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Grand Expectations' takes the reader to Europe, focusing on the three years leading up to the outbreak of war in 1914. A group of young people, both German and English, from various backgrounds, sensing great opportunities ahead, embark on their lives during a time of enormous political, economic and social changes. This is the time of huge advances in aeroplane design, motor car performance, a massive uptake with bicycles and improved prosp...

Seventeenth century England was a time of plenty for highwaymen, footpads, cut-purses and murderers. Travellers were aware of the need to be ever vigilant as hold-ups were frequent and robbers merciless. Tamar Ellerby, the young daughter of a vicar, had always been rebellious - a tom-boy, preferring swords and pistols from an early age. When her father insisted on an arranged marriage, Tamar decided to leave home, heading for London. In need...