Zero to Ten

Londinium is burning…Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, newly appointed governor of Roman Britain, is charged by an increasingly unstable Emperor Nero with a difficult task—the untamed island on the fringes of the empiremust earn a profitTo do so, Suetonius pursues the last of the Druids into Wales and, along the way, subdues the fractious Celtic chieftains who sit atop a fortune in gold and rare metals. Meanwhile, in the provincial capital of Londinium, war is brewing. As Nero''s corrupt tax officials strip the British tribes of their wealth and dignity, an unlikely leader arises—Queen Boudicca, chieftain of the Iceni, who unites the tribes of Britain and leads them on a furious and bloody quest for vengeance and liberty.

‘One day a golden-haired warrior came riding to a Saxon village in Mercia, and tossed a penny to a boy… The warrior was called Harold, and the boy was Beornoth: the one Earl Godwin’s heir, the other a lowly thegn’s son.’For Beornoth became a Housecarl — one of that proud band of warriors who swore oaths to guard their King to the death, and who were known as ‘The King’s hounds’. A magnificent picture of Saxon England, follows the fortunes of the finest flower of English warriors, destined to serve their King until the savage hilltop fight known to future generations as the Battle of Hastings.

London 1620 - Philip Marsham, a nineteen-year-old sailor, has just been orphaned when his father''s ship was lost at sea. An accident with a gun causes him to flee London, leaving behind his small inheritance left by his father. He decides to journey across England on foot, heading towards Bideford in Devon.During his travels, he encounters Tom Jordan and Martin Barwick, who claim to be fellow sailors. Tom, who is more commonly known as the Old One, soon parts company with them; however, Martin becomes Phil''s traveling companion.  When they reach Bideford, Martin leads the way to the house of Mother Taylor, an old woman who works as the go-between for numerous illegal activities and arranges positions for Martin and Phil on a frigate, known as the Rose of Devon.When their ship is captured by pirates, led by the ‘Old One’ only Phil and Will Canty, a fellow sailor of the same age, show reluctance to become pirates. Will Phil join them to save himself?

John Grahame, called 'Bonnie Dundee', was the Jacobite hero. Although devoted to duty, he casts ambition aside to stand alone for his King and the Stuart dynasty in leading the Highland clans to an astounding victory at Killiecrankie in 1689. From the quagmires of treachery and self-interest, the heroic soldier is described in this vivid glimpse of one man's determined genius and bravery in the face of cruelty and destruction. In this portrayal of the first Jacobite, John Grahame of Claverhouse, Jane Lane presents both the violence and colour of Jacobite rebellion. 'I read Jane Lane's books with mounting admiration for both their content and style...Merging fact and fiction into essential truth, she has produced novels of quite extraordinary emotional power and exciting narrative pace.' Author John Prebble

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi  (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial activist and political ethicist who employed non-violent resistance  to lead the successful campaign for India’s independence from British Rule. He inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific ‘Mahatma’  (from Sanskrit, meaning great-souled, or venerable), was first applied to him in South Africa in 1914, but today it is used worldwide.Gandhi is noted as the greatest figure of modern India. In 1999, Gandhi was also declared "Asian of the century" and in a 2000 BBC poll, he was voted as the greatest man of the Millennium

Bass Rock home to a brooding fortress precipitously perched on the rocky island guarding the Firth of Forth and gaol to incarcerated Jacobite prisoners. In the summer of 1691 four Jacobite soldiers, led by the intrepid Humphrey Craddocke surprised the governor and guards and drove them out of the castle. The English Government placed the island and fortress under siege. For almost three years the defenders repelled any attempt to retake the Castle and played one of the most astounding games of bluff in history. Can they survive and escape with honour as free men? A minor epic of Scottish History!!

His Fight is Ours follows the traumatic trials of MacLain, a Highland Chieftain of the Clan Donald, as he leads his people in the second Jacobite rising on behalf of James Stuart, the Old Pretender.The battle to restore the King to his rightful throne is portrayed here in this absorbing historical escapade, which highlights all the beauty and romance of Highland life. Jane Lane presents a dazzling, picturesque story of the problems facing MacLain as leader of a proud, ancient race, and his struggles against injustice and the violent infamy of oppression

In the savage cold of a February night, a company of soldiers obeyed the orders issued by William III to butcher a small branch of Clan Donald living in Glencoe. The tale of Government-sanctioned murder woven into a narrative featuring members of the family Donald. It creates strong characters on both sides of the tragedy which fuses the human costs with the official intolerance of the Scottish Highland clans of the period. Jane Lane has expanded a page of history into an epic in which courtesy and treachery, hospitality and betrayal, love and hate, are manifested by the men and women whose fate brought them together on that tragic winter night in 1692.

Erik Thorvaldsson (c.?950 – c.?1003), known as Erik the Red, was a Norse explorer described in medieval and Icelandic sage sources as having founded the first European settlement in Greenland. Erik most likely earned the epithet ’The Red’ due to the colour of his hair and beard. According to the Icelandic Sagas, Erik was born in the Jaeren district of Rogaland in Norway, the son of Thorvald Asyadsson. Thorvald would later be banished from Norway and would sail west to Iceland with Erik and his family. During Erik''s life in Iceland, he married ?jódhild Jorundsdottir and would have four children, with one of Erik''s sons being the well-known Icelandic explorer Leif Erikson who discovered Vinland (North America).  Around the year of 982, Erik was exiled from Iceland for three years, during which time he explored Greenland, eventually culminating in his founding of the first successful European settlement on the island. Erik would later die there around 1003 CE during a winter epidemic

Young Festus’ family have been murdered and his home destroyed by the invaders.What should he d? ifteen hundred years ago Britain was facing the darkest period in its history. The Legions had left, hastening back to protect Rome. The great civilisation the Romans had built, the roads, fortresses and towns, were crumbling, and along the coast of Britain, land-hungry wanderers, beached their long-ships and killed all who opposed them.No man could trust his neighbour; all were afraid. All that is, except Artos the Bear, a leader of great strength who like King Arthur has become one of our greatest heroes.