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Officer Rhea's autobiographical volume is the origin of the TV series Heartbeat. Policeman Nick Rhea has been posted to the country with his wife Mary and their three small children. They move into the police house, high on a ridge overlooking the moors. It sits on the edge of the village of Aidensfield. In the beautiful North Yorkshire countryside of the 1960s, Constable Nick's roles are as varied as the eccentric villagers. He handles every encounter with his characteristic humour, humanity and professionalism. His investigations include the case of a clever pony who keeps escaping, a woman running through town naked and a pack of Canadian timber wolves hanging out in a bus shelter. He soon gets to know all the characters on his beat, from his superior officer Sergeant Blaketon to the ever-resourceful Claude Jeremiah Greengrass and his lurcher Alfred; Aud George, who informs the village of local deaths by using his own coded system; the Annual Coursing Meeting and village greyhound racing. There are mischevious mutts: Rufus, who loves dustbins and Emperor the Alsatian whose favourite lavatory is Stumpy Syke's flower beds. There is local femme fatale Mrs Dulcimer, who likes policemen to inspect her credentials, the dotty Mrs Fraser and the lady who complains when the policeman parks his car outside other ladies' houses. A fascinating and hilarious real life story of police work in a small English village. -
Tommy Farr was one of Britain's most respected sportsmen and was arguably the finest heavyweight British boxer of all time. His life story is a true inspiration. From the extreme poverty of his childhood in Wales when he peddled goods from a handcart to his glory days in the boxing ring, his life was a battle. He left the mines and the fairground boxing booths to seek his fortune in London - where he had to fight to get fights. Never forgetting his Welsh roots we went on the enjoy the high life in London and New York where he was mobbed by fans and courted by celebrities. After his retirement to Brighton he faced bankruptcy from property ventures and vetting businesses and at the age of 37 he was forced into an astonishing comeback to support his beloved family. Anyone can make it once - but to make it twice in the rough and tumble world of boxing is a true achievement. Illustrated with black and white photos. -
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, with her daughters Christabel, Sylvia and Adela were the central figures of the Suffragette movement who fought for votes for women in the early years of the 20th century. Civil disobedience, direct action, mass meetings, hunger strikes and vandalism were all employed to shout the message of equality. A possible apocryphal story is that of a young suffragette who was distressed by the growing violence on behalf of the Cause, and who came to Mrs. Pankhurst crying, "What shall we do? What shall we do?" The reply? "Put your faith in God, my dear. She will help us." -
The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from "The Secret History of the Mongols, " leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis Khan: Let us reward our female offspring. Only this hint of a father's legacy for his daughters remained of a much larger story. The queens of the Silk Route turned their father's conquests into the world's first truly international empire, fostering trade, education, and religion throughout their territories and creating an economic system that stretched from the Pacific to the Mediterranean. Outlandish stories of these powerful queens trickled out of the Empire, shocking the citizens of Europe and and the Islamic world. After Genghis Khan's death in 1227, conflicts erupted between his daughters and his daughters-in-law; what began as a war between powerful women soon became a war against women in power as brother turned against sister, son against mother. One of the most important warrior queens of history arose to rescue the tattered shreds of the Mongol Empire and restore order to a shattered world. Queen Mandhuhai led her soldiers through victory after victory. In her thirties she married a seventeen-year-old prince and bore eight children throughout a career spent fighting China's Ming Dynasty on one side and a series of Muslim warlords on the other. Her unprecedented success on the battlefield provoked the Chinese into the most frantic and expensive phase of wall building in history. Charging into battle even while pregnant, she fought to reassemble the nation of Genghis Khan and to preserve it for her own children to rule in peace. Despite the efforts to erase them from history, the Mongol queens live on. -
Hocus Pocus: Paul Kieve
$30.00A fascinating and unusual biography of magicians and illusionists from the golden Victorian Age, including Lafayette, Houdini (of course), Chung Ling Soo and others. Spoiler Alert: It includes how some of the tricks were done! The author was the magic consultant on the film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and trained Daniel Radcliffe in the magic skills of the great masters who astounded audiences long before television and computerised special effects. Real magic. Illustrated by Peter Bailey. Contains envelope on rear pastedown with all postcards included as published.
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The hilarious story of how Graham 'Screw' Turner established a bus touring company using old converted double-decker buses. From humble beginnings in London 1973, Screw, together with a crew of colonial larrikins, builds up a fleet of 100 deckers. Screw, Spy, Bill Speaking, Wombat. Filthy, Grilly, Budgie, the mysterious Graham James Lloyd and other incorrigible crew members lead their unsuspecting punters on riotous escapades to the far flung, exotic corners of the world. Today, Graham 'Screw' Turner is one of Australia's wealthiest men and is the CEO of Flight Centre, which he began in the 1980s. With caricatures by Bill Leak and cartoons by Warren Brown. Illustrated with black and white photographs and newspaper clippings. -
Ward was a leading player in the Profumo scandal which brought down the Conservative Government 1962. An osteopath and accomplished artist, he was a mover, mixer, stirrer and shaker in upper class circles, mixing with peers and prostitutes singly and together. He was a great name dropper. He had a plausible manner and tons of charm. He was friendly with Captain Ivanov, the Russian Naval attache who was conducting an affair with model Christine Keeler, a friend of Ward's, at the time she was involved in an affair with John Profumo, Minister for War. News of this potentially dangerous tangled involvement reached the ears of the Cabinet Secretary, who had a word with Profumo and the affair ended. The matter may have concluded there, but for Ward's continued association with Ivanov - and his love of playing at politics which brought about his own destruction. Illustrated with black and white photographs. The author was refused a copy of a full or partial transcript by the Court of Criminal Appeal but was able to obtain a transcript through the Press Association.
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Every year at least one large, well-founded ship and a number of smaller ones are posted missing at Lloyds - from the 20,000 ton Brazilian battleship São Paulo which vanished off the Azores in 1951 down to trawlers like the Kingston Peridot and the St. Romanus. In the interests of research, Commander Villiers has visited the ports from which many of these vanished ships sailed and has had access to official reports and findings. In the new introduction to this edition, he mentions that despite sophisticated communications and efficient methods of sea rescue, seventy merchantmen were posted missing between 1965 - 1975. An authoritative and fascinating book that demonstrates that even now, the oceans still hold enigmas. Illustrated with maps and black and white photographs. -
The dearth of suitable introductory texts presents a serious obstacle to the study of the Egyptian language, so this practical grammar answers a longstanding need. Its well-known and highly respected author, a Keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum, has written many other popular Dover books on Egyptology. Contents include lists of frequently used signs and determinatives, a short vocabulary of about 500 words, a series of 31 texts and extracts (with interlinear transliteration and word-for-word translation), and a few untransliterated and untranslated texts (with glossary), to be worked out independently. This is a valuable book for archaeologists, anthropologists, and anyone with a professional or amateur interest in Ancient Egypt.
