James Farner

• Dec-2014
• / General Fiction
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Be sure to check out my other series entitled the War Years today!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 ...

• Dec-2014
• / General Fiction
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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...

• Jan-2015
• / General Fiction
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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 o...

• Feb-2015
• / General Fiction
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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 wa...

• Mar-2015
• / Historical
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Britain is booming as the seventies roll on. None of this matters to twenty-three-year-old Richard Warren, who is half way through a five-year prison sentence. Embittered and angry, Richard just wants to make it out alive. But when London gangster Sc...

• Apr-2015
• / General Fiction
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Twenty-seven-year-old Richard Warren lives in Mayfair on the most prestigious street in London. Reunited with his brother Peter Warren, the Warren brothers have it all. But all this is about to change when the Metropolitan Police begin to crack down ...

• May-2015
• / Historical
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Richard Warren has turned thirty. Twenty years on from the beginnings of a strange and wonderful tale and he finds himself with a family in Yorkshire again. Far away from the dark depravity of life in London, Richard is only now beginning to retake t...

• Jun-2015
• / Thriller
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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...

• Jul-2015
• / Historical
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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 pai...

• Jul-2015
• / General Fiction
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Books 1-7 of the Made in Yorkshire SeriesRichard Warren is growing up in the picturesque village of Ledder Bridge. Little does he know the march of time is destroying centuries of tradition in the British...

• Aug-2015
• / Historical
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Monotony on the Western Front sets in, only for it to be shattered by the arrival of Edward Warren, Jack’s villainous father. Within days, Edward seeks to weaken and destroy the friendships 16-year-old Danny Keeton has built with his family and fri...

• Sep-2015
• / General Fiction
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The Great War continues to rage with no sign of abating. 17-year-old Danny Keeton is whisked away from the front and thrust into a position as an assistant to General Camberwell, the man who almost sentenced him to death.When he overhears two intrude...

• Oct-2015
• / Historical
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Danny Keeton, now 18, has been promoted and is now responsible for leading his friends into battle. The excitement of rank is immediately tempered with a grim responsibility. The weight of leadership weighs heavily on Danny, until the big push begins...

• Nov-2015
• / Historical
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“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...

• Dec-2015
• / Historical
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“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 surv...

• Feb-2016
• / Historical
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“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...

• Mar-2016
• / Historical
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“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 Theo...

• May-2016
• / Historical
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“What possible way did he have back now?”Far away from home in New York City, Catherine Urwin lives a life of servants, idle chatter, and submissiveness to her wicked guardian Francis Hortbury. When her painting class is interrupted by local gang...

• Jul-2016
• / Historical
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“The words each of the three shared would go with them to their graves.”The Queen is dead, long live the king. The Victorian era is coming to an end and war is on the horizon. Faced with millions of people dying and Europe in flames, Theodore Nor...

• Aug-2016
• / Thriller
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“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 w...

• Sep-2016
• / Historical
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“After five years they had found freedom again.”Adolf Hitler has swept into power and already the democratic mechanisms of the old Weimar Republic have been dismantled. Nazi Germany has risen and Hitler already has his eyes on expanding the Third...

• Nov-2016
• / Historical
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“Poland would never be the same again.”The year is 1939 and Europe is on the brink of war. The Third Reich gobbles up nations as Britain and France look on with horror. Within the regime, the German people can smell blood as Hitler fulfils every ...

• Jan-2017
• / Historical
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“One day he’ll get what he deserves.”Johann Brandt continues to hide from his brother as the Nazi occupation of Warsaw continues. As the ghetto wall is erected and the Jews are segregated, Johann makes the ultimate sacrifice in an attempt to sa...

• Feb-2017
• / Historical
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“It didn’t take long for them both to make a mistake they could never hope to repair.”Johann Brandt picks up the pieces of his life after the destruction of his resistance cell. On the run from his SS brother Erich Brandt, he moves around Warsa...

• May-2017
• / Historical
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""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 t"...

• Jul-2017
• / Historical
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“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 f...

• Aug-2017
• / Historical
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“We can be kings of this city!”It’s 1892 and David Kelly has arrived in New York fresh off the boat from Ireland. The family take up accommodation in the poverty-stricken neighbourhood of Hell’s Kitchen. In a place where every penny counts, D...

• Nov-2017
• / General Fiction
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“I’m not guilty.”It’s 1907 and David Kelly is in the throes of opium addiction. Like thousands of other New Yorkers, he whiles away his days in the embrace of the opium pipe. Only a sudden attack on his hideout and the intervention of his bes...

• Jan-2018
• / General Fiction
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“Death had never felt so close.”The Age of Prohibition has made David Kelly and his family business into the largest and strongest crime outfit in the whole of New York. David, now an old man, rules the family with a paranoid eye, watching their ...

• Mar-2018
• / Historical
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"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 chan...

• Jul-2018
• / Historical
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“They were no longer worlds apart. They shared the same world.”Fawcett Manor explodes into nothingness as John Williams puts the finishing touches on the expansion of the Imperial Longford shipyard.But little does he know this seemingly innocuous...

• Sep-2018
• / Historical
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“If you believe this is the worst part of your day, you should brace yourself for the coming storm.”On the docks of London men are on the hunt, for John Williams and the love of his life Lady Adelaide. With spies, violence, and murder haunting ev...

• Nov-2018
• / Historical
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“One day he would return to Britain in triumph and reclaim what he had worked all his life for. John would survive.”Years have passed since John reclaimed the Imperial Longford shipyard. World War One is on the horizon. From his new base in South...

• Jan-2019
• / Historical
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“He knew he didn't have any other choice if he wanted to keep his head.”The Great War is over and millions lay dead across the nations of Europe. John finally makes it home one year after the armistice. Embittered and with nothing to come back to...

• Mar-2019
• / Historical
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“Before he died, his final thoughts were of home.”Europe is on the road to war. The year is 1933 and John finds himself in Paris, once again forced to flee for his life. But when he discovers that his pursuer Ronald Bell is dead, he takes the cha...

• Jun-2019
• / Thriller
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“The sooner this ended the better.”Fifteen years have passed since the fall of the Third Reich. The Fuhrer is dead, but his shadow remains. Nazis who have escaped justice have encroached upon every democratic institution in the new divided German...