John Hulme: 17 books

This is the story that Julius Caesar never wanted told. For almost two thousand years the famous Roman dictator has had a monopoly on history. His was the only version we could read of the many battles he fought in pre-Christian Gaul (modern France) before returning to Rome and becoming one of Shakespeare's...

Cut off in an isolated house by a very deep Christmas snowstorm, Ellen suddenly loses all electrical power and realizes that she could well freeze to death. Suddenly she hears a knock at the door and outside, in the snow, is a strange man, a strange animal with a damaged leg and a simple request to...

Mendel learns how to bend rays of light, which reveals the incredible world of sub-microscopic life, and also gives him a clue as to how a “perfect” crime was committed. Brother Gregory uses technology, sympathy and logical deduction to save his friend from disaster.

Beloved characters in popular fairy tales have very short lives, but the reader is usually assured that they end up “living happily ever-after”. Have you ever wondered what became of them after the bedtime book was closed and put away on the shelf? In this collection of short stories you discover...

Around The College Henry Wodeash is known as ‘The Professor’. This pipe-smoking biologist likes solving mysteries. In this collection of four short stories, The Professor and his junior colleague, help The Dean solve the mystery of a missing painting and a critical moment in the history of banking...

Iron Shaft goes to Rome, and that city will never be the same again. Julius Caesar needs his help. Enemies are gathering their forces and intend to elect a Consul who will charge Caesar with treason and drag him out of the protection of his Gaulish legions and back to Rome to stand trial. So, Caesar...

During his life Gregor Mendel had three careers; a scientist, a teacher and an administrator. Today we recognize his genius for discovery, but few know of his talents as a teacher. While teaching his students about cell biology, Mendel also has to grapple with jealous enemies who know where he is weakest.

In this letter to his patron in Rome, the soldier Iron Shaft tells us about the Druids. Julius Caesar has marched his legions into Gaul and is recovering from his first major battle. His German enemy, Ariovistus, is invading the northern Gallic tribes and threatening to move south. He must be stopped....

A continent away from the monk and the monastery where humans got their first glimpse of inheritance mechanisms, Charles Darwin has already told the world how all modern living creatures had got to be the way they were. But … he did not understand genetics; why children looked like their parents....

Caesar needs money - he always needs money. Having settled matters in Rome he sends his legions north in Gaul to collect what they can. Iron Shaft goes with them. He has been promoted and is now in charge of the legion hospital, a job that his General hopes will keep him out of trouble, especially...

Julius Caesar, the famous Roman general, politician and dictator, desperately needed money. To get it he spent a year in Spain looting everything that could not be hidden and taking from everyone who could not hide it fast enough. To protect his fortune he ordered that a new Legion of Roman soldiers...

Before he can become the Greatest Roman of them All, Julius Caesar must fulfill the Druid prophecy and place his foot onto the lands of two more enemies; the Germans and the Britons. In Gaul the legions are gathering and Iron Shaft rejoins the Legio X only to find that he is already in trouble with...

At the dawn of the modern scientific era important discoveries were made in the strangest places. Pasteur found the invisible agents of infection and disease in rabid dogs, and in this story Brother Gregory finds answers in a barrel of sour wine. He also sees a miracle of a different sort.

Women's fashion and the desire for highly-colored cloth was the strange starting point for the new science of chemistry; the manipulation of atoms and molecules into valuable new forms and properties. Brother Gregory is trapped into helping others turn cloth red - for a wedding - while also running for election - to allow his friend to escape imprisonment.