting (1886-1947), telling about the Middle Ages, when adults and children alike still believed in magic. The tale is full of castles, kings, cavalcades of knights and princesses. The main...
"From between the two shuffling dancers padded something on four feet. The canine-feline creature was more than just a head; it was a loose-limbed, graceful body fully eight feet in length, and the red eyes in the prick-eared head were those of...
"There will be a battle, and you will need to protect your heart." Kjell of Jeru had always known who he was. He'd never envied his brother or wanted to be king. He was the bastard son of the late King Zoltev and a servant girl, and the...
Swallow, Daughter, pull them in, those words that sit upon your lips. Lock them deep inside your soul, hide them ‘til they’ve time to grow. Close your mouth upon the power, curse not, cure not, ‘til the hour. You won’t speak...
The U.S. spacecraft Skyprobe IV hurtles in orbit nine hundred miles from Earth, to investigate the possibility of exploration beyond the moon. When Commander Shaw hears of a threat to the spacecraft, the Security Services in Britain and America are...
When Commander Shaw is called to the Defence Ministry in London the new and difficult assignment that is given to him is beyond even his expectations.
Several prominent people have disappeared, and corpses have been smuggled out of the country...
‘Your orders are to kill Conroy… We shall approve any method you like to use.’
This is the ultimatum that sends Commander Esmonde Shaw, dynamic agent of British Defence Intelligence, to join a Moscow-bound coach tour in West Berlin....