Keyword Colonial Era

A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community...

To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown gold.

1780, a group of slaves flee from a sugar cane hacienda. As they are pursued by Don Manuel Aguirre, obsessed landowner who has fixed his eyes on...

A woman joins her fiance at a Malaysian prison camp only to discover he's become an alcoholic.

Built in 1755 at the height of the French and Indian War, Braddock's Road was one of the nation's most infamous military roads. Traces of this...

A story about a descendant of a rich hispanic family that lived in the Philippines in the 1800s (1896). Nine years ago, Alexa Nicole de la Vega...

A woman who went from rags to riches after marrying a Hong Kong politician must chart a new course as a clandestine sleuth after her husband...

Set during the final days of slavery in 19th century Jamaica, we follow the trials, tribulations and survival of plantation slave July and her odious...

Who would have thought that Canadian history could be so much fun? Blackfly is set in the 18th century fur-trading post of Fort Simpson-Eaton and is...

The history of decolonization from the point of view of colonized peoples, an epic story that still resonates and reverberates to this day.

Helen Simpson's scorching novel of passion and unspoken loyalty is brought to life in a major mini series unfolding in the epic Australian tradition...