Historical Fiction
Queensbury Publications' historical fiction is grounded in real history and real places — from Iron Age Britain under Roman invasion to the gaslit corruption of Georgian Nottingham. Meticulously researched, darkly atmospheric, and rooted in truth.
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The Lions Chamber
A three-part descent into the dark corners of Georgian Nottingham.
Rooted in truth. Built on lies, conspiracy, and greed — where the trusted cannot be, and the devil may wear the kindest face.
Book One: The Hangman's Turn
George Smith is Nottingham's executioner — a man who has made peace with his work. Until another child is placed in his hands. His questions lead him into a conspiracy buried deep in the town's shadows, one that threatens his family and forces him to confront everything he believed about justice and duty.
Some ropes were never meant to be pulled.
Book Two: The Rose of Nottingham
Rose has survived the workhouse. Now, approaching her sixteenth birthday, she wants only what she's been promised — a gentleman, a husband, a life beyond the walls that raised her. What she finds instead is a world of deceit, addiction, and cruelty. The workhouse was harsh. Upper-class Nottingham is merciless.
Survival was easier when she had nothing to lose.
Book Three: The Witch's Steps
Elsbeth lives on the fringes — a woman loved by some, feared by most, and whispered about by all. When she uncovers the atrocities the aristocracy has built on the backs of the vulnerable, she cannot look away. Guided by forces she doesn't fully understand, she risks everything — her life, her son, her soul — to end what Nottingham's powerful have begun.
Some darkness can only be fought with darkness.
The Darkest Night
The land they fought for is gone. The fight is not. Four young hunters against the empire that took everything.
Book One: The Darkest Night
Four hunters. One sacred island. An empire that wants it erased.
When Roman landers appear on the horizon, everything changes. The Druids of the Blessed Isle hold the only power that can stop them — but the Romans know it too.
A desperate race begins across sacred land. Four young hunters against the destroyers of worlds.
Who reaches the Druids first?
Book Two: Hostile Lands
72 AD. The land they fought for is gone. The fight is not.
Albion has fallen. Rome has taken everything.
Now Bentik, Faelan, Bradan, and a broken Eoghan find themselves at the mercy of a Pictish clan who would sooner see them starve than fight beside them.
But survival forges unlikely alliances. As winter bites and the Romans push north, Bentik must navigate clan politics, an unwanted legacy, and a discovery that changes everything — someone from Brigante survived. Finding them will cost more than he ever imagined.
The darkest night is over. What comes after is harder.