Cameron Stewart

The village is called Mount of Zeal. The pit lies below. Ted Howker's school is on the edge of Lower Terrace next to the chapel. Upper Terrace is Paradise. Ted and his father and his brothers live in Middle. In the beginning: a household of men, all of whom work in the pit ... The reader follows Ted as he reaches for Paradise, and his sister Rose as she seeks personal happiness below. And in the end it is the women who, sadly, inherit the earth.

This shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of people around the world - soldiers, sailors and airmen; housewives, farm workers and children. Reflecting Max Hastings's thirty-five years of research on World War II, All Hell Let Loose describes the course of events, but focuses chiefly upon human experience. This volume includes the chapters: Poland Betrayed, No Peace, Little War, Blitzkriegs in the West, Britain Alone, The Mediterranean,...

Late one summer evening, antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow is returning from a client visit when he takes a wrong turn. He stumbles across a derelict Edwardian house, and compelled by curiosity, approaches the door. Standing before the entrance, he feels the unmistakable sensation of a small cold hand creeping into his own, 'as if a child had taken hold of it'. At first he is merely puzzled by the odd incident but then begins to suffer attacks of fear...

The personal lives of the British Royals were successfully kept out of the public eye by mutual agreement of the press and royal family, but this all changed in 1936 when King Edward VIII abdicated the throne and spurned his responsibility for the sake of the glamorous American socialite and divorcee, Wallis Simpson. During the Second World War, though the world's press focused on the far more public conflict tearing nations apart, the royal romance...

The extraordinary letters and diaries of Captain Alexander Stewart, who served during the First World War, edited by his grandson, Cameron Stewart. This book is a vivid and moving picture of trench warfare punctuated with flashes of dark humour.

The extraordinary letters and diaries of Captain Alexander Stewart, who served during the First World War, edited by his grandson, Cameron Stewart. This book is a vivid and moving picture of trench warfare punctuated with flashes of dark humour.