Elizabethan intrigue and skullduggery had the last leper colony in England - in a hidden away combe on the Devon/Somerset border – suspected of harbouring more than the misshapen and misfits dumped there. Tinker Howth was tasked with discovering just what its dark secrets were. It was there he met and befriended the non-leper Dagdá, so named for his physical peculiarities…
One time called Kitnor, now Culbone, three miles west of Porlock is a steep combe further concealed by close-grown sessile oaks. Isolated, and on the Devon/Somerset border it has been variously used over the centuries as a place of refuge and of banishment. Latterly it has become a destination for poetaster pilgrims - Kubla Khan having been written in the vicinity. Could ‘The Friendship of Dagdá & Tinker Howth’ however be the true origin of Culbone’s pretty little church? Or could Tinker Howth’s tale, set in the first Elizabeth’s reign and in the one-time leper colony, be the underlying reason why the word ‘Porlock’ is held in such low esteem by literati? And nothing whatsoever to do with Coleridge’s creatus interruptus ..?
Based on the memoirs of a Pearl Harbor survivor. Letters from two pen pals take the reader on a journey into the past, a past where nightmares came true, and when hatred reigned.
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Sweet Revenge is a romantic tale of a spirited woman and a lusty bloke. However, can they both fight against their bitterness for each other to free up their passions?
Book I of Southern Swallow Series – 12th Century scholar Li K'ai-men takes command of his first official assignments during a time of political unrest and barbarian invasions.
