Product Description: The start of the 1960s… and a stranger arrives in the small Northern town of Thruckstone. Ted Collins is a twenty-year-old newspaper reporter, a rover, prepared to move from town to town to further his ambitions. He is joining the local Herald, having been sacked from his previous job, but is still determined to keep alive his dream of one day joining a national daily in London… at any cost! Love blooms for the lonely Ted when he meets a beautiful eighteen-year-old devout Irish Catholic, Kathleen McCartney, the ‘most gorgeous girl he has ever seen’… He courts her steadily over the months, happy to be in her company, but then things start to get in the way of Ted’s ambitionsâ€...read more

An elegiac tale of a defiant friendship and a doomed love affair. When runaway Richard Wigboe returns to his island home after 19 missing years, it is to await the woman he loves from whom he was separated in a Japanese civilian internment camp. Turned away by his embittered father, Ben, he finds a friend in his lonely teenage step-brother Joe Coe. Set in the wilds of Eastern England in 1947, the cast of characters includes two female artists, a half-mad eccentric landowner, a shy bachelor in want of a wife and a displaced Polish soldier seeking the girl who has borne his baby.

Product Description: Through a focused and systematic examination of late medieval scholastic writers - theologians, philosophers and jurists - Joseph Canning explores how ideas about power and legitimate authority were developed over the 'long fourteenth century'...read more

Product Description: London 1940. The Blitz on London is at its height.bombing is daily as well as nightly.and, amid it all, young mother Olive fights against the odds, defying the bombs and the authorities, to hang on to her seven children, even as her fickle husband deserts her and goes on the run from the police and the army...read more

Product Description: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: The fourteenth, seventeenth and twentieth centuries in European history were marked by exceptionally intense experiences of power, violence and mass death. Power, Violence and Mass Death in Pre-Modern and Modern Times undertakes the ambitious and entirely new task of analyzing, through comparison, the importance of power, violence and mass death in these centuries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a full-scale study of the political thought of the Italian jurist, Baldus de Ubaldis (1327-1400). Baldus shared with his teacher and colleague, Bartolus of Sassoferrato, the greatest fame and influence amongst the Commentators, the school of jurists which dominated Roman law studies in the late Middle Ages and remained highly influential throughout the sixteenth century and beyond...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)