Duncan: 1764 books

A rough California gold camp seems an unlikely place for two lonely people running from their pasts to meet. But when Sam Ransom first sees Zenobia Gray taking after a huge, bearded miner with a ladle, then delivering a baby and comforting a bereaved man, he decides that, while she might be a fussy...

~His thumb moved gently across the top of each of my fingers, exploring the soft, plump lines.I merged with the chair.‘You would be a special customer,’ he whispered.My eyes felt large and soft, staring into his. ‘Really?’His kissed my tingling hand, and then looked up at me as though asking...

“I was now so close he could slide an arm around me. I was tall but I had to tilt my head to look up at him. My chin would have fitted nicely into the lower curve of his neck. And I could have done just that. He smelt tangy, like the sea. My tongue longed for a lick of salt. I could have easily...

Miki Mavuya is eleven years old. He is excited when his cousin, the local middle-weight boxing champion, Zap Mazela, visits the Mavuya household. He is honoured when asked to look after a treasured pair of boxing gloves for Zap. He puts these in a safe place. But unfortunately for Miki, his grandmother...

In this delightful tale, you’ll meet eleven year-old Miki Mavuya and his quirky family. Miki loves cricket and his greatest ambition is to have his own cricket bat. When he sees a second-hand one in Mr Molly’s shop window, he finds himself dreaming about owning such a bat. To his amazement, Mr...

What if you were lost in a land of dead people? And you were there to rescue the one person you hated more than any other? After her adventures in the Shadow Garden (The Vampire Castle), Elspeth returns to Rutherford’s school where she hopes to forget her experiences. However, a curious event takes...

This story, the twelfth in the Wallace Boys series, starts with a horrifying terrorist massacre of tourists at Queen Hatshepsut’s Temple, one of the most spectacular archaeological sites near Luxor in Egypt – something like this actually happened a number of years ago.Nigel is caught up...

Gracie: Jake had been her hero growing up. Now he was the only man she could trust. Jake: A preacher in a lawless town, Jake held services in a saloon for a gang of lawless desperadoes. Running from a painful past, Gracie fled to New Mexico Territory--and Jake--with a child named Charity...

Commodities come and commodities go. These days, we can be guilty of consuming without question, of abusing possessions and disposing of them without a second thought. If we knew the full story, might we stop and think every once in a while?

Shortlisted for The Romantic Novelists Association "Romantic Novel of the Year". Lu Edwards may write and illustrate books for children, but she's certain she doesn't want children of her own. She believes in travelling light, with not even a goldfish to tie her down, until Nick - a WWI...

Sir Ian, castellan of Fellswick Castle, sworn to protect the lands during his lord’s absence and following a personal oath to assist all women, cannot resist the lovely fragile lady brought to his care through treachery. His courtly attentions to her veer out of control into true love, tempting...

British and American intelligence agencies discover that the Chinese are carrying out secret research with the North Koreans to develop new nuclear weapons. A daring and dangerous operation to capture the details is carefully planned by MI6 and eventually put into action with the help of the SAS when...

William Shakespeare's exuberant comedy As You Like It is his playful take on the Renaissance tradition of pastoral romance, edited by H.J. Oliver with an introduction by Katherine Duncan-Jones. 'All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players' When Rosalind is banished...

JED: He'd been hired to escort Miss Tacita Grantham from New Mexico Territory to San Francisco—and easy job for a rugged Westerner like him. But he didn't count on her little rat of a dog sinking its teeth into his leg. Nor did he plan on falling for the fair maiden with the big blue eyes and golden...