Ken Down: 23 books

When George Crandall decides to change careers following a messy divorce, he chooses history and gets the idea of going back in time to observe the effects of the Black Death at first hand. The technical difficulties that defeated other historians he overcomes because of his engineering background...

When the Black Death returns to England for the second time George Crandall is ready to stand another siege - but fate conspires that he ends up in Newcastle as the plague reaches that city. With mounting horror he sees the death toll rise and gladly takes to the sea to escape - only to discover that...

Johnny and Jumi make a nice couple, especially after Johnny's somewhat messy divorce, but Jumi has a problem: she doesn't know the correct puja for her husband's god. She fears that without it, the gods will take her husband from her because of her bad karma. Things come to a head when Johnny comes...

When Publius hears that his childhood sweetheart is a widow, he heads straight out to Palestine to try and win her - but there's a problem. Secunda is gravely ill and none of the doctors can help her. Publius stays as long as he can, but after he leaves, Secunda hears of the one Man who can help...

Arxes, a young man of Corinth, is both delighted and dreadfully embarrassed: his father is about to buy him a slave girl of his very own! Love follows its usual rocky course until the girl hears an itinerant Jewish philosopher talking in her own language. The big question is, can Lucius, Arxes' Roman...

I am an experienced and popular preacher. I believe that anyone can preach provided God has called them to do so. Although God can speak through the most feeble of sermons, yet as good workmen we should do our best to make our messages interesting and acceptable to our hearers. In this...

To his horror, Alec Hughes realises that the attractive young girl he met by Niagara Falls is trying to kill herself - and that's a waste of a perfectly usable body. Gradually he persuades her to give her body to him and let him kill her - but what exactly is "her"? Can Kayley die yet keep her body alive?...

When the French philosopher and scientist Blaise Pascal made his famous wager, it was widely deemed to be an unanswerable argument for Christianity. In the three centuries since, however, other arguments have been advanced that seem to nullify Pascal's Wager. But do they? Pascal's argument was a...

George Moreton practices warefare, guile and the gentle art of blackmail on Iron Age savages and Twenty-second Century sophisticates in order to get his newly acquired fiancee back safely to earth - only to discover a sinister plot that forces them to flee back into space.

It's the devil of a job being Number Two when your superior is a real demon. It's even worse when you find yourself unexpectedly in the middle of a complicated conspiracy organised by "Him" and you have to cope as best you can with no resources, few operatives, and ever increasing targets...

Despite its isolation, Capelburgh continues to be a refuge to a wide range of mediaeval folk - a former Templar Knight, a man who doesn't want a wife, a group of Scottish captives who want to go home rich, even a tentative atheist. This peaceful world is threatened when the Scots attack and capture...

When IT expert and involuntary time traveller James Powell finds himself in possession of a beautiful young girl - and discovers that slavery is legal in his new home - there can be only one outcome. His struggle to provide for himself and his household of female slaves is interrupted by the most important...

When Sir Ralph Gifford finds himself in church in his nightgown, his first thought is to damn the Puritans for whitwashing over his Doom. But then things get stranger as he finds himself flying to Stonehenge but unable to find his young wife, the beautiful Bess. To his dismay he discovers that she...

Following the unexpected death of his friend and mentor, Dr Thoroughgood, George Crandall returns to the Twenty-second Century to visit him before he dies. Then Hilda and her children return to the Thirteenth Century for a visit and things get really complicated when, the day after they leave, Hilda's...