n THE BISHOP'S WIFE we see William Pitt the Younger through the eyes of Elizabeth, the wife of Bishop Pretyman, who was Pitt's tutor and one of his closest friends. We see how funny and friendly Pitt was in private. As Elizabeth's story unfolds we encounter a breath-taking gallery of eighteenth century leading lights, both social and political: William Wilberforce, Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, George Canning, George Castlereagh, Sir John Moore, and, not least, Lord Horatio Nelson and the Duke of Wellington. We see the King and Queen, the poet William Wordsworth and painter J. M. W Turner, all in a vivid social and political setting as England faces turbulent times, and as she defeats Napoleon to gain control of the seas and consolidate her empire.

A book of Gillian Bence-Jones' poems. Each poem describes trades on a Suffolk country Estate. There are 24 poems and each poem captures the trade and tradesmen or women in a charmingly antiquarian way.It is obvious that Gillian has a deep and abiding affection for all the characters so described.

In THE BISHOP'S WIFE we see William Pitt the Younger through the eyes of Elizabeth, the wife of Bishop Pretyman, who was Pitt's tutor and one of his closest friends. We see how funny and friendly Pitt was in private. As Elizabeth's story unfolds we encounter a breath taking gallery of eighteenth century leading lights, both social and political: William Wilberforce, Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, George Canning, George Castlereagh, Sir John Moore, and, not least, Lord Horatio Nelson and the Duke of Wellington. We see the King and Queen, the poet William Wordsworth and painter J. M. W Turner, all in a vivid social and political setting as England faces turbulent times, and as she defeats Napoleon to gain control of the seas and consolidate her empire.

The Cat House selected poems by Gillian Bence-Jones. GILLIAN BENCE-JONES is a landowner, poet and writer living and farming in East Anglia. She is a great, great, great, great niece of Jane Austin. Her knowledge of history and love of nature is reflected in her work. She is the author of a series of historical novels, the first of which THE BISHOP,S WIFE is to be published in the spring of 2015.