WESTWARD HO! Charlotte Dalton has been let down by the men in her life. Dismissed by her abusive father as a plain brown sparrow who would never attract a man, she is left untouched by her timid husband, and then widowed on the trail west before s...
A young woman in service must know her place, obey the rules, and be a model of discretion. But how can Juliette Garrison know her place when she is the result of a torrid affair between a serving girl and the son of a lord? And how can she be discre...
'Owls call now in the hazy afternoon, and curlews get up in the night and join their voices with the plovers' lost cries. Small birds, distracted by the fury of mating, fly hedge-high in flight and pursuit and brush past one's ear, indifferent to hum...
The harshly magnificent landscape of the Elan Valley in Mid Wales was changed utterly in the late 1890s by a reservoir building project initiated by the Corporation of Birmingham in order to supply water to that expanding city. A great feat of civil ...