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An Exact Mystery

Vernon Watkin's poetry has been praised in the highest terms by, among others, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas and Marianne Moore. Kathleen Raine called him: “the greatest lyric poet of my generation.” Yet he has remained, for the most part, almost entirely unknown.

Tewdric of Wales

Book Description: Tewdric of Wales was a warrior king who drove English invaders out of Wales in a battle at Tintern, around AD 600. He lived as a Christian hermit and in old age came out of retirement to lead his troops. He was wounded in the battle and died three days later. His remains lie in his own church at Mathern near Chepstow. He passed on his kingdom to his son, Meurig, in a state of peace, justice and prosperity, maintained by King Meurig for his reign of more than 30 years...

Nobody believed me

While far from idyllic, Lesley’s first three years were happy ones. She was a cheerful little girl who loved her parents, grandparents and her sister. But when tragedy strikes her fragile family, Lesley’s world is turned upside down.

The Host Leadership Field Book

Leading as a host, not a hero, is about bringing people together to address complex collective problems. This kaleidoscope of international experience shows people at all levels in many fields taking on the role of host leader to build engagement, performance and results.

Easy Interval Method

As a distance runner, are you tired of long, slow runs? Do you often feel sluggish and flat and, despite doing your regular long runs, can never quite improve on your personal best times? If so, The Easy Interval Method written by Klaas Lok, a 24-time Dutch national champion. may be just the book for you!

Sharkmaid Adventures

Book Description: Sabine is the last sharkmaid alive. She lives with her two best friends: Jack, a fun-loving seahorse and Emily, a happy-go-lucky turtle. Sabine is just like you or me but instead of legs she has a shark’s tail, and instead of walking, she swims. Sabine can swim faster than any human; she can also swim faster than any shark. There used to be other sharkmaids in the oceans but Sabine does not know she has forgotten them… A sea demon, known as The Kilk, has set ...

Two fat cows

Meet two very greedy cows, Marigold and Petal, and follow them in their madcap plan to eat every blade of grass they can get their hooves on. A new laugh-out-loud rhyming story for young readers.

The amazing adventure begins

A young rabbit leaves home for the first time, excited about the great adventures he is going to have in the big wide world. Who will he meet? Where will he go? The Amazing Adventure Begins is a light-hearted and easy-reading bedtime story for children from 3-8 years old that will take you into the magical realm of the forest and field animals.

Snake Legs

Slipper the snake wonders what it would be like to stroll, run and jump like all the leggy creatures. With his trusty assistant Zip, he decides to build a pair of robotic legs of his own. Using them however may turn out to be no walk in the park.

The Cloud Children

When Simon and Katie are playing in the field near their home one day, they see a large cloud floating overhead. When they notice a boy looking down at them and waving, they can’t quite believe their eyes.

Suzie Goes on an Aeroplane

A popular and acclaimed series of children's stories intended to help children cope with new situations found in most families. See www.suziebooks.co.uk

The Complete Guide to Nudism, Naturism and Nudists

The Complete Guide to Nudism, Naturism & Nudists tells you everything you need to know about nudism and nudists. It’s crammed full of the information, facts, experiences and insider tips that you’ll find invaluable if you want to discover this exotic, fashionable and fast-growing lifestyle, including

There’s Something Going On!

Simon Donlevy was nearly 50 and had worked for a high street bank for 30 years when he embarked on an incredible personal journey. There's something going on! takes us through his candid thoughts and emotions in the periods leading to the decision to take a sabbatical and live the life of a pilgrim as he walks nearly 500 miles along the Camino de Santiago.

Ride and shine

Ride and Shine is a complete guide for anyone wishing to become an Indoor Cycling Instructor, and covers everything from knowing what’s best to wear, where to train to how to become qualified and find work.

I want to like my Garden

This is a garden book unlike any other because it will help make your garden better. Knowing what makes gardens work, helps you understand why your garden isn’t working for you. Correct what’s wrong, make the right changes to improve your garden.

The British Cavalry Sword 1788-1912

Richard Dellar’s interest in swords began with a love of military history, in particular the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars from 1793 to 1815. He bought his first sword in 1980 and has been an avid collector since that time, accumulating a wealth of experience over the years.

How to look after yourself when you're feeling depressed

It’s easy to neglect self-care when you’re depressed. Sometimes it can be a struggle to eat, to wash or even to get out of bed. But all of these things are essential; they help to maintain self-esteem, and one day, when the sun comes out, you want to be healthy enough to enjoy it.

Passing the Buck

The idea of the three-generation wealth trap is ingrained in our culture. The notion that the first generation makes it, the second generation merely preserves and the third generation loses it is one which has achieved almost legendary status.

Singing Groups for People with Dementia

Music is important to us as a species, and it can be particularly important to people with dementia. Singing in a group can improve a person's mood, recall, self-esteem and overall quality of life. Whether you're a trained musician or someone who has no training but can hold a tune (and that is almost everyone), this book will give you guidance on every stage of setting up a singing group for people with dementia

Learning to Live with Bipolar Disorder

In 'Learning to live with bipolar disorder' Jane McGraham describes the early warning signs that help her to recognize changes in her moods and the action plans she uses to cope with mood changes. This book will be of interest to those who, like Jane, live with a mental disorder. Despite years of physical, sexual and emotional abuse she was often described as 'Jane the Dauntless' by her father.

Without the Woo Woo

Without the Woo Woo' is a mainstream and down to earth self-development book that not only brings powerful realisations to your conscious awareness, but it also offers practical application suggestions to help you move forward. We are currently living through times of unprecedented global and personal change. You only have to look at the economic system, the healthcare system, the political system

The Thyroid Patient's Manual

Paul Robinson is a thyroid patient with over thirty years of personal knowledge of hypothyroidism and over ten years experience of supporting thousands of thyroid patients. He has already written two ground-breaking books on hypothyroidism: 'Recovering with T3' and 'The CT3M Handbook', which focus on recovering from hypothyroidism.

Orthopaedic Basic and Clinical Science for the Postgraduate Examination

Orthopaedic Basic & Clinical Science for the Postgraduate Examination: Viva Practice & Diagrams is a new text for trainees preparing to sit the oral section of the FRCS (Tr & Orth) or equivalent examination. There is a temptation for exam preparation to focus all too heavily on pure knowledge acquisition at the expense of practising viva technique.

Recovering with T3

The author describes his struggle with hypothyroidism and how eventually he regained his health using a thyroid medication called liothyronine sodium (T3). The use of T3 finally enabled the author to make a complete recovery from hypothyroidism.

The Nurse's Survival Guide

A career in nursing can be hugely rewarding and fulfilling. It can enable you to really make a difference in someone's life. But it can also end very, very badly. Fortunately, The Nurse's Survival Guide is here to help you keep your job, with guidance on subjects from drugs to dentures.

Notable Names in Anaesthesia

Eponyms are found throughout medicine. They provide succinct and convenient identification for diseases, syndromes, clinical signs, surgical instruments and operations. Anaesthetists use eponyms such as Magill forceps, Mallampati score, Sellick's manoeuvre and Mendelson's Syndrome.

Can't Sell Won't Sell

The advertising industry has lost interest in selling. According to the IPA, we face "a crisis of effectiveness". We're now so left-leaning, we're no longer willing to stoke capitalism's engine of growth. As businesses close and millions of families face unemployment in the post-pandemic recession, will advertising rediscover its commercial purpose and help revive the free market?

The Essential New Truckers' Handbook

This informative, up-to-date guide to truck driving in the UK and Europe will provide you with all the information you need to be successful in this industry.

Running a Pub

What's it REALLY LIKE running a pub or ANY licensed premises? The answers to problems you may well end up too tired to fathom out, are detailed in forty chapters; including over 700 tips, advice, examples, consequences, suggestions and warnings;

Employability What

This easy to read guide is aimed at students who are ready to head out into work experience or the world of employment. Employability What? will guide you through the seven key employment skills, why they are important and how to develop them. It will also look at tools that will help you get into the role you want, including advice on writing your CV and some interview tips you really need to know.

You've got mail . . . from China

In late 2006, Martyn Habgood's work as an interim manager threw him suddenly into China, a completely alien environment. Over the next six years he would undertake a further three assignments there, managing in a different business culture, as well as getting involved in wedding ceremonies

Humanification

Imagine being able to spot the next big trend, or being able to predict the next big wave of change. Humanification is going to help you unlock the DNA of innovation itself, so you can apply it to your life, your business and your community.

Cracking Questions

Inside this book are some cracking questions designed to help you crack open and liberate the creative and ingenious power within yourself and your organisation. These questions will stimulate your thinking about how to do business in entirely different ways.

Next Generation Supply Chains

Supply chains are the lifeblood of any business, bridging the distance between producer and customer, supply and demand. However, for a long time leaders have considered supply chain management to be a support, cost-added activity, something best kept out of sight and out of mind.

Scenario Planning

Scenario Planning is a classic work of business strategy. Its clear, inclusive approach to learning from the future distinguishes it from the competition, while its unmatched breadth of case studies make it an essential aid for managers seeking to implement scenario techniques.

Positive Approaches to Change

The first Solutions Focus field book. This collection of articles from the AMED journal "Organisations & People" describes international experience of applying the positive power of Solutions Focus and Appreciative Inquiry to Coaching, Team Remotivation, Supervision, Performance Management

Their Greatest Disgrace

What sets our Servicemen and women apart? They choose to place themselves in danger so that we may live in peace. If they die in the line of duty they, and their families, deserve our deepest respect. Instead, the pilots of Chinook ZD576 were unjustly accused of gross negligence

Both Sides of the Iron Gates

Now! Listen carefully, Dr Laverty said. "You will be small, but most importantly you have nothing to worry about. You are healthy and as strong as an ox. If you use your brain, you will get along fine - so you have nothing to worry about." Growing up in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the 1920s, Bob Mackenzie's childhood and youth were far from easy. Part of a family that struggled with the hardships

Enoch I am a British Indian

In 1968, Conservative MP Enoch Powell gave a shocking speech in Birmingham opposing immigration throughout the UK. The 'Rivers of Blood' speech was described as 'evil'. It resulted in Powell's dismissal from the Shadow Cabinet and made thousands of immigrants feel unsafe in the country they had adopted as their own. Powell himself became a symbol of both loathing and fervent admiration. Sarinder Joshua Duroch,

Behind Those Care Home Doors.

How do you choose a care home for a relative or friend? The care home may look perfect in the brochure, but is that a true reflection of what it's like to live there? Can the manager's claims be trusted? Written by an insider who's worked in care for sixteen years, this book will show you how to tell if all is really as it seems. Are the home's residents looked upon as people, or just as money generators?

6th Heavy Anti Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery

Dunkirk, the Blitz, Singapore, Java, the Burma Railway and the Japanese hell ships are names associated with some of the worst British experiences of the Second World War. To have been engaged in one of these terrifying events would have been unlucky, but the 6th Heavy Anti Aircraft Regiment endured them all. This is their extraordinary story, painstakingly researched by Patrick Walker incorporating the accounts of survivors and their families.

Snakes and Ladders

Snakes and Ladders, Stephen Verney's sixth book is a personal account of how we are challenged by the coincidence of opposites throughout our lives. The main focus of the book rests on the author's vivid account of daily life during World War Two – first as a Red Cross worker with the Quakers, in Norway, Finland, Libya and Syria; and then as a Resistance fighter in German occupied Crete.

Trying Neighbours

Nineteenth century Huntingdonshire had its fair share of mischief-makers and murderers, victims and villains, litigation and larceny, triumph and tragedy. Often heart-breaking, often ridiculous, always entertaining, Trying Neighbours brings together some of the most interesting cases Huntingdonshire has seen.

Pitstone windmill

Four hundred years ago windmills could be seen almost anywhere in England, but with the invention of the steam engine the windmill became obsolete. One by one they were abandoned. Many fell into ruin and were demolished, and soon a surviving windmill became something unusual in the landscape.

Stuff and Consciousness: Connecting Matter and Mind

What is consciousness? Does it exist? Is it a physical phenomenon or somehow beyond the physical? Does it have any real influence on your behaviour? Can you be sure that you are the only consciousness arising from your brain? Stuff and Consciousness is a fascinating philosophical exploration into the forest of questions surrounding consciousness

The Dance of Love

In The Dance of Love, Classics scholar Bishop Stephen Verney revisits the ancient Hebrew and Greek to explore the original meaning of key Christian words such as 'glory', 'repentance' and 'forgiveness'; words that have lost their original significance and are often diametrically opposed to their true meaning; words that will unlock the doors that block us from knowing God, others or our true selves.

Thornwyn

Commander Neville Thornwyn was DS Robert McGraw's boss when McGraw was first promoted to the rank of detective constable in the CID. He was also McGraw's personal hero.

On Carrick Shore

In August 1781 Tom Boyd returns in disgrace from France to his family in Scotland. He finds a job with a wealthy Ayrshire merchant, but just as his personal and professional prospects seem to be improving, his life is put in danger when he discovers someone in the firm is involved in smuggling.

The Fibonacci Confessions

The Fibonacci Confessions is a story of discovery, adventure, romance, and betrayal. This exciting novel presents the intimately personal letters of Leonardo Pisano (also known as Fibonacci), mathematician, scholar, and traveller, looking back over a lifetime at the follies of his youth, travel in North Africa, Egypt, the disasters of various amorous affairs, and his endless pursuit of the 'numbers' in a quest which leads to both glorious and tragic consequences.

First Dead Body

In the late 1960s and early 70s it was perhaps a 'rite of passage' for a young or cub reporter who'd shown some talent to be taken on a 'big story' by the chief crime reporter. The junior's adrenaline, enthusiasm and excitement could be channelled into seeing how major news items are researched and written and, most importantly

Playing at Murder. Tom Stone Mystery Murder

Tom Stone Mystery murder series. Detective Chief Inspector Tom Stone was contemplating taking early retirement. His face just didn't fit any more and he was sure he was being deliberately excluded from bigger operations. His health was starting to suffer.

Apocalypse

What does it mean to be alive? Why are we here? What is our place in the universe? These are the questions tackled by JJ Evendon in his poems on the nature of existence, mortality, the soul and the human condition. Taking inspiration from music, art, nature, the universe and everyday life, JJ Evendon skilfully weaves together a collection of poems which touch upon themes of life and death, love and attraction, in an uniquely accessible way.

When bees flew in for breakfast

When Bees Flew in for Breakfast is a collection of forty original poems written specifically for the 11–16 age group. The poems cover a wide range of themes, from nonsense humour to Gothic horror to logical puzzles to the Natural World. The poems are playful, surprising, thought-provoking and intriguing. This is a book that young people will want to read.

What Larks!

Inside ‘What Larks!’ you’ll find poems on subjects of wide range, but all with a common source. They represent in concise format, topics that have been my focus of interest at different times of a colourful life. Poetry is therapy without a therapist. For me, it has unified the far-flung experiences of childhood, youth, manhood and old age into the person I’ve always been but only occasionally I was.

Hear the Colour

Joe Neal's poetry has a charm and musicality that makes it a pleasure to read, whether aloud or to oneself. Hear the Colour, his third book of poetry, is a beautiful collection of miniature tales in verse, filled with observations on nature and childhood reflections.

Once the door has closed

Once the door has closed' represents a journey of many years from the moors of Lancashire to the forests of Finland, from youth to experience. It is the first in a series exploring the nuances of language, of experimentation with imagery, of looking forward and back.

Anglo Saxon Prose

Handed down through generations of storytellers, the popular tales of Anglo-Saxon England herald the birth of a national literature in which the language of the people, rather than the Latin of scholars, came into its own.

Slow Train To Suburbia

In the blistering summer of 1911, City stockbroker George Chesshyre moves his family to a new house in south London. George looks forward to a life of domestic bliss but a continuous chain of events conspires against him and his yearned for reverie is repeatedly thwarted and dashed by the arrival of cantankerous and odd relatives, unexpected animals and a merciless drain on his wallet.

A Gathering of Warriors

Separated by culture and tradition, continents and centuries, the travellers in this sweeping tale share a common purpose. Follow their adventures as they battle outer enemies along with the inner demons of doubt, fear, and the desire for vengeance.

The Life of Edwin Dodgson

This is the first published biography of the Rev. Edwin Heron Dodgson (1846-1918), brother of Lewis Carroll (C. L. Dodgson). Sources include the important family archive from which much new information has been researched and incorporated. The book is illustrated with material in the family archive and from the photographic work of Lewis Carroll.

Ghostdancing in Venice

This book is about life, visions, dreams. Ancient memories, spiritual traditions, magic; exploring what is real, Oneness. A blend of new and old age spirituality, examined through the inner journey, those real and life changing experiences.

Michael Rutter - The Life of a Racer

In 1992, when Michael Rutter was just 20 years old, he followed in his dad’s footsteps and began a career as a professional motorcycle racer. He has been racing ever since. This is the remarkable tale of how Michael has stayed competitive for 30 years.

The Last Potter of Black Burton

The pottery industry was key for Burton-in-Lonsdale on the borders of Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria for nearly three centuries until its demise in 1944. This book tells the story of Richard Bateson, the last potter of Black Burton, a renowned thrower and teacher.

Right Away!

Steve Davies spent 48 years working in the railway industry from 1969 to 2017. His insider’s view of the railways is presented in an easy to read style that will appeal to those in the industry as well as those for whom the jargon would be incomprehensible without Steve’s explanations.

Angel of Islington

What if you were told that the way you saw the world was completely wrong? For years, Ioakim Eleftheros heard voices giving him instructions. He believed that all conversations and encounters he had were being broadcast to the entire world.

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