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  The Seafarers

  Vivian Stuart

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  The nineteenth book in the dramatic and intriguing story about the colonisation of Australia: a country made of blood, passion, and dreams.
   
  Jon Fisher and Harry Ryan take part in a bloody war between the British and the Zulu in South Africa. 
   
  Jon Fisher faces war in South Africa. The Zulus have proven themselves a surprisingly powerful enemy to the British Army. After losing his men during battle, Jon Fisher decides to go home to Australia. Harry Ryan has arranged passage for them on a merchant ship. And there starts their travels across the ocean to get back home.

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  Israel Zangwill - A Short Story...

  Israel Zangwill

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  Israel Zangwill was born in London on 21st January 1864, to a family of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire.  
   
  Zangwill was initially educated in Plymouth and Bristol.  At age 9 he was enrolled in the Jews' Free School in Spitalfields in east London. Zangwill excelled here.  He began to teach part-time at the school and eventually full time.  Whilst teaching he also studied with the University of London and by 1884 had earned his BA with triple honours in philosophy, history, and the sciences. 
   
  His writing earned him the sobriquet "the Dickens of the Ghetto" primarily based on his much lauded novel ‘Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People’ in 1892 and its glimpse of the poverty-stricken life in London's Jewish quarter. 
   
  As a writer he was keen to reflect on his political and social outlooks.  His simulation of Yiddish sentence structure in English aroused great interest. His mystery work, ‘The Big Bow Mystery’ (1892) was the first locked room mystery novel.   
   
  Zangwill was also involved with narrowly focused Jewish issues as an assimilationist, an early Zionist, and later a territorialist. In the early 1890s he had joined the Lovers of Zion movement in England. In 1897 he joined Theodor Herzl (considered the father of modern political Zionism) in founding the World Zionist Organization.   
   
  Zangwill quit the established philosophy of Zionism when his plan for a homeland in Uganda was rejected and founded his own organisation; the Jewish Territorialist Organization. Its stated goal was to create a Jewish homeland in whatever territory in the world could be found for them.  
   
  Amongst the challenges in his life he found time to write poetry.  He had translated a medieval Jewish poet in 1903 and his volume ‘Blind Children’ in 1908 shows his promise in this new endeavour. 
    
  ‘The Melting Pot’ in 1909 made Zangwill’s name as an admired playwright.  When the play opened in Washington D.C., former President Theodore Roosevelt leaned over the edge of his box and shouted, "That's a great play, Mr. Zangwill, that's a great play."   
   
  Israel Zangwill died on 1st August 1926 in Midhurst, West Sussex. 
   
  1 - Israel Zangwill - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - A Rose of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill 
  3 - Cheating The Gallows by Israel Zangwill 
  4 - The Converts by Israel Zangwill 
  5 - The Red Mark by Israel Zangwill 
  6 - The Silent Sisters by Israel Zangwill 
  7 - The Tug of Love by Israel Zangwill

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  Short Stories Set in Boston -...

  Washington Irving, Nathaniel...

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  In the small state of Massachusetts sits its capital, Boston.  Famed seat of learning, of culture, of history, and a beacon for the ages.    
   
  Here, in this volume, authors of the stature of Willa Cather, Washington Irving, H P Lovecraft and more set carefully crafted characters into narratives set in this glistening city in ways that trouble, explore and bring new understanding as to why this city is such a draw for authors and their stories down the ages.  
   
  1 - Stories Set in Boston - An Introduction 
  2 - The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving 
  3 - David Swan by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  4 - A Wagner Matinee by Willa Catha 
  5 - Pickman's Model by H P Lovecraft 
  6 - Peter Rugg, The Missing Man - Part 1 by William Austin 
  7 - Peter Rugg, The Missing Man - Part 2 by William Austin

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  The Carbonels

  Charlotte M. Yonge

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  "The Carbonels" is a compelling historical novel by Charlotte M. Yonge that transports readers to early 19th-century England. It follows the life of Captain Edmund Carbonel and his wife, Mary, as they begin their new life together at Greenhow Farm. The novel explores their ambitious efforts to enhance the rural community around them, particularly through the establishment of a Sunday school. Facing the skepticism and traditional attitudes of the local populace, the Carbonels' story delves into themes of social improvement, community dynamics, and the challenges of initiating change in a traditional setting. Rich with detailed character interactions and vivid descriptions of the English countryside, this novel provides a nuanced portrayal of striving for social betterment against the backdrop of rural English life.

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  Queenie of Norwich - A...

  LK Wilde

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  "You're Nellie Westrop and don't you forget it. 
  We'll see each other one day, but until we do, take good care of yourself. 
  Live a good life. 
  Now go, my love." 
  From the author of Silver Darlings comes LK Wilde's captivating portrayal of the life of Queenie Read. 
  Heart warming and breaking in equal measure, Queenie of Norwich is perfect for fans of The Foundling, Where the Crawdads Sing, and The Smallest Man. 
  People say you get one life, but I've lived three. 
  I was born Ellen Hardy in 1900, dragged up in Queen Caroline's Yard, Norwich. 
  There was nothing royal about our yard, and Mum was no queen. 
  At six years old Mum sold me. I became Nellie Westrop, roaming the country in a showman's wagon, learning the art of the fair. 
  And I've been the infamous Queenie of Norwich, moving up in the world by any means, legal or not. 
  I've been heart broken, abandoned, bought and sold, but I've never, ever given up. 
  After all, it's not where you start that's important, but where you end up. 
  Based on a true story, Queenie of Norwich is the compelling tale of one remarkable girl's journey to womanhood. 
  Spanning the first half of the 20th century, Queenie's story is one of heartbreak and triumph, love and loss and the power of family. 
  It is a story of redemption, and how, with grit and determination, anything is possible.

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  The Gentleman and the Spy - An...

  Neil S. Plakcy

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  The Gentleman and the Spy is an 83,000 word Victorian-era lord and valet romance with a country house party and a touch of espionage and international intrigue. 
    
  After his father's death Lord Magnus Dawson has more important things to think about than falling in love—like how to earn a living when all he knows is the idleness he was raised with, and the military training he received before selling his commission. 
    
  For Toby Marsh, the impetus is as great, though he doesn't have Magnus's family connections to fall back on. A scholarship student at Cambridge, he was forced to spend his last year in college as valet and sometime tutor to a brainless fellow student after his father's sudden death. Now he scrabbles out a living as a freelance tutor. 
    
  Then a call from the Foreign Office brings them together. Toby disdains the idle lordling, and Magnus can't seem to treat Toby as more than a servant. As they delve deeper into their assignment, the attraction between them grows. But can they envision a future together when so class and culture conspire to drive them apart?

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