John Wiltshire: 22 books

In this major study, leading Austen scholar John Wiltshire offers new interpretations of Jane Austen's six novels, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1816), Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (1818). Much recent criticism of Austen has concentrated...

  Being an ex-soldier, Jake doesn't know much about angels, but shouldn't they be...angelic?   What would you do if your guardian angel fell into your backyard? When an angel, Gabriel, falls from heaven, Jake takes him in. Unfortunately, the presence of this beautiful...

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  It's either a brave or stupid person who threatens anything Nikolas Mikkelsen loves.   Ben usually overlooks Nikolas's occasionally jarring dissonance. Not this time. A deep rift, a terrible lie, separates them. Eleven thousand miles from Nikolas, in New Zealand,...

'Learn to love death's ink-black shadow as much as you love the light of dawn.' Yeah? Well, Nikolas doesn't do early mornings.   It takes a certain kind of courage to live as if favoured by the gods, ignoring the ever-present ghosts of your past--or perhaps not bravery, but arrogance....

Into his fateful heap of days the soul of man is cast. Only a few months from his fiftieth year, Nikolas is feeling a distinct wobble in his formidable certainties. Aleksey Primakov appears to have become irrelevant. All he needs, therefore, is to be dragged into an adventure with Devon's...

What a pity the founding members of the new Gay Book Club didn't think to use a correctly placed hyphen--if they had, things might have worked out for everyone very differently indeed.   Rory McGrath suffers from a debilitating condition--he caught it from reading too many books....

Come out from the shadow of that red rock and I will show you joy in a handful of leaves. It isn't easy being the head of security on an inter-planetary transport ship between Earth and Titan. Lieutenant Cal Hartland is not impressed when he's tasked to oversee the reintegration to Earth of...

A Royal Affair: Book One Doctor Nikolai Hartmann represents himself as a learned man of science who believes wholly in the rational and scientific above all else. In reality, he is a man haunted by an unusual past and running from his own nature. While the Reformation transforms much of Europe,...

A Royal Affair: Book Two Doctor Nikolai Hartmann escaped the Hesse-Davian dungeons. He fled civilized Europe to come to the vast wilderness of the New World, where he carved out a home in which he could love openly and without censure—Aleksey’s Kingdom. However, there is an irritating green-eyed,...

  Nikolas is the sanest, straightest, person he knows, so can anyone tell him, why he's on a gay therapy course?   Nikolas Mikkelsen could make a very long list of unpleasant things he's endured in his life. Then order it from 'nearly killed me' to 'extremely horrific...

Loving a total stranger can be very hard work sometimes.   How do you love someone who exists entirely in the shadows? How do you love a man who describes himself as dead? How do you get that ghost to love you back? Ex-SAS soldier Ben Rider falls in love with his enigmatic married...

  Nikolas and Ben discover that bonds aren't forged with blood or scars but in the hearts of men strong enough to love.   Ben discovers the truth of the adage, 'be careful what you wish for'. Nikolas has exorcised his demons, but when they end up stranded in Russia,...

  The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. Nikolas has always liked art.   You'd have thought that Ben and Nikolas would have learnt that their romantic holidays inevitably end up as disasters. A short break on the polar ice sees them trapped...