The Sheep Stealers

"The Sheep-Stealers" by Violet Jacob. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Jacob (nee Kennedy-Erskine, 1863-1946) was a Scottish writer best-remembered for her historical novel Flemington (1911) and her poetry. Her paternal grandmother was the illegitimate daughter of William IV and Dorothy Jordan. The area of Montrose where the family seat of Dun was situated was the setting for much of her fiction. Following her marriage in 1894 to an Irish major in the British Army she accompanied him to India where he was serving, later publishing a book of diaries and letters about their stay in the central Indian town of Mhow. This novel was first published in 1902.

Planting Missional Churches is an instruction book for planting biblically faithful and culturally relevant churches. It addresses the “how-to” and “why” issues of church planting by providing practical guidance through all the phases of a church plant while taking a missional look at existing and emerging cultures.