This book is quite brilliant and is a great addition to the few books that have featured Worcester as a Railway Town, Well done to Steve for collating so much information on our behalf and creating such a brilliant Railway book that will be sought after for years.
Chris Wilkinson, Worcester Locomotive Society, September 2020

Lady Charlotte Guest by Victoria Owens is a very well-written biography of an impressive woman. The daughter of the Earl of Lindsey, Charlotte fell in love with John Guest, senior partner in a Welsh ironworks, when she was twenty-one and they married within three months of first meeting. Charlotte had already learnt Latin, Greek, French and Italian from her brother’s tutor and had taught herself Arabic, Hebrew and Farsi. She proceeded to learn Welsh after her marriage. John’s nephew asked her to translate a technical book about hot-air blasting from French. Whilst she didn’t enjoy some aspects of the translation, it awoke an interest in the iron industry and she started to act as John’s secretary, thus also gaining a deep understanding of the business too. As I mentioned above, this is a very well-written book. Rather than starting, as most biographies do, tracing the family from grandparents or earlier and meandering gently until we reach the birth of the main subject, the first.. Read more
NetGalley, Colin Edwards

This was a well researched and well thought out book. I learned a lot here as more than just the war of independence and civil war were dealt with. I can see myself referring back to this book regularly in the future such is the scope of Gibney’s research into this era. It wasn’t too taxing either, the language was well chosen and the subject matter well delivered.
NetGalley, Clara Carter

This is an intense read. Its got the witnesses and survivors recounting what they say on that night/day. Reading what these people saw and went through is hard. Its explains things really well so you can imagine what it was like.
NetGalley, Natalie Power

[b]Rating[/b]: 5 out of 5 stars Based on the exploration of the various non conformist religions which sprang up in Britain in the medieval period, the author writes what is essentially a specialist work but is easy to read and very well written. She is highly regarded in her field and is for anyone who is curious about life in this period especially the poor and disenfranchised. Highly recommend for educators, students and lay people.
NetGalley, Carol Keogh