The Last Legionnaire (Jack Lark 5)Jack Lark has come a long way since his days as a gin palace pot boy. But can he surrender the thrill of freedom to return home? London, 1859. After years fighting for Queen and country, Jack walks back into his mother's East End gin palace a changed man. Haunted by the horrors of battle, and the constant fight for survival, he longs for a life to call his own. But the city and its people has altered almost beyond recognition, and Jack cannot see a

he needs to recreate his past in his writing

their relationship is the difference between life and death

Elizabeth Costello is a humane

Superbly thrilling from the first page to the last

Are you lost or are you exploring

cross-cultural observations

a glamorous colleague on the trading floor

the shimmer of Black hands raised in praise

why risk a natural birth

'As unforgettable as Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen"

The Longest Journey appeared in 1907

sexual scandals