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This book contains the first five Amazing Tales About Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky! The five stories describe how Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky : - - Introduced himself with a THUD! - Harvested cauliflowers and broccoli with his chums! - Went kayaking and learnt to swim! - Enjoyed scrumping and eating apples with his chums! - Became a smuggler, learning about the joys of Christmas! There might be more tales to come!

This is a series of Amazing Tales About Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky! Currently there are five tales: Volume I describes how Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky introduced himself to Karen the Carer and Lauren! Volume II records when Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky goes harvesting cauliflowers and broccoli with his chums from next door! In Volume III we learn about when Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky went ka...

This is a series of Amazing Tales About Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky! Currently there are five tales: Volume I describes how Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky introduced himself to Karen the Carer and Lauren! Volume II records when Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky goes harvesting cauliflowers and broccoli with his chums from next door! In Volume III we learn about when Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky went ka...

This is a series of Amazing Tales About Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky! Currently there are five tales: Volume I describes how Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky introduced himself to Karen the Carer and Lauren! Volume II records when Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky goes harvesting cauliflowers and broccoli with his chums from next door! In Volume III we learn about when Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky went ka...

Now surpassed in fame as a writer by his daughter's best friend, Daphne du Maurier, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch was the pre-eminent Cornish writer of Victorian and Edwardian times and founder of the school of English Literature at Cambridge University. He is of particular interest since his fiction was very often based on factual events which have now passed from memory. This volume, the first in a series, contains one of his best known sto...

This is a series of Amazing Tales About Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky! Currently there are five tales: Volume I describes how Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky introduced himself to Karen the Carer and Lauren! Volume II records when Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky goes harvesting cauliflowers and broccoli with his chums from next door! In Volume III we learn about when Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky went ka...

Archmage Heramiir's army is on the march. Not yet ready for war, Jayden and his advanced class of apprentice magi find themselves left behind in Aramar while King Erian's forces move to intercept. When a Gift-sensitive assassin begins hunting those magi remaining to defend the capital though, Jayden's extraordinary power marks him out as the primary target of a violent and capricious assailant. One determined to grind down Aramar's defenders a...

No allies. No memory. No chance. When Johanna wakes on a deserted island chain, bereft of all memory and surrounded by the bodies of people dressed just like her, she must piece together how they were brought to this desolate region. The sole survivor of their group, she'll need to rely on her wits to fend off wild predators, survive natural disasters, and make a swim across open ocean if she is going to survive. Far from home, and hunted by...

In the wake of Archmage Heramiir's treason, King Erian has little choice but to order the largest conscription in Jeranon's history. But can he reunify his lands before the brooding nations to the west realise their internal disarray? To fail would see Jeranon's already severed lines of defence shatter, overwhelmed by nightmarish creatures from beyond the Dark Iron Mountains, and the horrific powers directing them.The words of a strange oracle...

Cornwall, the land of sandy beaches, pretty fishing coves, historic fishing ports, tin mining, mansions and gardens, quaint thatched cottages, atmospheric moors, art galleries, writers and picturesque towns?All of that is true but there is so much more to Cornwall and its influence on the rest of Britain and many parts of the world is often forgotten or unknown but yet continues.The county has seen political intrigue, religious upheavals, fina...

Q had a fascination with the Napoleonic Wars and with adventure, escapades and escapes. This volume contains the following four tales relating to two spies of the same name and are all based on fact:- 'Two Scouts', is written in the context of the Battles of Huerta and Sabugal and tells of a lucky escape whilst one pretended to be a surgeon-barber. 'The Cellars of Rueda' tells of the escape of McNeill/Grant to paris where he manages to get to ...

In this volume, Q recounts the lives and experiences of Devon and Somerset residents who were forced to accommodateFrench prisoners of war and the daily routine and behaviour of the prisoners, many of whom were used to build Dartmoorprison.This volume contains an annotated edition of The Westcotes, a tale of daily life in Devon and Somerset in the times of the Napoleonic Wars and of potential romance between a prisoner and a wealthy gentlewoma...

Now surpassed in fame by his daughter's best friend, Daphne Du Maurier, Arthur Quiller-Couch was the pre-eminent Cornish writer of Victorian and Edwardian times.His work is of great interest since his fiction often contains a factual, historical, basisThis volume contains five tales of adventure, romance, escapades and an occasional lucky escape:-- 'Captain Wyvern's Adventures', relates the explosive consequences of the imprisonment of Parliam...

Born of a domineering but remote father, who was periodically imprisoned for debt, but an exceptional mother who devoted as much time to her daughters as to her sons, hatred of the family by the parishioners of her childhood village, intimidation by the residents of Epworth, a documented poltergeist in the rectory which was her childhood home, two homes destroyed by arson, an uncle who made a fortune in India and then lost it and who came into...

Now surpassed in fame as a writer by his daughter's best friend, Daphne du Maurier, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch ('Q') was the pre - eminent Cornish writer of Victorian &Edwardian, literature and found of the school of English Literature at Cambridge and is of particular interest as many of histales are based on factual events which have now passed from memory.Q wrote a huge number of apparently fictional tales but many were actually inspired by h...

Now surpassed in fame as a writer by his daughter's best friend, Daphne du Maurier, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch ('Q') was the pre - eminent Cornish writer of Victorian &Edwardian, literature and found of the school of English Literature at Cambridge and is of particular interest as many of histales are based on factual events which have now passed from memory.Scilly are an enchanted series of 5 inhabited and 140 uninhabited islandsThis volume con...

This volume contains some of Q's most enchanting talesdescribing peoples' actions due to love:-- The quiet honeymoon of a young couple interrupted by anunexpected visitors (A Happy Voyage).- An unexpected visit to a lightship by a newly marriedbride (Visitors at Gunnel Rock), inspired by the originalSevenstones Lightship anchored off Scilly.- Two mens' actions to attempt to protect the reputation ofan innocent wife whose life could be ruined t...

This volume contains Q's fictionalised accounts of :-- The 1527 wreck of the, Portuguese treasure ship, Saint Andrew and the seizure of its cargo by local gentry.- The first ruler, First White Rajah, of Sarawak who retired to Burraton on Dartmoor.- Westcountry folk who became pirates including Harry Glasbywho became an accidental pirate on account of his seizure due to both his musical and navigational skills.The volume concludes with Sabine B...

Q thoroughly enjoyed his annual routines but none more than Christmas. This volume contains five stories all related to Christmas.I Saw Three Ships which tells the tale of three wrecks at Christmas and the appearance of a mysterious sailor who disrupts the routine of a coastal community. Shakespeare's Christmas recounts the astonishing solution devised by Shakespeare to the demands of the puritanical landlord of The Theatre in Elizabethan Lond...

This volume, the sixth in the series, contains Q's retelling of the adventures of two St. Ives fishermen who were imprisoned by Napoleon for 10 years together with their diaries and an introduction by, the Cornish fishing magnate, Sir Edward Hain who retraced their 1200 mile march on the eve of the outbreak of the First World War. The diaries also cast a fascinating light on now, almost, forgotten events such as the arrival in Cornwall of refu...