The Jack Hansard Series: Season One

Author: Georgina Jeffery
Publisher: Coblyn Press
ISBN: 1838149813
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335

Book Description
Jack Hansard is the man who can sell you anything. Luck in a bottle, fame in a box, dreams on a leash... anything is possible when you’re a trader on the occult Black Market. Jack is used to a life of handling dangerous goods, dodging disgruntled customers, and sometimes running away very fast. But when Ang (a two-and-a-half-foot tall coblyn right out of Welsh folklore) buys his help to find her missing kin, Jack suddenly finds the goods are riskier, the customers more treacherous, and escape is anything but guaranteed. The Jack Hansard Series is an episodic urban fantasy with a wide streak of humour and a lot of British folklore. Season One contains the first fifteen episodes in the series.

The Jack Hansard Series: Season Two

Author: Georgina Jeffery
Publisher: Coblyn Press
ISBN: 183814983X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
For Jack Hansard, Purveyor of Occult Goods, things are looking up. With the coblyn Ang as his new business partner, he has a solid friend to back him up in every dangerous situation. Together the pair face shapeshifters, piskies, and ancient magics in their quest to track down Ang’s missing kin. A new lead means the trail is about to get a whole lot hotter. But when an old enemy presents Jack with an offer he can’t refuse, will he risk Ang’s trust to see it through? Read Jack's latest misadventures to find out what happened to the missing coblynau, and discover how Jack's past is entwined with the true nature of the sinister 'Baines and Grayle'… The Jack Hansard Series is an episodic urban fantasy with a wide streak of humour and a lot of British folklore. Season Two contains the next 14 episodes in the series.

Among Strangling Roots

Author: Georgina Jeffery
Publisher: Coblyn Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
A dark fairy tale in a modern German setting. After inheriting her mother's dilapidated farm, Marion suffers nightmare visions and a monster from old nursery tales that stalks her daughter in the fields. When Marion returns to the house she grew up in, she is haunted by her past and her own inability to connect with her eight-year-old daughter, Lilli. As her mind unravels, Marion finds herself plagued by waking nightmares and visions of the Rye Aunt: a terrifying, tar-stained shadow that stalks the fields and steals away naughty children. This is a standalone tale of about 7,500 words, and is the fourth installment in the Dark Folklore series. Content warning: please be advised, this story contains reference to child abuse, mental illness, postnatal depression, and substance abuse.

Within Trembling Caverns

Author: Georgina Jeffery
Publisher: Coblyn Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 47

Book Description
A dark fairy tale in a modern Polish setting. A grandmother cares for an ailing dragon... but her compassion puts her own grandchildren in danger. This is a standalone short story of about 11,000 words, and is the second installment in the Dark Folklore series.

Across Screaming Seas

Author: Georgina Jeffery
Publisher: Coblyn Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54

Book Description
A dark fairy tale in a modern Welsh setting. The lives of a diver and a reclusive mermaid collide. Will one be the death of the other? When Erin comes to the aid of a sea creature caught in fishing nets, she's shocked to discover she's rescued an injured mermaid. Though it quickly disappears, Erin is determined to find the creature again. A twist of circumstance finds her trapped in the mermaid's lair, wrestling with her own conscience and the instinct to survive... This is a standalone novelette of about 11,500 words, and is the third installment in the Dark Folklore series.

The Hub

Author: Georgina Jeffery
Publisher: Coblyn Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39

Book Description
In sunny San Cicaro, a new app is dominating the city’s streets – and its people. Max loves her city, and believes everyone deserves to enjoy its hidden treasures. So when she launches the SC Hub, a new social app to connect people and places, she couldn’t be happier with its blazing overnight success. But her reclusive girlfriend, Ellie, can’t help but worry about the magnetic pull the app is having on its creator, and the strange occurrences in town that seem linked to it. Are people driving the app… or the other way round? This 7,000 word short story was originally published in 'The San Cicaro Experience' anthology by Thunderbird Studios.

Beneath Shivering Skies

Author: Georgina Jeffery
Publisher: Coblyn Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54

Book Description
A dark fairy tale in a modern Greek setting. Hiding in the mountains, a harpy and her adopted daughter struggle to survive. Iphis has always known that survival comes hand in hand with loneliness, but when she catches feelings for a girl in the nearby town, her heart yearns for a different kind of future. When she's suddenly attacked by a group of enraged harpies, things only become more complicated... and dangerous. This is a standalone novelette of about 11,500 words, and is the fifth instalment in the Dark Folklore series.

Beyond Thundering Waters

Author: Georgina Jeffery
Publisher: Coblyn Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Ida, a young girl still grieving the loss of her mother, encounters a huldra in the snowy Norwegian wilderness. She makes a desperate wish to have her mother returned... and gets far more than she bargained for. With the huldra's meddling, her Pappa's life is suddenly at stake. To save him, Ida must battle against the wild valley she calls home and find the strength to confront the huldra before time runs out. This is a standalone short story of about 8,700 words, and is the first installment in the Dark Folklore series.

The Hansard-Hansford Family History

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394

Book Description

At the Margins of Victorian Britain

Author: Dennis Grube
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857722573
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
Victorian Britain, at the head of the vast British Empire, was the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world. Yet, not all Britons were seen as possessing the characteristics that defined what it actually meant to be 'British.' At the Margins of Victorian Britain focuses on the political means of policing unwanted 'others' in Victorian society: the Irish, Catholics and Jews, atheists, prostitutes and homosexuals. In this groundbreaking study, Dennis Grube details the laws and conventions that were legally and culturally enforced in order to bar these 'others' from gaining power and influence in Victorian Britain. Utilizing a wide-ranging analysis, the book focuses on key case-studies: the anti-Semitism implicit in Lord Rothschild's barring from the House of Commons; the fine line between accepted male love and companionship and homosexuality, culminating in the Oscar Wilde trials of the 1890s; and how laws against disease were used to police prostitutes and correct moral vices. Political and legal rhetoric, backed by the force of legislation, set the boundaries of 'Britishness', and enforced those boundaries through the 'majesty' of British law. As Jews, Roman Catholics and atheists were brought into a genuine sense of partnership in the British constitution by being allowed to seek election to Parliament - homosexuals, prostitutes and the allegedly innately criminal Irish found themselves further and more vehemently displaced as the nineteenth century progressed. 'Otherness' stopped being a religious question and became instead a moral one. That fundamental shift marks the moment that 'Britishness' became a values-based question. And we've been arguing about what those values are ever since. This will be essential reading for those working in the fields of Victorian studies, social and cultural history and constitutional identity.