Take a time-travelling journey of a thousand years of adventure and romance as you explore the unknown highways, byways and strange ways of an lmost forgotten world. Dip into a unique, ye-opening collection of true stories they didn't tell you at school. In this world slaves get benefits worthy of a corporate highflier. A redhaired hard-to-handle Hong Kong-born Irish teenager marries a man determined to change his country's destiny. England's Queen Victoria is given the world's most expensive wedding dress, made by Filipinos. The last cavalry charge in American history begins with a hangover...

After years fighting organised crime in the mean streets of Marseilles, retired cop Andre Velon just wants a quiet life in a peaceful riverside town in exotic Cambodia. When a young French woman is brutally murdered, he is forced into an investigation in which he must not only confront the ghosts of his past, but fight for survival against his own dark demons."