Genres : Historical Fiction

“Plural identity is where respectful practice begins.”Who are you? Just the one body and mind? Does your story begin with your birth? Or how far back would you go?The Oldest Word spans ten thousand years and more than a dozen settings. Human contradictions are reconciled time and again, with tragedy and humor feeding off each other. From the twin mirror mazes of history and psychology, amid ever-shifting social and natural landscapes, enduring patterns emerge.The story opens with the discovery of...

The book opens in 2014, the 70th anniversary of D-Day when the teacher of twins Nick and Emily Doyle presents them with their summer holiday project. Photographs and conversations with older family members regarding war memories were required.This would be a verbal portrait of the part they had played in saving the country from possible invasion. Due to parental work commitments, the twins were entrusted with the company of their grandparents as baby-sitters and an opportunity for in-depth talks arose.Billy...

1926 - The Bronx - New York, a much-loved priest brutally murdered, a vagrant arrested, and struggling lawyer Mark Kingsley roped in to his defense. Except the accused turns out to be his old best friend and fellow-flyer from WW1 days in the LFC, but who higher authority now seem strangely intent on framing for the crime.Embarking on his own quest for the truth, Kingsley finds, not only romance and constant recollection of those wartime years, but also the mounting...

When Rome transgresses upon his father's domain that lays between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, Pacorus, a prince of the Parthian Empire, is sent to exact revenge. After a string of victories Pacorus and his men are captured in Cappadocia, clapped in chains and sent to Italy to live out the rest of their days as slaves. But fate intervenes and Pacorus and his companions are saved from a living hell by a renegade gladiator named Spartacus. In gratitude, Pacorus...

The Asding Vandals were an insignificant Germanic tribe with an undistinguished military record who lost most of their battles. How this small tribe survived a great migration from modern day Hungary to Africa, and then go on to rule a Mediterranean kingdom so powerful it could sack Rome, is an incredible story. Many books and films cover the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century, but few mention the key contribution of the Vandals. Yet if one...