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This is the first new edition of Lydia Helen Burton's novel 'Bertha Darley or, Life in Her Husband's Curacies, ' since it was first published in 1858. Lydia Burton was born Lydia Rothwell in Manchester in 1823. She married the Reverend Charles Henry Burton in 1841. Lydia and Charles spent the early years of their marriage in Bradford, Leeds and Liverpool. No doubt based on Lydia's own experiences, 'Bertha Darley' is a fictional account of the ...

Helen Burton's passion is bringing together smart, motivated individuals who seek an environment where they can exchange brilliant ideas and knowledge as well as strengthen their instincts, and finally, obtain their business goals. Her spirit and energy are fed by the amazing results her clients achieve. In this book she writes as if we are sitting down to enjoy that cup of coffee with her while she provides a friendly and genuine springboard ...

Young, idealistic Tom Calmady strives to make his way as a silversmith against the backdrop of 1830s Birmingham, a town in political ferment. He is constantly at odds with his irascible father and frequently hampered by his search for the perfect romance! Tom's story moves between the bustle of High Street and Levanzo, his wealthy grandfather's home, from the friends and enemies of his chosen world to the dubious influence of capricious rel...

RAF Kelderby, in 1943, is already facing appalling losses when three young men join the fragmented crew of Lancaster Bomber, J-Java: Kass Kowalski, their Polish Skipper - a man with a shadowy past, their misfit Aussie Flight Engineer John McShane and, fugitive from Birmingham's Blitz, the one-time actor Tom Hathaway. The past becomes interwoven with the present in the daily fight against fear, laying bare tangled relationships, vain regrets an...

Strategically located at the western edge of the Atlantic World, the French post of Natchitoches thrived during the eighteenth century as a trade hub between the well-supplied settlers and the isolated Spaniards and Indians of Texas. Colonial Natchitoches is the first thorough study of its society and economy. Through statistical analyses of birth and baptismal records, census figures, and appropriate French and Spanish archives, Burton and Sm...

Trevander, clinging to the wild Cornish coast... Three young women - the divorcee, the evacuee and the dancer - harbour secrets of love, loss and betrayal which will bridge the centuries. Lillie probes the mystery surrounding her grandfather's disappearance at sea, Barbara tastes first love, at sixteen, obsessed by the wartime fugitive concealed in deserted Rosmelyn, whilst Polly, bound by loyalty to the Vivyans of Menalowen, pursues a career ...

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Examining sustainable poultry production systems across Europe, this book contains a selected cross section of papers from the 2014 UK Poultry Science Symposium. It reviews essential topics such as resources and supply chains, the global poultry market, risk management, zoonoses and green issues. Providing a compilation of the most current research in the poultry science and production industry, this book is an important resource for both rese...

Annabel Boase sells Fosfelle, her adored home on the East Cliff, to lay down the keel of a Cornish lugger - 'Waterwitch' - a gift for her new-wedded husband. When she later embarks upon a forbidden affair with her handsome young brother-in-law, she cannot foresee the troubled legacy she will bequeath to the next four generations of Maddavers and Tollers. The novel follows Annabel's descendents through seventy turbulent years that end violently...

Peter de Montfort, Lord of Beaudesert, is forced to betray the young Earl of Warwick into the hands of a hated guardian. The ensuing feud, which will last for two decades, places Peter's bastard sons in jeopardy and has repercussions for all the manors of Arden Forest. Thirst for land is all-consuming in the England of the flamboyant Edward III. Dynastic marriage is taken for granted, but the sons and daughters of Warwickshire's heartland, ...

When Liz Courtney uncovers the remains of a Spitfire in Haggard's Copse, her discovery triggers a chain of supernatural events which evoke the summer of 1940 when Fitzdeverall Field was a fighter station and the Battle of Britain a few short weeks away. Liz finds herself drawn compulsively towards the men and women of Fitzdeverall whose poignant story is played out against the perilous backdrop of England's war-torn skies. Their lives are cha...