Philip Madoc

Welsh detective Noel Bain has a talent for solving crimes and a tendency to side with the underdog. He remains a compassionate man and a loving father to his tennage daughter while dealing with the worst aspects of human behavior.

Welsh detective Noel Bain solves crimes his own way. He relies on his unerring instinct, keen intelligence, and a passion for defending the innocent. A widower, who struggles to protect his teenage daughter from a world filled with murder, brutal sex crimes, and villains.

The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas recalls the celebration of Christmas with his family and the feelings it evoked in him as a child.

In 1757, during the French and Indian War, half-sisters Cora and Alice Munro set out to join their father, the British Commander of Fort William Henry. After they are betrayed by Magua, the sisters are rescued by Hawkeye whose efforts to lead them to safety are aided by the noble Mohican Uncas, the last of this tribe.

A retelling of the medieval poem about a group of travelers on a pilgrimage to Canterbury and the tales they tell each other. With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life-from knight to nun, miller to monk-reveal a picture of English life in the fourteenth...

The Prologue • The Knight’s Tale • The Miller’s Tale • The Pardoner’s Tale • The Merchant’s Tale • The Franklin’s Tale

Chaucer's greatest work, written towards the end of the fourteenth century, paints a brilliant picture of medieval life, society, and values. The stories range from the romantic, courtly idealism of 'The Knight's Tale' to the joyous bawdy of the Miller's; all are told with a freshness and vigour

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