Hawker: 73 books

Part 2 of the White Lotus trilogy. In the fifth century BCE, Egypt is the greatest civilization known to mankind. But with a foolish king on its throne, the Nile Valley is ripe for conquering. Amid this climate of danger and strife, in the alleys and brothels of Memphis, an extraordinary...

Part 3 of the White Lotus trilogy. In the fifth century BCE, Egypt is the greatest civilization known to mankind. But with a foolish king on its throne, the Nile Valley is ripe for conquering. Amid this climate of danger and strife, in the alleys and brothels of Memphis, an extraordinary...

Book Three of The She-King series Hatshepsut has fulfilled her divine destiny and taken the Pharaoh's throne. But she knows her position is precarious. In all Egypt's long history, never has a woman ruled as king -- and Hatshepsut must use all the cleverness and bravery at her disposal to keep...

The ages remember her only as a witch--the first witch, deceiver of Odysseus. But Circe has her own story to tell, one untainted by the slander of men. With rich and vivid prose, the tale of Circe and Odysseus unfolds: a story of tragedy, injustice, and one woman's struggle to reclaim her power. This...

The perfect Mormon wife in the perfect Mormon town has a secret: she doesn’t believe in God. Her husband has a secret, too: he’s in love with another man. She’s stood by her husband for two years, tending their secrets, fading into the easy background of Rexburg, Idaho. But when she meets a...

In the not too distant future, Simon, Jane, Stephen and John graduate from university and secure IT positions in the industries of banking, agriculture, power and telecommunications. At their regular reunions, they discuss the benefits of using machines to assist in their work. They become credited...

There was something very painful and peculiar in the position of the clergy in the west of England throughout the seventeenth century. The Church of those days was in a transitory state, and her ministers, like her formularies, embodied a strange mixture of the old belief with...

Drawing on recent developments within the sociology of family life, this book examines family connection and solidarity within different stepfamily networks, focusing on relationships from a kinship perspective and using case studies of people's experiences to explore how family connection is constructed within different stepfamilies.

Health protection professionals need rapid access to authoritative and easy-to-use information to ensure their actions are based on international best practice. This is precisely what the Communicable Disease Control and Health Protection Handbook does. This concise and practical handbook is an essential...

With the advent of electronic commerce, and the increasing sophistication of the information systems used in business organizations, control and security have become key management issues. Responsibility for ensuring that controls are well designed and properly managed can no longer simply be delegated...

Helkin Stormblade was in charge of the day to day operations of Ironhold Mountain. He knew all of the dwarves who lived there. When a gem is stolen that was hidden deep under the mountain, he must race against time to return it to the city before the king dies.

Odysseus as You’ve Never Seen Him Before Odysseus, infamous trickster of Troy, vaunted hero of the Greeks, left behind a wake of chaos and despair during his decade long journey home to Ithaca. Lovers and enemies, witches and monsters--no one who tangled with Odysseus emerged unscathed. Some...

Born to Dorothy and Peter in the post-war years, John is a working-class lad from Wallasey on Merseyside. He grows up with a fanatical interest in science, completes a degree and then a doctorate. After rejecting the opportunity of an academic life, he somehow manages to land a good job with Telecom...

This assorted collection of sixteen thought-provoking short stories has a prevalent futuristic element, beginning with A Male Problem where a mysterious virus has left 99 % of the male population infertile. The exploration of how a variety of people cope with this is both shocking and amusing. As...