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Nayland is a small village on the Essex/Suffolk borders of England where Eric Barton was born and lived for many years. He describes life in the community, from 1920s to 1970s. A valuable social history, with several interesting photographs.

The seventeenth-century Gurneys, Barclays, Hanbury and Hoares were part of the Quaker movement. Their integrity gained respect and attracted investors to the banking, weaving and brewing industries they started. Later Buxton led the anti-slavery campaigns and Elizabeth Fry set about reforming prisons. A remarkable international family well researched by Verily Anderson, who still lives at Northrepps, the Gurney family home in Norfolk. This re...

Douthwaite of the Double Dragon is an account of a life spent for man and God. The book is based partly on academic research but principally on a collection of letters from the Douthwaite family archive. These give intimate glimpses of life in a missionary household, and allow us to share some of Douthwaite's hopes and doubts, joys and sorrows. After an unhappy childhood and misspent youth, Douthwaite was converted to Christianity and went...

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More and more features showing the influence of Art Deco styles become apparent as you look at suburban houses. This book points out the varity of art deco styles that can be found in many of our streets just by looking at the windows, doors, windows, metalwork, gardens and other features. Jean Gardner is a writer, and member of the Twentieth Century Society, who has an abiding interest in art deco housing.

The description by Graham Hughes of the "antiphospholipid syndrome" or Hughes Syndrome is one of the medical landmarks of the 20th century. Here is a disease, a medical discovery, which should turn such fashions around. In a series of brilliant clinical observations, Dr Hughes, not only pieced together what is now clearly a common and important disease, but also, with his team, set up the blood tests and treatment guidelines, which are used...

The daughters of Boudica, Queen of the Iceni, were raped, sparking off an uprising that led to the sacking of Camulodunum (now Colchester). The people of East Anglia rose up against the Roman dictators led by their brave Queen. Boudica was captured and taken before Seutonius, Britain's Roman ruler. He decides her fate. This fictional tale provides a very plausible answer to a mystery that has never been resolved.

George Forsdike ran a nursery garden at Shrublands, Suffolk for nearly 50 years, specialising in chrysanthemums and other cut flowers that he sent to Covent Garden to sell. Shrublands changed from a country manor house to a health farm, where many famous people came to rest and recuperate. George tells of his life, working quietly on the four acres of his garden, together with his wife Claire.

In the misty twilight between ancient Irish history and legend, emerged a tribe who surpassed all others in the arts of music, medicine, magic and war, but not until the return of the Daughter Dedannan, can these mystical warriors master the art of peace. On the eve of Samhain in the year 995 AD, a young girl ventures out never to return to the simple pleasures of her solitary life on a hillside in Sligo. Instead she is swept away to the ...

Set in the southern Vermont town of West Raven, WOLF tells the parallel tales of two teens: Adam Pierce, up for the summer from NYC to work for an uncle who sells parts from the hundred or so junked cars that litter his property, and Shane Sewill, a neighbor who works a dead-end job at the local bottle redemption store. However, not until the appearance of Adam's father, a Gulf War Vet whose spirit dwells in a junked van, and a mystical wolf-d...

Green Wellies and Wax Jackets will appeal to anyone who has ever ridden a horse, attended a riding school, fallen in love with a handsome man. Imagine Cinderella, the two ugly sisters, and a domineering stepmother transported to a stable yard, and the day-to-day running of a riding school. Add a film crew, one drop-dead-gorgeous actor, and a determined film producer, and you have the setting for Green Wellies and Wax Jackets - a hilarious r...

The heart-rending story of a German of liberal Jewish descent who was one of the last to escape to England under the Kindertransport scheme where he first made army uniforms, fire watching in London during the Blitz. Joining the army he fought his own countrymen in the Royal Tank Regiment. He describes his life in Germany under the Nazis, life in action with the Desert Rats as a wireless operator in a Firefly tank from the Normandy beaches to ...

Jack Windsor's intelligent, amusing, touching and often surprising stories are a delight to read. Skilfully plotted, peopled by vivid, believable characters, these are short stories to enjoy now and return to again and again." Jackie Short, Teacher and Writer "These short stories are a selection of Jack Windsor's best, each one in its different way will stop you from putting the book down once you have started reading" Ken Ward, Author ...

Paul Gilbert considers fundamental issues affecting the legal profession both in private practice and in-house legal teams. This book brings together a collection of his articles, written for a number of legal journals, between 200 and 2007

This book is written by a company lawyers and is intended to be read by all company lawyers and those wishing to use their services. Paul Gilbert is the Legal Director and founder of LawBook Consulting Limited, a specialist management consultancy for law firms and in-house legal teams with a particular focus on relationship management issues, value-adding initiatives, strategic planning and staff development. LawBook Consulting acts for la...

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