George Payne Rainsford James

As young Lord Hadley and his companion Edward Dudley travel along a dark, coastal road, they encounter a young girl pinioned by a fallen wal…

A stranger rides across the Kentish countryside when his attention is called to a cottage where violence is being done to an elderly couple.…

Picture a tranquil English village, with an inn on the green. A lone patron enjoys his wine and teasing the landlord's pretty daughter, when…

In the backwoods, lives a man and his two teenage children. He has sought the quiet life on the frontier, although he is a friend to all and…

The county of Kent, situated in the south eastern corner of England is ideally placed for the smugglers' trade. Close to London, with its ma…

G.P.R. James was a historian and novelist, who took well-documented historical events and characters and wove stories around minor or imagin…

The Hundred Years' War: a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against…

Humphrey Scriven is a fine, genial, mercantile man, left widowed to raise three daughters and a son. Two of the daughters marry well althoug…

Lady Arabella Stuart was an English noblewoman at the beginning of the seventeenth century. At one time considered to be a possible successo…

The time of French king Louis XIV was a time of religious conflict. His father, Louis XIII had tried to suppress the teachings and followers…

The Battle of Agincourt provided a surprise English victory in the Hundred Years' War. It took place in 1415 and brought a turning point in …

A young man is crossing the English Channel bound for France. It is obviously not his first such trip, but who is he and what is his errand?…

Written in three volumes, this fictionalized biography of Richelieu is supposedly based on a manuscript that fell into the author's hands an…

The lot of a younger son was less assured than his older brother in days gone by. It was worse for his descendant, especially if he wanted t…

During his lifetime, James published an estimated 100 novels. Arrah Neil was published some 40 years after his death. In this historical nov…