History is often hijacked through suppression, manipulation, and, sometimes, even outright deception. This book contains examples of the abuses of history.

The story of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, when for six extraordinary months the city was at the centre of world government as the peacemakers wound up bankrupt empires and created new countries. This book brings to life the personalities, ideals and prejudices of the settlement brokers.

In 1972 Nixon amazed the world by going to China. The first trip ever by a US President was an immense gamble but a brilliant stroke of policy. It marked the end of deep freeze in Sino-American relations and changed the international balance of power for ever. This book deals with the story of Nixon, Mao and the week that changed the world.

Robertson Davies, a Canadian novelist, is lauded and read widely outside his homeland. This work provides a rendering of his narrative about a Canadian university professor, as well as vivid impersonations of the characters.

Following the announcement that appeared in the Salterton Evening Bellman aimed at three people only - Solly Bridgetower, Pearl Vambrace, and Gloster Ridley, the anxiety-ridden local newspaper editor - before the leaven of malice had ceased to work it had changed permanently, for good or ill, the lives of many citizens of Salterton.

Part of Salterton trilogy, this third volume begins with the funeral of Louisa Bridgetower, the Salterton matron. The substantial income from her estate is to be used to send an unmarried young woman to Europe to pursue an education in the arts. But, her executors select Monica Gall, an almost entirely unschooled singer.