Mark Frutkin

As travellers, we are always walking backwards, forever on the verge of stepping into the unknown, never knowing what waits around the next corner....

This is the story of Marco Polo, as he is about to set sail on an arduous and lengthy pilgrimage with his father, uncle, and faithful guide across the sun-soaked silk route....

The year is 1901, a stormy Atlantic isolates two continents....

Mark Frutkin's classic novel In the Time of the Angry Queen was first published in 1923. The story follows an artist as he gets enveloped into the world of competitive chess....

This is a unique novel of old China, the traditional landscape of mountains and rivers without end, and life in an imperial city rife with plots, intrigues, culture, sensuality and wealth....

In 1936, escalating violence and unrest in Spain explodes into civil war....

In 1904 a force of 2500 British Imperial troops invaded Tibet....

Paris, the City of Light, was once the scene of a brilliant magnesium flare, host to the belle epoque from 1900 to 1914....

An estimated 50,000 to 100,000 American Vietnam War draft resisters sought sanctuary in Canada....

A brilliant novel packed with delights: grand romance, alchemical potions, violins to make you weep, commedia dell’arte theatre, reappearing comets, rambling skeletons and cracks in time....