Nigel Barley was a 'new anthropologist’, one of the younger generation of academics whose learnin...
Many men dream of running away to a tropical island and living surrounded by beauty and exotic ex...
Sir Stamford Raffles was a British colonial trader who, in 1819, founded the island city-state of...
In 1942 Japanese-occupied Singapore, where violence and starvation stalk the streets, a bizarre t...
In 1985, Dr. Nigel Barley, senior anthropologist at The British Museum, set off for the relativel...
Rogue Raider is a humorous fictionalized history set in Southeast Asia during the First World War...
Sir James Brooke was an extraordinary 'eminent' Victorian, whose life was the stuff of legend.His...
Not many Glaswegian schoolgirls have grown up to become revolutionary heroes of distant, eastern ...
It is 1953 in southern England, the time of the Coronation, and Jack is a small boy from the poor...
Between the two World Wars, the most famous employee of the British Museum was a cat called Mike....
Most people agree that the world should be just but that it simply isn't. Rogues flourish, the go...
A man stands trial for a brutal murder, a crucial witness disappears, an MP's daughter confronts ...