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Sword and Scimitar 1st January 1970

1565, Malta: a vital outpost between the divided nations of Europe and the relentlessly expanding Ottoman Empire. Faced with ferocious attack by a vast Turkish fleet, the knights of the Order of St John fear annihilation. Amongst those called...

Island Apart 1st January 1970

An editor from New York is getting over breast cancer, and coming to terms with other difficult aspects in her life. A healing romance restores her on the island. And the author takes this opportunity to introduce his readers...

The Siege 1st January 1970

In the early fifteenth century, as winter falls away, the people of Albania know that their fate is sealed. They have refused to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire, and war is now inevitable. Soon enough dust kicked up by...

When the Tree Sings 1st January 1970

This novel describes the life of a boy in a small Greek village, first when it was under the Nazi occupation, and then during the civil war, post WW2. A book once read never forgotten.

Middlesex 1st January 1970

‘I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960: and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974.’ So begins the...