The Trumpet Major

First published in 1880, this novel is set at Overcombe, near Weymouth, during the Napoleonic invasion scares. Anne Garland and her mother lodge with the miller Loveday. Anne is courted by John Loveday, a steady trumpet-major in the yeomanry; by his brother Bob, a sailor who returns from sea; and by Festus Derriman, the bullying nephew of a local landholder. King George's presence at the watering-place, press-gangs, and false alarms of French landing press on the courtship. The book is a historical love story of the Dorset coast, not a battle chronicle of the wars.

Bound in red cloth decorated in dark red on cover with an image. Map endleaves printed black on grey. Orange-pink or grey slipcase.