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Patrick Gordon Walker

Nov 25th, 2022 by

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Patrick Gordon Walker was born in 1907 with a conservative background: his father was a Judge in India. He went to prep school, public school and Christ Church, Oxford as an undergraduate and then as a don. In Oxford he cut his political teeth, suffering some of the pitfalls that dogged his later time in office. He spent a year in Germany in the thirties, becoming fluent in the language and saw the beginnings of totalitarian rule.

In the war he joined the BBC German service broadcasting to Germany. In 1945 he went with a radio car and recorded the first radio broadcasts from Belsen, published as The Lid Lifts.
An extract from this book, long out of print, appears as an addendum.

He became an MP in 1945, and was Commonwealth Relations Secretary from 1950-51, followed by thirteen years in opposition. He lost his seat at Smethwick in the 1964 general election, but still became Foreign Secretary until he was defeated in a by-election at Leyton in January1965 and had to retire from his perfect job. Although he returned to parliament in 1966, becoming Minister without Portfolio and then Secretary of State for Education, he never reached the same heights and went to the Lords and then the European parliament.
He died in 1970, aged seventy-three.

AUTHOR:
‘My father never wrote an autobiography, and we were never quite sure why this was. It seems right that his life should be recorded in a political and family biography by one of his children and the task has fallen to me. The book traces my father’s life story, his political career and his role as a family man, devoted to his wife Audrey and to his five children. It has political and family photographs and is hopefully a fitting tribute to him.’
ALAN GORDON WALKER

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Climate Change

Nov 25th, 2022 by

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Climate change is the overriding issue of our time.

In the face of recurring climate disasters, the resistance and inertia we witness today will slowly break down. Those who have seen the writing on the wall are already choosing to change the way they live. For the young, who are mobilizing impressively, climate change is a cause of much anxiety. Sooner or later every one of us will experience the consequences of a warming planet at which time we shall all be obliged to take appropriate action. What form this will take and in what state of mind, is the real question.

The purpose of Climate Change: The Path to a Sustainable Future is to suggest that transitioning to an inevitable post-carbon world is not necessarily the misfortune so many fear. On the contrary, this alternative model of society offers our fragile planet, plagued by resource depletion, violence, political instability and deep socio-economic inequities a path to a new psychological, physical and morally revitalized foundation on which to build a sustainable future for mankind.

AUTHOR:
John Reed is the author of:
Elegant Simplicity. Reflections on an Alternative Way of Being (2009). One Mistake After Another. A Chronicle of a Life and its Teachings (2015) Time is Running Out. Reflections on the Modern World (2020)

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A Church Near You

Nov 25th, 2022 by

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In the lengthening sunny days of Spring 2020 the author, Denis Dunstone, crept out to visit churchyards and sketch in colour fifty churches that were within half an hour’s drive from his home near Saffron Walden in Essex. The result appeared in a little book which was presented to local churches for sale. As lockdown rules persisted, the author added further volumes county by county and reached nineteen. They ranged from Yorkshire to Somerset and Hereford to Kent.

This expanded book is a comprehensive volume covering Churches in England and Wales, the proceeds of which will raise funds for church preservation. It does not claim to be a history of Anglican churches nor an expert analysis. It is rather a valuable and helpful introduction to the subject, beautifully illustrated and seeking to point out major characteristics, to explain some peculiarities and to stimulate curiosity. The elegant and stimulating book will also raise interest in a subject which is becoming a growing problem for the national church, while representing a rich part of our cultural heritage.

Some have expressed surprise that it was possible to produce nearly one thousand pen and ink and wash images in a period of less than two years. The answer lies in the restricted movement allowed during the pandemic, in the need in retirement and seclusion for a self-generated activity, and the management of what almost became an obsession.

AUTHOR:
Denis Dunstone graduated in Law at Cambridge, having served as an officer in the Royal Naval Reserve. His career culminated as a senior manager in BP. After writing ten other books mainly on railway history and one on the etymology of European words, this is the author’s first engagement with churches. He lives in Saffron Walden in Essex.

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Three’s A Crowd

Oct 16th, 2020 by

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A new thriller involving private detective Philip Rivers, star of the author’s first two books.

It was supposed to be a quiet night out in a restaurant for private detective Philip Rivers with his friend and colleague Jo – but he could not take his eyes off the alleyway opposite where a man became embroiled in three separate arguments with different women. It transpired that the man, Rob Corcoran was romantically linked with the three women. Three days later he was dead and Rivers was asked by his parents to investigate their son’s murder.

Rivers has the help of his partner, Jo and Chief Inspector Manners with whom he had worked before. Can they find Rob’s killer before more lives are lost?

AUTHOR:
Richard Garner has written a powerful and gripping crime thriller, featuring Philip Rivers, who starred in his previous novels, Best Served Cold and Jill The Ripper. A journalist for forty years on major newspapers, his switch to writing crime thrillers is a resounding success.

TARGET AUDIENCE:
Thriller/detective story followers/General readers

SELLING POINTS:
Top thriller by skilled educational journalist.
Guaranteed publicity from colleagues and friends of author

PUBLICITY:
From the author

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Time is Running Out

Oct 16th, 2020 by

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In Time is Running Out: Reflections on an Alternative Way of Being, John Reed presents the reader with an honest and uncompromising appraisal of how politics, capitalism, social conditions and climate change are interrelating so as to constitute a ‘perfect storm’ of challenges that will determine the future of civilisation.

It is not the strongest, or the most intelligent of the species that survive. It is the ones most adaptable to change, stated Charles Darwin.

John Reed explains that ‘the ones most adaptable to change’ will be those with the necessary psycho/spiritual resources. This book examines what that means and how human consciousness must evolve to make life sustainable in society and on the planet as a whole.

This is an important and timely polemic from the author of Elegant Simplicity, published in 2009 and One Mistake after Another, published in 2018.

AUTHOR:
John Reed was born in 1946 and has long studied the temptations of the ego and the wish for a prosperous and wealthy life. He now pursues elegant simplicity, dividing his time between south west France and New England, where he and his French wife have an art and antiques business in Maine USA.

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Am I Loved?

Oct 16th, 2020 by

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Am I Loved? is a thought-provoking, beautifully written book which explores the human condition from an entirely original perspective. It continues where Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker left off presenting a carefully evidenced understanding of life which is ground breaking in its implications. The blend of philosophy and psychology theory takes the reader on a unique journey. It provides a new understating of a universal experience which was previously hardly understood at all.

AUTHOR:
Husband of one, father of four and grandfather of two and a former overworked lawyer, John D Bieber is the author of If Divorce is the Only Way (Penguin) which he wrote to help divorcees avoid having a bad divorce follow a bad marriage. Realising that there was a vacuum of understanding about the role that emotions play in our lives the obvious question arose “How can we function as sophisticated human beings when we can neither understand nor control our emotions?” This book answers that question. The author resides in rural Sussex where he endeavours to live in accordance with the philosophy explained in this book.

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William Stone of Peterhouse and Albany

Oct 13th, 2020 by

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William Stone died in 1958 at the age of 101, leaving a fortune to his Cambridge College, Peterhouse. How he made his fortune is a mystery – he never had a paid job, never married, and was one of seven children. But he lived a full life, travelling the world and in London where he rode daily in Rotten Row in Hyde Park, had many adventures and attended every theatrical first night. He stood for parliament, helped preserve the historic Albany chambers and told a rich series of anecdotes about his time as ‘Squire of Piccadilly’.

AUTHOR:
After graduating from Peterhouse Cambridge, Sam Osmond joined Shell International Petroleum and worked in many countries, finishing in charge of Shell’s business in Hong Kong and China. He then ran charities in Nepal and in London, and took a further degree in Architectural History. He lives in London and Petersfield.

PUBLICITY:
Author, Albany in Piccadilly and Peterhouse College, Cambridge.

EXCLUSIONS:
None.

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Presumption of Guilt

Oct 13th, 2020 by

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Rick Harper is back in town from University when the persecution begins again. Four years before the police thought he was guilty of the murder of two young women – Jenny Welsh and Lesley Peters – but could not find the evidence to prosecute him. He had intended to go to the party being held by Jenny but decided in the end to stay at home.

The policeman who was his main accuser has retired and the case falls to his successor, Detective Chief Inspector Frances Manners, but the police are too busy to reopen a cold case. Rick in desperation turns to Private Eye Rivers to clear his name, assisted by his partner Jo.

As Rivers and Jo dig deeper, they find that there are many people who could be as guilty as Rick Harper. The only way they can clear Rick’s name is to find the murder first, but this is a dangerous and challenging process.

AUTHOR:
Richard Garner’s, a top journalist, latest novel has all the tension, intrigue and action that is the hallmark of his three earlier thrillers – Best Served Cold, Jill the Ripper and Three’s A Crowd

TARGET AUDIENCE:
Lovers of detective stories, with plenty of detection intrigue and a range of suspects –reader of Vera and other such novels

SELLING POINTS:
New thriller/detective story from an established author
Publicity in local press and reviews
Richard Garner left this completed novel before his untimely death last year

REVIEWS:
Reviews from fellow journalist’s and friends of the author

PUBLICITY:
From the author

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Music, My Life

Oct 13th, 2020 by

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Brian Kay has spent his entire working life in a career that is both successful and rewarding. His fascinating collection of memories and anecdotes throws a hugely entertaining light on a life entirely devoted to the joy of music and music-making. He was the founder bass of the internationally renowned vocal group The King’s Singers, spent the next 25 years writing and presenting thousands of programmes for BBC Radios – his own Brian Kay’s Sunday Morning on Radio 3 to such Radio 2 favourites as Friday Night is Music Night and Melodies for You. He then moved back to the open spaces of the concert hall, conducting choral and orchestral concerts all over the world, including his annual 4000-voice Really Big Chorus Messiah from Scratch in London’s Royal Albert Hall. He has been the lowest frog on a Paul McCartney single and a member of the backing group for Pink Floyd. Brian Kay recounts his fascinating life in intimate and amusing detail, sharing with us his great love of life and his abiding passion for music.

AUTHOR:
Brian Kay was born in 1944 and was a choral scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, co-founded The King’s Singers and has shared his life between the studios of BBC radio and television and the concert halls of the world as a choral and orchestral conductor. Brian is married to the soprano Gillian Fisher, has a son, a daughter and three grandchildren, and lives in the Cotswolds, Oxfordshire.

PUBLICITY:
Author is a famous music star and will promote the book personally. Many reviews and sales to all those he has worked with and music lovers everywhere.

EXCLUSIONS:
None. Worldwide Rights available

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Best Served Cold

Jun 4th, 2018 by

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Journalist Roy Faulkner is the prime suspect in a murder inquiry when Kate Williams, the fellow journalist he accompanied to a night club appeared to disappear from the face of the earth. Worse still, he finds the detective who is investigating the case harbours a long-standing grudge against him dating back to their teenage years in a rock band.

As evidence piles up against Roy, he is charged with the murder of Kate. Private investigator Philip Rivers faces a battle against time to find out what really happened before Roy is found guilty.

AUTHOR:
RICHARD GARNER has been a journalist for over forty years – writing for the TES, the Mirror, the Independent and the TES about education. He is the author of The Thirty Years War, a book about teacher reform, but he has always wanted to break out of his mould and write thrillers. Best Served Cold is his debut crime novel.

TARGET AUDIENCE:
Thriller readers. Those interested in education and journalism

SELLING POINTS:
Top thriller by skilled educational journalist.
Guaranteed publicity from colleagues and friends of author

REVIEWS:
Reviews from fellow journalist’s and friends of the author

PUBLICITY:
From the author

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