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A Plague on your Business by Michael Jecks: part 2

20 July 2020 By Michael Jecks

Historia’s serialisation of A Plague on your Business by Michael Jecks continues with the second and final part. This is an exclusive extract from By the Sword, the new HWA collection of short stories set in the medieval period. The cook was a lugubrious, scrawny fellow, like a man whodid not enjoy his own food. […]

A Plague on your Business by Michael Jecks: part 1

16 July 2020 By Michael Jecks

Historia is delighted to publish an exclusive extract from By the Sword, the new HWA collection of short stories set in the medieval period. This is part one of Michael Jecks’s story, A Plague on your Business. Part two follows in a few days. The body was wrapped at last. He had carefully washed her, […]

The Dead Don’t Wait by Michael Jecks

31 July 2019 By Editor

April, 1555. A priest has been stabbed to death in the village of St Botolph, to the east of the City of London, his body left to rot by the roadside – and Jack Blackjack stands accused of his murder. As well as clearing his name, Jack has his own reasons for wanting to find […]

Golden Lion by Wilbur Smith and Giles Kristian

1 October 2015 By Michael Jecks

Wilbur Smith has to be one of the very top names in adventure fiction. From his early book THE MERCENARIES (renamed from the original title THE DARK OF THE SUN) about the mercenaries fighting in the Belgian Congo, he has written both modern day stories and historicals with verve and skill. Of all his books, […]

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