Fiction - Alternative History

Alternative History. Tackling the myths, mystery and confusion concerning reports of the death of Hitler and a newspaper reporter's quest to uncover the truth. The Northern Echo described it as "the most thought-provoking book of the year" and the Daily Mail said it was...

THE GREAT EDGE brings together lives - ancient and modern - on the northern plateau where Scotland stops and starts, where history and myth fuel everyday reality, and where nothing is as it seems.When an archaeologist comes to Caithness to research an early Christian...

Constantinople - End of Empire is the third and final book in Haig Tahta's marvellous trilogy set in and around the city from April 1915 to the end of 1923. It carries forward the characters from the first novel, April 1915, which explored the...

A tale of love, loss and lust in a fundamentalist society formed in the aftermath of a giant flood that destroyed most of the earth in 2012. David Arthurs, born after the Flood, tries to save his Humanitarian city state of Tolemac-located somewhere in...

Legends of the Dragon Cowboys brings you two weird western adventures by authors David B. Riley and Laura Givens. Their heroes ride boldly out of the Far East to find their way in a mythic land of danger, romance, and adventure. In "The Venerable...

Izzy Himmelfarb is as innocent as Richard Kimble, and darn near as naïve. Like Dr Kimble, he's a 60s guy, though a bit younger and more in tune with the counterculture, and overeducated. I wanted to see if someone from a time I personally...

Queen Victoria is in the 200th year of her reign, and her Glorious British Empire faces a grievous threat due to the Machiavellian machinations of that most notorious instigator of insurrections Herbert George Wells.The Ministry, the shadowy branch of the British government that deals...

"The story of Black Jesus is a beautiful one with a theme that should surely take modern African literature in a different, progressive direction. This is an important piece of literature"-- TEBATSO JANTJIES - WRITER AND ENTREPRENEUR"This book is a refreshing departure from the...

The novel comprises well researched fact and plausible action, carefully interwoven to form an alternative and frightening history.It is a military tale, not just a war story, it is a thriller and love story based on the premise that in 1940 Germany invaded Britain!...

This is the story of two teenage British boys in a Britain occupied by the Germans, which is what might have happened if the Nazis had successfully carried out their plans to invade Britain under Operation Sea Lion in the 1940s. Alan Mitchell and...

Way, way back in time, Cro-magnon man and woman lived in caves as part of a Clan. The Clan was led by a shaman and daily life was harsh and a struggle.Meet Ky. Her full name is Ky-e-leron, which means Ky, daughter of Leron....

Channelling their own words through the author, each of Henry VIII's Queens takes it in turn to portray the King in a somewhat different light to what you may have already heard or read. From Katherine to Katherine - the ladies have their say...

When a complete stranger contacts author Amanda Armstrong to write his biography, she is initially wary but curious. Her very first meeting with him sparks a connection though and Amanda becomes enthralled and excited at the opportunity to tell his amazing story. It's a...

One man. One planet. One destiny. Frederick Frater leads a hum-drum existence working in a Victorian bookshop. But one day an apparition walks into the shop - a beautiful young woman. Her father's extraordinary invention changes Frederick's life. The adventure that follows takes us...

1721, and elderly Catherine Yale discovers that second husband Elihu's will has left her no bequest except the slur of branding her a 'wicked wife.' True, her private journals are filled with intimacies: her inner thoughts about life in Old Madras, where the East...

A professor becomes a reluctant spy and his assignments help explain many of the historical oddities of World War Two, including the Nazi failure at Dunkirk, the end of the Blitz and the invasion of Russia.Recruited by Churchill prior to the war, Professor Christoph...

Breeze, a young woman in present-day Connecticut, goes into a medically inexplicable coma. Her boyfriend, Yannie, a senior at Yale, has to get her the help she needs to survive while trying to solve the mystery of this goddess-like free spirit who appeared out...

This is a story of two similar worlds, one thriving through healing, the otherpursuing its course towards exploitationand collapse. The role of the tale-makerand her character is to aim at restoringthe balance. But for reasons tied to theorigins of the Program, it is also...

What if the latest trend in culture was time travel? Travel to any day in your past and relive the happiest moment in your life, or correct a mistake. The price for this trip is that no history can be corrected without damaging another.Adam...

A feisty cat. A moody God. And a friendship to last through all time. Every hero has an origin story. The infamous five-thousand-year-old talking cat, Constantine, from the Intern Diaries, is no exception. Even in his early beginnings as a lowly tom-cat, Constantine had...

Zaca Creek is a fictional story about your family. Your ancestors either walked to America from Arctic Europe or migrated to America after 1492 explorers. Every person in the Western Hemisphere is an immigrant from Europe, Africa, or Asia . Zaca Creek is a...

ON JANUARY 10, 1865 JOHN WILKES BOOTH, DAVID HEROLD, AND LEWIS POWELL KIDNAPPED PRESIDENT LINCOLN AS HE WALKED FROM THE NEARBY WAR DEPARTMENT OR TELEGRAPH OFFICE TO THE WHITE HOUSE. SEVERAL WEEKS EARLIER BOOTH HAD A NEARBY CARPENTER BUILD TWO LOW SLUNG WAGONS FOR...

The Seal's Lair is a fast-paced historical fiction tale that is set in motion when a corpse is discovered on a beautiful La Jolla, California beach. The body is the link that binds together disparate characters, who come from multiple locations, to include far...

Dreams of Camelot is the 2nd book in a series. This book tells of King Arthur building his kingdom after the initial book, "Comes the Dragon," described his grandfather's life and Arthur as a child and young man. Locked in a struggle with the...

After multiple EMP attacks, America is left in the dark. When Power is restored, America finds itself an occupied Third World Nation. The cost of getting the lights back on proved far more costly than many realized. Gone was the United States of America,...

I lay there struggling for air, the fire-chief straddling me, pumping my lungs with his huge hands. I had never met the fire-chief before. But somehow, I knew this was him. For a moment we looked right into each others' eyes. But he never...

"I have waited for this day for many millions of your years," the woman continued. "I feared that you would not come in time.""Who are you?" Matsuo asked, the first of the two men to find his voice."My name is Oracle Veritas," she replied,...

The story of three ordinary people in the extraordinary Decade that follows 1941. As the bombs fall around her Ruth Kelman gives birth to her daughter Alice in a Tyneside cellar. A thousand miles away, Louis Roxby, a young English soldier adjusts to the...

This is a what if story of what happens when the stock market drops by over 50% and the events which change the country in ways no one living today would ever believe is possible.Jack Taylor recounts his experiences as he becomes the leader...

Grooming Emily Book 2 in the tale of Emily Robinson, Pet The year is 2185, it is 80 years after the murderous reign of the Whole World Church and the world is at Peace. Emily Robinson is officially a Pet after finding a curious...

All I can tell you is that I moved into Sanctuary Sound 3 years ago, but I was never alone. Victor was always there. Reclusive writer Soni spends her time working at her beach home in Chatham, Massachusetts, which she shares with mysterious roommate,...

The year is 2096 and a decimated London sky weighs heavy on the shoulders of 19-year-old Thatcher Grayson, who's yet to find safety or direction in this broken world. What little life remains holds no refuge for weakness; with thieves, thugs, and cannibals ravaging...

It seemed that Nature purposely intervened.Two young Pacific islanders, a strange larrikin youth and an ethereal girl-woman, had been born in a most Sacred Place in desert Australia. Unknowingly, even to themselves, they are of a new evolutionary line.Together, they grow tall - fighting...

Amy's Uncle Al and her mother Ariel both seem to have insider knowledge that something terrible is going to happen in Manhattan on September 11, 2001. Thousands heeded Ariel's warning in The Chrislamic Messenger to flee New York City. But how did they know?...

The Gadfly is a novel by Irish writer Ethel Voynich, published in 1897 (United States, June; Great Britain, September of the same year), set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings.[1] The story centres on the...

Finally! Phenomenal Fiction Magazine returns in a whole new bigger, brighter format. We're doing our best to bring back as many of the Phenomenal Magazine Group titles as possible. Our flagship, Phenomenal Stories, returned earlier this year with a memorial issue dedicated to Carole...

Fiction it has been suggested is stranger than history, but the reality is fiction is history. It is either a record of an author's stimulated imagination, or real events of historical merit with venues, names and dates skewed to protect the innocent. The former...

The book will be of especial interest to those interested in the emancipation of women in nineteenth-century Edinburgh. A domestic servant who is wrongly accused of murdering her lover's husband resists the patriarchal legal system and male oppression. Her employer who is also her...

This is a story set in the 1870s of violence and struggle in the West and of a mother and her daughter who find themselves cast into slavery to settle a debt not of their doing. This is a story of a mother forced...

John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and...

Notion Press proudly brings to you timeless classics from ancient texts to popular modern classics. This carefully chosen collection of books is a celebration of literature, our tribute to the pioneers, the legends and the giants of the literary world. Apart from being the...

In the 16th century the vampire nation was on the rise in Spain. In order to protect their interests, they found refuge and power within the confines of the Catholic Church. Over time it grew in strength, eventually consuming the duties and responsibilities of...

Born on October 30, 1857, in San Francisco, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton was fortunate enough to be raised by her grandfather after her parents divorced when she was two. Her grandfather was Stephen Franklin, a relative of Benjamin Franklin, was deeply committed to her...

"A fabulous tale, well researched but imaginative." -R. Bruce Logan, author of Finding LienWhat if President Truman had withdrawn American forces from the Korean peninsula in 1950, rather than holding fast in a fight that cost more than 30,000 American lives? How would the...

Ned Cooper had made plenty of enemies with his loud vocal attacks on every religion that wasn't his, but it didn't seem to Halvar that was enough to justify a knife in the back. Nevertheless, there he is--dead as one of his own barrels....

The Saga of Halvar the Hireling Book 3 As the fall Feria comes to a close, Halvar is ready to snatch Leon di Vicenza from the fratery and head back to Al-Andalus. No such luck. An Afrikan merchant dies of poisoning, and there are...

Author: Frank NorrisISBN-10: 1605979872ISBN-13: 9781605979878Publisher: Book JungleLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/28/2008Pages: 488Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.83lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.98d

An all-original anthology of fiction stories concerning the Vietnam War, many with alternative endings. Authors include Orson Scott Card, Ann Scarborough, MIchael Brotherton and more.Author: Byron R. TetrickISBN-10: 1581822529ISBN-13: 9781581822526Publisher: Cumberland House PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/10/2002Pages: 270Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.34w x 0.77d

There are two sides to every story. Lowen Wade is a 25-year-old man who lives in a future where the government controls everything. On the outside, they are great and everybody follows the rules, but behind the curtain, it's quite the opposite. Lowen and...

It was in 1859 that Cristian Martin, a poor blacksmith's son saw villagers who became involved in escapades that ultimately brought them to a trial of a traitor, during which soldiers and many villagers were killed during a scuffle, the boy who admired the...