In 18th century England, life is tough for the Auldfield farming family but they are proud, hard-working people. Nance’s sorrow at her sister’s death is eased a little by falling in love but this only begins a sequence of devastating events that seem to lead to one place - the gallows! Unknown to her, she is guided by her sister’s loving spirit, finding new life and love herself in the afterlife and trying desperately to avert the consequences of Nance’s recklessness. The author’s debut no...

Many brave men and women have given their lives in armed conflicts so that we may live in freedom today. A great debt is owed to these soldiers, sailors and flyers, both men and women, and they must never be forgotten. Glynis Amy Allen has met quite a few of their spirits, while walking the battlefields of World War I, during her nursing career and when giving personal readings as a medium. This book is a tribute to them.Inspired by her experiences, Glynis has researched others’ similar sp...

A practical guide to the principles of radio communications for both civilian and military applicationsIn this book, the author covers both the civilian and military uses of technology, focusing particularly on the applications of radio propagation and prediction. Divided into two parts, the author introduces the basic theory of radio prediction before providing a step-by-step explanation of how this theory can be translated into real-life applications. In addition...

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY AMY LIPTROTSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1994WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY AWARD 1994'Intimate, humorous, effortlessly combining the strands of history and folklore, the past and the present, this is a deceptively simple book, like a tale told to a child. But its echoes sound on unforgettably. A whole universe is created from a grain of Orkney sand' Independent

Mostyn Evan and his family, miners turned bargees, wage a gloriousbut hopeless struggle against rapacious coalmasters, Irish navvies,the ravages of cholera, and the bullying illegal Unions.As they ply their trade between the furnaces of Cyfarthfa and the lushbeauty of the Neath Valley, they pray and fight, sing and love, and faceeach obstacle undaunted with all the stubbornness and exuberanceof Wales itself.This is the third instalment in ...

Set in the ironmaking town of Merthyr Tydfil, The Fire People is thestory of Dic Penderyn who in 1831 became the first Welsh Martyr ofthe working class.Hanged for a crime that he did not commit, his story is told in thispowerful novel which describes the events which took place duringthe famous Merthyr Tydfil riots of 1831.

Hywel Mortymer's story begins in 1800 when he is sixteen and a dramaticchange in fortune leads him, innocent and inexperienced, to a brutal anddangerous life working in the coal mines.In the mines children can be horribly maimed in devastating gas explosions,or grow deformed with the burden of their labours and babies are bornunderground.Wales is in turmoil. A tragic divide between rich and poor, the workers powerless,penniless, starving a...

The spectacular and varied landscape of Dorset, with its giants, hill forts, Jurassic coast and ancient buildings is the source and inspiration for many curious stories that have been passed down in families and village communities for generations. This book contains a rich and diverse collection of those ancient legends rooted in the oral tradition. From the absorbing tales of the Old King of Corfe and the Thorncombe Thorn to the intriguing Buttons on a Card and George Pi...

A battle lost. A daring escape. A long walk into obscurity. The ultimate failure… In the aftermath of the disastrous Battle of Culloden, a lonely figure takes flight with a small band of companions through the islands and mountains of the Hebrides. His name is Charles Edward Stuart: better known today as Bonnie Prince Charlie. He had come to the country to take the throne. Now he is leaving in exile and abject defeat. In prose that is by turns poetic, comic, macabre, haunting and humane, m...

This expansive illustrated collection gathers more than 440 of Rudyard Kipling's short stories, offering a panoramic view of one of English literature's most distinctive narrative imaginations. Moving from Anglo-Indian society and barrack-room life to animal fable, adventure, ghost story, satire, and moral parable, the volume reveals Kipling's compressed, vigorous prose, his ear for idiom, and his fascination with duty, hierarchy, exile, and cultural encounter. Read in the context of late ...

This collection celebrates winter and its festivals, light and darkness. It includes the tales of Lieutenant William Bligh at the port of Hamnavoe, an Edinburgh man rediscovering his roots in Shetland, Baltic-men shipwrecked on the Orkney coast, and Norse warriors setting out for the Holy Land.Through these stories George Mackay Brown explores the effects of new ways of thinking and working on the ancient patterns and traditions of Orkney life.

This collection of sharply-etched fables, dealing with death, legend, love and violence create an Orcadian world that spanning myth and reality - a world set firmly between the sea and the sky - a collection of islands which are life-sustaining and soul refreshing.