Book twelve in the Kit Marlowe series. May 1593. The rumour spreading around London like wildfire is that Kit Marlowe, playwright, poet and government agent, is dead; killed, men say, in a tavern brawl....

In the summer of 1212, 30,000 children from towns and villages all over France and Germany left their homes and families and began a crusade. Their aim; to retake Jerusalem, the holiest city in the world,...

Welcome to the wonderfully weird World War Two...The Second World War was the bloodiest on record. It was the first total war in history when civilians - men, women and children - were on the front line...

THE END OF ROMAN BRITAIN BEGINS...The story opens in 367 AD. Four soldiers - Justinus, Paternus, Leocadius and Vitalis - are out hunting for food supplies at an outpost of Hadrian's Wall, when the Wall...

Peter Maxwell is the History teacher you wish you'd had. If you meet anyone (and you will) who says 'I hate History. It's boring,' they weren't taught by Mad Max. Many of you will know him as the crime-solving...

THE END OF ROMAN BRITAIN CONTINUES. 'We are the watchmen; the keepers of the flame.'Britannia in the late fourth century is a wild, dark place and the Pax Romana that has held for three hundred years...

"A master of historical faction, Denham seemlessly blends fact with fiction to narrate the decline of the Roman rule of Britain. This is an outstanding series, but should be read in order."Peter Jones...

Book eighteen in the Inspector Lestrade series.Many readers of the Lestrade books wonder what is fact and what is fiction – and the author is delighted that they can't always tell! So, for all the readers...

Book sixteen in the Inspector Lestrade series. 'And death shall come on soft wings to him that touches the tomb of the Pharaoh …' The wings that retired Chief Superintendent Lestrade came on were those...

Book seventeen in the Inspector Lestrade series.Everybody, they say, has a book in them. Retired Chief Inspector Walter Dew certainly did. And it took him back to the good old days, when coppers lived...

The Second World War ended over seventy-five years ago and yet it holds a lasting fascination for millions. Most school children worldwide have studied it but it is unlikely that they would have learned...

Book seven in the Inspector Lestrade series. He was in his forty-third year and knee-deep in murder. Well, what was new? Sholto Lestrade wouldn't really have it any other way. The first fatality in a...

Book nine in the Inspector Lestrade series. Sholto Lestrade had never smelt the tangle o' the Isles before Arthur, Duke of Connaught put him on the trail to the Highlands. Murder is afoot among the footmen...

Book eight in the Inspector Lestrade series. Britain has entered the twentieth century. Queen Victoria is dead and the Boer War rages on. Inspector Lestrade is called upon to investigate the brutal death...

Was Britain's Thermopylae really fought over a tennis court?  What happened in Canada during the invasion of Winnipeg?  How did the Night Witches terrify and torment the Axis? Was Hitler actually sent...

Book three in the Inspector Lestrade series.In the year 1888, London was horrified by a series of brutal killings. All the victims were discovered in the same district, Whitechapel, and they were all...

Book two in the Inspector Lestrade series.It was a puzzle that faced Scotland Yard from its very begin-ning – whose was the limbless body found among the foundations? And in the murderous world of Sholto...

Kit Marlowe was the bad boy of Elizabethan drama. His 'mighty line' of iambic pentameter transformed the miracle plays of the Middle Ages into modern drama and he paved the way for Shakespeare and a dozen...

Book six in the Inspector Lestrade series. The London Underground Railway, in 1895, was described as 'dark, deadly and halfway to Hell'. Only too true, for as the last train rattled into Liverpool Street,...

Book four in the Inspector Lestrade series. It is 1891 and London is still reeling from the horror of the unsolved Ripper murders when Inspector Lestrade (that 'ferret-like' anti-hero so often out-detected...

Book five in the Inspector Lestrade series. There is a new broom at Scotland Yard; Nimrod Frost. His first 'little' job for Lestrade is to investigate the reported appearance of a lion in Cornwall, a...

Book ten in the Inspector Lestrade series.Beyond the mountains of the moon …'Right, gentlemen. Recapping by numbers.' Superintendent Lestrade, in martinet mood, was driving his minions.'Murder One. Four...

Book eleven in the Inspector Lestrade series.The Papers call it suicide. The deceased's father doesn't. But when Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard investigates the death by duelling pistol of Anstruther...

Book twelve in the Inspector Lestrade series.'You're promising me a peaceful one, eh? This Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Ten? Let's hope you're right.'Unfortunately, his men can't fulfil Superintendent...

Book fifteen in the Inspector Lestrade series. 'There was a Front;But damn'd if we knew where!' England in 1920 is a land fit for heroes. So why is one of those heroes found dead in a dingy London hotel?...

Book fourteen in the Inspector Lestrade series. 'From his brimstone bed at the break of day,A-walking the Devil is gone,To visit his snug little farm, the earth,And see how his stock goes on.'Coleridge...

Book thirteen in the Inspector Lestrade sereies. 'I cannot sing the old songsI sang long years ago,For heart and voice would fail meAnd foolish tears would flow.'Claribel Recovering from a broken leg...