Arc Press: 18 books

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...

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...

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...

Henry Crane wants to make the most realistic robots in the world, but the actual plastic and metal is easy. The hard part is getting a pleasant and reliable personality - being sued if one of his robots runs amok would ruin him! The solution is a virtual world where personalities can be generated,...

This is a rollicking "Boys' Own" tale of the Crusades with battles, sieges, spies and an imperious, red-haird girl who knows what she wants and goes for it. Those who worry about such things can rest assured that it all ends happily - well, more or less happily. Boy gets girl, girl gets boy, with lots of adventures along the way.

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...

Jonathon Appleton celebrates his retirement with a leisurely tour of America, which means he has the time, as well as the curiosity, to investigate the skinny girl with the crying baby. His attempt to help lands him with the girl and her baby and the three travel across America, getting to know the...

It's not the perfect job for an idealistic young psychologist, but with the right-wing revolution in power in Britain, Steve Russell is grateful for a post as Penal Education Officer. His clients are what you would expect: a mix of the criminal and the unfortunate, with attitudes ranging from dumb...

When Nick Hawthorne makes a killing on shares in Martian Zinc, he celebrates by buying Cherie Bonson, the famous pop star - or at least, the Robomate version, complete with "Genuine People Personality". And that is the start of his problems, because Cherie Bonson is vain, volataile...

Just as Charles is thinking of running away and starting afresh, he gets the chance, with a beautiful young woman and her delightful daughter. The only problem is, can Charles keep up the impersonation with all the pressures he faces as child-minder and computer expert combined. The tale is, of...