‘Burn ’em! Burn ’em!’ It is 1879, and a disorderly crowd of three thousand people are burning effigies of a local man and woman on Torrington Common in an unprecedented incident of Devon’s ‘rough music’. Lucy Jones, the free-spirited...
Mary Mitchell, nine years old. Draw your straws, gentlemen, and we’ll see who’s to win this prize.” It is 1842, and this method of assigning parish apprentices has died out, except in North Devon. This story is based on...
As a young boy, Edward Capern is desperate to read and write, but has to work an eighty-hour week in Barnstaple’s lace factory. As a man, he dreams of writing poetry and building a fairer society, but these aspirations...
These twelve poignant stories, deeply rooted in the Devon landscape, are each linked to a month of the year from January through to December. You will be transported from a sleepy village square to the wilds of Exmoor and...
How many of us have wandered through a country churchyard and been moved by the memorials to young children? In this book the author sets out to discover the truth behind a number of graves dating from just one...
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