Böcker av Laura C Stevenson

The steward of Willingford Hall was murdered in the Dell on 12 March 1919. I found his body because I''d been thrown by a horse. It''s difficult to say which event was more unlikely.Willingford Hall stable lad Harry Green is about to make a discovery even more unlikely than a corpse. With the estate near bankruptcy and the rise of automobiles fast replacing horse travel, Harry, a young woman passing as a lad, will soon be out of a job. Facing the knowledge she has no skills in the service positions open to women, Harry resolves to discover who murdered the steward, thus becoming a woman who can determine her own future. But as her investigation proceeds, a second murder demonstrates just how dangerous her knowledge is. Soon, no matter where she rides, she finds that somebody is following her.Part coming-of-age and part cozy mystery, All Men Glad and Wise confronts a time of tremendous social change: the inequities of service jobs, the quandaries of grooms as technology advances, and the patriarchal assumptions that exclude women from both valued work and riding astride. Harry, like horsemanship, and like England, is on the cusp of a world looking forward.

'REMEMBER ALL THOSE STORIES GRANDPA USED TO TELL US ABOUT CHANGELINGS...?'Colin and Sarah can't bear the way their much-loved Grandpa seems to be slipping slowly away from them in his old age. Refusing to believe it, they decide instead that he has been stolen away and a changeling left in his place. In an attempt to find him again, they follow his path, step by step out of the land of mortals and into the Otherworld - the realm of the Faer Folk...

Staying for the summer with an unfamiliar aunt and uncle, Erin finds herself drawn into the magical world of a medieval castle, complete with knights and pages, a prince and a pageant, when she discovers an old toy box filled with lead knights on horseback - all terribly damaged. A magnificent fantasy novel with an underlying literacy theme from the author of All the King's Horses.