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Tales Of Galloway
In this collection of fifty-one tales from the land of galloway, Alan Temperley pays tribute to the great Scottish tradition of storytelling. The tales are wide-ranging: heros, ghosts and solway smugglers; witches, martyrs, mermaids and fairies; reivers, monsters and colourful rogues. Here are Billy Marshall, King of the tinklers; Sawney Bean, the murderous cannibal; young Robert the Brube on the run in the heather; Trost, last of the Picts, who kept the secret of heather ale; the legend of Mons Meg; Claverhouse and Lagg, persecutors of the Covenanters; the famous poterguist of Rerrick; and many more. Simply told and unadorned, the stories bear the flavour of the region – mountain and forest, silver rivers and lochs, the wild Solway Firth, and some of the most beautiful rolling countryside in Britain. Originally these traditional tales – ranging from rustic comedy to horrific murder – were told in crofts and rural cottages. They grew naturally out of the rich past and the land and the lives of the people – wonderful stories. And they are still as alive today as when they were first told.
Huntress of the Sea
When Ewan's father returns home after being lost at sea seven years previously, his body is covered with scars, and there is a wild look in his eyes. His arrival in the glen is not the only mysterious and sinister change. Monstrous screams in the night, murderous beasts, and ghostly apparitions threaten the peaceful, lonely glen. Is the newcomer really Ewan's father? Will Ewan and his mother survive the forces of evil that threaten them?
The Magician of Samarkand
Anahita lives in the golden city of Samarkand. All her life she h been surrounded by love and laughter, but one day Zohak Ali arrives out of the desert and wants the beautiful girl as his slave. Furious that her father rejects his demand, the evil magician vows to punish the whole city.
Scar Hill
Peter is an ordinary teenager, but one day his life changes forever. As one secret follows another, Peter plunges into a world of subterfuge, danger and survival.
Harry and the Treasure of Eddie Carver
The brilliant sequel to Harry and the Wrinklies - another fast-paced and thrilling adventure| When Harry wakes up in the middle of the night to find that Lagg Hall has been set on fire, he hasn' time to be terrified. He has his dog, Tangle, to rescue, and h must raise the alarm and make sure his aunts and their gang of criminal mates are safe. It's only after the fire is out that they start to think - who was it who wanted them dead?
Claxfeldestane
Chronicling the life of Jack Greenstreet through the Civil Wars to the Glorious Reformation, Claxfeldestane takes inspiration from factual evidence gained by the author’s research into his own Kentish ancestry, traced back to 1250AD. Knights and nobles were discovered bearing the Greenstreet name, and a Coat of Arms borne by Lawrence Greenstreet, son of John, the Prior of Rochester Cathedral. Mentioned in ancient subsidy rolls, ‘Claxfeldestane’ is a 15th century, half timbered, Wealden Hall farmhouse. Part jettied, the house was built by wealthy Yeoman farmers and lies at Claxfield, on the Lynsted side of Teynham, Kent. It is at this Grade 2 listed abode that the tale centres, where th...
The Courage Game
Gladys grows up in a large family, convinced she is the odd one out, especially compared with pretty Rita, the sister closest to her. Then elder brother Jim invents a new game he calls the Courage Game, in which all seven of the children will be tested for their ability to keep a stiff upper lip. Little does she know, she'll recall this game years later, comparing his little hand-made badges to those handed out by the W.S.P.U., the suffragettes. The poverty of Ireland in the 1890s is capped by the terrible conditions of the Birmingham slums where she first works as a teacher. Heartsick at the hardship she sees all around her, she's driven to change it, but only the Pankhursts seem to offer any hope of a woman’s voice being heard - providing they win the right to vote, that is. Enthusiastically, Gladys throws herself in, juggling her job, her burgeoning love life and her work for the suffragettes. But how long can one woman keep walking such a line without losing her balance?
The Happening Man
It is one man's saga in which he uses all his guile, experience and physical ability to create his fortune.
Ragboy
Silas is a rag-and-bone boy, a ragamuffin who makes his living by scavenging in the dirty streets of the city and beachcombing by the wild blue sea. Early one morning, after a big storm, Silas makes the greatest find of his life-a mermaid, a savage girl with a tail and sharp nails, lying injured on the beach. He offers the mermaid shelter and protection. But Silas in only a ragged boy, and their are ruthless villains at large-ruffians who lurk in gangs in the twisting alleys, and who know that a mermaid could bring them fortunes beyond their wildest dreams...
