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  The Cobbler's Apprentice - A...

  Lynette Rees

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  The BRAND NEW historical novel from Lynette Rees - a boy down on his luck finding his way in a cruel Victorian world... 
  He made a vow, but will he be able to keep it? 
  Ever since Jimmy was a boy, he’s known two things: the rough streets of Merthyr Tydfil and that one day he would marry Enid Hardcastle. But when Enid disappears without a word, his life takes a different turn. 
  Determined to make something of himself, Jimmy pours his heart into his job at Mr Baxter's workshop, dreaming of the future he and Enid might one day share. Yet, just as his hard work begins to pay off, a man arrives claiming to be Mr Baxter’s illegitimate son, threatening Jimmy’s chance of inheriting the business he was promised. 
  With Enid gone and his future uncertain, Jimmy must rely on his wits and instincts honed from his childhood on the streets. But can he trust this newcomer? And will his dream of reuniting with Enid ever come true? 
  A heartwarming and gripping historical saga, perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and AnneMarie Brear. 
  'A Victorian saga that will definitely appeal to fans of Rosie Goodwin' Lizzie Lane 
  '...flows from the heart, and is rich in period detail. Another fabulously enjoyable read from Lynette Rees, I loved it.' Sheila Riley 
  'A gripping historical saga well worth reading!' AnneMarie Brear 
  '...a gripping tale of love prevailing despite hardship. Lynette Rees has done it again! Brilliant!' Mary Wood

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  The Long Shadow of Panjshir -...

  W T Delaney

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  A story that starts in the valley of the Five Lions where the past has malignantly shaped the violent present to produce an uncertain future. The Long Shadow of Panjshir is a spy-based military adventure novel that explores the murky and dangerous world of covert intelligence collection.It’s London 2022, a year after the fall of Kabul, and a serial killer is on the loose, just as a beautiful Russian spy, codenamed Babushka, arrives in town. All the victims are human intelligence assets for the British security Services and are slaughtered by the knife.The story moves at breakneck speed to the Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan and uncovers a spider’s web of murder, treachery, and deceit linked directly to the heart of the Kremlin. The story unfolds as Collette Brown and Christian McCann from MI6 race to discover the truth that connects past betrayals during the Soviet occupation to the present insurgency against the Taliban. Where MI6 uncovers secrets about the Russian invasion of Ukraine that could save thousands of lives.

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  Comanche Apocalypse - Lords of...

  Christopher Allen

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  An Epic Novel of Survival, Loss, and the Enduring Human Spirit 
  "Comanche Apocalypse: Lords of the Plains" is a sweeping historical epic that chronicles the tragic yet inspiring 160-year journey of the Comanche people from their golden age as masters of the Great Plains to their forced adaptation in the modern world. Through the eyes of unforgettable characters spanning five generations, this powerful novel transforms historical tragedy into deeply personal human drama. 
  The story begins in the 1750s with Standing Bull and his teenage son Sacred Spirit, Comanche warriors living in perfect harmony with the vast buffalo herds that sustained their people for countless generations. Their world is one of freedom, spiritual connection to the land, and the proud traditions of the Nʉmʉnʉʉ—"The People." But this paradise is shattered when the invisible enemy of smallpox arrives, killing Sacred Spirit's beloved four-year-old sister Bright Star and decimating their band. This devastating epidemic marks the beginning of a relentless apocalypse that will test the Comanche spirit to its very limits. 
  As Sacred Spirit grows into a war chief, he witnesses the systematic destruction of everything his people hold sacred. White buffalo hunters slaughter the great herds not for food but for hides alone, destroying the foundation of Comanche existence in an act of environmental warfare. Sacred Spirit's nephew Wind Walker, consumed by rage and the desire for vengeance, dies in a futile raid on a military fort, embodying the tragic cost of violent resistance.

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  The Settlement

  Jock Serong

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  In The Settlement, Jock Serong reimagines in urgent, compelling prose the ill-fated exploits of George Augustus Robinson at the settlement of Wybalenna—a venture whose blinkered, self-interested cruelty might stand for the colonial enterprise itself. 
   
  On the windswept point of an island at the edge of van Diemen’s Land, the Commandant huddles with a small force of white men and women. 
   
  He has gathered together, under varying degrees of coercion and duress, the last of the Tasmanians, or so he believes. His purpose is to save them—from a number of things, but most pressingly from the murderous intent of the pastoral settlers on their country. 
   
  The orphans Whelk and Pipi, fighting for their survival against the malevolent old man they know as the Catechist, watch as almost everything about this situation proves resistant to the Commandant’s will. The wind, the spread of disease, the strange black dog that floats in on the prow of a wrecked ship… 
   
  But above all the Chief, the leader of the exiles, before whom the Commandant performs a perverse, intimate dance of violence and betrayal. 
   
  ‘An extraordinarily vivid imagining of one of the most significant encounters in Australian history.’ AMANDA LOHREY 
   
  ‘Grips from the first page. It’s unsentimental, truthful and profound – all in a milieu effortlessly imagined.’ DON WATSON

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  Hastings - Conquest Book 1

  Griff Hosker

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  The story of a young illegitimate son of a Norman noble and the daughter of an English housecarl. Forced to be little more than a servant Robert fitz Malet shows the world and his half brothers that he has qualities which mark him as different. When he meets the famous troubadour, Taillefer, he becomes one of the most skilled swordsmen in Duke William’s army as they prepare to invade England and claim the crown promised to him by King Edward.

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  Horse and Pistol - English...

  Griff Hosker

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  An only child of Anglo-French descent, young James Bretherton has known a life of privilege; well-educated and mild mannered, his path is filled with promise. But when James suddenly finds himself orphaned and penniless, his future looks decidedly bleak. It is only when Fate intervenes in the guise of two English mercenaries, that James is given hope. Embarking on a new life as a soldier, he soon becomes embroiled in the religious war between Catholics and Protestants, The Empire and the German States; the war that was known as The Thirty Years war.

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