A novel which combines a family saga with social history of Sicily in the 16th Century, a little-known time in its history. It shows the Spanish Inquisition at work in Sicily, and the immense power and influence of medieval chivalric storytelling
What do you do when the bottom falls out of your world, but dammit, no one's gonna get to know? In THE BROCH, a wry, touching week-long odyssey into the wilds of the Scottish Outer Hebrides, we follow one man running away from answers, and towards the realities of his own mortality.
January, 1348. They say bad things come in threes...The day after an earthquake and tsunami have ravaged Venice, Malin Le Cordier, a successful English maritime trader, sails into the city with plans to mature a coup on behalf of Edward III and Genoa. His time? Short. His guilt? Strong. Keeping the coup a secret weighs heavy on his soul.