‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…’Charles Darnay is an exiled French soldier. Sydney Carter, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer. In Dickens’ gripping, vivid historical drama the lives of these two men become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette, the daughter of a political prisoner.The lives ...

Past Three O'Clock: A Christmas Ghost Story Unfolds in Victorian LondonSebelius Sallow, a kind-hearted clockmaker, finds his peaceful life disrupted on Christmas Eve as he becomes entangled in a series of mysterious events. While the city bustles with Christmas cheer, Sebelius seeks to unravel a puzzle that connects him to an old friend, a charismatic publican, and a young girl in need of his help.Sebelius’s journey brings him face to face with the ghosts of his past and the ...

One splash changed everything!Poor relation Kynthea Petrelli never dreamed she'd have a Season, but she is getting one…even if only as a companion to her younger, wayward cousin Zoe. Though Kynthea loves the girl, keeping up with her wild ideas is difficult, especially when Zoe sets her cap for England's most eligible bachelor and decides a love potion is the way to win his heart.Unfortunately, it isn't Zoe who trips and spills the potion on the oh-so-perfec...

Darian Fletcher barely escapes a deadly pirate ambush aboard the Shadowbreaker, only to be saved by a mysterious pirate captain who reveals his hidden magical gift. This newfound power sets him on a journey back to his beloved Elara MacKenzie and ignites a path toward an unimaginable destiny.At the enigmatic College of Willowbrook, Darian faces ancient texts and brutal trials that unlock untold power and peril. Meanwhile, far from his side, Elara uncovers her own dangerous magic—a force th...

Drawing on a range of examples from classical times to the present, from Cicero to Virginia Woolf to Greta Gerwig, this Very Short Introduction considers why human beings are drawn to exchanging feelings and ideas via letters and why we continue to be fascinated by them today.

The year is 225 AD, and the Roman Empire is on the brink of a precipice.It will take a man with iron in his veins to set things right and accomplish the impossible.From a humble upbringing, a boy emerges who is destined to change history.This is the story of Lucius Domitius Aurelianus.Part III: SasanianReturning to Sirmium as the unsung hero of Aquileia, Lucius settles down on the farm, at peace with his life as a civilian.Be...

A lively and engaging history of the brass band in Britain and beyondBrass bands have played a unique role in the cultural history of Britain. Amidst the industrial revolution, an increasingly urban population turned to music for mass entertainment. Brass bands became intimately associated with working men and spread across the country at breathtaking speed. At their height in the late Victorian era, there were thousands of them.Trevor Herbert reveals the s...

Denmark.12th century.In the castle of Kronborg, during the reign of the mighty King Rorik, an unwanted child is born to a lowly servant, Gitte, and an unknown father. But the boy Erik, later known as Yorick, will climb to a position of power that will prove his undoing.Unruly but quick-witted, Yorick rises from humble stable-boy to joining the King’s players, acting at great feasts before the highest in the realm.On the death of the kindly Makan who has help...

Was Caroline Sutcliffe the one woman who could fill the emptiness within?At the age of eight and twenty, Sterling Wynd, Earl of Wyndham, left England.Duty weighed heavily on him, and solemnity filled his soul. However, before he turned thirty, chose a suitable wife and went about begetting heirs, he wanted to do something for himself—see the world. Or at least the part that had made his family wealthy.Caroline Sutcliffe had once loved deepl...

The Halls of Venn are the seat of both knowledge and power in the great continent of Luna Ruinam. Renia, a scribe with a tragic past, spends her days expertly copying books that do little to satiate her desire for knowledge.When a fateful commission lands on her desk, she finds herself tasked with transcribing a book coveted by assassins from the southern continent. Its theft throws the scribing halls into chaos and threatens to destroy the fragile peace that exists between their n...

Administrative law is focused on the control of decision-making in government and the public sector. People are affected by it in a wide variety of contexts, including immigration, social welfare, public health, housing, planning, licensing, taxation, and policing. Administrative law sets standards that government and public sector bodies must follow. It also provides a range of avenues for challenging their decisions, such as complaining to an ombudsman, appealing to a tribunal, or applyi...

The Book of Revelation is a work of profound theology. But its literary form makes it impenetrable to many modern listeners and open to all kinds of misinterpretations. Richard Bauckham explains how the book's imagery conveyed meaning in its original context and how the book's theology is inseparable from its literary structure and composition.Revelation is seen to offer not an esoteric and encoded forecast of historical events but rather a theocentric vision of the coming of God's...