This is another publication of the much loved Alice and her Adventures. Alice's adventures begin when she follows the White Rabbit down a rabbit-hole and falls down, down, down.

When the First World War broke out, Morris Meredith Williams was living in Edinburgh with his wife Alice, a sculptor and earning his living from book illustration and teaching. A short man, his attempt to join the army in 1914 failed but 6 months later he was accepted by the 17th Battalion, the Welsh Regiment. From June 1916, he spent 10 months in and out of the trenches of the Western front. In 1917 he was with heavy artillery, mapping enemy positions...

It's 1943 and the district nurses have two new recruits. As the country ramps up for D-Day, the new nurses getting to know their patients on their patch in London's East End. Lily is quite sure of herself and doesn't believe she has anything new to learn. She'll find out the hard way that anyone can be made a fool of when she meets a man who promises her everything. Ruby thinks that nursing might not be for her - is she as hopeless as she thinks,...

Drawing on previously unpublished material, 'The Story of Alice' illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books, examining the peculiar friendship between Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson, Lewis Carroll, and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. It analyses how their relationship influenced the creation of Wonderland, how the two Alice books took on an unstoppable cultural momentum in the Victorian era, and...