Winters of the World

John, Brian

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

In 1796, impetuous Martha Morgan becomes the mistress of an estate, at only eighteen years old. Though she loves her husband dearly, she is lonely in a strange house, and her quick wit and cutting humour make her as many enemies as friends.

On Angel Mountain

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Corgi

Martha Morgan, the beautiful young mistress of the Plas Ingli estate, is warned that trouble is brewing for her family. Then she receives the most terrible news any young wife and mother can imagine — in this second fast-paced, exciting historical novel from Brian John.

House of Angels

British & Irish

Transworld Publishers

Martha Morgan has finally found love. She has agreed to marry Owain, and all the Morgan family are delighted. But just as she dares to believe she can have a peaceful life, Martha is terrified by a ghostly apparition. Further troubles await her, as an orphan is abandoned on her doorstep and a ship is wrecked on the rocky coastline nearby. Then, Owain, her anchor, disappears. For the first time since Martha has become mistress of the estate, Plas Ingli is in serious trouble. It is up to Martha to lead her family out of dark times—and it will test her to her limits.

Dark Angel

On Angel Mountain (The Angel Mountain Saga, 1)

Bolinda Audio

This is Part 1 of the eight-volume Angel Mountain Saga (Historical Fiction) -- the most popular fiction series ever published in Wales. Martha Morgan is eighteen years old, pregnant and suicidal. She has just suffered the trauma of a shotgun marriage, and now she finds herself in a strange house high on the slopes of a bleak mountain. She has to learn how to survive in this alien environment, surrounded by a group of eccentric family members and servants who are still recovering from the loss of five family members in a tragic fire. Against the odds, Martha does survive, learning in the process that she is protected by a group of very unlikely angels and that the mountain has a magical quality which insinuates itself into her soul. She is very beautiful, and that is both her blessing and her curse. So she makes enemies as well as friends, and as the story builds towards its climax she discovers some unpleasant truths about the family's past, and suffers from humiliation and brutality when she is attacked from all sides by those whom she has sought to befriend. Her most implacable enemy is a manservant with a very unsavoury past, whose sole ambition is to possess her and then destroy her...

Pembrokeshire (British topographical series)

Travel

Europe

DAVID CHARLES PLC

"In 1962, when asked whether it was a good or bad period for writing poetry, Robert Graves replied, not unreasonably, 'there's nothing wrong with the period, but where are the poets?'" -- from the introduction to The World as Event. Brian John suggests that the work of Charles Tomlinson should be granted equal prominence. Tomlinson, never an imitator, has remained isolated from groups and uninfluenced by movements. Although his reputation as a major contemporary British poet was established early in the United States, his work met with little notice in Great Britain. Even now, he is more accepted and appreciated outside his homeland. Tomlinson suffers, as did Keats and Tennyson, from the accusation that his poetry is essentially "un-British." Brian John observes in his introduction that "Wherever he has sought enrichment of his art, however, Tomlinson has remained intrinsically an English poet, intent upon re-awakening English sensibilities to the real nature of the world. 'I write as an Englishman who has responded to other horizons,' he declared in 1987, 'internationally minded, though with the ballast of England and English to keep him -- Wordsworth's favourite word -- steady.'" John presents a perceptive view of Tomlinson's work, giving attention to the meaning of his poetry and tracing the sources of both his literary and philosophical thinking.

The World as Event: The Poetry of Charles Tomlinson

History & Criticism

McGill-Queen's University Press

Pembrokeshire folk tales

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Greencroft Books

Fireside Tales from Pembrokeshire (Folk Tales Trilogy)

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