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At Home and at Sea series by John G Cragg (#1-2)
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Overview: John G Cragg writes historical novels. NO BIO Available.
Genre: Fiction Historical

A New War: At Home (#1) Captain Sir Richard Giles has used the peace of Amiens to find and purchase a rural estate at Dipton It will provide living quarters for his relatives and an opportunity to pursue his interest in agricultural processes and improvements, a task where he may find assistance from the daughter of his immediate neighbor. She seems to be more interested in estate management and improvement than in the more usual pursuits of young ladies.
A French frigate of possibly new design has been using the period of peace to take British frigates and merchant ships illegally and spirit the captures to some unknown base. Giles is called from his bucolic pursuits to take command of a newly built frigate whose task is to find and destroy the enemy vessel and recapture her prizes
While Captain Giles is doing this, life continues apace at Dipton so that when Giles can snatch some leave, he finds that things have not remained static. The novel tells of how events develop at sea and also on land in the early days following the abrogation of the treaty of Amiens.

A Continuing War: At Home and at Sea: 1803-1804 (#2) Captain Sir Richard Giles is now married to the former Daphne Moorhouse, but the demands of war take him to sea almost at once. His frigate is engaged in harassing French preparations for invasion, dealing with privateers, contending with the influence system in naval establishments and being peripherally engaged in espionage activities. Meanwhile Daphne is fully occupied managing her husband’s and father’s estates and taking her new role as the wife of a major member of the landed gentry and as the doyenne of a great house. Fox hunting becomes a major preoccupation for Daphne while concerns about getting more satisfactory situations for her not very welcome relatives get her scheming to arrange satisfactory marriages for them. Only at rare intervals do the two principals get together to share their lives and interests.

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Queenmaker: A Novel of King David’s Queen by India Edghill
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Overview: For over forty years, Michal lived and reigned in David’s court. She was the beautiful and proud daughter of King Saul and the prize David would risk his kingdom to win. Behind the palace doors, beneath the burning sun of the desert, or fleeing from Absalom’s warriors, Michal was at the center of court intrigues. Queenmaker introduces in unforgettable detail the characters of one of the greatest periods in Biblical history their public deeds and private thoughts and gives us the court of the kings as only a woman could see it.
Genre: Historical Fiction

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2 Novels by Tim Jeal
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Overview: Tim Jeal is the author of acclaimed biographies of Livingstone and Baden-Powell. His memoir, Swimming with My Father, was published by Faber in 2004 and was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. He is also a novelist and a former winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
Genre: Fiction, Classics

Somewhere Beyond
Ten years after Dinah deserted Harry to marry a friend of his, Harry still loves her obsessively, though his image of her has ceased to relate to her independent reality. Unable to shake this fixation Harry resolves, for the sake of his sanity, to get Dinah back.

Until the Colors Fade
First published in 1976, Until the Colours Fade was Tim Jeal’s fourth novel, set in 1852 in a Lancashire mill town transformed by the Industrial Revolution. Disenfranchised cotton workers are restless, while landed gentry make uneasy common cause with newly wealthy manufacturers. When painter Tom Strickland encounters the combustible Magnus Crawford, lately returned from military service abroad, he is drawn into a web of local hatreds and intrigues that will lead to an epic conclusion at the siege of Sebastopol.

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A War by Diplomacy: At Home and At Sea, 1804 by John G. Cragg
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Overview: 804. Britain is at war with Napoleon’s France. Captain Sir Richard Giles is enjoying a well-deserved break at his home, Dipton Hall, before being assigned to a new naval mission. News arrives that his half-brothers are dead. Giles is their heir, but they leave him more problems than rewards. Any difficulties that he cannot straighten out himself will have to be resolved by his wife, Daphne. After introducing her to London life, he takes her on the maiden, shake-down cruise of his new frigate, only to have the interlude at sea include a battle with an equally powerful French vessel.
Giles’s mission involves his going to St. Petersburg carrying with him an obnoxious special envoy. Giles himself carries the terms for a special, secret naval treaty. All is not smooth sailing for him in the Russian capital as he must evade both suspected spies and also the enthusiastic efforts at seduction by some noble ladies. At the same time, his own crew brings dishonor on his ship.
His contacts with the Russian Navy at their principal base of Kronstadt go much better than did his social life in the Russian capital. He engages in a competition with the cream of the Russian navy. Evicted from St. Petersburg due to the special envoy being declared persona non grata, Giles must aid his friend Captain Bush to defeat two French frigates in order clear the way for him to return to Daphne.
Meanwhile, despite her being pregnant, Daphne is left to straighten out the mess left by the death of her older brother-in-law. This involves her plunging reluctantly into the seamier side of Georgian society. It seems that her husband has been totally entangled in a web by which he must support a most disreputable business. Daphne uses bluff and guile to turn the tables on her sleazy opponents and to escape, with a profit, the web in which she appears to be trapped.
Back at Dipton Hall, Daphne gives birth to her son, but her recovery from the ordeal is cut short by the need to outwit a plot to wrench control of her husband’s rotten borough from Giles’s control and to counter the ill-will of the man who tried to steal the election. Her difficulties are only resolved by the fortuitous return of her husband who outwits their nefarious rival despite being himself seriously wounded.
Genre: Historical Fiction

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2 Novels by Graham Mort
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Overview: Graham Mort has had a lengthy career as a freelance writer and artist in education, specialising in innovative combined arts projects. He has taught writing courses for the Arvon Foundation and Taliesin Trust and was director of studies for the Open College of the Arts, extending distance learning though new technology.
Genre: Fiction, Classics

Cusp
‘Cusp’, this new collection from Graham Mort, features many of the qualities readers have come to admire; keen observation, a feeling for the natural world that echoes and enhances the human interactions in his poems, the sense of the individual as part of a larger society of which we are implicitly responsible. New here is a different sort of line, which alternates short and longer lines in a step-like formation, a terracing which propels the narratives along. Also included is the remarkable, ambitious long poem, ‘Electricity’, fizzing with riffs on its theme. Morts formal rigour, instinctive compassion, and warm humanity shine through in this new book, the first since his acclaimed Visibility: New and Selected Poems.

Touch
Skillfully crafted and vivid with detail, this collection of prose examines the strength and fragility of life. From the heat of Africa to the warmth of France and the snowbound dales of northern England, this volume spans 20 years of short story writing and includes narratives that display a deep sensitivity to both the natural world and to human relationships. Featuring a young child adrift on an ice-filled lake and an aging farmer facing life alone, this absorbing compilation is sure to entice fans of poetic fiction.

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