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This is a light hearted fictional look at the unstoppable rise of a useless teacher who could not be sacked for incompetence. And Austin Buggins was incompetent, being a failure at everything he touched. Each time he was found a new post with more money, eventually honours as well, as he slowly rose by way of Quangos, through the media to a senior post in Europe. His contribution to the banking crisis of 2008 was probably his finest hour. Assi...

There are some things that can be quintessentially described as being 'English, rather than 'British', and one of those is the English pub.This is the story of one of those pubs. It is the story of The Windmill Inn, a structure that has evolved from being a farm that sold beer to the popular up market haven in Yorkshire where the clientele come from far and wide.Using information going back before WW2 and gathering personal memories going back...

Is it possible to believe in both the Biblical Creation and the Theory of Evolution? Author Robert Soper believes that you can do just that and this ground breaking work shows how and why. By exploring ancient texts, maps and artifacts from across the globe, looking at them through the eyes of an engineer some startling facts emerge. Facts that indicate an earlier highly intelligent civilization who walked our planet in pre-dynystic times. Wer...

Twenty-five years of working in Britain's stately homes. How the author transformed both the antique fairs and stately homes industries over the period. A unique insight into the antiques trade and how the aristocracy ticks.

The stone ruins of the Nyanga area of eastern Zimbabwe have intrigued observers since they were first reported to the outside world at the end of the 19th century. The early fanciful speculations about their meaning have been gradually tempered over the years by the findings of systematic archaeological research, culminating in the project recently completed by the British Institute in Eastern Africa and the University of Zimbabwe. The first s...