When Quaker Ruth Bowen returns home to reconcile with her estranged family, she does not expect to run afoul of an eccentric judge of the Kings Bench and to find herself confined in Norwich Castle prison. She must solve the mystery of why a deaf maidservant was summarily dismissed from her employment and later brought up on trumped-up charges of theft and attempted murder. Can the girl be a threat to someone in that household?

cannot wait to return home to the peace and quiet of High Holborn, after desperate deeds in this backwater of Norwich. Life has been too exciting here. I had an overnight stay in the Castle prison -- a badge of honour for a Quaker thy father would say thanks to an unfriendly judge. I was stunned out of my wits and thrown into the River Wensum by a man who is now a fugitive from the law. That same unfriendly judge fished me out of the river, so all is forgiven him. I have written to Wm. Sco...

Its 1818 A.D. A mysterious woman lies dying on a London pavement. An urchin disappears into the fog. A few disjointed words uttered by the victim suggest that a child is in grave danger. Quaker widow Ruth Bowen must discover the identity of the woman, a stranger to the city, and find that child before harm can come to it. Others are seeking the child. Are they friends or enemies?

Let us take you on a series of library adventures... from home to space, from a senior sandwich snatcher to an imaginative job applicant, from a library ghost buster to a humorous book club misadventure, from a teen vampire fantasy to a historical romance, from a library on Mars to an archive in space, from a personal reflection to a tour of the library.Don't miss your chance to annoy your favourite librarians with loud guffaws and horrified screams. They'll just smile and show you...

Join the Scarborough Scribblers as they race against time to bring you fifteen of their best impromptu short stories and poems, all inspired by writing prompts and written against the clock in the famous Gravel Bar.When you take away time and add pressure, anything can happen: an arachnid space-disaster, a streetcar adventure, lessons in overlord succession, an equine meteorological fantasy, tales of love and espionage, and more.