Chasing the DreamIt's 1920 when life in the small pit village of Craston becomes so unbearable that Millie Mercer's mother Teresa escapes with her daughter to the nearby town of Ashborough. They find work at the dilapidated Station Hotel where Millie meets Dan Nixon a dangerously charming man who is to change her destiny forever. For Dan is the local hero; a professional footballer who sees his future not in the pit but on the pitch playing first division football for

Gradually she finds her feet a job as a teacher - and an interest in the suffragette movement

there are welcomes back

has a feast in a graveyard

to discover one of the best-kept secrets time has ever known

the poets collected in Earth Prayers speak at times as stewards and ambassadors of the earth

"Unaccustomed Earth” presents the diverse world views of various generations

Yet this is only the beginning

but nothing more serious than paint daubed on civic property

Pursued by a drunken mob

who has wanted for neither love nor material comforts

Life isn't easy for widowed George Vannin and his young daughter

a quirky loner