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Avarice of Empire by C. Q. Turnstone

Avarice of Empire is the untold true story of an extraordinary life immortalised by the hand of an assassin.

Charles Agnew is a British cavalry officer as talented as he is spirited. He longs for a glorious adventure and his father's respect. The chance comes in 1865 when a regiment nicknamed the Scarlet Lancers is ordered to set sail for India and join the garrison in Bangalore. 

While the subcontinent labours under the tyranny of colonial rule, steamships, railways, and telegraph networks are the celebrated innovations of the age. Russia is indulging its appetite for new territory in Central Asia, and a revolutionary canal is being carved through the Egyptian desert.

Charles follows his instinct and journeys towards a promising future. His reward is the loyalty of many true friends, including Sophia Munro, a pioneering photographer who defies the stifling conventions of Victorian society, and Micky Lavelle who dreams of finding gold.

But with opportunity comes risk, and Charles will get far more than he bargained for.

Avarice of Empire is a work of biographical historical fiction and C.Q. Turnstone's debut novel.

Readers have called it: "Superb storytelling..." and a "...beautifully written story that captivates with its historical detail..."

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 One For Sorrow by Sophia Moseley

There wasn’t a day that went by without Laura feeling a sense of guilt for what happened to her daughter.

Charlotte’s fear was so entrenched in her subconscious, and conscious mind, she had to be sure she could trust those people around her.

But fear goes hand in hand with vulnerability, and with vulnerability comes weakness, and when you’re weak, you crave security, but it can come at a cost.

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Summer at Tangents by Roderick Easdale

Roderick Easdale's hilarious debut novel was nominated for  the 2024 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction...

Tangents is a decaying village with a poorly attended church and a struggling golf club. Now the church is threatened with closure. So the vicar’s good friend, a wily golf club committee member, acts to save the church in ways which also benefit the club and his friends and involve duping almost everyone along the way.

Reviews For Summer At Tangents:

“…a beautifully crafted tale involving many laugh-out loud moments.”

(Golf Monthly)

“Summer at Tangents is a brilliant comic novel but also, ultimately, a feel-good story.”
(Golfshake)

"Roderick Easdale is an authority on P. G. Wodehouse and he is clearly channelling the great author in this rollicking tale of golf-club shenanigans in a very English village. Sentences are brilliantly crafted..."

(Country Life) 

"Author Roderick Easdale effortlessly delivers in this witty, feel-good novel."

(Golf Today)

"Roderick Easdale, a golf writer of long experience, clearly knows his way around golf clubs and depicts the actions of a cast of colourful and entertaining characters with a real eye for their absurdities, frailties and mostly well-intentioned natures in this witty, warm-hearted, beautifully written, cleverly told story." (Planet Golf Review)

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Normanby by P G Dixon

Pawns were made to be sacrificed.

When Tom Grant is transferred from the glamour of MI5 to a little-known intelligence department, he begins to think that his career is on the slide.

Then, the investigation into the death of an agent leads him into a plot to strike at the heart of the UK…

...But who can he trust? The Colonel – the loud and overbearing Department head?

Major Green – the dashing war hero with the dedicated team?

...or Normanby – the prim bureaucrat with dark secrets in his past?

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The Dark Side of the Dales by Mark Bridgeman

The Dark Side of the Dales is a collection of true stories from in and around the villages and towns of the Yorkshire Dales. 

The book explores a collection of tragic and dark tales of murder, mystery and crime covering the past 200 years.

Mark Bridgeman has spent a great deal of time uncovering the fascinating stories behind some of the most puzzling, pitiful and poignant crimes that shocked and scandalized the communities in the Dales.

Wherever possible, the stories include eyewitness accounts, carefully researched details of the cruel realities of life for ordinary, working folk, and lots of interesting social details; to offer a fascinating insight into life in years gone by – really placing you at the heart of each story.

There is some sensational, newly uncovered evidence, which may offer answers in two previously unsolved cases, and there is a supernatural element to one of the stories too, tapping into the rich heritage of the area.

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A Little Book Of Strange Tales by Richard Hinchliffe

A Little Book of Strange Tales, is a short collection of stories and rhymes to send a shiver down your spine.

Journey with us from the coldest depths of Outer Space to the burning pits of Hell in this small collection of unsettling weirdness..

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The 'Lost' Village of Lawers by Mark Bridgeman

The Lost Village of Lawers tells the story of the haunting and enigmatic abandoned village that nestles besides the shores of Loch Tay. Almost 1,000 years of surprising human history are hidden within its tumbling ruins. Unknown, unseen, and forgotten by many, this new publication reveals the story behind the ruins and attempts to answer the question that has puzzled so many people – just who was its most famous resident – The mysterious 'Lady of Lawers’?’

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To The Douro by David J Blackmore

(Wellington's Dragoon Book 1)

A young man's decision to fight leads to a war within a war...
To love...
To loss...
...and a quest for vengeance, as he plays a vital role for the future Duke of Wellington.

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Secret Lines by David J Blackmore

(Wellington's Dragoon Book 2)

From the battlefield of Talavera,
by way of the guerrilla’s merciless war,
to the back streets of Lisbon,
our hero fights to keep Wellington’s great secret.
Can Michael gain the revenge he seeks and protect the Secret Lines?

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Behind The Lines by David J Blackmore

(Wellington's Dragoon Book 3)

From Buçaco to the fortified lines where the French are finally stopped,
Behind the lines in Lisbon where the secret war continues,
Through the devastated Portuguese countryside,
Michael Roberts continues his war, has a chance for love, kills, and becomes a changed man.

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A Different Kind of War By David J Blackmore

(Wellington's Dragoon Book 4)

An unhappy and angry Michael Roberts returns to England expecting to be wasting his time at the Regimental depot instead of fighting the French. He soon discovers that the war is also being waged in England, although it is a different kind of war.

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The Road To Madrid by David J Blackmore

(Wellington's Dragoon Book 5)

Returning to the Peninsular, Michael Roberts finds himself plunged back into the intelligence war in Lisbon.

Joining the army in Spain he meets old friends, fights at Villagarcia, and, with Don Julian Sanchez, scours the road to Madrid, finding romance on the way.

He is present at the great victory of Salamanca and marches with Wellington to Madrid, where his success in the intelligence war comes at a price.

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The Grassington Murder by Mark Bridgeman

The Grassington Murder - Fact or Fiction?

On the 1^st April 1766, the quiet Yorkshire Dales market town of Grassington was rocked by the disappearance of its popular local doctor, Dr Richard Petty. When the doctor’s body was finally discovered, the fearsome Tom Lee, already a notorious highwayman, was arrested. The townsfolk of Grassington were convinced of Lee’s guilt, but could they prove their case in court before Lee could kill again?

Best selling writer, Mark Bridgeman, (author of The Dark Side of the Dales), presents his meticulously researched story of Tom Lee – the man who thought he could escape the gallows.

The Grassington Murder includes Joseph Robershaw’s original version of the story, ‘Tom Lee: A Wharfedale Tragedy’ (painstakingly transcribed from the original publication by Mark), and in print here for the first time in more than a century.

Thanks to some newly unearthed evidence, Mark also questions the truth of the accepted legend surrounding Tom Lee and asks: How many other murders did he commit?

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Erased by Mark Bridgeman

Erased is a unique completely immersive paperback - perhaps the first genuine 'eback' of its kind in the world! Erased contains a number of special digital features only available to you, the reader. Through a series of special codes, hidden inside the pages of Erased, you can unlock free and exclusive bonus material, including a special competition giving you the chance to win an exclusive bundle of extra goodies, a free extra story (not available anywhere else), additional information and insights on every chapter, updates on stories, uncovering more about the worldwide search for missing people, and learning how you could help in future investigations. The 'eback' 'emmersive paperback' and 'extended paperback' names and logos are the copyright of the author.

Every year, millions of people go missing around the world. Over 500,000 in the US and more than 170,000 in the UK alone. Roughly one a minute. Many cases are resolved, some over an agonising period of time. Others, never.

Erased deals with seven of the most mysterious, unfathomable, enigmatic, and little known cases in history. From the streets of London to the jungles of South America, journey with true crime writer Mark Bridgeman (author of the best selling ‘Perthshire’s Pound of Flesh’ and ‘The Nearly Man’) into a world of unanswered questions, unseen perils, and unspoken family secrets.

What really became of the missing millionaire, the Hollywood actress, the missing hiker, or the real Indiana Jones? Is the answer out there somewhere, or are they Erased forever?

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My Time Again by Sophia Moseley

Everyone turned to look at Kathy as she walked slowly past. She knew in her heart it was wrong. Her head screamed "No", but she went ahead anyway.

Have you ever wished you could undo a decision you’ve made? Return to that crossroad in your past and take a different path instead. What alternative life might have awaited you? And what of those you now know and love? Change what has been, and they might never exist at all.

Fate, which you cannot control, predetermines all events. Yet, your destiny is in your hands. Or is it? Which one is the dominant force?

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Unseen Follower by Sophia Moseley

How many friends and followers do you have on social media? Tens, hundreds, maybe even thousands?

Hidden in the shadows of the digital realm, an ominous presence lurks.

In Unseen Follower, the virtual world become a labyrinth of secrets. A place where you cannot know who is watching your every click, tracking your every move.

The twenty-first century obsession to be part of the global social circle may lead you into the clutches of the follower who monitors your every post, every like, every share.

That person who glanced at you from across the road or stood behind you in the supermarket; you don’t know them, but they may know where you live, where you work, and where you buy your coffee.

Do you know who’s following you?

Based on real events, Unseen Follower will make you question who is.

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The Missing Millionaire by Mark Bridgeman

Erased: A new series of intriguing missing person cases from around the world by Mark Bridgeman, author of The 'Lost' Village of Lawers. The first book in the series is 'The Missing Millionaire', in which the author investigates the mysterious disappearance of an American millionaire in London, England, in 1913.

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The Empty House by Mark Bridgeman

The second entry in Mark Bridgeman’s ERASED series takes us back to the Golden Age of Hollywood in the late 1940’s, and a true-life mystery as intriguing as any film noir classic of the period.

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The Dancer Who Disappeared by Mark Bridgeman

Los Angeles 1949. A series of brutal unsolved murders and unexplained disappearances has terrified the female population and confounded the authorities. But for one beautiful, budding dancer and actress the world seemed a very different place. Days after appearing alongside one of Hollywood's biggest stars in her first big movie break, she kissed her 5-year-old daughter goodbye and headed out for a mysterious night-time rendezvous - never to be seen again. A spine tingling and bewildering true story set in the golden era of Hollywood, when the silver screen reflected the City of Angel's menacing side. But what really happened to The Dancer Who Disappeared?

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When The Trail Goes Cold by Mark Bridgeman

Five people go missing in five years, all within a few miles of each other. Always at the same time of day, and always at the same time of year. The police are baffled. Are the disappearances connected or is it purely a coincidence? Or is it something far more sinister . .

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The Legs on the Train Murder by Mark Bridgeman

A gruesome discovery on a London train shocks the nation. Has the man behind a series of unsolved murders struck again? As Scotland Yard detectives race to solve the riddle of the missing man, another macabre discovery changes the course of the investigation.

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Her Fame is Oblivion by Mark Bridgeman

New York. 1910. The end of The Gilded Age. When the heiress daughter of a millionaire businessman vanishes without a trace from one of the busiest streets in the world, in broad daylight, the ensuing investigation only seems to raise more questions.

Where did she go? What happened in the House of Mystery? Why did she rent a private mailbox? And, what secret was she really keeping?

The author's comprehensive investigation into the mysterious disappearance of a socialite and heiress to a fortune, is the most detailed study ever written of, what the New York Police Department, called the 'greatest missing person mystery of the 20th century'.

'Her Fame is Oblivion' is the sixth in ERASED, the eBook series of real-life missing persons mysteries available on Amazon Kindle, from Mark Bridgeman, best-selling author of The Nearly Man, Perthshire's Pound of Flesh, and The Dark Side of the Dales.

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Bulldog Drummond by 'Sapper' (H.C. McNeile)

Introducing Bulldog Drummond:

Captain Hugh Drummond, D.S.O., M.C., late of his Majesty’s Royal Loamshires, returns from the war and finds peacetime dull.

In search of excitement, he places an advertisement in the newspaper:

“Demobilised Officer, finding peace incredibly tedious, would welcome diversion. Legitimate, if possible; but crime, if of a comparatively humourous description, no objection. Excitement essential…”

Drummond soon finds himself drawn into a whole new world of adventure, and a legend is born...

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The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

John Buchan’s classic adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps is widely regarded as the ‘first modern spy novel’, and a prime example of the now popular ‘man on the run’ story.

It is the first adventure for Richard Hannay, Buchan’s hero who went on to star in four more of the author’s novels.

A freelance spy, who claims to have information about an anarchist plot, is killed in Richard Hannay’s London flat. When Hannay is framed for the murder, he goes on the run. Chased across Scotland by both the British Police and German spies, Hannay must uncover the secret of the thirty-nine steps before it’s too late…

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