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The Synopsis:In a world torn by survival and impossible choices, seventeen-year-old Mitch faces a life-defining moment. Caught stealing food for his struggling family, he stands in court, staring down two stark options: a life of imprisonment in Van Diemen's Land or the uncertain promise of the Queen's shilling. Choosing the latter, Mitch's journey with the 58th Regiment of Foot begins. Taking him from the training grounds of Ireland to the perilous encounters with bushwhackers in Rio, while on a convict-laden ship bound for Australia. His fate takes an unexpected turn, leading him to the front lines of the First New Zealand War of 1845. Amid the fierce battles of Kororāreka, Puketutu,...

Trilogy Series Book 3: Clearing of the MistThe Synopsis:Thirty years have passed since Sam, and his mates went through the mist to the year 1863. Thirty years ago Sam received his head wound in the attack on Auckland. Since then Sam's memory has not returned. Until a disastrous trip to Rhodesia with his wife, Bella, changes his life once again. Returning to the UK slowly his memory clears.Out of the blue, he is summoned by Queen Victoria to meet a Maori delegation from New Zealand. At this encounter, his memory is jolted when he is reunited with old enemies and friends from his past. Before leaving the palace, he is further requested to attend an audience with the Prince Regent.The story tha...

From the best-selling author of The Adventures of Charlie Smithers … comes another action adventure in all out war. With the fall of Louisbourg, at last the gateway to Quebec lies open to the British. As the summer of 1759 looms, one last push is required to topple the capital of New France, and the young officer, Josiah Stubb, and the grenadiers of the 51st, will be part of it. However, unlike Louisbourg, the Citadel of Quebec is a natural fortress, and the might of New France has been concentrated to defend her. The British are outnumbered two to one, leaving the stage uncertain. Much depends upon courage and discipline…and of course, that most enigmatic factor of all, luck. This is a ...

"Full of action; bloody battles are fought, love is found in a savage land and in the background, a character from Stubb’s past seeks him out. From Louisburg through savage forests the ultimate goal of Quebec beckons and a debt of blood remains to be paid. Bravo Mr Lovatt, Josiah Stubb is fast becoming one of my favourite literary characters." ~ The ReviewBook 2 in the Josiah Stubb series. September, 1758: the fortress of Louisbourg lies beaten into the mud on the Cape Breton shore. To consolidate their victory, the British are mopping up pockets of resistance along The Gulf of Saint Lawrence. However, although gravely wounded, New France still has teeth, personified by a ruthless off...

From the best-selling author of The Adventures of Charlie Smithers. It is 1758 and The Seven Years War is raging. The military might of the British and French empires collide in a desperate bid to control the key strategic Fortress of Louisbourg and, in turn, Quebec and French-held North America. One man caught amidst the bloodshed is the young grenadier, Josiah Stubb. Raised by a whore amidst poverty and incest, Josiah seemed doomed from birth to a life in the gutter. His attempt to leave his sordid past behind leads him to Louisbourg, but it comes back to haunt him in the form of a gifted officer, battling his own inner demons. As the siege blazes towards its inevitable bloo...

THE NUMBER 1 BEST-SELLER!"Humorous and highly entertaining" ~ The ReviewHarry Flashman, step aside, old son. Make way for Charlie Smithers."Poetic prose and humorous undertones that are wildly entertaining." ~ Serious ReadingThe time is the nineteenth century. The place, the Serengeti Plain, where one Charlie Smithers – faithful manservant to the arrogant bone-head, Lord Brampton (with five lines in Debrett, and a hopeless shot to boot) – becomes separated from his master during an unfortunate episode with an angry rhinoceros, thereby launching Charlie on an odyssey into Deepest Darkest Africa, and subsequently into the arms of the beautiful Loiyan…and that’s where the trouble really...

Book 2 of the hit Charlie Smithers CollectionFlashman's alter ego returns!Four years after Charlie returns from Africa, having survived a charging rhinoceros, ravenous crocodiles, fierce Maasai warriors, and evil slavers (not to mention inadvertently discovering the source of the Nile,) we find him in India. Yes, that's right, his master, Lord Brampton, accompanied by his beloved guns, appalling aim, and the ever-faithful Charlie Smithers, has decided to go adventuring again.Unfortunately not everything goes according to plan and, in an effort to prevent a war, our hero finds himself on a madcap expedition to the reclusive kingdom of Bhutan, saving the life of the ravishing Charula Khaur alo...

Book 3 of the best-selling Charlie Smithers Collection"Charlie Smithers, or should I say C W Lovatt, has done it again, bringing us the best adventure yet in the series about this remarkable and lovable character." ~ The ReviewFlashman never experienced anything like this, not even remotely!Whether it’s because of his gift of the ‘sight,’ inherited from his dour old Hebridean mum, or simply a sorely battered noggin (a result of his master’s appalling aim) the Australias hold one of Charlie Smithers’ most intriguing adventures to date.Pirates, great white sharks, mermaids, scorching deserts, cannibals and a small army of sadistic bushrangers are only part of the story. A mysterious ...

Sully Wheeler doesn’t care why his cattle are disappearing. He doesn’t care why but it has to stop. Perhaps it’s part of the cost of hiding from his past, but who would steal from a one-time gunfighter? The NW Mounted Policeman that Sully contacted appeared more intent on stopping vigilante action than in stopping theft. If that proves to be the case, Sully will recover his own property, even if it takes gunfire to do it. Who is this Mountie, anyway? Is he a cop or something else entirely? Is he working to support the crown, leave the crown or actually do something for the settlers? And while we’re talking about that Mountie, isn’t he spending too much time with that newspaper lady...

Hank James and riding partner Harry Gilmore ride the rails east to look for the woman Hank thought would be his mate for life. They unload their horses and gear at Canmore and immediately make an enemy.Riding on into Calgary they find Sharon but Hank is suddenly not sure if she is who he thought she was. He does decide to stay around long enough to see if she is or isn’t.If they are staying around for awhile anyway Hank and Harry become homesteaders. When they met Portis Martin east of Canmore he did not think they showed him proper respect but as homesteaders they became threatening enemies.Hank and Harry’s new enemy is manager of a very big cattle ranch. He has the money, the livestock...

In the west of the 1890s, Jake’s wife is raped and murdered, an image from which he attempts to escape and hide. When two thieves try to take what little he has left, Jake realizes he must face the past and solve his wife’s murder to truly escape the images in his head. But to find the killer, he discovers even more surprises …

What is it that makes Jake the man who can work with a new partner?

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With some outside, unwanted pressure, range detective Bob Morgan decides to return to the city and investigate a group with a little too much power over those building that city and the railroad leading to it.

How long has this been going on?

Smuggling humans and drugs and selling “protection”?

Big business is funding the outlaw?

Small business is funding the outlaw?

Police are outnumbered ten to one?

Government funding is an insignificant fraction of outlaw income?

How to protect the people and the future?

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The year is 1885. Hank James has been in Canada several months panning gold from a stream near Roswell, British Columbia. When he hears a prizefight will be held in town, he attends along with everyone for miles around. With a little help from the fight referee, he wins big betting on the fight.Having realized that the life of a miner isn’t nearly as romantic or rewarding as he expected, and with advice from the policeman who helped him win money on the fight, Hank goes to Farwell to haul freight with pack horses for contractors building the transcontinental railroad.The railroad’s security, a detachment of North West Mounted Police, have maintained across the West that no liquor be allo...

Nine short stories and twelve rhymes covering a span of 170 years.

What has changed from the 1790s to the 1960s?

Who are some of the people who created what we now see?

What are some of the ideas, philosophies and accepted norms concerning

Family, community, history, inclusion ……

Biographical Historical Fiction. Book 1 of the series “They Also Were Legends”. The life and times of the outlaw Jesse James and his gang as seen through the eyes of a fictional girl who suffered the same violent and brutal conditions of the border war in the Missouri/Kansas area during the Civil War. Learn why Jesse and gang turned to thievery after the war and became the most famous outlaws that the developing western expansion ever produced. All “bad men” are just people too and most of them, Jesse and gang included, were just people with good qualities as well as some violent ones. There was a reason for what they did and this series explains the good as well as the bad. It bring...