Blessed with a unique vocal ability, David Atkins, a timid young boy, is introduced to a manipulative former opera diva, Carlotta Vasselli, and groomed to become Ernesto Vasselli, an international opera star. As Ernesto, he experiences the highs of a sensational opera career until he's betrayed by those closest to him and forced to make life-changing choices.
Blessed with a unique vocal ability, David Atkins, a timid young boy, is introduced to a manipulative former opera diva, Carlotta Vasselli, and groome...
The horrors of World War One yield the answer for one troubled young man from Littlemore who finds himself at war on two fronts: at home and in the trenches - where his enemies number comrades as well as Germans. His pursuit of inner peace leads to the ultimate sacrifice.
A terrified teenage boy plunges from a bridge into a river before a baying mob of his peers.
Jumping from the Black Bridge is a rite of passage for every Littlemore lad on the cusp of manhood. It is meant to represent a test of courage. But Max Lanham is a self-reliant...
What does it take to kill your fellow man?
The horrors of World War One yield the answer for one troubled young man from Littlemore who finds hi...
The horrors of World War One yield the answer for one troubled young man from Littlemore who finds himself at war on two fronts: at home and in the trenches - where his enemies number comrades as well as Germans. His pursuit of inner peace leads to the ultimate sacrifice.
A terrified teenage boy plunges from a bridge into a river before a baying mob of his peers.
Jumping from the Black Bridge is a rite of passage for every Littlemore lad on the cusp of manhood. It is meant to represent a test of courage. But Max Lanham is a self-reliant...
What does it take to kill your fellow man?
The horrors of World War One yield the answer for one troubled young man from Littlemore who finds hi...
The Oxford Murder that gripped the country in 1931 would grace any episode of Inspector Morse. Yet it was horrifically real. Annie Kempson was a defenceless widow bludgeoned and stabbed to death in her own home for the sake of a few pounds-a despicable crime for which the killer could expect no mercy. Following a nationwide man-hunt, career criminal Henry Seymour was arrested by Scotland Yard's 'Lucky John' Horwell. And thanks to renowned pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury a guilty verdict was returned. This truly was an Oxford murder from beginning to end. The crime was committed in Oxford....
The Oxford Murder that gripped the country in 1931 would grace any episode of Inspector Morse. Yet it was horrifically real. Annie Kempson was a defen...
Britons watched the opening months of 1913 unfold with a sense of foreboding. On the continent, they saw a brutal conflict in the Balkans increase the prospect of a war engulfing the whole of Europe. On their doorstep, they observed the thorny issue of Irish home rule edge the island toward civil war as Ulster's Protestant Loyalists, led by Sir Edward Carson, vow they will fight to remain part of the United Kingdom rather than be subservient to a Catholic Republic governed from Dublin. And at home, they watched militant suffragettes, such as Emily Wilding Davison, challenge the rule of law in...
Britons watched the opening months of 1913 unfold with a sense of foreboding. On the continent, they saw a brutal conflict in the Balkans increase the...
The finest jockey rider on the English turf during the nineteenth century was George Fordham--lauded throughout the sport as the Demon.
Such was the judgment of his contemporaries from jockeys and trainers to owners and chroniclers. Yet history has not been kind to Fordham. Fate saw his career overshadowed by that of bitter rival Fred Archer, a jockey deemed his inferior but whose suicide invoked immortality.
The question remains: if Archer is fit to be mentioned in the same breath as twentieth-century icons Gordon Richards and Lester Piggott, just how good a jockey does that...
The finest jockey rider on the English turf during the nineteenth century was George Fordham--lauded throughout the sport as the Demon.
