Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, THE SOUND OF WAVES is a timeless story of first love. It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman & Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji is entranced at the sight of Hatsue in the twilight on the beach, upon her return from another isl&, where she had been training to be a pearl driver. They fall in love, but must then endure the calumny & gossip of the villagers. ...

The Source threads together two stories. The first that of Ursula Sontheil, sometimes known as Mother Shipton, the ...

The Space of Joy is a sequence of poems that recounts the endless desire for love (and the failures & compromises that accompany ...

Shot-proof, fever-proof & a veteran campaigner at the age of twenty-five, Brigade-Major Harry Smith is reputed to be the luckiest man in Lord Wellington's army. But at the siege of Badajos, his friends foretell the ruin of his career. For when Harry meets the defenceless Juana, a fiery passion consumes him. Under the banner of honour & with the selfsame ardour he so frequently displays in battle, he dives headlong into marriage. In his beautiful child-bride, he finds a kindred spirit, & a temper to match. But for Juana, a long year of war must follow.. . ...

Shot-proof, fever-proof & a veteran campaigner at the age of twenty-five, Brigade-Major Harry Smith is reputed to be the luckiest man in Lord Wellington's army. But at the siege of Badajos, his friends foretell the ruin of his career. For when Harry meets the defenceless Juana, a fiery passion consumes him. Under the banner of honour & with the selfsame ardour he so frequently displays in battle, he dives headlong into marriage. In his beautiful child-bride, he finds a kindred spirit, & a temper to match. But for Juana, a long year of war must follow.. . ...

By July 1807, following his spectacular victories over Austria, Prussia & Russia, Napoleon dominated most of Europe. The only significant gap in his continental system was the Iberian Peninsula. He therefore begun a series of diplomatic & military moves aimed at forcing Spain & Portugal to toe the line, leading to a popular uprising against the French & the outbreak of war in May 1808. Napoleon considered the war in the Peninsula, which he ruefully called ' The Spanish Ulcer', so insignificant that he rarely bothered to bring to it his military genius, relying on his marshals instead, & simultaneously launching his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812. Yet the war was to end with total defeat for the French. In late 1813 Wellington's army crossed the Pyrenees into the mainland of France. This is the first major military history of the war for half a century. Combining scholarship with a vivid narrative, it reveals a war of unexpected savagery, of carnage at times so great as to be comparable to the First World War. But it was also a guerilla war, fought on beautiful but difficult terrain, where problems of supply loomed large. The British Navy, dominant at sea after Trafalgar, was able to provide crucial support to the hard-pressed, ill-equipped & often outnumbered forces fighting the French. Dr Gates' history can claim to be the first to provide a serious assessment of the opposing generals & their troops, as well as analysing in detail the social & political background. The Peninsular war is particularly rich in varied & remarkable campaigns, & his book will fascinate all those who enjoy reading military history. ...