A heart warming, charming and whimsical story about a family Christmas which captures the very essence of the season. While Robert worries about his solo, and Simon ponders life and death, it's Grandma who holds everything together.

In the late eighteenth century, England, Thomas and Mary Helstrip, with their children, left Bolton on Swale in North Yorkshire. They eventually made their way into York City where Thomas worked as a book keeper. They lived in Tanner Row, in the parish of All Saints, North Street. Their eldest son, also named Thomas, grew to be a joiner, and in 1798 he married Mary Sherwood at St. Mary's Church in Bishophill Junior. This couple had five sons who each grew to be York craftsmen and freemen of that city. This story takes place between the years of 1847 and 1853. It mostly centres around the life...

What happened to the Princes in the Tower? This story is a supposal .. a bit like the Narnia stories are supposals .. but, maybe, only a bit. I could tell you what happens, here on the back of the book, but that might spoil things. It has magic, knights, princes, villains, gold, love, mystery, action, swords, daggers, and even a man dressed as an apple. But, don't be misled ... it's more fantasy than fact, unless the facts have become part of the mystery that time will never solve. Edward was born to be King of England. That's him on the front of the book. Like in so many stories, he had an...