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Initially, the Easter Uprising of 1916 was judged a failure. A glorious failure certainly - but a failure. And yet, within five years, most of Ireland was independent of British rule.
In this enthralling first episode of his new Celtic Trilogy, George Kearton, author of the nine-volume "House of Stuart Sequence" of alternative history, sets out how an Irish Uprising during The Great War could have succeeded.
His name is one of the most infamous in American politics. In the early 1950s, Senator Joe McCarthy was a force of terror, sparing no one in his hunt for Soviet agents within the US government. Yet, on a journey from a park bench in New York City to the fields of rural Wisconsin and into the halls of power in Washington, his incredible rise to power is part of the most audacious gambit in the annals of Soviet espionage. When McCarthy targets his
...The year is 1929 and the German republic, born out of the ashes of the First World War, looks to the future with optimism. After a turbulent beginning the republic has become the economic powerhouse of Europe once more with Berlin as the cultural centre of the continent. Many call it a golden age.
However, the ghosts of the republic?s formation refuse to be laid to rest. On the right, a jealous Prince awaits an opportunity to reign as Kaiser
After being blown off course, Irish monks stumble upon a mysterious island. Little do they realize but they?ve located Newfoundland, 500 years before any viking. What follows is a tale of clergymen and trappers, warriors and raiders, sailors and kings. Irish, Britons, and Norsemen clash with each other while Native Americans, in the absence of gunpowder, undergo dramatic changes in technology and power. The Legacy of Saint Brendan tells the story
...As both a homage and spiritual successor to Tom Black and Jack Tindale's Shuffling the Deck, Decking the Shuffle re-imagines the careers, fates, and legacies of Britain's post-war party leaders by placing them in unfamiliar environments. Dividing the figures between them, the authors take a hatchet to conventional understandings of the country's recent past. From Michael Foot as the face of socialist psychedelia to John Major's laddish libertarian
...In the shadows of a history that never was, unveil a world where the ancient sands whisper secrets of a different Earth.
J. Dharma Windham weaves a rich tapestry of power, betrayal, and divine destiny, centered on a name that once commanded the Mediterranean world: Kleopatra.
Victory was hers, the southern lands bowed to her might, but the Roman eagle's shadow looms large. As her father, aided by Roman steel, fights to reclaim his crown from
Jared Kavanagh edits a collection of short stories set in different Australias.
What if what we call Australia had become largely Dutch? Could Australia have led intervention in unexpected African conflicts? What adventures might Napoleon Bonaparte have had as he sought to colonise it before the British? Could a space programme launched Woomera have reached the Moon? How might the Emu War have gone differently?
It is 1914 and war has just broken out in Europe. When a British agent disappears in Constantinople, new recruit Eugenia Cranston is sent to the capital of the Byzantine Empire to investigate his death. Soon she is drawn into plots and conspiracies, hunting a British traitor and working hard to prevent Europe?s oldest empire becoming part of this very modern war. Being constantly undercover and dealing with incompetence weighs heavily on Eugenia,
...The Hunter never wanted to go to war, but in 1972, she senses the return of her demonic arch-nemesis, Vogerath, to the world. Following his magic like a bloodhound, she finds herself inexplicably drawn to Vietnam, a war zone.
With a pressing need to kill Vogerath, who claims to be the serpent from the Garden of Eden, the half-demon Hunter is joined by her detective partner, Clayton Simmons, and a powerful witch, Verda Bagley.
It was
...In the churchyard of the village of Orkesta, just north of the city of Stockholm, there are two eleventh century rune stones. One of them, in a few brief words, tells the world of the extraordinary achievements of Ulf of Borresta, who lived nearby. During a long career as a Viking raider, he became extremely rich on the proceeds of extortion: Danegeld. The carved runes mention the names of real Norse historical figures with whom he ravaged the
...Kleopatra lives in an age full of magic, when the Egyptian gods and demons still roamed the Earth and interacted with people. Her idyllic teenage life is devasted when her father, the Macedonian Pharaoh of Egypt, is driven from the throne, and she is forced to flee for her life. With only a single loyal sword-bearer, she escapes from an Alexandria in the throes of a bloody revolt and undertakes a perilous journey through a kingdom cracking apart
...15) Chasing Shadows
Beginning in 1933, a group of conservative businessmen in the United States became concerned that the Roosevelt Administration was a harbinger of Socialism. Allegedly, they considered launching a coup, to be spearheaded by Smedley Butler, the most decorated Marine in history at the time. These discussions never got further than the cocktail parties they probably took place in, but what if circumstances produced a scenario in which those businessmen
...After a snap general election is called, Christopher, a campaign organiser for the Liberal Party, is sent to a Scottish island to campaign in a previously safe seat. He discovers upon arrival that one of the island?s former MPs has been living out of sight for a rather long time, haunted by personal tragedy and determined to make good on a promise to open a door to another world. Christopher finds himself asking what the truly Liberal course of
...17) Ruimtewedloop
It is 2350. For more than two centuries, humanity has spread across the stars. FTL technology has opened a galaxy for exploitation and settlement. Untold wealth and the endless frontier have enabled both unprecedented human unity and a diaspora unlike any seen before in our history. The galactic face of our species is the democratic federation known as the Commonwealth of Humanity. The endeavours and exploits of its Starpatrol pioneers are legendary.
Captain
Tim Venning returns with a series of essays exploring different paths for the British monarchy from the Jacobite risings and beyond. What if the Stuart line had not died out? What if William and Mary had lived longer? And what if either Jacobite rising had succeeded? All this and more from the mind behind 'Caesars of the Bosphorus' and 'King Charles or King Oliver?'.
The third and final volume of Viscount Fawsley's memoirs of a 1980s Britain somehow dislocated to 150 years in the past. The world has mainly adjusted to the presence of a modern Britain on the world stage, but some cannot accept some modern attitudes leading to the Cyprus Crisis. Where Norman St John-Stevas, Viscount Fawsley, concludes his career as Foreign Secretary by once again concluding a successful peace treaty.
The life of Eric Arthur Blair greatly impacted the work he wrote under the name 'George Orwell'. The Spanish Civil War, wartime Britain, and the rise of totalitarianism all fed into seminal works like Animal Farm and 1984 whose impact is still felt today.
But what would Orwell have written had he lived in another timeline? A world where his experiences in Spain were different, and the Second World War broke out over Czechoslovakia, not Poland?
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