Combines the first three books in the series: Beat to Quarters, Ship of the Line, and Flying Colours.

    A beloved time travel story that has endured for generations.

    F. Benson, there are six books in total, this volume contains the fifth and sixth instalments of this wonderfully satirical look at the petty squabbling and brinkmanship in the social circles in a small English village. These two novels, originally published in 1935 and 1939, are being republished here together with a new introductory biography of the author.

    The state is ruled by Count Jasper, Governor of the citadel, and his troop of Black Riders. Dick, the young hero, falls in with Jasper's enemy, known as Far Away Moses, because he is always far away when the police and secret service think they can catch him. The password is "Fortitude" - and Dick needs it. He has to journey alone among dark forests and castles and unknown hills. Sometimes he finds a shepherd to help him; another time he finds friends among the circus people. Sometimes he travels by train, sometimes by wagon, sometimes on a donkey. But whatever happens his messages must get through.This story transports the young reader to another world from which he or she will be very reluctant to return. It is delightfully illustrated by Anne Bullen who has entered into the spirit of it all, and who portrays Dick's adventures as vividly as Miss Needham describes them.

    

    L. Coombes, to the front rank of proletarian writers. Coombes was born in England, but he lived for decades in the Vale of Neath in south Wales, and as the economic problems of the 1930s deepened, he turned to writing as a way to spread the word about the plight of miners and their communities to a wider world. Presenting the daily lives of miners in documentary fashion, with special attention to the damaging lockouts of 1921 and 1926, These Poor Hands retains the power to astonish readers with its description of the ways that unfettered capitalism can lay waste to human potential.

    . .The Englishman's Food was first published in 1939, fully revised in 1957 and now appears with a new updating introduction. A ground-breaking book, it is a fascinating and authoritative survey of food production, consumption, fashions and follies over a period of five hundred years.Reprinted with a new introduction by food editor Tom Jaine.

    Set in the piney woods of south Georgia just after the Civil War, it tells the story of a struggle between local land owners and Northern investors. The investors sought to harvest the "wooden treasures" of virgin pine forests. Over time, they used the power of money and the courts to wrest the title to the lands. A labyrinthine legal battle stretched out for more than half a century, culminating in the murder of the Company's land agent, along with as many as 35 more deaths. Based on historical fact, Cheney's novel brings to life a lost time in our history. Reviewed nationally on publication, it highlighted Cheney's friendship and literary connection to many of the Fugitive and Agrarian movement figures. A companion volume, THE LIGHTWOOD CHRONICLES tells both the fictional and true stories of LIGHTWOOD.

    An ambitious undertaking." -The Arizona Republic The epic story of the first European settlements in Arizona, and the woman who led the way, as only Kelland could have told it. "Kelland's Phoebe Titus stays true to her name (Phoebe was the moon titan in Greek mythology). This Phoebe is a titan in the early days of Tucson. Although she does slowly fall in love with Peter Muncie (there is always an element of romance in Kelland's books), she does not turn into a girlie-girl just to win his affections. In fact, he respects and loves her for her strength and stubbornness. There's a scene right about the middle of the novel where bandits break into Phoebe's ranch, tie her up, threaten her life and rob her life's savings of $15,000. I cringed, expecting this to be the chance for Peter Muncie to return and rescue his now damsel in distress girlfriend. But he doesn't! He arrives late. She has to survive on her own wits and strength. Does this robbery change her mind from being a rancher in lawless Tucson? No. She changes her tactics slightly but she continues pressing on to make a living in a city she loves. Phoebe manages to stay true to herself and still find love and start a family (because she wants to, not because she feels she has to). Once again Kelland has delighted me with a novel full of realistic and interesting characters." –5stars Sarah Sammis, Goodreads Arizona is one of Clarence Budington Kelland's best and most important novels, replete with mystery, thrills, historical accuracy – and in the romance of the two lead characters a touching and charming portrait of the passionate, amusing, and completely off-beat relationship of his own mother, herself a hardheaded businesswoman, and father, an easy-going geek who worshiped her with all his heart. "Arizona is an exciting and rapid action yarn of life around Tucson in the early days of that settlement. Quite against the rule for such tales Mr. Kelland makes a woman his central figure. She is a true Kelland heroine who combines comeliness and a strong, resourceful nature. When Phoebe Titus and her old father reach Arizona on their way to California they are held up there by the sickness of Mr. Titus and are practically without funds. Phoebe makes pies and sells them for a dollar per pie; when enough dollars have accumulated she branches out into freighting and mining on the side and proves herself to be one of the best men of the lot. Mr. Kelland has placed his central story against a background of Indian fighting, scouting, double dealing, and all the other accessories of Western life in the 1860s when the Civil War was adding to the general involvements and handsome Government officers were crossing the plains and so furnishing heroes for Western romances. Phoebe marries one of them but it is her career of business conquest rather than love which gives "Arizona" its briskly individual quality." –The Saturday Review of Literature

    Charles Pindar is born into a respected, hard-working farming family to Samuel Pindar’s young second wife, Daisy, a delicate town-girl, who dies as soon as he is born. From the outset, the clever, dark Charles is different from his half-siblings, who are content to work the land from their childhoods onwards, and not to seek education. A child with a ruthless streak, Charles sets about getting what he wants from life – elevation above his family’s standing, even as he forms a close bond with his more modest older brother, Tom. The two brothers’ ambitions for both money and love begin to determine the courses of their very different lives, as Tom thinks only of carrying on his father’s legacy at the Pindars’ farm while Charles claws his way to wealth in the town of Bradburn. Tom – stolid, simple – is enchanted by the wiles of a beautiful but dangerous gypsy girl, and is determined to have her though Charles can see the perils of Tom’s infatuation. Charles has his own sights set upon Laura Hardy, a pretty but proud gentleman’s daughter; unwary as he is of the consequences of a self-made man seeking to join ‘society’. Will the brothers’ choices bring them prosperity or heartbreak? ‘The Pindars’ is a heartfelt tale of two brothers’ different paths, set against the ever-changing backdrop of the industrial revolution and the First World War. Adelaide Q Roby’s ambition as a child was to ‘write a book with hard covers’ and during her childhood she wrote several plays featuring herself and her younger brothers in a series of adventures. Later one of her adult plays was on the point of being produced at a Liverpool theatre when war broke out and it was shelved. As well as ‘The Pindars’, she is the author of ‘Siren Song’, ‘White Harvest’ and ‘Sea Urchin’, also published by Endeavour Press. Endeavour Press is the UK’s leading independent publisher of digital books.