Clive Catterall

Set during the Hundred Years' War with France, The White Company tells the story of a young Saxon man who is learning what it is to be a kni…

George MacDonald claimed that he did not write for children, but for the child-like. Some of his longer works are clearly intended for adult…

By 1348 the House of Loring has fallen on hard times. Together, the Black Death and the greedy monks of Waverley have bled away all of the L…

This book is a five hundred year old manual for how to run a kingdom or principality. Written in 1513 but not published until 1532, "Th…

A Yankee student stays at a country house called Tanglewood during a golden New England fall. Also at the house are about a dozen children: …

This book is often described as an instruction manual on the subject of rat-catching. It does indeed contain a good deal about rats, ferrets…

In 1915 Oscar Hornung, son of the famous author E W Hornung, was killed at Ypres after less than a year as a soldier in Flanders. He was onl…

Short Biographies of some of the most influential engineers who developed the modern manufacturing methods behind the Industrial Revolution.…

The Art of War (1521) is the only book published by Niccolo Machiavelli during his lifetime, and he saw it as one of his finest achievements…

The Book of Tea is as much about philosophy, religion and art as it is about a drink made with dried leaves in boiling water. It traces the …

Toxophilus is a book about target archery using the English Longbow. The book is divided into two parts: The first part is an extended argum…