John Drake

• Jul-2008
• / Literary
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A swashbuckling triumph of storytelling, Flint and Silver provides a thrilling ride back to the rich and wondrous world of Long John Silver and his fiendish nemesis Joseph Flint in this prequel to the beloved classic Treasure Island. John Silver h...

• Jun-2009
• / Historical
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• Jun-2010
• / Historical
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• Oct-2010
• / General Fiction
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THIS BOOK IS A CONGLOMERATION OF STORIES, AND ALTHOUGH THEY ARE BASED ON TRUTHS. THEY ARE FABRICATED TO SUIT THIS STORY LINE. THERE IS NO INTENT TO TRY TO EXPOSE ANYBODY FOR ANYTHING. IT IS MY INTENTION TO MAKE THIS BOOK AN ENJOYABLE READ, WITH ADVE...

• Oct-2011
• / General Fiction
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• Jul-2018
• / General Fiction
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Cobble is a Neanderthal with itchy feet and the mind of an engineer, unlike anyone else in his old-fashioned tribe. Making Man follows his journey as he leaves the village of Boardom behind, taking him through mountains, underground animal lairs and ...

• Jan-2020
• / Historical
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Even the Black Death has a lighter side. A street-side conman becomes embroiled in high politics when his scheme to relieve the doge of Genoa of a sizable portion of his wealth backfires. He is conscripted to deliver a message to The Cutler, a myster...

• Jul-2020
• / Historical
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Sending his Human Resources Manager on a reconnaissance mission to the great Jin city of Rhizun seemed like a good idea to Genghis Khan at the time, until a serendipitous scroll appears with revelations of a secret heir to the khanate. To save his le...

• May-2021
• / Historical
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Young Jacob Fletcher, whilst unsure of his parentage, did know that as an apprentice he couldn't legally be seized by the press gang.But this particular gang couldn't actually read the rules. And didn't care anyway.Which was how he found himself risk...

• Jun-2021
• / Historical
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1795. Inventor James Watt is accused of stealing a patent for a steam engine by the McCloud brothers. Furious with their boss, they take their technology to France, where Napoleon Bonaparte promises great things to come. The French and the English ar...

• Jun-2021
• / General Fiction
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The year is 1795 and Jacob Fletcher has reached the shores of Jamaica. Having been driven out of England by his cruel stepmother, Lady Sarah Coignwood, he has finally reached a land where he might be able to make his fortune. But this haven might not...

• Jun-2021
• / Historical
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For a man who believed deeply that a mercantile fortune was greatly preferable to the glory of war, Jacob Fletcher was unlucky.Second mate on the merchantman Bednal Green, captured by an American privateer, persuaded to sail on the US Declaration of ...

• Jun-2021
• / Science Fiction
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There is a problem with life.It's ending. All of it. Everywhere.The sort of people who know about these things think, on balance, that something should be done about it. The good news is that the head of planet Arcadia's Zooming Division, General Buc...

• Jul-2021
• / Historical
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Jacob Fletcher is beset by treachery at every turn of the ship's wheel at sea and with every step on dry land.1797. Fletcher is sent halfway round the world aboard the frigate Euphonides to fight not the French nor the Spanish, but the British East I...

• Dec-2021
• / General Fiction
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It is 1800 and Jacob Fletcher's plans for a career in trade are once again dashed by the allure of new adventures on the ocean's waves.Sent to America as a roving ambassador, Fletcher finds himself caught up in one of his most demanding challenges ye...

• Apr-2022
• / General Fiction
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After many successful years at sea, Jacob Fletcher is finally pursuing his career in trade. Through his new acquaintance, Sir David Bayley, and his grandson, Arthur, Fletcher becomes fascinated by a new form of aerial navigation.It isn't long, howeve...

• Nov-2022
• / Historical Mystery
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Londinium, 1st century AD. Must every slave die?Fabius Gentilius Scorteus is a Britannic Celt, the richest man in Londinium. But he desperately wants to become a Roman citizen. He calls upon his Greek slave Ikaros of Apollonius.Ikaros was once a sold...

• Nov-2022
• / Historical
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Ikaros of Apollonis is a long way from home.An educated and noble man enslaved by the Roman Empire that killed his family and destroyed his city, he is stranded in the bleak and inhospitable colony of Britannia. His only consolation is to be living i...

• Nov-2022
• / Historical
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Ikaros of Apollonis is a slave of the Roman Empire. But in the heathen wilds of Britannica, he may be about to save it.His home city conquered, Ikaros of Apollonis, an engineer and physician, is now the slave of a Roman soldier. But his master is no ...

• Mar-2023
• / General Fiction
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'If anyone ever makes another film of Treasure Island, the producers should hire John Drake to write the script.' - Historical Novel Society Buried for nearly three hundred years and now brought triumphantly to light by Dr Livesey, this is, at last, ...