Tildy: Radical Woman

Fraser, Sara

Romance

Little,Brown

This is the story of ""Spec"", a scruffy, bespectacled ten year old boy in a Midlands town experiencing the turmoil of the Second World War.It is about a world that has now totally disappeared. A world in which children were both actors and spectators in the life that pulsated around them in the streets, schools and homes of their towns, cities and villages. A life that they experienced first hand.It may seem that life was rough, hard and impoverished. But it was a life that bequeathed to its protagonists a brimming treasure chest of priceless memories...

Spec's War

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Severn House

An absorbing historical novel which brings vividly to life the practice of medicine in the early nineteenth century In the first part of the nineteenth century, James Kerr, an ambitious young man with a burning vocation to become a doctor, joins his uncle's practice in the North of England, as a surgeon's apprentice. But at that time medicine was still a primitive, brutal business, and James's cherished ideals about the role of the doctor, and the dignity of the medical establishment, are soon shown up as hollow illusions. In his private life, James falls in love with Liddy Landser, young and beautiful daughter of one of his patients. But Liddy's father, proprietor of a local salt-mine, is in financial trouble, and his futile attempts to save the business and family name by entrusting his debts to Edward Harcourt - a man with an equal appetite for power and for female flesh - sink them into penury and disgrace.

The Surgeon's Apprentice

The Workhouse Doctor

A compelling historical adventure, set against the background of 19th century Jamaica Jamaica, 1806. Justin Brent arrives from England to take over his uncle's sugar plantation. Young and idealistic, he is shocked by the attitudes of his fellow 'buckras' to the slaves who work for them, yet he is captivated by the exotic, sensual beauty of this Carribean island and its people. When a young mulatto, Lazarus, is sent to work for him, Justin is reassured by the man's intelligence and charm, and believes that they can work together, for the good of the Brent estate. Lazarus, however, has other plans, born of a deep-seated hatred of the white masters, and a burning desire to avenge his dead father...

Bitter Legacy

It is the year 1826 . . . - Gentle, impoverished bachelor Thomas Potts is forced to fill the unpopular post of Constable of the Parish of Tardebrigge. Timid by nature and hectored by his shrewish mother, things do not initially go well for Tom. But when a homicidal maniac begins murdering and mutilating women, and terror spreads through the parish, it is Tom, the reluctant constable, who must identify, hunt down and confront this killer.

The Reluctant Constable

<p>A Thomas Potts historical mystery - It is 1826, and in the town of Redditch in Worcestershire, Thomas Potts, reluctant Parish Constable, battles to keep the peace. With the notorious Needle Pointers up in arms at the news of a cut in their rate of pay, and a mysterious criminal gang, known as the Rippling Boys, robbing, murdering and body-snatching with impunity, gentle, timid Tom has his work cut out . . .</p>

Resurrection Men (Thomas Potts)

Contemporary

Murder on the waterways of post-Regency England - 1827, Redditch, Worcestershire. Thomas Potts is despairing of his courtship of Amy Danks. With neither money nor prospects, she will surely look elsewhere. But when the body of a girl is found in the canal, Potts is drawn into the investigation, and he is sure the ‘Leggers’, town outcasts who work on the barges, know something. As more murders ensue, Tom risks everything to get to the truth . . .  

The Drowned Ones: A Thomas Potts Mystery

United States

Severn House Pub Ltd

An intriguing 19th Century historical mystery.July, 1829. When a female corpse, dressed in male clothing, is discovered lying in a haystack in the Worcestershire countryside, rumour and superstition abound. For the sighting of a man in white robes fleeing from the scene leads to suspicion that the ‘Devil’s Monk’ is responsible for the crime. According to local legend, this vengeful apparition appears at intervals to molest and kill.Constable Thomas Potts is dismissive of the rumours – but without knowing the victim’s identity, he’ll need the devil’s own luck to catch her killer. And when a second body turns up, Potts is under pressure to track down the murderer before hysteria engulfs the town.

Devil's Monk, The (A Thomas Potts Historical Mystery, 6)

British & Irish

The Workhouse Doctor (Severn House Large Print)

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