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Waiting For Elizabeth    by Joan Rosier-Jones
Price: $9.99 USD. 94090 words. Language: English. Published by Tangerine Publications Ltd  on April 24, 2012. Fiction » Historical » United Kingdom.

Ireland 1565. ‘Old English’ Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormond, a known as “Black Tom” is waiting for his Queen, Elizabeth. She is rumoured to be the mother of one of Tom’s 12 illegitimate children. And she has promised to visit Ireland. Black Tom builds a manor house for Elizabeth at Carraigh on the River Suir, and there he waits for her. A very real picture of love and hate in Tudor Ireland.
A Company of Thieves    by David Pilling
Price: $0.99 USD. 5140 words. Language: English. Published by Musa Publishing  on April 23, 2012. Fiction » Historical » Medieval.

Life has not been kind to Eustace Folville since the fall from power of his patrons, Mortimer and Isabella. Ambushed and almost murdered in his home, he decides the time has come to gather together the most dangerous outlaws in England and strike at the heart of law and government.
Stonechild and the Emperor    by Jim Burk
Price: $4.99 USD. 212690 words. Language: English. Published on April 21, 2012. Fiction » Adventure » War & military.

Russell Stonechild evades the Nazi blitzkrieg in Belgium, returning to England with additional secrets of the Enigma Machine. Members of the British War Council determine to use Russell to delay the return of Emperor Haile Selassie to the war front in Ethiopia. Haile Selassie obtains Russell’s reassignment. Flying boats deliver Russell to British controlled Khartoum in the Sudan.
Stonechild's Enigma    by Jim Burk
Price: $3.99 USD. 131350 words. Language: English. Published on April 20, 2012. Fiction » Adventure » War & military.

Stonechild's Enigma is the third novel in a series of seven. Russell Stonechild, a young Cree fur trapper and trader becomes a regimental scout in the Gall Light Armoured. Uneducated, but a language prodigy, his skills are sharpened during efforts to slow the Nazi advance through Belgium as war heats up in the first year of declared conflict in WW 2.
The Final Alchemy    by John Wilson
Price: $5.99 USD. 96390 words. Language: English. Published on April 19, 2012. Fiction » Historical » Renaissance.

A novel of intrigue, ambition and betrayal in Tudor England and on the shores of Hudson Bay.
Father Thames    by Roger Williams
Price: $3.99 USD. 29740 words. Language: English. Published on April 18, 2012. Fiction » Historical » United Kingdom.

Stories from the incoming tide... Entertaining tales from some of the migrants, invaders, royalty and refugees who have crossed the North Sea and come up the River Thames to London. Written in the first person, these 20 short stories are ideal easy reading for tablets and mobiles.
Kamer 253    by Anaïd Haen
Price: $1.99 USD. 10150 words. Language: Dutch. Published by e-Publikant  on April 16, 2012. Fiction » Historical » United Kingdom.

In de jaren twintig verdween een wereldberoemde auteur elf dagen van de aardbodem. De hotelmanager is de enige die weet wat ze in die tijd heeft gedaan ...
Tales from the Rails    by Berwick Writers Workshop
Price: $1.99 USD. 13050 words. Language: English. Published on April 11, 2012. Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author.

(4.00 from 2 reviews)
An anthology of short stories and poems a theme of Railways - particularly around Berwick upon Tweed and the Eastern Scottish Borders, compiled in conjunction with the Stephenson 150 Project which celebrated the life of railway engineer Robert Stephenson. Some of the stories are fact based, some pure fiction. Contains 10 photographs. Print version published 2009. **PRICE REDUCED FOR LIMITED TIME**
Never Forget    by Karen Mason
Price: $2.50 USD. 130310 words. Language: English. Published on April 10, 2012. Fiction » Historical » United Kingdom.

(5.00 from 1 review)
1912 and on-board the Titanic, two very different women are embarking on journeys that will change the rest of their lives. Alice is the poor, pregnant girl running away with her criminal boyfriend. Nesta is the wealthy but barren wife of a cruel man who is threatening to divorce her. When the mighty ship sinks, a terrible crime is committed which means these women's lives are entwined forever.
Hornblower and the Island    by James Keffer
Price: $2.99 USD. 59010 words. Language: English. Published on April 5, 2012. Fiction » Historical » United Kingdom.

Napoleon Bonaparte is embarrassing the British on St. Helena almost at will, and England is now the laughing stock of Europe. The answer is a new Governor: Lord Horatio Hornblower. His mission is simple, to deal with the greatest military genius of the modern era and make him behave. Hornblower discovers a Bonaparte that history never knew and learns the truth about the Emperor of the French!