Henry Carter Hull

John Kucich is Professor of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Power of Lies: Transgression in Victorian Fiction; Repression in Victorian Fiction; and Excess and Restraint in the Novels of Charles Dickens. He is also the coeditor of Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century. British imperialism's favorite literary narrative might seem to be conquest. But real British conquests also generated a surprising...

Daisy Phillips, who is tired of being treated like an old lady, finds a watch that once belonged to her first love, an American soldier stationed in England during World War II, and is joined by her cousin in a search for the man in New York City to return his watch and get a glimpse of what her life could have been.

Christopher Banks, an English boy who was orphaned after his parents disappeared in Shanghai under suspicious circumstances, returns to Shanghai twenty years later in the hopes of learning what really happened to his parents.

Lady Georgiana Rannoch, thirty-fourth in line to the throne, is sent to the French Rivera by Her Majesty the Queen on a special assignment to recover a priceless, stolen snuffbox from Sir Toby Groper, but her trip is complicated by an invitation from Coco Chanel to be her model and the threat of a killer on the loose.

Captain Jack Aubrey, and ship's doctor and spy Stephen Maturin, encounter castaways, shipwrecks, and murder when they set sail for Cape Horn on a mission to foil an American frigate's plan to sabotage English whalers.

Relates the experiences of Logan Mountstuart, including his boyhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, the publication of his first book, his association with some of history's most famous authors, his World War II service, and other adventures into old age.

"Another epic Second World War adventure from the author of the Nicholas Everard naval thrillers. As captain of the submarine Ursa , Lieutenant Mike Nicholson's mission is to disrupt the flow of war supplies to Rommel 's Afrika Korps. Although Ursa is small, slow and often out-gunned, she succeeds, on her seventeenth Mediterranean cruise, in sinking a German tank-transporter. That triumph makes Mike top of the league - he has now sunk more tonnage...

"The second in the gripping historical Andy Holt Naval Thrillers series. Summer 1940: Andy Holt is second mate on the SS Barranquilla , sailing from the Clyde to Cuba. Though the outward journey may be perilous, it's the homeward trip where the real danger lies: U-boats prefer their victims deep-laden and full of cargo. There have been heavy losses off Norway and Dunkirk -- the vital priority is for escorting destroyers to counter the invasion threat....

"The greatest writer of historical adventures today." -- Washington Post Critically acclaimed, perennial New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell ( Agincourt, The Fort , the Saxon Tales) makes real history come alive in his breathtaking historical fiction. Praised as "the direct heir to Patrick O'Brian" ( Agincourt, The Fort ), Cornwell has brilliantly captured the fury, chaos, and excitement of battle as few writers have ever done -- perhaps...

A lively trip to Ireland and an action packed adventure with lots of mischief, mystery and passionate characters. ~Jennifer Blake Miles Cavanagh just wants to hunt in the Shires, but instead he finds himself the guardian to a twenty-year-old heiress hell-bent on marrying a fortune-hunting wretch. Refusing to let Felicity throw her life away, Miles kidnaps his ward and carries her off to England. But Felicity's determination is proving equal to his....