British Adventure

DO YOU ABSOLUTELY LOVE CATS?? -- Did you know they played a huge role in British history? Like to know more...? This funny, informative book has tons of fun stories and fascinating trivia that cat lovers can't get enough of... It tells you EVERYTHING you might like to know about how cats shaped British history and culture... DID YOU KNOW? -- Winston Churchill sneaked his cats smoked salmon under the table at state dinners? -- Margaret Thatcher bought her cat sardines in Moscow – during the Cold War? -- The Queen loved to draw cats as a child, but her allergies make her avoid them now? -- ...

From the author of Flint’s Island: The Lost Sequel to Treasure Island…. In this high-seas, historical adventure, 16-year-old orphan Peter Millet discovers that his wicked guardian, his uncle, had been a slave trader and was involved in the kidnapping of a young English girl. Peter teams up with an ex-slave, and together they must face mutiny and shipwreck in order to find the girl and return her to her father. “Add this to the increasing number of ‘thrillers’ in hard covers which match and sometimes excel the thrillers of TV and comic books. The background here is the slave trade ...

The first in an action-packed spy series introducing Lieutenant Dragan Kelly. It is 1942. HMS Visigoth has been torpedoed off the coast of German occupied Norway. Sole survivor Lieutenant Dragan Kelly finds himself behind enemy lines, unsure who to trust. The Norwegian resistance share rumours about a mysterious Nazi plant where an Armageddon weapon of terrifying power is under construction. Should Kelly escape to Russia or stay and investigate it? And what of the stunningly beautiful but enigmatic resistance fighter Sybilla? Kelly falls in love with her, but is she all she claims to be? ...

Royal unions have always been the stuff of scintillating gossip, from the passionate Plantagenets to Henry VIII’s alarming head count of wives and mistresses, to the Sapphic crushes of Mary and Anne Stuart right on up through the scandal-blighted coupling of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Thrown into loveless, arranged marriages for political and economic gain, many royals were driven to indulge their pleasures outside the marital bed, engaging in delicious flirtations, lurid love letters, and rampant sex with voluptuous and willing partners.

Based on the remarkable true story of Irish convict John Graham, WHITE SPIRIT is an epic historical adventure set in 19th Century Australia. After escaping from the notorious Moreton Bay Penal Settlement, Graham finds refuge with the Kabi, a tribe of Aborigines who eventually accept him as one of their own. Attempts to recapture Graham are orchestrated by a variety of contrasting characters working for the all-pervasive British Empire. They include Moreton Bay's tyrannical, opium-addicted commandant Lord Cheetham, the dashing yet warlike Lieutenant Hogan, native tracker Barega and the penal...

Before Indiana Jones, before Tarzan, before every lost city and hidden treasure in fiction — there was Allan Quatermain. This is the complete cycle: fourteen novels and four stories, unabridged, in a single annotated volume. In 1885, a twenty-nine-year-old Englishman wrote a novel in six weeks to settle a bet. It became one of the best-selling books of the nineteenth century, invented the modern adventure genre, and created a character who would inspire every explorer, treasure hunter, and action hero in fiction for the next hundred and forty years. The novel was King Solomon's Mines. The...

Gary and Clare Kirk are set to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary...except they’re not. Childless, and with so little in common, the couple finally accept there’s no good reason to remain married. However, Gary’s idea of an amicable divorce settlement differs significantly from Clare’s, and tensions between the couple soon mount. Money, as is often the case, is at the root of their disagreement. As Gary explores every avenue to evade his wife’s financial demands, he inadvertently finds himself sitting opposite a relationship resolution advisor by the name of Edith Stimp.

INTO THE AMERICAS (A novel based on a true story) is a gritty, real-life adventure based on one of history’s greatest survival stories. It was inspired by the diary entries of young English blacksmith John Jewitt during his time aboard the brigantine The Boston and also during his sojourn at Nootka Sound, on North America's western seaboard, from 1802 to 1805. Written by father-and-son writing team Lance & James Morcan (authors of The World Duology and The Orphan Trilogy), INTO THE AMERICAS is a tale of two vastly different cultures – Indigenous North American and European civilization ...

Meet Egyptologist Amelia Peabody in the first mystery in the Victorian-era, New York Times-bestselling series. "If Indiana Jones were female, a wife, and a mother who lived in Victorian times, he would be Amelia Peabody Emerson."—Publishers Weekly Amelia Peabody, that indomitable product of...

A body on Salisbury Plain. A conspiracy spanning the museums of Europe. A secret worth killing for. When a respected antiquarian is found dead among the stones of Stonehenge, the press cries ritual murder. But Mycroft Holmes arrives at Baker Street before breakfast with an urgent demand for discretion — and Sherlock Holmes knows the truth is far more dangerous than any occult spectacle. Beneath the pageantry of a staged crime lies something the Golden Dawn's most dangerous splinter faction has killed to protect: a hidden Bronze Age star map concealed within the monument itself — one ...

THE NICHOLAS CRUWYS NAVAL SERIES: BOOKS 1–3 Soundings Edge · Latitudes Edge · Longitudes Edge Three complete novels following Nicholas Cruwys from a fourteen-year-old gentleman volunteer in 1774 to a seasoned commander in the far waters of the China trade — for readers of Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester. SOUNDINGS EDGE In the spring of 1774, Nicholas Cruwys leaves the stone halls of Exeter and the ancestral pride of a faded Devonshire line to join His Majesty's Navy — a world where the rigid structures of Georgian society meet the harsh meritocracy of wooden ships and iron ...

'Sarah Alderson’s books will leave you breathless. One page and you’ll be hooked' FREIDA McFADDEN 'WOW what a page turner… I was not expecting the final page… This will keep you up at night!' Reader review ★★★★★ ‘Wow wow wow! Will keep you on the edge of your seat’ Reader...

She should say no. She’s not a detective after all. But how can she? When Felicity Philips receives a panicked call from an old friend, there simply isn’t a way that she can turn him down. Edward, the jeweller to the crown, is in deep trouble and he cannot tell the police. His terrible truth must be kept secret. But what is his motivation for calling Felicity? Does he really believe she is the only one who can help? Or are his motivations more personal and dark than he is letting on? With her usual cast of supporting misfits, Felicity is going to see what she can do … … but when she...

An impregnable fortress in Belgrave Square. A triple-tumbler Chubb vault opened without a scratch. Two hundred thousand pounds in untraced bearer bonds vanished into thin air—leaving behind only the salted head of a North Sea cod, wrapped in an Inland Revenue stamp. When Inspector Lestrade arrives at 221B Baker Street bearing a grotesque calling card and an impossible puzzle, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson are drawn into one of the most intellectually daring and morally profound cases of their partnership. The victim is Sir Reginald Throckmorton: a tyrannical colonial magistrate ...

In the seventh book in the New York Times bestselling Spy School series, Ben Ripley is finally going to take SPYDER down, once and for all. Stranded in Mexico after nearly capturing the leaders of SPYDER, thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley desperately needs a shower. But even more so, he and his spy...

In the year 1794, an East Indiaman is taken in the Strait of Sunda by French warships that knew her name, and knew exactly where to wait. The war of the French Revolution has reached the farthest ocean. Fresh from the Glorious First of June, Captain Nicholas Cruwys of the Royal Navy and the frigate Topaze are ordered east — to waters he last sailed as a young officer bound for Canton, a decade and a war ago. The harbours are the ones he remembers. Nothing else is. For this is the Company's ocean now: the East India Company, a power greater than most kingdoms, with its own armies, its own ...

PELLEW: FLEET ACTION Midshipman Gerry Pellew escaped a French prison with nothing but the clothes on his back and a debt to the men who didn't make it out. Now, aboard HMS Lark, he's determined to become the officer his late father would have been proud of — if the war doesn't take him first. The blockade off Brest is a slow grind of fog, storms, and waiting — until Lark crosses paths with the Junon, a French frigate captained by a man as skilled and honorable as any Gerry has faced. Twice they meet, first in the fog and then in a squall. The third time, there will be nowhere left to ...

A young reader chapter- book retelling of Winnie-the-Pooh and the House at Pooh Corner—part of the bestselling Classic Starts series, which has cumulatively sold more than 8 million copies! There’s nothing else that Winnie-the-Pooh loves more than his friends—well, except for maybe a...

Portsmouth, England. A ten-year-old boy. A British warship. The boy already knows what hunger can make someone do. When he is caught stealing food for his family, prison should end his troubles. Instead, it is only the beginning. Taken from his cell and forced aboard the British warship HMS Progress, the boy becomes a cabin boy under a brutal captain. Trapped at sea and subjected to unimaginable cruelty, he learns one lesson above all others: survive. Three years later, Boston changes everything. Then the ship reaches Boston. When fire tears through the city, the boy sees his chance. He ...

The collection of Kipling poetry, performed by Mark Redfield, with music by Jennifer Rouse, are taken mostly from “Barrack-Room Ballads”. The poems mostly dramatize the concerns, yearnings, emotions, and thoughts of British soldiers at war, stationed in India, or at home - now forgotten by...