Adventure in Creative Education

Oakeshott, Ewart

Marshall, Sybil

Elsevier Science

When Fran moves back to her old village, she expects to find the village of her childhood. Instead, she encounters discontent in every walk of life. A first novel from former schoolteacher and local historian.

Nest Of Magpies

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Penguin Uk

Sharp through the hawthorn

The ancient East Anglian village of Old Swithinford had always seemed to be a haven against trouble. But since middle-aged widow Fran came back to live there three years ago there have been plenty of changes. Fran and William scandalize certain established villagers when they set up home together.

Sharp Through the Hawthorn

Strip the willow

Old Swithinford is undergoing more dramatic changes to village life of the late 1960s. It faces the problem of a hippy family in its midst and its gravest threat yet from a developer who has the potential to corrupt the values of the long-established farmers.

Strip the Willow

Fran and William, now married at last, hope for a period of calm. But changes, like the arrival of a new rector and a new doctor, William's unhappiness at his return to his job and the difficulty of coping with a new resident in their house, continue to challenge them.

Late Lark Singing

In this text, Sybil Marshall collects together her parent's remembrances of their childhoods, marriage, family life and work in this traditional corner of England and draws them into a potrait of time gone by.

Fenland Chronicle

Sports & Outdoors

Fran returns to Old Swithinford only to discover that her childhood memories of placid village life have been transformed by discontent and a struggle between progress and tradition.

A Nest of Magpies

Romance

Historical

St.Martin's Press

"Marshall's entertaining first novel, set in the 1960s in the secluded town of Old Swithinford, England, is a solid historical romance... The author limns a sympathetic protagonist whose self-analysis is perceptive and complex." - Publishers Weekly

St. Martin's: Griffin

Tales of little people and giants,of the Devil,and of the Saints,supernatural,domestic and moral tales,the claim of the book is that they are English folk tales but of course as one might expect of island races, their stories have come often from elsewhere, from Scotland for instance.In the poem "Get up and bar the door"there is far more than a trace of native Scot'slanguage.however it is an interesting and valuable collection.

Everyman's Book of English Folktales (Everyman's Classics)

Everyman Ltd

The tradition of storytelling is as old as the spoken word, but it is as strong today as it has ever been, fulfilling a deeply rooted psychological need in all of us.\nFrom the great mass of folk tale that exists, Sybil Marshall has chosen a wide variety of stories, drawn from every age and from all parts of England. We have her tales of the little people and of giants, of the Devil and the saints, supernatural and domestic and moral tales, all superbly retold in the true tradition of the storyteller, with extraneous detail or vivi turn of phrase added on the spur of the moment to enhance suspense or exaggerate character.\nFabulous indeed some of them may seem, but the folk who preserved these tales, generation after generation, would never have denied them. They have always grown from some germ of belief, changed and shaped as the tale is handed down. In order to appreciate and enjoy them to the full, one has only to 'suspend disbelief' and surrender completely to the sheer pleasure of reading and being entertained.

Everyman's Book of English Folktales

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd.

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Adventure in Creative Education

Nest Of Magpies

Sharp Through the Hawthorn

Strip the Willow

Late Lark Singing

Fenland Chronicle

A Nest of Magpies

A Nest of Magpies

Everyman's Book of English Folktales (Everyman's Classics)

Everyman's Book of English Folktales