Description of Book / Brief Plot Summary:This book provides an overview of the first 600 years of church history since Christ. It tells the story of prominent early Christians through fictionalised narratives that are based on the true historical events and quotes from the writings of the characters covered (who include: Polycarp, Justin Martyr, Athanasius,…
Description of Book / Brief Plot Summary:Set largely in the real world of the Amazon basin and its major city, Manaus, in the Edwardian era. The story features Maia, an orphan girl sent to live with relatives in Brazil and unkindly treated by them, and her remarkable governess Miss Minton; an orphan boy, Clovis, tricked…
Description of Book / Brief Plot Summary:This is a historically accurate account of the life of Cleopatra, the 13th and last of the Greek Ptolemaic pharaohs who ruled Egypt in the second and first centuries BC. Cleopatra’s name is very well known (Shakespeare’s Anthony & Cleopatra, ‘Cleopatra’s needle’ by the Thames in central London –…
Description of Book / Brief Plot Summary:From the Cover: JUNE, 1905. Helena and her parrot, Orbit, are swept off to Cambridge when her father is appointed clock-winder to one of the wealthiest men in England. There is only one rule: the clocks must never stop. But Helena discovers the house of one hundred clocks holds…
Description of Book / Brief Plot Summary:This Victorian story follows Christie, a poor orphan who goes to live with Treffy, an old man who makes a living by playing a worn-out barrel organ. Though both live in poverty, they form a close bond. When Treffy becomes gravely ill and learns he has only a month…
Description of Book / Brief Plot Summary:This book is the first in a sequel series to the well known Laura Ingalls Wilder books based on the life of her daughter, Rose. From the cover: The first book in the Rose Years series, the story of the spirited daughter of the author of the beloved Little…
Description of Book / Brief Plot Summary:An accurate historical account of Henry VIII’s six wives. Although not a Christian perspective it is an excellent explanation of the English Reformation in the setting of Henry’s marriage issues. Part of a wider series of brilliant books written in an engaging story-like way covering ‘traditional’ history both British…