Firsthale: 9 books

‘Out of field, out of fen, out of forest we rose putting fear behind us. Foe fled before us: hard-handed death-dealers, wolf-howling warriors, fierce in fealty; our swords glittered in the sunlight . . . .’ Edward the Confessor is dead, England is at peace and Hereward,...

'There is magic still in this world, but there is always a price to be paid for the use of it.' So Fritha discovers when, fleeing the raiders that have destroyed her home, she meets a stranger who promises to help her. But Breac is no ordinary traveller. He shares his blood with the Diamhir,...

Spring, 1828. After four years' assigned service, convict Matthew Hayes claims a plot of land on the south-eastern coast of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). He finds it occupied by an old aboriginal woman, Wyemena, and her grand-daughter, Morana, who is desperate for a husband. But 'Mat-hays' already...

Scotland, Spring 1746. Set in the brutal aftermath of the battle of Culloden, The Striped Man is a haunting story of guilt, superstition, love and revenge. As warships scour the coast for Rebel fugitives, an English soldier is shipwrecked on a remote Hebridean island. Here he also becomes a fugitive,...

When he returns home after fighting in the English Civil War, Fenlander Tom Swainson is full of hope for a New Age of equality where the rights of commoners will be protected, as promised by his old commander, Oliver Cromwell. But although the hamlet where he lives was untouched by the fighting, he...

The earth turns; tides ebb and flow. By opening the secret portal, the Éardar-Féarth, Fritha and Rhyddan the Bard have saved Breac's life. But the revenge of the Diamhir is swift, their aim to destroy humankind through storm and pestilence before the Hidden Land is invaded. Breac and Fritha...

The earth turns; tides ebb and flow. The wrath of the Diamhir has ended and the sun shines again upon the Land of Men but the Éardar-Féarth is still open and while Orlagh, the Dark Queen, lives, the Hidden Land is endangered. Fritha escapes vassalage and flees to the Isle of Mist with Faol...

The earth turns; tides ebb and flow. 'There is magic still in this world . . .' So Fritha discovers when, fleeing the raiders that have destroyed her home, she meets a stranger who promises to help her. But Breac is no ordinary traveller. He shares his blood with the Diamhir, immortal shape-shifters...

Derg, youngest son of Gog, King of the Caitii, longs to be a warrior, a hero-king like his forebears, though he is still a boy, bullied by his elder brothers and ignored by his father. When his half-sister, Anwyn, and Larg the Herder offer to foster him, Derg is overjoyed. But he soon discovers that...