Lawton: 185 books

Literary biography. According to Wikipedia: "Honore de Balzac (May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in...

Queen Victoria is on the throne when we find Hetty Littlewood, one of the few remaining wise women, tending her injured son Daryl who is the master of a canal narrow boat and a part-time prize fighter. Daryl subsequently falls foul of gaming interests in the great industrial City of Manchester and returns...

Once there was nothing and out of this evolved the universe. In the miasma of creation were five comets each with a golden core. As the Earth evolved and cooled down human beings began to walk the Earth. Then some four thousand years ago there was a poor tribe in Peru named the Macapas. This was when...