The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
Another masterpiece from the pen of Alexandre Dumas. "The Man in the Iron Mask" is an absorbing, exciting adventure that is loaded with intrigue and action. It is a story of a fight for the throne of France in the days of the Three Musketeers.
Harry Sandwith, a sixteen-year old English boy, went to France to serve as companion for the sons of a noble French family. But this was the year 1790, and France was aflame with the fire and the fury of revolution.
Conquest: The English Kingdom of France, 1417-1450
For thirty dramatic years, England ruled a great swath of France at the point of the sword—an all-but-forgotten episode in the Hundred Years’ War that Juliet Barker brings to vivid life in Conquest.
The Blue Room by Georges Simenon, dramatised by Ronald Frame
