Galicia is a fascinating part of Green Spain, the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula, and sits in the north western most part, surrounded on two sides by the sea and on a third by Portugal. This short anthology contains writings about Galicia, including several pieces about the Ribeira Sacra, the Sacred Riverbank. Included are stories and articles about its people and its landscape, including the seasons in the vineyards. Wine is a liquid that flows throughout Spain, and in the deep va...

Galicia is a fascinating part of Green Spain, the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula, and sits in the north western most part, surrounded on two sides by the sea, and on a third by Portugal.This short anthology contains writings about Galicia, including several pieces about the coastal parts of Galicia, unlike last years anthology which had writings about the Ribeira Sacra - the sacred riverbank. Included are stories and articles about its people and its landscape, its myths an...

Archie’s Antiques is a charming fictional antique shop set in a small town somewhere in Australia. And inside Archie’s are a wonderful group of characters: Sam, the knowledgeable owner of Archie’s, his clever friend, the retired policeman, Edward Destranger, and his young niece, Sandra. Also, you will find a surfeit of mysteries and puzzles.Archie’s not only attracts all sorts of curious questions but also interesting people. It welcomes through its doors a parade of charlatans, fr...

Murder was certainly not what anyone expected to happen after the closing of the most successful Ridgeway Arts and Cultural Centre art show ever.Ex big-city art gallery manager, Marion Shea, a recent arrival in Ridgeway, put a great deal of effort and time into making the show a success. But neither she nor the committee, made up largely of elderly members of the old Ridgeway families, get time to celebrate its success. Murder, financial disasters, and missing committee members, in...

Archie’s Antiques is a charming fictional antique shop set in a small town somewhere in Australia. And inside Archie’s are a wonderful group of characters: Sam, the knowledgeable owner of Archie’s, his clever friend, the retired policeman, Edward Destranger, and his young niece, Sandra. Also, you will find a surfeit of mysteries and puzzles.Archie’s not only attracts all sorts of curious questions but also interesting people. It welcomes through its doors a parade of charlatans, fr...

1960s fashion, affairs and heartbreak feature in THE DECISION from No 1 bestselling novelist Penny Vincenzi'Teeming with memorable characters' Woman & HomeIt's the 1960s, a world of colour, mini skirts, Mary Quant and PVC boots.Ex-deb Eliza is making a splash in the hubs of fashion. Matt, a working-class boy, is carving out a serious name for himself in property. They fall in love, then marry, and soon there is a ba...

Have you ever dreamed about walking the Camino de Santiago? Join Peter Murtagh, acclaimed Irish journalist, and his teenage daughter Natasha on their epic pilgrimage across the Way of St James and experience their life-changing adventure with them.If you’ve ever wondered what a hike of 900 miles involves, physically and emotionally, look no further than Buen Camino! You will be transported to Northern Spain, to bull-running and fiestas, to prayers and anci...

Experience the Ghan's historic journey across Australia's outback, where ancient Aboriginal heritage and modern ambition collide, in a tale as rich and vast as the landscape it traverses.DREAMS OF THE GHANIt is 2001 and as the world charges into the new Millennium, a century-old dream is about to be realised in the Red Centre of Australia: the completion of the mighty Ghan railway, a long-lived vision to create the 'backbone of the continent', a line that ...

Guy Thatcher walked the Camino de Santiago, an ancient pilgrimage route, hoping to discover the reason for the compulsion that drove him there. What he found instead was the timeless land of northern Spain, beauty, silence, mountains and plains, rain and relentless sun, snow in May, heartbreaking climbs, fatigue and injury; friendly and welcoming people, new friendships, despair, transcendental joy, birth and death, and churros con chocolate. He came away with the renewal of his belief in ...

A nobleman devoted to defending queen and country and a noblewoman wild enough to match his every step race to disrupt the plans of a malignant intelligence intent on shaking England to its very foundations.Lord Drake Varisey, Marquess of Winchelsea, eldest son and heir of the Duke of Wolverstone, must foil a plot that threatens to shake the foundations of the realm, but the very last lady—nay, noblewoman—he needs assisting him is Lady Louisa Cynster, known throughout the ...

  Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Santiago de Compostela, Spain.   Santiago de Compostela is the capital city of Galicia, Spain, and one of the most important places for Catholicism because it's the place where St. James is reputed to be buried.   With a population of 100,000, Santiago de Compostela is one of the most important cities of Galicia and it receives many thousands of v...

'I found the photograph album by chance when we were clearing out the old coach house. It must have been sitting on the garage shelf for years among all the other family rejects.'When a woman finds a lost photo album in a garage clearout, she is drawn to the images of her ancestors. But one image in particular stands out: a baby sitting in the lap of its mother, both draped from head to toe in a cotton lace curtain or something, completely enveloped and unrecogniza...