Showing results for "Everest" in Historical Fiction

'As heart-warming as it is heartbreaking, this novel is unputdownable' Sunday Express. Tarabeg is a small village on the West Coast of Ireland. In the aftermath of the Second World War, two women are waiting there for ambitious Michael Malone to return home. Rosie is the local schoolteacher and...

In 1924, George Mallory and his climbing partner, Sandy Ervine, vanished into the mist high on Everest while making their attempt to be the first men to climb the world's highest mountain. They never returned from their assault on the mountain, and for decades, controversy has raged over their fate and the unanswered question as to whether they made it to the top. In 2014, John D Burns performed a one-man play about George Mallory and his attempt on the mountain. This book is an audio version of the play.

In 1892, Elijah Whitman arrives on an isolated New England island for a four-week assignment as a lighthouse keeper’s assistant. Beneath the looming, weather-beaten tower, surrounded by the endless sea, he finds himself under the command of Thomas Graham—a hardened, enigmatic veteran of the trade. The work is grueling, the isolation suffocating, but the real torment lurks beneath the surface.