Gavin: 705 books

Hayley the Horse is a beauty! Her sleek tail was glossy, her black mane perfection. Her coat shone so bright you could see your reflection. And when she gets a haircut . . . she is proud to see her locks used to make fine paintbrushes and bows for violins. But when the famous violinist La Rue...

Zach Soto has his entire summer planned. Sleep late, go to Space Wars Lego camp, play video games with his friend, Big Teddy, and eat lots of ice cream. But when his dad tells him that he will be going to church camp instead with his sisters, Zach's not one hundred percent on board. Will swimming,...

A new emperor is on the throne. In Britain, Gaius Flaminius Drusus, auxiliary tribune of the Ninth Legion, survives an attack by barbarians only to find himself flung into a world of mystery and intrigue when he is seconded to the Roman secret service. Plots and counterplots are brewing. The sinister...

Imperial agent Gaius Flaminius Drusus regretfully bids farewell to the epicene delights of Baiae when he is recalled to Rome. The procurator of Britain has been murdered, and the Chief wants Flaminius and Centurion Junius Italicus to accompany the new procurator, Corvus, to the province to investigate....

he Roman Empire is celebrating the eighth anniversary of Hadrian’s succession. In Egypt, sacrifices are offered in the temples, chariot races are held in the Alexandrian Hippodrome, and in the arena, ten days of gladiatorial combats are fought in the blazing sun. Beyond the city, however, lies a...

Returning from his clash with the rebels in the Nile Delta, Gaius Flaminius Drusus searches Alexandria for their leader, Arctos. But other forces are at work. Unable to locate his enemy, the imperial agent finds himself accused of plotting against the emperor. On the run, he must struggle both to...

Seconded to the Twenty Second Legion in Egypt, Gaius Flaminius Drusus finds himself plunged into a murky world of religious cults and ethnic hatreds. Investigating the murder of his predecessor, Flaminius is hindered at every turn, despite the assistance of the Egyptian scribe and reformed tomb robber,...

Imperial agent Gaius Flaminius Drusus is working undercover as a tribune in the Praetorian Guard. His remit is to investigate the death of Rufinus Crassus, the senator who died mysteriously after his assassination attempt on the emperor Hadrian. Commissary Centurion Probus thinks the senator was murdered...

After his recent exploits in the Delta and Alexandria itself, Gaius Flaminius Drusus is feeling restless. The province of Egypt is at peace; indeed, so is the whole of Hadrian's empire. But the imperial agent is troubled. After Avidius Pollio turns down another application for transfer to a different...

It is the winter of 1946, and after years of war, ex-Special Operations Executive agent Duncan Forrester is back at his Oxford college as a junior Ancient History Fellow. But his peace is shattered when a much-disliked Fellow is found dead in the quad, stabbed and pushed from an upper window. A don...

The Author has a unique, artistic and romantic mind, with a special way of seeing and describing the world, and this time a very special way of travelling, with no plan, no map, no idea, therefore thinking what could possibly go wrong? He describes a journey he took through parts of Asia on a small...

A heartbreaking tale of orphans, angels, murder and music - dramatised from the Whitbread Award-winning novel set in 18th-century England. Winner of the Time Out Live Award for Best Play In 18th-century Gloucestershire, the evil Otis Gardner preys on unmarried mothers, promising to take...

This spellbinding haunted-house story takes place within the confines of a grand London mansion, a place where shadowy characters are always coming and going, almost like ghosts. But when twelve-year-old Nettie's beloved tutor disappears, the cloistered yet savvy girl must pull her head out of the...