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  • The Pioneer
    Lucy Simister
    Tabby Basset is seventeen years old and lives in town of Topsham in Devon in 1885. She is a highly skilled carpenter by trade. And she has a dream. This is a story about how absolute single mindedness and determination will pave the way to success. She discovers she can make and repair violins after meeting Cliffy on The Pioneer, a sailing ship bound for Holland. She agrees t...
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  • Tickets Please
    Lucy Simister
    A quick paced story of misadventure and fun where Maureen finds the meaning of her life. And all this because she decided to hide in a wardrobe with a painting! ...
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    11,09 €

  • Ginger Betty
    Lucy Simister
    You will love Ginger Betty - she’s great fun. She’s a bit like Granny Bev and bit like ’shop’ Gran - straight to the point in a roundabout way! She runs a small ginger beer making factory across the back yard from the family grocer’s shop. She loves popular fiction and reading plays.Her passion is to direct in the theatre and she joins the Salcombe Amateur Dramatic Society kn...
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    9,57 €

  • The Soap Traders
    Lucy Simister
    Young Kitty owns a small trading vessel called the Storm Siren that runs between Totnes and Dartmouth in Devon delivering soap from the family owned factory. Her crew consists of Florence, George, Denzel and Finley. On a trip to Dartmouth they rescue a young lad called Archer from the fast flowing river. Poor Archer had been trying to pursue a Danish ship called the Skuldelev t...
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    9,25 €

  • Chateau Du Lac
    Lucy Simister
    Chateau Du Lac has its own story to tell. But this is about Fiona Macintyre who had thought life sweet and largely untroubled, perhaps things were going on in the same old way bit all was good. Until she meets someone, she is sent to Thailand on business. She is invited to a party in France and experiences what life was like for those that had lived in WW11 occupied France. The...
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    9,88 €

  • The Jolly Sailor
    Lucy Simister
    The Jolly Sailor is a pirate comedy based around a group of friends known as the Posse, among them is William who is the least adventurous. He had lead a sheltered life because that is just how his father, a customs officer, had arranged it - if William had known of his secret past his life might have been very different. On a trip to France to pick up documents William is k...
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    7,80 €

  • To Mr. John Keats of Teignmouth
    Lucy Simister
    A personal insight in to the life of John Keats, his thoughts, his friends, where was his life going?... his poetry said it all. He was a hothead, short to temper, but so completely focused on becoming a poet, he had a vision, an image of himself. Fashion mattered, frilly cuffs mattered and he was prepared for fisticuffs on the streets or a brawl at the local theatre. His time ...
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    8,39 €

  • Elizabeth Barrett of Torquay
    Lucy Simister
    Owing to ill health after an accident her doctor prescribed a move away from London to the cleaner air of Devon. Elizabeth had many relatives already living in Torquay. This book owes much to her correspondence with the amazing Mary Mitford, a remarkable person and a professional writer. This is a book that looks at her life under a microscope for the few precious years she w...
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    4,43 €

  • Charles Dickens of the Westcountry
    Lucy Simister
    Charles Dickens was an abrupt, excitable young man driven to succeed. He would always be distressed by the humiliation he experienced as a young child, at the hands of his frivolous parents. His Parents were well off and educated coming from middle-class backgrounds and he enjoyed that standard of living. Charles was well educated, well read and enjoyed music and acting. When h...
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    6,39 €