Marriage of Convenience

'A majestic Victorian tale... Wealthy lawyer Esmond, discarded illegitimate son of a peer, has pi...

Until the Colours Fade

First published in 1976, Until the Colours Fade was Tim Jeal's fourth novel, set in 1852 in a Lan...

Cushing’s Crusade

Derek Cushing - thirtyish, balding, unassuming archivist researcher into European expansion in Ea...

Somewhere Beyond Reproach

Ten years after Dinah deserted Harry to marry a friend of his, Harry still loves her obsessively,...

For Love or Money

For Love or Money was Tim Jeal's first novel, accepted for publication in 1966 while he was still...

Stanley

Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Je...

Missionary’s Wife

In The Missionary's Wife (1996) - his return to historical fiction - Tim Jeal expertly evoked Afr...

Explorers of the Nile

Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of disc...

Swimming with My Father

'Exquisitely written and wonderfully readable - There are tears, laughter and filial tenderness o...

Carnforth’s Creation

Tim Jeal's sixth novel, first published in 1983, recreates the frenetic Britain of the 1960s and ...

Deep Water

It is 1941. Only child Leo invites schoolfriend Justin to stay the summer on the western tip of C...

Cushing’s Crusade