Tells the story of New York from the epic, empty grandeur of the New World to the skyscrapers of the City that Never Sleeps, from the intimate detail of lives long forgotten to those lived today at breakneck speed.
London has perhaps the most remarkable history of any city in the world. This novel takes the reader on a journey across sixteen centuries from the days of the Romans to the Victorian engineers of Tower Bridge and the era of Dockland development.
Salisbury, the landscape - as old as time itself - shapes the destinies of five families: the Wilsons and the Shockleys, locked in a cycle of revenge and rivalry for more than 400 years; the Masons, who pour their inspired love of stone into the creation of Stonehenge and Salisbury Cathedral; the Porters; and, the aristocratic Norman Godefrois.
Presents the story of Ireland from the seventeenth century onwards, picking up at the Reformation, and with it, the devastating arrival of Oliver Cromwell. Set against the backdrop of Irish political history, this title journeys through the centuries right the way up to the twentieth century's Easter Rising and Independence.
Takes us from prehistory, the High Kings of Tara, the Viking invasion, the machinations of Henry II and the greed of Henry VIII to the burning of the saint's relics in front of Christchurch cathedral in 1538. This work closes the story of the 'Irish' Irish: the descendants of Fingall and Cuchulainn, and the princes and Kings of Tara of Brian Boru.
Few places lie closer to the heart of England's heritage than the New Forest. This work covers from the cruel forest laws of the Normans and their passion for hunting, to the founding of Beaulieu Abbey by capricious King John; from the very real dangers of the Spanish Armada to the elegance of Georgian Lymington; and more.
A novel, which brings together serf and master, Cossack and tsar, priest and Jew in a family saga which unrolls through centuries of history to reveal the mysterious land...Russia.
Following 'Dublin', this is the second part of the Irish epic from the bestselling author of 'Sarum', 'Russka' and 'London'. This riveting sequel takes the story of Ireland from the 17th century onwards. Set against the dramatic backdrop of Irish political history, the novel revisits family dynasties such as the Walshes and the Doyles, whose epic voyages through the centuries continue right the ..