Gilbert Frankau
Captain Gilbert Frankau was a popular British novelist. He was known also for verse, including a number of verse novels, and short stories. He was born in London into a Jewish family but was baptised as an Anglican at the age of 13. After education at Eton College, he went into the family cigar business and became managing director on his twenty-first birthday, his father, Arthur Frankau, having died in November 1904. A few months before his death, at sixty-eight, from lung cancer, he converted to Roman Catholicism.
The Love-Story of Aliette Brunton
Amidst betrayal and societal expectations, a woman's journey towards self-discovery intertwines with forbidden love, threatening to shatter the boundaries of her world.
By Gilbert Frankau
A Song of the Guns
Amidst the chaos of World War I, verses echo with the cries of duty, devastation, and the haunting bond between soldiers and their instruments of destruction.
By Gilbert Frankau
How Rifleman Brown Came to Valhalla
** A seemingly unscathed soldier arrives in the hallowed halls of fallen warriors and must prove his worth to earn his place among the brave.
By Gilbert Frankau
The Judgement of Valhalla
In the face of war's harshest trials, soldiers confront a grim afterlife where bravery is rewarded and cowardice is punished.
By Gilbert Frankau
Peter Jameson: A Modern Romance
In a city overshadowed by the threat of global conflict, a cigar importer must navigate love and family even as the battlefields change the world forever.
By Gilbert Frankau