Evelyn Everett-Green

Bruno and Bimba wanted very much to meet a hero. When Captain Guy came to the garden next door, they were delighted to spend time with a real one.

After the death of their father, Dr Meynal, Wulfric, also a doctor, and Gerald, would-be artist, have little in common, so Barbara sees many family dissensions before her brothers finally agree.

To Maggie and Donald, Christmas was merely a holiday for rich people. Carry, through a personal sacrifice, was able to help them understand the true meaning of Christ's birth.

As a dreamy boy, Alwyn had a great longing, which began to be fulfilled when he went to live with his grandfather. As he grew into manhood it was the return of his long-lost companion that led him into its full realization.

Following the disastrous rout at the battle of Worcester, it was imperative for Charles II to escape from England. But how could he, with every road and port watched by his enemies? Would his fate rest upon the courage of Miss Jane Lane? and could a woman's boldness affect the course of history?

Sixteen-year-old Leofric was off to Oxford, where he took the de Montfort side in the clash between the barons and the king, ending in the fateful battle of Evesham. The twin sisters Lotta and Linda played an important role in Leofric's career, as well as in the lives of his friends Hugh and Jack.

Rich Bobbie Rivers, of Riverscourt, wanted to marry Billy, who had never thought of Bobbie as other than a playmate and friend. Part of their bargain was that if Billy tired of matrimony, she could live life her own way. As could be expected of such a state, Billy took her freedom after the death of her children, and went to France. There she stayed until the war came; she was too deeply engaged as a nurse to think of returning home. Then Bobbie was reported wounded and missing on Gallipoli.

A tale of class conciliation and Christian forgiveness, published 1902 as British popular politics moved leftwards and awareness of the mass movement for the People's Charter (60 years earlier) was growing. Two graduates, Massingham (a landowner) and Eaglestrant, try to alleviate poverty in the northern industrial town where they live. The practical charity of their friends Beatrice, Monica and Nichola wins the Chartists' grudging respect. But Garth shoots Massingham as h etries to quell a riot outside the gates of a mill owned by Monica's father. Massingham refuses to say who fired the shot and helps his family while Garth is in prison for minor offences. Garth emerges from gaol bitter and confused, but after the death of his daughter agrees to move to a cottage on the Dorset estate owned by Nichola's father. Beatrice and Massingham marry. Nichola, in love with Eaglestrant, accepts Monica's invitation to join her in Dorset so she can escape the unwelcome attentions of a libertine suitor, Lord Salford. Monica falls in love with Yale, the village's new parson. Her father opposes the match but relents shortly before he dies on learning of the dissolute ways of her brother (a friend of Salford). Massingham, Beatrice and Eaglestrant arrive for the marriage. Meanwhile Lionel, Monica's weak-willed brother, helps Salford to forcibly abduct her amid the confusion of a riotous Chartist meeting in the village. Garth, suspicious of Lionel and Salford, slips from the meeting, intercepts Salford's coach and smashes its wheels before Lionel shoots him. Lionel and Salford escape abroad. In a deathbed interview with Massingham, Garth admits Chartism had led him to attempt his murder. Now he in turn refuses to confirm that Lionel mortally wounded him, so as not to bring shame on Monica's family. Garth's dying words conclude the book: "The Charter of our salvation", he cries out, is "the Man Jesus Christ".

A tale of Wales in the days of Henry IV, of the last rebellion against England; of Owen Glendower and his sons; of the Tripartite Indenture and the defeat of Hotspur and the Mortimers.

A thrilling tale of the siege and defence of Gibraltar. Three men, who had grown up together, met again at the English fortress of Gibraltar. The Spanish were determined to take it; the British, under the able governorship of Sir George Eliott, were resolved to keep it. Running the blockade was a favourite way of seeing excitement; the shelling of the town was met by the blowing up of the main Spanish magazine. The fate and happiness of lovely Dona Inez, Eleanor Eliot, and little Lu-lu were all tied up in the epic struggle.

Deals with the varied fortunes of the Falconers in the days of Henry VIII, at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries. Guy Falconer's stepmother wished her own son to inherit, and would go to any length to see it done; Lord Osbaldistone had laid covetous eyes on the Falconer estates. There were many perils for the young folks, and many opportunities for bravery.

Anne Desborough, impatient for adventures, goes out to see the world, becoming in turn waitress in a fashionable tea-shop, rider of horses for a job-master, helper at a circus, companion to a lady of fashion, and a smart chauffeur. She has many thrilling adventures, while helping to thwart the plots of a designing woman bent on marriage with the heir of Lord Valchester.

The house was added onto many times, hence its name. Humphrey Mainwaring was also an afterthought. The way in which he grew to be a companion to his father—a stern, middle-aged, Indian general—is well told; and the advent of the two young American cousins adds some life to the scenes depicted. The breaking of the reservoir wall gives an opportunity for deeds of heroism.