The year is 1810. Anne has boarded the ship, Mary, for a voyage from England to America with her husband, the apothecary, John Parker. Anne was born The Gardener's Daughter and has graduated from being Miss Moser's Student. As a newlywed wife, she faces the journey with some trepidation. When disaster does befall her, she finds she must once again enter a new life in a new place with an unknown future. What is different this time is that she is not completely alone.

The story of Anne Blake continues from The Gardener's Daughter. Anne's father has died, and she has been sent by Lord Greville to live with the famous floral artist, Mary Moser, not as a housemaid, but as her student. As Miss Moser discovers her new student's talent and the unfortunate circumstances in her past, she mentors the young woman in both art techniques and etiquette. Once again, Anne finds she is living on the edge of society. The year is 1808, and London is a busy place. A reuni...

It is 1806, and just outside London, Charles Francis Greville, the son of the Earl of Warwick is about to have a vanilla orchid bloom in his greenhouse. It is a unique event; the first time outside of the jungles of Central America. It is the Age of Enlightenment and on the brink of economic botany when plants will be removed from their native habitats to be propagated elsewhere for great profit. Anne Blake has been sent from service to the family of the Duke by no fault of her own. She ha...

What does it mean to put children's voices at the centre and truly recognise their capacity for change?Through rich, interdisciplinary research spanning Australia, Poland, Spain, Slovakia, India and the UK, this book illuminates how children actively negotiate, resist and reshape the structures around them. It champions children’s agency as central to reimagining childhoods beyond western-dominated narratives, advocating for child-led theorisation and practice.Offering a ti...

Joan Hammond lived an extraordinary life, as dramatic and deeply moving as any of the operatic roles for which she became famous Tosca, Mimi, Butterfly, Aida, Salome, Rusalka.No stranger to success, in her youth Joan was a golfing champion, excelling at most sports. But it was her voice that took her on a life-changing journey to Europe where the opulent pre-war theatres became her domain. Ever passionate, always generous, and never losing her Australian accent, Joan Hammond was an...

ALTERNATIVE TRUTHS, a fvisionairy anthology dreamed up by two Pacific Northwest authors In the aftermath of the presidential inauguration, Bob Brown and Phyllis Irene Radford asked the science fiction writers they know to imagine a post-Trump, post-truth worldALTERNATIVE TRUTHS is about the possibilities of a mad and confusing time," said Brown, who published the book through BCubedPress. "A bombastic billionaire golf-course developer and reality TV-show host has become the most po...

Edi has collected antiques and ghost stories for as long as they can remember. Some old objects buzz with history, and when Edi touches them, they see fragments of the item's story. But are the visions real? Edi desperately wants to believe in the supernatural until a mysterious ghost transforms their mom into a mannequin.Helped by Delilah, a thirteen-year-old psychic, Edi researches local hauntings to untangle how and why their mom became a mannequin. When Edi finally employs thei...

The official story is that the United States has no political prisoners. The reality is that there are hundreds of people rounded up, placed behind bars, and kept there for inordinately long sentences because of their political beliefs and activities. A project of abolitionist Josh Davidson and political prisoner Eric King, this book is filled with the experience and wisdom of over thirty current and former North American political prisoners. It provides first-hand details of prison life a...

Los relatos de esta antología no son sexis, no hablan sobre el placer de las mujeres en el sexo, sino que abren un diálogo hacia otra problemática: la falta de placer y de erotismo en las relaciones sexoafectivas. ¿Cuántas veces hemos sufrido las mujeres micromachismos o violencias en las relaciones? ¿Cuántas veces la relación parecía ir viento en popa, pero acaba siendo esperpéntica y absurda?Relatos nada sexis recoge las historias y testimonios de treint...