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The Regiment Trilogy follows Murdoch Mackinder and the Royal Western Dragoon Guards from the South African War to the end of the Second World War. Murdoch inherits a family tradition of command, but modern firepower, industrial war and intimate scandal force him to redefine what service to the…
The McGann Saga follows an Irish-American seafaring family from 1769 to the Second World War. Harry McGann enters the American Revolution and the creation of the navy; Toby confronts French privateers and Barbary captivity; later generations divide during the Civil War and become involved in Cuba’s struggle against…
The Pearl of the Orient saga charts the growth of Singapore and the trading families connected to it. Teng Lee and Stamford Raffles operate amid the Anglo-Dutch struggle in Southeast Asia; Michael Harrington moves from India into the opium trade and war in China; and Larry Cairns enters…
The Kenya novels follow the Barclay family and the people connected to it from European exploration of the East African highlands into the twentieth-century crisis of colonial rule. The High Country begins with Adrian Barclay and Kurt von Schlieben, whose discovery of a supposed paradise becomes entangled with…
Originally published under the Alan Savage name, the Sword Series links members of the Brand and Warrey families through the conflicts of the 1930s and the Second World War. Harry Brand begins as a medical orderly in Ethiopia, and later volumes follow the fall of Singapore and Burma,…
The Bloody Sun novels follow two generations of the Barrett family inside the making of modern Japan. Bloody Sunrise begins with a British naval officer shipwrecked in 1861, adopted into Japanese society and employed in the creation of a modern navy during the political upheaval that produces the…
The Haggard Chronicles examine a West Indian plantation fortune after its owners enter British society. John Haggard leaves Barbados in 1780 with Emma Dearborn, their children and enslaved servants, discovering that wealth cannot erase the legal and social contradictions created by slavery, illegitimacy and class. The later books…
The French Resistance series, originally issued as Alan Savage, follows British intelligence officer James Barron and the de Gruchy sisters from the German invasion of 1940 to the liberation campaign of 1944. A wealthy wine family is scattered into resistance, collaboration, imprisonment and clandestine service after Barron escapes…
The Arms of War saga follows the Martingell and Elligan families through the international weapons trade from southern Africa in 1893 to the Italian invasion of Albania in 1939. James Martingell begins as an explorer and gun-runner whose willingness to supply any buyer creates wealth, political enemies and…
The Dawson Saga follows a Royal Navy family from Edwardian confidence to the Pacific War. The first volume begins with the naval race before 1914 and a treason scandal that divides the household. The Titans places three Dawson brothers in the First World War, while a younger generation…
The Commando trilogy, first published under the Alan Savage pen name, follows Harry Curtis from the retreat at Dunkirk into Britain’s newly formed raiding forces. Early operations combine sabotage, coastal attack and code intelligence, while the losses at Lofoten and St Nazaire establish the physical and psychological cost…
The China Series follows connected women through the collapse of the Qing dynasty and the violent decades that follow. Constance Baird enters missionary and court society before the Boxer crisis; Adela Wynne returns as a Manchu heiress during the revolution of 1911; and Joan Carter arrives in 1926…
Written originally as Caroline Gray, the Helier L’Eree trilogy combines seventeenth-century warfare with witchcraft and gothic adventure. Helier’s mother is executed as a witch on Guernsey, and his attempt at revenge leads to service under Cardinal Richelieu and an assassination mission during the Thirty Years’ War. The sequels…
Published under the Alan Savage name, the Eleanor of Aquitaine Saga presents Eleanor’s life as a two-volume dynastic narrative. The first book follows her inheritance of Aquitaine, marriage to Louis VII, queenship in France and participation in the Second Crusade. The second begins after annulment and follows her…
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