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In a small Warwickshire market town in the mid-eighteenth century, one ruthless man holds a whole community in his power. Landowner and hatting entrepreneur, Abraham Blunt, is determined to enclose the open fields and deprive the freeholders of their livelihood, and the cottagers of their rights of common. His daughter, Susanna, is in love with her father's arch rival, Joseph Wilding, a part-time preacher, who is leading the campaign against e...

Why are poets expected to be sad-faced? This question begins my story-poem: "He knew--from a picture of Rod McKuen-- of all his race, the poet makes the saddest face. And next to a hound, the saddest sound." Maybe when the dog is not a hound, he'll write happier. Our dog-poet is an English Sheepdog named Wordsworth, pet of the central character Onagain, who is a brilliant parodist like my great college friend who left us young. The story featu...

This sixth packet of memoirs from the notorious Georgian rogue Thomas Flashman covers the extraordinary events that culminated in a battle just south of Brussels, near a place called Waterloo. The first six months of 1815 were a pivotal time in European history. As a result, countless books have been written by men who were there and by those who studied it afterwards. But despite this wealth of material there are still many unanswered questio...

Kitty Cartwright, in the early stages of her third pregnancy, embarks on a train journey to visit her childhood friend Connie. Struggling with two young children, a heavy suitcase and a pushchair, she gratefully accepts help from two soldiers travelling on the same train. During the journey one of the soldiers, Tom Watson, becomes smitten with the young family and Kitty finds herself confiding in him about her marriage to Ernie, a violent hus...

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Eadgyth Ælfgarsottir's story begins when she is sold into marriage to Gruffydd ap Llewellyn, King of the Welsh, a man old enough to be her grandfather. At Rhuddlan she discovers both friendship and romance, but from a man who is not her husband. Ultimately she finds herself accused of treason, fornication and incest until a surprise night attack destroys Gruffydd's palace and Eadgyth is captured by the Saxons. After the betrayal and murder of ...