Mr. Higgins Takes a Stand

Children's Books

Webber, Jim

Preece, David

Animals

Austin Macauley

Big Horns Little Horns

Hankinson, Caroline Maximus

Join Edward Chocolate and Bertie Boo Boo, two spirited goats locked in a playful rivalry, in this delightful and exciting tale. Their latest nighttime game brings them head-to-head once again, this time competing over the size of their horns. But when the wise owl swoops in with her words of wisdom, the competition takes a heartwarming turn, reminding them that true worth goes beyond appearances, and putting any feelings of inferiority to rest.

A Call of Nature

Literature & Fiction

Mark Dawson Conroy

Action & Adventure

Animal and Client Encounters

Biographies & Memoirs

James, Alexander

Professionals & Academics

ABC Dinosaurs

Rodgers, Pearl

Nadine Gordimer's Fiction

Mazhar, Syeda Faiqa

Arts & Literature

Deadly Imprint

Roberts, Helen

Roberts, Iago

Genre Fiction

A Wolf in the Kitchen

Sports & Outdoors

Bryde, J T

Biographies

Samuel Baskett, growing up in a Dorset rectory, wants to save lives, not souls. Mary Cockram, looking after her animals on the family farm, longs to travel the world. Spanning nearly 60 years of the eighteenth century, Searching for Samuel Baskett is a sweeping family saga, chronicling the lives of the Baskett and Cockram families, their friends, and servants. It tells of their loves and losses, their joys, and tragedies. When Samuel sets up as surgeon, apothecary and 'man-midwife' in the Dorset town of Wareham, he goes against all the accepted practices of the time. He attends births, encourages mothers to breast-feed their babies and tries to convince his patients to give up their old traditional remedies for fits and fevers. The novel covers many issues still relevant today - vaccination, slavery, and the role of women in society. Samuel meets a local farmer, Benjamin Jesty, who used matter from cowpox to inoculate his family, years before Jenner. And Mary sets up a school for girls, providing lessons in mathematics and 'natural philosophy'. Samuel Baskett's signature inside an old 1766 dictionary inspired Rosemary Allen to investigate further. The family trees she built up from Dorset parish records form the skeletal structure of the novel; she just had to put flesh on the bones in the form of a fictional narrative.

Searching for Samuel Baskett

Allen, Rosemary

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