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Microbes, Music and Me

Microbes, Music and Me

Microbiology and jazz music aren’t a common duet but for Professor John Postgate they are the two subjects that define his lifetime. John Postgate, brother of Oliver Postgate who created the beloved Children’s shows Bagpuss and Clangers, describes his autobiography as “a book about doing science” and describes in entertaining detail the account of his life in the UK and abroad as he rose to international prominence in the field of microbiology. John has notably contributed to the understanding of key microbiology processes including the sulphur cycle and nitrogen fixation and become well-recognised in the world of microbiology. But John has also become prominent in another field, jazz music, having played cornet over the years with many musicians, some of whom who became prominent names in jazz. John also wrote articles and reviews on the subject, many of which were published in popular magazines such as Gramophone and Jazz Journal. John Postgate’s life is defined by his two great loves: science and music. In Microbes, Music and Me – A Life in Science, John looks back on a life filled with a fascination for microbiology and jazz in this entertaining autobiography.

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Merely Players

Merely Players

David Wilkie and Gladys Salmon were born in the early years of the 20th century at opposite ends of Britain and in widely differing social circumstances. After eventful early lives, they met in 1931 in a London hospital where they were both working. Romance followed, and the story continues with their subsequent move to the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire, following David’s promotion to the post of Medical Superintendent in Clatterbridge hospital which had recently been converted from a workhouse. Against the backdrop of the often turbulent events of the 20th century, the book sets David’s and Gladys’ personal story in the context of the changing lifestyles of the middle and later decades until their deaths in 1985 and 1986 respectively.

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Memoirs - Life's Rich Pattern

Memoirs – Life's Rich Pattern

Geoff Stanfield has vivid memories of the war he lived through as a child in North London, including a narrow escape from a bomb which severely damaged the family home. In peacetime he embarked on a career in banking, interrupted briefly by National Service, and worked on the Stock Exchange before settling down to raise a family. He completed these memoirs a few years ago, not expecting to see them published – but his eldest daughter had other ideas!

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Making Friends with Money

Making Friends with Money

Sanni Kruger was once so short of money that all she could afford to eat was baked beans and potatoes. Now an accountant, she has published a book designed to help people who don’t have enough cash – or simply think they don’t – to live more fulfilled lives by changing their attitude to money. Sanni learned about money management as a young girl by helping out at her father’s accountancy practice in her home city of Hamburg, Germany. Now living and working in Bristol, she owns and runs Holistic Money Manager, a financial coaching service for people who need help managing their money. She wrote Making Friends With Money, subtitled How to start feeling wealthy without waiting till you’re rich, after realising how many people allow money problems to dominate their lives. Her work has taught her that there is very little correlation between how much people have and how happy they are. “It’s all about your relationship with the money in your life” she says. “My book invites you to define your real goals and then shows you how to make your money help you to achieve them, however much or little you have. “There is plenty of help and advice available for those who have lots of money and for those who are genuinely poor. But there is very little for the many who are somewhere in between.”  The book’s first lesson is how to get out of debt – and stay out of it. “So many of us allow debt to get out of control by trying to pretend it will go away” says Sanni. “It becomes the ogre under the bed, the nagging voice that wakes us in the middle of the night. “It’s far better to take control. With proper planning you can work out a budget that enables you to keep your creditors off your back while leaving enough for the quality of life you want. Once you are out of debt, you will find that money comes to you in ways you hadn’t imagined.”

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Love in the Midst of Grief

Love in the Midst of Grief

Love in the midst of grief is the story of a devastating double tragedy; the deaths of two much-loved young men within a short time of one another, one from a terrible virus, the other from unknown causes. Their loss devastated their family. Nine years on, their younger brother-in-law, Satenam Johal, who has a professional background in social care, has written a detailed account of the tragedy and its aftermath. In doing so he hopes not only to help his family in their continuing grief but to provide others who are mourning loved ones to understand and manage the grieving process. The book will also be of great help to professionals seeking to help the bereaved.

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Lottie and the Land of Dofstram - The Battle for Dofstram

Lottie and the Land of Dofstram – The Battle for Dofstram

In the climactic third and final book of the epic fantasy series, Lottie must once again return to the fantasy world of Dofstram in a spectacular showdown with the evil forces of Zanus. When Lottie Monterencie started a quiet job in a library, she had no idea of the incredible and dangerous new world she would discover. Discovering that her parents are imprisoned in the realm of Dofstram by the power-hungry Zanus, Lottie was forced to enter this strange world to save them. Now Lottie is faced with her greatest test yet as she returns once again to the hidden realm that lies within an old grandfather clock. Lottie and her allies must prepare to fight for the last time but first they must embark on a terrifying mission to the depths of Zanus’s dungeon. Despite the help of her talking pets, Scruffy and Allsorts, Lottie faces the warped creations of the witch-creature Imelda and the ferocious Crocanthus and she begins to doubt that she will make it through alive. In The Battle for Dofstram, the trilogy reaches its epic conclusion as the hordes of foul creatures led by Zanus collide with Lottie, King Alfreston and their allies in a dramatic final confrontation.

With the odds stacked against her, will Lottie survive her final adventure?

4th August 2014 0
Lottie and the Land of Dofstram

Lottie and the Land of Dofstram

There are people who know much more about Lottie Montmerencie than she knows about herself. And some of them are very evil people indeed. The young library assistant is in mortal danger, though she is hardly aware of it, and certainly has no inkling why. Who are those two ugly, menacing, but fortunately comically inept thugs who follow her to work? Can she even trust her friends? Fortunately for Lottie, those on the side of good also know the secrets that have yet to be revealed to her, and she is surrounded by protective forces, both human and animal. But there is powerful magic on both sides, and she will need all her wits and all her courage if she is to survive. This is the first part of an epic tale of myth and magic in a modern setting, with surprises at every turn.

1st August 2014 0

Little Girl Lost

When Ingrid Steel was first put into an orphanage at the age of four, she did not even know her real name. Nor would anyone tell her who her parents were, or what had happened to them. After years of bullying, deprivation and gratuitous punishment – even sexual abuse – in a series of homes and orphanages, she was incarcerated first in a borstal, then in a mental hospital. One day after returning to the orphanage, Ingrid made a secret pilgrimage to Somerset House in London to discover her real identity. She came back in triumph clutching her precious birth certificate – only to have it taken from her. That was the last straw. Desperate to be free to live her own life, she forced her way out of the orphanage and into the cold and wet. Would she at last be able to lead a life of freedom?

1st August 2014 0
Life

Life

Beth Richards has long enjoyed the reputation, in her writings, as a ‘wise owl’. She has the perspicacity of seeing ‘deep down things’, right into the heart of things and has the ability to speak for many of us who are growing older, approaching retirement, and combining the wisdom of our years with the frustrations of age, when we become disillusioned with money spent on material gain instead of alleviating poverty, and become fed up with tailgaters driving too close to us! She is not afraid to speak out and provide a voice for us golden oldies who often suffer the indignity of being invisible to the younger generation who live at a different pace. Most touching is Beth’s evocation, on behalf of many of us, of memories and longings from days gone by – the longings for lost intimacies, of treasured moments no longer there, of being held and comforted; yet through her prose and poems we can share the re-evocation of such moments, even ‘Reliving that tingling sensation before the explosion’! Beth has the soul of a poet and she is not afraid to bare her soul, however sensitive, and it’s this sincere and honest quality that will make the reader feel like a close friend.

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Kids from over the Water

Kids from over the Water

In 1977, her eighty-second year, Keturah Daveney began to write down her memories of her early life in Walworth in south-east London, where she had lived from 1900, when she was five years old, until her marriage. The lives of working-class Londoners in the early years of the century and the ups and downs of existing on the breadline leapt into life from its pages, helped by Keturah’s wit and humour. Recognising the work’s interest as a historical document, Keturah’s niece, Angela Cousins, has now used her writings as the basis for a history written from a 21st century perspective of Keturah, her family and her life and times. It is a touching and fascinating window on the way ordinary people lived more than a century ago.

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