Hardback: £7.95

The author has taken an exciting subject, and writes with an eye for the detail that makes history come alive. Opening with a general survey of the `trade', he describes the careers of a number of individual smugglers.

Anne Garnett was a schoolgirl in the Quantock & Brendon Hills country of West Somerset in the 1920s. Aged sixteen, she began to keep a diary & her pen, pencil and paintbrush give a lively impression of the people & the country round her.

The author has holidays in Dorset, Brittany and London, but is always glad to get back to beloved Somerset. The end comes and ‘I shan’t write any more’, she says. (Years later she does, in diaries still to be published.)  

Hardback: £15.95