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Roads Taken

Roads Taken – A Memoir

A child of the Second World War, Alan Young developed two passions early in life; music and literature. In his twenties, having flunked an interview for the BBC, he decided to leave the world of academia behind and seek adventure in East Africa, using his academic experience to teach native Kenyans under the Teachers for East Africa scheme and becoming, briefly, an Outward Bound instructor helping to lead a party up Kilimanjaro. Roads Taken is his account of those vividly remembered days in a strange land which became a second home to him and where he made friends from all races and backgrounds.

21st October 2014 0
Wing & Water

On Wing and Water

On Wing and Water is the story of Leslie Colquhoun, who was a man who flew high in more ways than one. Enlisting with the RAF at the start of World War 2, he had no sooner got his ‘wings’ than he was plunged into the thick of battle after being effectively kidnapped by a Malta-based squadron to help fight off German attackers during the notorious siege of the island. After the war, having received a Distinguished Flying Medal, Leslie became a test pilot, taking part in attempts to break the air speed record. He then turned his skills to a new invention, the hovercraft, testing early prototypes and taking charge of the world’s first regular passenger service in 1962.

During Les’ relatively brief periods on the ground he helped his wife Katie to raise four daughters, one of whom, Jane, has written this affectionate portrait of her ‘modest, gentle’ father, a man who was also exceptionally courageous and skilled.

19th October 2014 0
What Price Success Cover

What Price Success

Norman Spencer spent his young years believing his mother’s story that his father had been an English soldier, killed in World War II. It was only when he went through her papers after her death in 1976 that he realised the truth – his father had been an American GI who had enjoyed a brief affair with his mother before disappearing back to his homeland, leaving her pregnant with the only child she would ever have.

This shattering discovery started Norman on the hunt of a lifetime. Only after 34 years of searching official archives and newspaper libraries and making repeated visits to the USA did he finally unearth the sad and extraordinary truth.

19th August 2014 0
Isolated World

Isolated World

When she was two years and ten months old, Susan Eastwood scrambled up on to a table to look out of the window. She fell, sustaining two black eyes and a broken nose. It was only months later that her parents realised that the fall had also rendered her completely deaf. Since then Susan has had to learn to survive in a world which often seems unable to understand how to deal with someone who can’t hear. Again and again in her battles with bureaucracy she has encountered ignorance, intransigence and inflexibility. Repeatedly she has been faced with what she calls the ‘never seen a deaf person before’ look – even from those who are supposed to be trained to look after people with disabilities. This book is about her battle to overcome her sense of isolation and frustration and lead a full and happy life as a child, a young woman and now a working mother.

19th August 2014 0

Atheists’ Challenges & Life’s Poetic Dynamics With GOD

Each person alive today on this planet called Earth has the gift of intelligence. Questioning and answers, research and revelation are the absolute accreditation of GOD and belief. So with this intelligence, how do we perceive reality and reasoning within a modern spectrum with life and journey through time? How do we value each day of our lives with actual recognition and the signs GOD gives to us all? Actually, what do we see with time and memory? What do we feel? This Earth is a miracle with time, truth or non-truth. This Earth and evolution is a statement of learning, appreciating, sustaining and living. So how in our modern and hectic lives do we take time out to actually understand the beauty of creation and the very soul of our planet? This book is written in prose for everyone to associate with, whether believer or non-believer. Atheists’ Challenges & Life’s Poetic Dynamics With GOD is written for everyone to associate with as a modern indication of faith, truth and love.

13th August 2014 0
Death in Godshill

Death in Godshill

Death in Godshill begins early one morning in October 1940, on a quiet farm on the Isle of Wight, 61- year-old farmer Frank Cave was found dead, killed with his own shotgun. After a police investigation, the woman who raised the alarm, Frank’s young housekeeper, Mabel Attrill, was charged with his murder. There followed a notorious criminal trial at Winchester Assizes, featuring the most prominent pathologist of the day and one of the country’s most brilliant lawyers. After many twists and turns, the trial reached an unexpected conclusion.

Peter Cave, Frank’s great nephew, has now researched the story in detail. In Death in Godshill, he presents the first published account of the Mabel Attrill case. Peter Cave was born on the Isle of Wight and brought up in the village of Chale. His grandparents ran a pub at nearby Blackgang. He left the Island in 1968 having qualified as a Trading Standards Officer, and spent most of his working life enforcing consumer protection law. He has a law degree from London University and is a Member of The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

8th August 2014 0
The Dancing Debutante

The Dancing Debutante

Elfrida Eden was born into a distinguished family – her uncle was Sir Anthony Eden, British Prime Minister in the mid-1950s. As one of the last of the true ‘debs’, Elfrida mingled with the stars in the 1950s and 60s and has counted many household names from the world of entertainment as lifelong friends, including David Jacobs and Derek Nimmo. She auditioned as a singer for Judy Garland at the star’s home and had to turn Norman Wisdom down when he offered her a film role (her family thought she was too young). She also turned Sean Connery down when he made a pass at her at a party, the day he was cast as James Bond.

Too tall for the ballet stage herself, ‘Elfie’ went on to become one of London’s best-loved ballet teachers. Despite some moments of great sadness along the way, Elfrida has led a privileged, fascinating and exceptionally happy life, and to celebrate it she has written her story.

7th August 2014 0
Thankful and Not so Thankful

Thankful and Not so Thankful

This book tells the story of three small Lancashire villages and their contrasting fortunes in the Great War. One was among the fortunate few in England which passed through not only the First World War but the Second without losing a single man – a ‘Doubly Thankful’ village. The second survived the conflict almost without loss, while the third lost a harrowing total of ten young men from its tiny population.

The stories of these villages and the triumphs and tragedies war brought to them have been painstakingly researched by the author, who has painted compassionate portraits of some of the men who returned, and some of those who did not. A fascinating historical adventure.

7th August 2014 0
Tea & Me

Tea & Me

When young Rod Brown’s mother happened to spot an advertisement in the local paper for engineers to work on a tea company’s estates in India and Pakistan, Rod dismissed the idea. But having put in an application to keep her happy, he was amazed to be offered a position – and soon realised it would give him a chance to break free of the boredom and frustration of his monotonous factory job. A few weeks later Rod set sail for a new life in India, the start of a long career in the tea industry during which he fell in love with the country and its way of life. Yet he never forgot the girl he’d left behind in England, and returned after four years to marry her.

Tea & Me is the story of Rod Brown’s colourful early years in West Bengal in the 1950s, complete with encounters with tigers, leopards and poisonous snakes and some hilarious adventures with the local people.

7th August 2014 0

Zodiac Guide to Successful Relationships & Careers

This fascinating book is an astrology guide – but it is not about foretelling your future. Much more practically, it is about understanding your own astrological strengths and weaknesses – those your stars have given you – so that you can make wise, long-term decisions about the career, the friends and the partners you were born for. It covers more than 800 professions and gives details of the star signs and matching traits of hundreds of household names, from Mohammed Ali to Catherine Zeta Jones. It is based on research involving more than 24,000 people. With it, you can begin to match your own stars to your key choices in life.

7th August 2014 0
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