The Books

Roger Dobinson, a younger son of an English landed family, whose appetites and spending capacity were greater than his ability to make money, left England to make a fresh start. Ultimately the family arrived at an abandoned settlement on the south coast of Western Australia only five years after the …

This is the long story of Sally Ann from a fourteen-year-old child-woman who met an older man at a village dance, through to motherhood while the Battle of Britain raged overhead. Her father, old Mr Sutton, a gentle kindly man, telling his wry humorous tales from an earlier age when …

At the opening of this story, a group of farmers market traders a clothier have all survived the Peasant’s Revolt, yet still feel threatened by the young king’s revenge. A poor widow lost her husband and son in the violence, a farmer’s son from White Clyffe swept up in the …

John a skinny boy we first met in an English churchyard planting primroses on his brother’s grave, becomes a central figure to this story. He survived against odds to raise a large family yet emerges as a complex character. The birth of a calf is a thrill for the whole …