A perfect holiday for Bindy Hammond means travelling to exotic places--somewhere she can have adventure, fun, and excitement, so when she and her parents arrive at a simple holiday cottage on the coast of Wales, Bindy is not very impressed and cannot imagine anything more boring until she meets Cassie Barton. They immediately strike up a friendship and find that there's more to this quiet part of Wales than they originally imagined. Discovering a strange verse carved into stone, they find themselves on a quest to solve an intriguing puzzle that draws them to the troubled world of a beautiful young girl, strange magical forces, and a powerful adversary. Having sworn to keep the girl and her problems a secret, Bindy and Cassie commit to finding the answer to the puzzle and realize, with mounting concern, that the destiny of this girl and her strange world lie in their hands alone. Despite the huge challenges they face, they know that if they fail, many people could be in grave danger, including themselves.

Volume 8: Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution makes available a great range of Florence Nightingale’s work on women: her pioneering study of maternal mortality in childbirth (Introductory Notes on Lying-in Institutions), her opposition to the regulation of prostitution through the Contagious Diseases Acts (attempts to stop the legislation and otherwise to facilitate the voluntary treatment of syphilitic prostitutes), her views on gender roles, marriage and measures for income security for women and excerpts from her draft (abandoned) novel. There is correspondence with women friends and colleagues from childhood to old age, on a vast range of subjects. Correspondents include old family friends, royal and notable personages, nuns and colleagues in various causes. Most of this material has not been published before and some letters wil be new even to Nightingale scholars. Altogether a very different view of Nightingale emerges from what normally appears in biographies and other secondary sources. This material will enable a new assessment of her feminism, her relations with women and her contribution to improving the status of women of her time. Currently, Volumes 1 to 11 are available in e-book version by subscription or from university and college libraries through the following vendors: Canadian Electronic Library, Ebrary, MyiLibrary, and Netlibrary.

Nofel hanesyddol fyrlymus yn dilyn ol-troed un o gymeriadau mwyaf diddorol hanes Cymru, Iolo Morgannwg (Edward Willimas, 1747-1826). Nofel llawn antur, dirgelwch, cariad, gwrthryfel, trais, cyffuriau, angerdd, ysbiwyr a brad.