Tower of Tales is a collection of short stories by award winning writer Alison Stuart. This eclectic mix of stories cover the travails of an expat life in Singapore and contemporary and historical... More > romantic stories.< Less
Kit Lovell is one of the King’s men, a disillusioned Royalist who passes his time between cheating at cards, living off his wealthy and attractive mistress and by plotting the death of Oliver... More > Cromwell.Fleeing a sadistic and ambitious suitor, Thamsine Granville is alone, penniless and friendless in London. She has her own reasons for wanting Cromwell dead and when she hurls a piece of brick at his coach, she finds herself unexpectedly in the arms of Kit Lovell. Kit plunges Thamsine into his world of espionage and betrayal. The world Kit has carefully built up begins to unravel as the plotting takes a serious turn and his own life is now on the line. Nor had he planned on falling in love with Thamsine Granville and when Thamsine falls into the hands of her vicious suitor, Ambrose Morton, Kit is torn by his loyalty to his master and his love for Thamsine.In rescuing Thamsine, Kit makes one last gamble and loses. The price he has to pay is the hangman’s rope…< Less
When Kate Ashley finds herself the unwilling inheritor of the Thornton family estate of Seven Ways in Worcestershire, she could not have foreseen that along with the impoverished estate she, the... More > respectable widow of a parliamentary officer, would find herself drawn into the last conflict of the English Civil War by her love for the royalist, Jonathan Thornton. Jonathan has returned from exile, carrying with him the vain hopes of the young King Charles II and the demons of his own dark past. In the aftermath of the battle of Worcester, Kate is caught between Jonathan and the man who has hunted him down over the years, the dour parliamentarian, Stephen Prescott. Jonathan comes face to face with his nemesis and learns the price he has paid for his long dead love; a secret that will change his life, and Kate's, forever.< Less
The horrors of the Great War are not the only ghosts that haunt Helen Morrow and her late husband's somewhat reclusive cousin, Paul. Unquiet spirits from another time and another conflict touch... More > them.
A coded diary gives them clues to the mysterious disappearance of Paul's great-grandmother in 1812, and the desperate voice of a young woman reaches out to them from the pages. Together Helen and Paul must search for answers, not only for the old mystery, but also the circumstances surrounding the death of Helen's husband at Passchandaele in 1917.
As the mysteries entwine, their relationship is bound by the search for truth, in the present and the past.< Less
The Mystery of Hadrian’s Cove takes
fourteen year old Jack Wilson, his friend
Alison Brown and cousin Tom Harrison, on
an adventure which materialises in the
small fishing village of... More > Hadrian’s Cove on
the wild coast of North East England. This
coast was notorious for smuggling in the 18th
& 19th centuries. It was also famed for its
pioneering Whitby photographer, Frank
Meadow Sutcliffe, Bram Stoker’s 19th
century story of Dracula, and the
subsequent development of the Goth
culture of the 1980’s which thrives in Whitby
today.
The three adventurers involve the
reader in an exciting quest evolving around
Eleanor, a strange old woman, as they
unravel a mystery indirectly linking all these
phenomena, which has been lurking within
the close-knit Hadrian’s Cove community
for more than seventy years.
Intended for late teenagers and young adults< Less
An exciting mix of the fantastic, the wonderful, and the frightening by the talented members of the Derby Scribes writing group. Overall it's a versatile and multi-faceted anthology, blending corners... More > of reality with aspects of the fantastical in a refreshing way.
"The anthology is an exciting mixture of quality emerging writers as well as some great established names." - Alex Davis, Alt.Fiction.
"The Derby Scribes 2011 anthology is an enjoyable tome of drama, whimsy and chills." - Matthew Fryer, Welcome to the Hellforge.
"On the whole this is a good collection that showcases some fine talent, definitely worth your time and hard earned cash." - Jim McLeod, Ginger Nuts of Horror.
Also features an introduction by Alex Davis and art work by Samantha Enyon.
The short stories in this anthology include horror, supernatural, contemporary fantasy, science fiction and humour.
Word count: 32,950 (approximately).
ISBN: 978-0-9530016-1-3.< Less
