Allen Raine (Anne Adaliza Puddicombe) was one of the most popular authors at the turn of the century, with her books selling over a million copies in Britain alone.

      1896                 A Welsh Singer
     1897                 Torn Sails
     1899                 By Berwen Banks
     1899                 Garthowen
     1902                 A Welsh Witch
     1903                 On the Wings of the Wind
     1905                 Hearts of Wales
     1906                 Queen of the Rushes
     1908                 Neither Storehouse nor Barn
     1908                 All in a Month(short story collection)
     1909                 Where Billows Roll
     (originally Ynysoer, Eisteddfod winner 1894)
     1910                 Under the Thatch

First published in 1906,Queen of the Rushes, can now be enjoyed again. Set in a picturesque seaside village in West Wales at the time of the 1904 Revival, it is one of the first books in English to set out a distinctively Welsh literary landscape. An enthralling tale of the complex lives and loves of Gildas, Nancy, Gwenifer and Captain Jack, it will capture the romantic heart of any modern reader.

'This has been the great desire of my life: to shew the poetry and interest of Welsh life to the nation with which we are linked.'-Allen Raine

'Queen of the Rushes is an important novel..It shows its author at the height of her powers as a novelist and demonstrates her skills as a story-teller, as a delineator of character, and as a social historian, bringing to life an entire community. ' Sally Roberts Jones (author of Allen Raine, in the writers of Wales series)