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  • When IT expert and involuntary time traveller James Powell finds himself in possession of a beautiful young girl - and discovers that slavery is legal in his new home - there can be only one outcome. His struggle to provide for himself and his househ...



  • As the new villagers settle in, life in Capelburgh begins to return to normal after the upsets of the Black Death. Work begins on a new keep for the castle and the influx of workmen creates its own strains and tensions. Meanwhile an Abyssinian maid e...



  • There may be official peace between Scotland and England, but lawlessness still reigns in the Debatable Lands along the border. As Lord of Capelburgh, George Crandall finds himself reluctantly drawn into executing judgement on robbers, fraudsters, an...



  • Despite its isolation, Capelburgh continues to be a refuge to a wide range of mediaeval folk - a former Templar Knight, a man who doesn't want a wife, a group of Scottish captives who want to go home rich, even a tentative atheist.

    Thi...



  • Following the unexpected death of his friend and mentor, Dr Thoroughgood, George Crandall returns to the Twenty-second Century to visit him before he dies. Then Hilda and her children return to the Thirteenth Century for a visit and things get really...



  • The finger of suspicion pointed to a disgruntled employee, but before Henry Crane could prove it he had to allow evil to flourish in his virtual world. It wasn't only his company's future which was at stake, it was the future of a valued coll...



  • When the Black Death returns to England for the second time George Crandall is ready to stand another siege - but fate conspires that he ends up in Newcastle as the plague reaches that city. With mounting horror he sees the death toll rise and gladly...



  • When circumstances make it necessary for George Crandall to retire from his position as Lord of Capelburgh in favour of Ranulf, his son, he has leisure to go on pilgrimage with his beloved wife, Margaret. First, though, the formalities of the success...



  • As George Crandall tries to rebuild Capelburgh he is faced by crisis after crisis. First the community is threatened by an attack from a company of runaway villeins led by men who call themselves the "True Witnesses" and lay claim to apocalyptic powe...






  • With the Scottish king David safely under lock and key in London, George Crandall can turn his attention to making Capelburgh secure against the dreaded Black Death. A stone mason and a barber are already on his staff, now he adds an alchemist who ca...



  • There is nothing quite like the feeling of being the first human to stand on a new planet. There's nothing quite like the shock of finding that there are already humans there! And when one of them is stunningly beautiful and claims to be a Roman,...



  • When George Crandall decides to change careers following a messy divorce, he chooses history and gets the idea of going back in time to observe the effects of the Black Death at first hand. The technical difficulties that defeated other historians he...



  • To his horror, Alec Hughes realises that the attractive young girl he met by Niagara Falls is trying to kill herself - and that's a waste of a perfectly usable body. Gradually he persuades her to give her body to him and let him kill her - but what e...



  • On his return to Capelburgh George Crandall starts to implement his plans to make his demesne plague-proof. New houses, new habits, new diets, but his time is taken up with the day-to-day tasks of a mediaeval lord: peace-keeping, justice and above al...



  • Jonathon Appleton suffers from terminal curiosity and when he hears a baby crying, not even the fact that he is on the holiday of a lifetime can stop him finding out what's wrong.
    It is, of course, the old, old story of a girl in trouble and...



  • Johnny and Jumi make a nice couple, especially after Johnny's somewhat messy divorce, but Jumi has a problem: she doesn't know the correct puja for her husband's god. She fears that without it, the gods will take her husband from her beca...




  • When Sir Ralph Gifford finds himself in church in his nightgown, his first thought is to damn the Puritans for whitwashing over his Doom. But then things get stranger as he finds himself flying to Stonehenge but unable to find his young wife, the bea...



  • Just as Charles is thinking of running away and starting afresh, he gets the chance, with a beautiful young woman and her delightful daughter. The only problem is, can Charles keep up the impersonation with all the pressures he faces as child-minder ...






  • Arxes, a young man of Corinth, is both delighted and dreadfully embarrassed: his father is about to buy him a slave girl of his very own! Love follows its usual rocky course until the girl hears an itinerant Jewish philosopher talking in her own lang...



  • When Publius hears that his childhood sweetheart is a widow, he heads straight out to Palestine to try and win her - but there's a problem. Secunda is gravely ill and none of the doctors can help her.

    Publius stays as long as he can, b...



  • With the Iron Curtain in tatters, William Hughes, psychologist, decides that the time is ripe to take a holiday in Poland. He returns with an unusual souvenir - a girl who has been tortured and abused by a gang of criminals.

    As the months ...



  • When Nick Hawthorne makes a killing on shares in Martian Zinc, he celebrates by buying Cherie Bonson, the famous pop star - or at least, the Robomate version, complete with "Genuine People Personality".
    And that is the start of his probl...



  • This is a rollicking "Boys' Own" tale of the Crusades, with battles, sieges, spies and an imperious red-haired girl who knows what she wants and goes for it. Those who worry about such things can rest assured that it all ends happily - well, more or ...



  • It's the devil of a job being Number Two when your superior is a real demon. It's even worse when you find yourself unexpectedly in the middle of a complicated conspiracy organised by "Him" and you have to cope as best you can with no resources, few ...


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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ken Down has published 25 books.

Ken Down does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Pandora, was published in February 2017.

The first book by Ken Down, Bought, was published in January 2012.

No. Ken Down does not write books in series.