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A story set on the Essex seacoast in the mid-nine-teenth century. cf. Dust jacket.

Rowan suffers falls, bruises and plenty of teasing as she learns to handle Swallow, a spirited bay pony. Then a suspicious-looking man turns up claiming that Swallow is his pony.

Fourteen-year-old Ruth acquires what is considered an unsuitable pony and determines to train him so that she can become a member of the Pony Club team. Sequel to Fly-by-Night.

This selection of nineteen essays by Nigel Wilkins, in English and in French, is characterised by an inter-disciplinary approach crossing the borders between music, language, literature, history, palaeography and iconography. The principal topic is lyric poetry in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, mostly French and English, both with and without music, and in various contexts. Guillaume de Machaut, the dominant poet-musician of the age, is the central figure: his influence is traced in poets such as Froissart, Deschamps, Christine de Pisan, Charles d''Orl ans, Villon, Gower and Chaucer, and in the poet-musicians who came after him. The question of patronage is investigated. The development of the principal lyric forms, rondeau, ballade and virelai, is explored on both sides of the Channel, as is the way they were used, for example in miracle plays and in court entertainment. A Flemish painting of 1493 helps us discover the r le of music in the ceremonies of trade and religious guilds; a memorial brass from King''s Lynn reveals the importance of music in the ceremonial of feasts. Wider themes are also explored, such as the association of music with the Devil, the use of several languages combined in certain musical contexts, and the controversial role of inspiration in musical composition.

When a new job takes Nicky and her mom to the Scottish border lands, Nicky is concerned. She''s not worried about the job -- taking care of horses -- but about where it is -- ancient Bloodybow Castle, dark, forbidding and full of sercrets. At night, when darkness falls, Bloodybow is attacked by ghosts, ancient raiders that ride out of history to exact revenge against the castle and its denizens, both horse and human. Nicky and her friend Jed are determined to protect Stealaway, the castle''s prize stallion, from these phantom attackers. But how? As Nicky and Jed delve futher into the secrets of Bloodybow''s past, they realize a mysterious white pony may be the key to solving the mystery and saving Stealaway. STEALAWAY is a thrilling story sure to appeal to fans of horse stories, ghost stories and histories set in the Scottish highlands.

Word count 10,295 Suitable for younger learners

Lauren and Tashy love their ponies, Humpfrey and Monkey, even if - as rescue ponies - they aren''t really very good at anything. Secretly, both girls would love to be able to win rosettes. Then Cobweb appears - a beautiful, silvery, ghost pony from Paradise. And when Cobweb joins the girls on a ride out, some of her magic seems to rub off on to their real ponies and Humpfrey and Monkey can jump beautifully...

Clara has been left a widow, pregnant with another man''s child, and it seems as if things could not get worse. But soon her pretty and reckless youngest sister, Ellen, is harshly sentenced to deportation to the newly-discovered land of Australia, alongside many other convicts. And back in Norfolk, Clara becomes the victim of blackmail that puts her in the clutches of the wicked Nat Grover in more ways than one . . . Will her pure love for Prosper Mayes ever survive? Spanning from the gritty county of Norfolk to the wilds of Australia in the early nineteenth century, the Garlands face huge obstacles in their struggle to survive as a family. Yet, they remain as inimitable and courageous as ever.

Despite the danger involved, a young girl is determined that her fiancé shall fulfill his dream of being a pilot in the pioneering days of aviation.

After her husband is killed in the war in 1916, twenty-one-year old Christina returns to take care of the deserted estate where she grew up. Sequel to Flambards and The Edge of the Cloud.

A twelve-year-old orphan girl is faced with a radically different way of life when she is sent to live with a crippled, tyrannical uncle who is obsessed with hounds and horses and who expects her and his two sons to follow in his footsteps.

Despite the danger involved, a young girl is determined that her fiancé shall fulfill his dream of being a pilot during the pioneering days of aviation in England, just before World War I.