From Rake to Radical: An Irish Abolitionist by Anne Chambers

From Rake to Radical: An Irish Abolitionist by Anne ChambersFrom Westport to the West Indies, and everywhere in between, Howe Peter Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo (17881845), lived life to the absolute limits. Intrepid traveller and intimate of kings, emperors and despots, the range and diversity of Sligos life is breathtaking. From a youth of hedonistic self indulgence in Regency England to a reforming, responsible legislator and landlord, Sligo became enshrined in the history of Jamaica as Emancipator of the

finally freed as the American Civil War draws to its bitter close

A skill that became vital in my position

Will grab you as tightly as a dead man's fist

Laura Henry-Allain MBE

her struggle against the social mores of the rural Victorian world which she inhabits and the hypocrisy of the age

Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece

powerful sentences can contain volumes of social history

'His writing is not about something

and the spectrum of ideologies from the far left to the far right

'The Lighthouse was then a silvery

seeking peace from the chaos of the city

destined to witness the battle between freedom and repression as it plays out across the world