This is the story that Julius Caesar never wanted told. For almost two thousand years the famous Roman dictator has had a monopoly on history. His was the only version we could read of the many battles...

Mendel learns how to bend rays of light, which reveals the incredible world of sub-microscopic life, and also gives him a clue as to how a "perfect" crime was committed. Brother Gregory uses technology,...

Around The College Henry Wodeash is known as 'The Professor'. This pipe-smoking biologist likes solving mysteries. In this new collection of four short stories, The Professor and his junior colleague...

Caesar needs money - he always needs money. Having settled matters in Rome he sends his legions north in Gaul to collect what they can. Iron Shaft goes with them. He has been promoted and is now in charge...

Julius Caesar, the famous Roman general, politician and dictator, desperately needed money. To get it he spent a year in Spain looting everything that could not be hidden and taking from everyone who...

At the dawn of the modern scientific era important discoveries were made in the strangest places. Pasteur found the invisible agents of infection and disease in rabid dogs, and in this story Brother Gregory...

A deal has been done. Caesar, Crassus and Pompey, three powerful Romans, have divided up their world between them and Caesar has retained Gaul, along with all its Legions and all its riches. But this...

Beloved characters in popular fairy tales have very short lives, but the reader is usually assured that they end up "living happily ever-after". Have you ever wondered what became of them after the bedtime...

A continent away from the monk and the monastery where humans got their first glimpse of inheritance mechanisms, Charles Darwin has already told the world how all modern living creatures had got to be...

Iron Shaft goes to Rome, and that city will never be the same again. Julius Caesar needs his help. Enemies are gathering their forces and intend to elect a Consul who will charge Caesar with treason and...

Around The College Henry Wodeash is known as 'The Professor'. This pipe-smoking biologist likes solving mysteries. In this collection of four short stories, The Professor and his junior colleague, help...

Women's fashion and the desire for highly-colored cloth was the strange starting point for the new science of chemistry; the manipulation of atoms and molecules into valuable new forms and properties....

During his life Gregor Mendel had three careers; a scientist, a teacher and an administrator. Today we recognize his genius for discovery, but few know of his talents as a teacher. While teaching his...

Before he can become the Greatest Roman of them All, Julius Caesar must fulfill the Druid prophecy and place his foot onto the lands of two more enemies; the Germans and the Britons. In Gaul the legions...

In this letter to his patron in Rome, the soldier Iron Shaft tells us about the Druids. Julius Caesar has marched his legions into Gaul and is recovering from his first major battle. His German enemy,...