Books with author Roger Smith

Born in Ireland in 521 A.D., at a time when it was the land of saints and scholars, St. Colmcille is the son of the princess of Leinster. He leaves his native land after his part in a battle between the King of Connacht, and the High King of Ireland.He settles in Iona, a small island off the coast of Scotland where he founds a monastery. St. Colmcille spends the rest of his life developing the monastery at Iona and is so highly regarded by the Scottish that he plays the role of peacemaker whenever there is a quarrel between clans.This is the story of St Colmcille, member of royalty, saint, scholar and diplomat.

Michael Collins had many roles in his short lifetime. He fought in the 1916 Easter Rising. He was Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Army, Minister for Finance, leader of a network of spies battling against the British forces and a chief negotiator in the Anglo-Irish Treaty. He was killed in 1922 in an ambush at Béal na Bláth at the age of 31. His death robbed Ireland of one of its finest leaders. Admired by many and feared by his enemies, this is the story of Michael Collins – ‘The Big Fellow’.

Jacq is a computer geek, but not your normal geek. For a start she is female and good looking, and she out-geeks all the boys at her school. When her next door neighbour, the self-taught young musician Cameron, visits her to test his faulty digital sound module on her computer, Jacq unwittingly opens up a gateway to an amazingly complex cyber-world. Her initial enthusiasm at being suddenly thrust to the forefront in the field of artificial intelligence is soon crushed when she realises that she has disturbed dark forces within this new world and has inadvertently opened her own world to catastrophe. Does Jacq have time to cut down the beanstalk?