Showing results by publisher "Author's Republic" in Historical Fiction

August 1939. Roger Miller and Jack O’Brien have been close since childhood. By the time they realize there’s more between them than friendship, Jack is leaving their sleepy Iowa town for college. But they console themselves knowing he’ll be home for Christmas. Right? It is Christmas before they see each other again, but that Christmas comes six years and a world war later. Aged, beaten, and shaken by combat, they’re not the boys they were back then, but their feelings for each other are stronger than ever.

This is the story of two teenage British boys in a Britain occupied by the Germans, which is what might have happened if the Nazis had successfully carried out their plans to invade Britain under Operation Sea Lion in the 1940s. Alan Mitchell and Sam Roberts study at St. John's Academy in the fictional Cambridgeshire market town of Hereward. Their Home Guard unit is defeated and the Schutzstaffel (S.S.) massacres the prisoners but the boys escape and return to German occupied Hereward.

In the 1850s, Australia was a thriving colony of the British Empire, with its own sense of importance. The Indigenous population didn't fit well with colonial plans. Against this backdrop comes the amazing story of an all Aboriginal cricket team playing at the home of cricket in England. The Dreaming Team brings those Indigenous players to life and follows them on an unbelievable adventure that arguably changed Australian history.

La vida de Francisco Pizarro, uno de los conquistadores más grandes de todos los tiempos, es un puro asombro. Hijo bastardo de un hidalgo de Trujillo, cuidador de puercos en su adolescencia, soldado de fortuna en los Tercios de Italia, acomete en la madurez de su vida la ingente empresa de conquistar el Imperio de los incas, el más extenso de toda la historia de la humanidad, puesto que se extendía desde el Ecuador hasta la Patagonia.

A passionate story of forbidden love set in Renaissance Florence.

En 1581, María de Lencastre y Guzmán acompaña a su padre, embajador del rey Felipe II de España y I de Portugal, en una misión diplomática a la corte del Padshah Akbar, en el lejano y exótico Hindustán. Cuando la joven aristócrata española se embarca hacia las Indias Orientales no puede imaginar el camino que iba a tomar lo que empezaba como una gran aventura. Allí se encuentra con un monarca cultivado y con la amplitud de miras suficiente como para establecer alianzas estratégicas más allá de los cauces convencionales.

Set in the autumn of 1960 in upstate New York, retired theremin musician Sid Kottler has been living alone in his oversized home for the past 13 years and cannot handle even the slightest of human interaction. He is visited by someone he recognizes from a recent encounter of sorts, and realizes that he may not be alone anymore. In fact, Sid may even play party host to an ensemble of "friends"... but not by invitation.

Handlingen foregår i tidsrummHandlingen foregår i tidsrummet juli til december 1979. Henrik sidder i et godt solidt job som fuldmægtig i arbejdsministeriet. Ved siden af underviser han på Danmarks Forvaltningshøjskole og på Københavns Universitet. Holder han næsen i sporet ligger karrieren snorlige foran ham.

Despite Joanne, an accountant by profession, vowing never, ever to go on holiday again with “Let’s drink Malaga dry!” Veronica, she hears the announcement, “Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seat belts, we will shortly be landing at Costa del Sol airport.” Returning from their holiday peeling and poor, they hatch a late night, gin and paella-fuelled, plan.

Here are three crime stories in an historical setting. All of them have been inspired by a true incident and their settings have been rigorously researched to give you the sense of being there in 1854, 1863 and 1872. From Richmond, Virginia, at the height of the American Civil War to the dry Southwest riding along with John Wesley Hardin and Wild Bill Hickok, you are there.

In a bizarre plot-twist, he was being taken out of his cell to be released but he still thought he was going toward his death, to join his gang members up on their crosses. Plunge right into the whirlwind of action that starts with the events leading to the gang’s arrest, through the wait till the execution, his unbeknownst release and his search to find out who this Jesus is who took his place. Could he truly hope to start again, his life changed forever?

Inspired by true events, Among Kings tells the inspiring story of William Sheppard, the first African American missionary to the Congo who rescues the entire nation enslaved by Belgian's ruthless King Leopold II. Traveling 1,000 miles up the Congo River with Samuel Lapsley, his white missionary companion, the two overcome deadly fevers, dangerous animals, and cannibal tribes. Sheppard becomes a famous explorer honored by kings, queens, and presidents. Armed with a camera, he exposes widespread Congo atrocities to the world.

Stephen’s comfortable but empty existence is transformed by an unexpected visitor from his past. Forced to face up to the consequences of a love he had long suppressed, he is drawn back to his time teaching in Beijing, China, during the spring of 1989. There he toyed with the people and events associated with the pro-democracy movement only in search of cheap adventure. Despite his naivety, he was drawn inexorably towards both. Though his travels took him from the Great Wall to the plains of Inner Mongolia, there was no escaping the pull of Tiananmen Square on the night of 4th June.

This is a romantic, historical adventure novel, based in Central Asia and Northern India in the 1800s. The story is revealed through the journals of the central character and his family, seen through the eyes of descendants from the point of view of 1938.

It’s July, 1941. War is already raging in Europe. Japan has swallowed up Korea, and now terrorizes China. Pearl Harbor is about to explode. And three women, an ace transport pilot, a Chinese Intelligence officer and a local Island leader, must join forces to rescue young girls sexually enslaved by the Japanese Navy and its ruthless secret police, the Tokkeitai. As World War Two roils the Pacific, the story continues in the islands, in Hawaii, in China and Japan. There’s flying and spying and action galore. And the story calls out the fascism, racism and misogyny of that dark time.

This fascinating painting, entitled "After Midnight Mass, Fifteenth Century", was exhibited by George Henry Boughton at the Royal Academy in 1897 and is now hidden away in a private collection. Did her creator know who she was, this lady of high birth emerging from the cathedral in the snow with her companion at her elbow? And who was the young man with yellow hair who is stepping forward from the crowd, hoping to attract her attention?

This fascinating painting, entitled ‘After Midnight Mass, Fifteenth Century’, was exhibited by George Henry Boughton at the Royal Academy in 1897 and is now hidden away in a private collection. Did her creator know who she was, this lady of high birth emerging from the cathedral in the snow with her companion at her elbow? And who was the young man with yellow hair who is stepping forward from the crowd, hoping to attract her attention? Within this book, the listener will discover her story, the story of a little serf with chestnut curls and violet eyes...

My house side has every type of energy. We should search our life around the house, not in the world. This is my biggest mistake. But it has a story of fate. Who will work properly with everyone.

“Duel of the Sorcerers” starts with the hero Paul Tian-Kermode, a young Welsh-Chinese orphan and trainee lawyer, sitting behind his antique Chinese desk above the family shop called 'The Chinese Epicurean Centre' in Liverpool's Chinatown on Sunday, 29th, 1916. It ends with Paul's confrontation with his nemesis, the evil necromancer, Gregori Gurdjeef, in revolution-torn Petrograd's 'Church of the Epiphany' on April 17th, 1917.

We were four teens, Timmy, Ronald, Billy and I. This book is fiction. This novella or short book is about town bent like a junkyard. Yet there came no revolution nor reform to fix the dents. It is full of misadventures of the police chasing me. If you are a fan of Stranger Things on Netflix, or movies like Stand by Me or The Outsiders, then I hope you will enjoy these reflections. Time ran slower in the late 70s and early 80s. So did people, and so did cognition.