Marrying for money would save the career of a penurious young captain. But winning the daughter of The Wangler, an English tycoon, was a prospect to fear. Author John Ivor delights with this humorous account of bride-seeking in the early 1800s. The characters interact in an unusual, yet richly endowed, county mansion.

This is a fictional autobiography of Sir James Stirling, young hero in Britain's 1812 war against the United States. Later, facing impossible odds and with the Stirling family in disgrace, he overcame ridicule and rejection to found a nation that, eventually, reshaped the world's southern hemisphere.Until Stirling's vision came to fruition, Britain used Australia as its dumping ground for convicted felons. Stirling saw it differently, the unexplored western shore suggesting a haven ...

The kupu bush, unique to a South Pacific island, is habitat to poisonous butterflies yet promises to enable cheap energy, cure disease and end world hunger. When a London conglomerate secures trading rights and sends James Harvey to fetch samples, he faces government spies, commercial rivals and murder – also falls in love. Superpowers contend for the independent island, where Russia plans a naval base. After James agrees to help the island princess regain her throne, they seek justice at ...

The nude painting of a senior officer's wife scandalises Britain's Swan River Colony in the 1830s. Young Maggie from the bakery fears for the mild male artist, her friend, who is challenged to a duel. This is a humorous excerpt from the novel "Great Land of Dreams".

At seventeen, shopgirl Maggie meets the man of her dreams, but her dye-stained cheeks turn the dream to nightmare. This thrilling sequel to Run Maggie Run is set in a class conscious 1830s colony, where Maggie opposes its corrupt British rulers.

THE PROTAGONIST WHO DEFINES THE WORD ORDINARY,becomes embroiled in an old and grave story not of hiswanting. With the likeness of the common man, hisdesire for love and acclaim may have misled him a step too far.As unimaginable dark forces escape, as authorities question hisinnocence and his beautiful but begrudging companion in hisface, his odds of surviving are slim if not zero. To c...

Brilliant swordsman and heroic in stature, young Jeremy has only one weakness as he faces his greatest challenge. He is a coward.

A cornerstone of Welsh mythic tradition, this enchanting new edition of the Mabinogion brings Lady Charlotte Guest’s classic 1877 translation back into the light.Drawn from the medieval Welsh corpus, this collection includes the revered Four Branches of the Mabinogi and some of the earliest surviving stories of King Arthur. Offering insight into the world behind the words, six thoughtful essays introduce the history and endurance of these ancient narrative...

Considering how practices and processes of research and education can create fundamental, radical social change, Democracy, Education and Research assesses the meaning of ‘public impact‘ by rethinking what is meant by ‘public‘ and how it is essential to the methodologies of education and research.Focusing on empirical illustrations of the use of research and educational processes in contemporary and emergent forms of social organisation, this book:C...

From 1917 British soldiers who were unfit or too old for front-line service were to serve unarmed and within the range of German guns for weeks or even months at a time undertaking labouring tasks. Both at the time and since they have arguably not been given the recognition they deserve for this difficult and dangerous work.From non-existence in 1914, by November 1918 Military Labour had developed into an organised and efficient 350,000-strong Labour Corps, support...

The dialogue conducted via the press, television, advertising and the opinion polls beween politicians and the people in the 1997 campaign and its run-up is analyzed here. Special attention is paid to the innovations and changes that marked the 1997 campaign.

Celebrating 25 years of AFC Wimbledon.On May 28, 2002, the most-shameful decision ever taken in the history of English football was rubber stamped. A three-man commission, appointed by the FA, allowed Wimbledon FC to be airlifted from its community and moved 70 miles away to Milton Keynes. It was football's crime of the century, a theft like nothing the game had ever experienced. The FA could have stopped it, but chose not to. Instead, they facilitated it and told Wimbledon fans to...