Based on the true story of William Buckley, a bricklayer, the novel begins in the rural Cheshire of the 1790s as William and Het are making ready for the annual festival known as Shick-Shack Day. William has been chosen as the village's Shick-Shack - an ancient fertility figure, face blackened with charcoal and bedecked with boughs of oak - and Het is to be his Teaser. Read More...

'I am now in my twenty-second year and yet the only birthday which I can clearly distinguish among all the rest was my twelfth, for it was on that damp and misty day in September that I met the Captain for the first time...' Read More...

The war is ending, perhaps ended. For the castle and its occupants the troubles are just beginning. Armed gangs roam its lawless land where each farm and house supports a column of dark smoke. Taking to the roads with the other refugees, anonymous in their raggedness, seems safer than remaining in the ancient keep. Read More...

We are in Oxford in the 1660s' a time, and place, of great intellectual, scientific, religious and political ferment. Robert Grove, a fellow of New College, is found dead in suspicious circumstances. A young woman is accused of his murder. We hear about the events surrounding his death from four witnesses: .... Read More...

The third volume in the 'Tales of the Otori' trilogy. 'Your lands will stretch from sea to sea,' the blind prophetess has told the young warrior Otori Takeo. 'But peace comes at the price of bloodshed. Four battles to win and one to lose. Many must die.' Read More...

Edmund Sin and Roscoe Hamilton embark upon their Far Eastern journey up into the Tahsueh Shah region of Szechuan: the most strange and beautiful place on earth. Read More...