Books with author Bennett James

A fantasy adventurel for older children and young adults set just after the second world war. It features a girl, now approaching adulthood, who returns from evacuation having met with an enigmatic stranger on the train journey. Can this stranger's story really be true? If so, should the girl risk her life and that of a friend in order to discover that Bohemian Alchemists had been able to use nuclear energy to make gold over a hundred years before the first atom bomb.?

Excerpt from Plum Blossoms and Blue Incense: And Other Stories of the EastGrateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint in the first half of the book: The Singing Skipper and The House with the Five Doors, which appeared in the Short Stories Magazine; Plum Blossoms and Blue Incense, which appeared in the People's Popular Monthly The Woman Who Waited, which appeared in the Telling Tales Magazine Wing's Interrupted Journey, which appeared in the Catholic World.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.