James Farner: 35 books

Richard Warren, aged ten, is growing up in the North Yorkshire village of Ledder Bridge. Through verdant fields and meandering brooks, life is simple and easy, far from the turmoil of the Cold War world. When an adventure with his older brother Peter Warren goes wrong and Richard finds himself trapped...

“I thought my parents were killed when two runaway packhorses threw off their loads at the Ebonson Carrying Company…I was wrong.”Queen Victoria ascends the throne in 1837 and heralds in a new era of prosperity for the British Empire. Whilst the great Norlong and Ebonson families fly the...

The first brutal year of World War I has ended and now everyone understands this isn’t a war that will end by Christmas. With thousands lying dead on the fields of France and Belgium, the Keeton brothers continue to fight on.Danny discovers the painful truth of what happened to his older brother...

It’s 1914 and the great powers of Europe are on the brink of war. In Holbeck, Leeds, the Keeton family struggles to get by on their meagre wages. The six Keeton brothers couldn’t be more different, but the outbreak of World War I puts their lives on hold and sets them on a course of destruction.Danny...

“I’m happy that it’s all over. Now we can all start again.”Together again, Theodore Norlong and Gertrude Norlong are happily married. Free to enjoy their lives together, it doesn’t take long for cracks to appear in the relationship. As Theodore makes his desires to become a Member of...

"Was this really his future?" In the Northern English town of Motbridge, men work until they die. John Williams is determined not to be one of those men. When Harry Heard gives him a fake sword to sell to aristocrat Sir Albert Blackwood, his life changes forever. He meets and deals...

“The German Revolution had indeed begun.”The Second German Reich has collapsed in the flames of World War I and the country is in chaos. Republicans, rogue soldiers, and communists are rampaging through the cities and villages of Germany. Faced with destruction, the nationalists fight back...

“Just another reason to leave this rotten, uncaring city behind.”Three years after the Ebonson family’s fall from grace and Gertrude Ebonson has become what no woman wants to be. As a fallen woman, she trades the only thing she has left to survive the cold winters. Penniless and isolated...

“One day I will escape.”Madness has become the defining point of Theodore Norlong’s life. After his father followed through on his threat to have him condemned, Theodore was cruelly ripped from reuniting with his true love Gertrude Carnall. Now Bedlam is his home, where he writes a stream...

"Erich would never forget the day he betrayed the Third Reich."Reinhard Heydrich is dead. And with it the chances of Erich Brandt ever returning from the Eastern front are also dead. Erich struggles to find a way out of the Einsatzgruppen death squads and back to finish the work he had started...

“This is where your Fuhrer led you. Remember that when you die.”The resistance in Warsaw has fallen and Johann is left to flee back to Germany with the shattered remnants of the Wehrmacht. Forced to join the forces of evil he has fought against for nearly twenty years, Johann finds himself...

Almost five years on and fifteen-year-old Richard Warren is building a fledging career as a young author. With his schooling done and a bitter unwillingness to take over the family farm, he begrudgingly accepts a job at the local newspaper, the Ripon Chronicle. His time as an apprentice takes him outside...

Richard Warren, now eighteen, takes his first steps into adulthood. Following his return from London, his parents have booted him out of the nest and he’s on the road…residing about ten miles down it with the affluent Spencer family. As the era of glam rock descends upon Britain, Richard is back...

Twenty-year-old Richard Warren is on the cusp of success. As one of Britain Today’s leading young political journalists, power and influence is his. Under the shadow of increasing violence between the IRA in Ireland and the Cod Wars in Icelandic waters, Richard has stepped onto foundations built from...