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This charming and uplifting book came about because of a carrier bag full of old letters. Written simply and with empathy, it tells the story of two people who meet in 1939 just before the outbreak of the Second World War. Told half as letters and half as narrative it is a simple tale of love and hope. A book to read curled up by a roaring fire - and just as warming.

Richard Thompson's vision, originality and technical prowess marks him out as a songwriter and guitarist of remarkable endurance, as inventive and relevant today as at the outset of his solo career half a century ago. In Flying Solo: Richard Thompson and the Making of Henry The Human Fly Adrian Smith explains why a debut album dismissed at the time as eccentric and disappointing came to be seen as strikingly original, its preoccupation with th...

How has England changed in the 70 years between the coronations of the late queen and the current king? In Coronation Streets, England Then and Now, British citizens of a certain age look back on their childhoods in 1953 when a glittering ritual in distant Westminster offered a brief break from the day-to-day drudgery of the post-war world. Meat was still rationed. Bomb sites were common sights. Televisions were not. Those who could afford t...

A Short History of Sunningdale" evolved from a series of articles in the local parish magazine following requests for information from inhabitants of the village. F.C.Hodder's carefully researched historical facts, along with his personal recollections from his long association with Sunningdale, beginning in the Victorian age, create a unique and captivating blend of anecdote and history. Informative chapters include the influence of nunneries...

Dr Vincent McKee is to be commended for producing an ambitious comparative analysis of language activism and promotion in Scotland and Northern Ireland. His insights are a valuable contribution to the ongoing debate on how the societal condition of the Gaelic groups on both sides of Sruth na Maoile can be advanced.

It is hugely appropriate that this tribute to one of the City of Coventry's proudest symbols should touchdown between our year as UK City of Culture and the club's 150th anniversary year. It is much more than the story of a great rugby club. It is a rich journey into the spirit of the game of rugby, the great characters who wore the blue and white hoops, the passion of its supporters, love for this club and this city, told with an easy style a...

The first three months of 2021 were tragic times for some and interminably tedious for those fortunate enough to avoid the virus and its lethal consequences. Chris Arnot spent long hours of those miserable months writing his thirteenth book. The final chapter was finished on April 1st. Which may make foolish his fears for the future of the British pub as a treasured institution.Rather than ponder too much about that future, he decided to look ...

You Can't Libel the Dead follows a career in journalism, from rookie reporter to the top of the editorial tree, in an era of tumultuous change. Packed with amusing anecdotes and colourful characters, this memoir opens the door on the life and professional dilemmas of a newspaper editor.

It is hugely appropriate that this tribute to one of the City of Coventry's proudest symbols should touchdown between our year as UK City of Culture and the club's 150th anniversary year.It is much more than the story of a great rugby club. It is a rich journey into the spirit of the game of rugby, the great characters who wore the blue and white hoops, the passion of its supporters, love for this club and this city, told with an easy style an...

The clatter of ancient typewriters banging out stories that would be set into hot metal in the furnace-like conditions of a subterranean composing room. That was the way of life that greeted Paul Dale as he began his career in journalism 45 years ago. From a tranquil backwater at the Reading Chronicle and Berkshire Mercury, where reporters judged success on the number of pints of beer they could consume, to the more cerebral pastures of the O...

Lordswood Boys' School had been failing so badly for so long that the Department for Education became concerned enough to call for a major shake-up. It was duly delivered through a transformative trio who had somehow become headteachers against the odds.One had left his own school in Bradford, aged fourteen, with no qualifications whatsoever. Another had turned down the chance to train as a teacher at the prestigious Goldsmith's College in Lon...

This book introduces you to remote sensing and control projects using the Arduino Uno and the 433 MHz transmitter/receiver (Tx / Rx) modules. We have been quite specific in our coverage in an attempt to thoroughly explore the subject with particular reference to a pair of readily available and inexpensive remote control modules. These modules have a good transmission range and are simple to use - particularly with the library that we have crea...

Pull Up a Sandbag and Swing a Light' is a wonderfully entertaining account of John Russell's 12 years of army service between 1972 and 1984 with the 3rd Battalion, the Queen's Regiment. It is written in an engaging style and employs John's considerable skills as a cartoonist to illustrate each chapter. This book reflects the author's humorous take on life despite some serious aspects of serving in the army. In his own words, 'I wrote this book...

Slouching Towards Big Pink is a stylish blend of memoir, travelogue, and scholarship. From the West Midlands to West Saugerties, the Isle of Wight to the New York island, these essays see Adrian Smith fly the flag for folk in 'sixties Coventry, criss-cross America in the footsteps of Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, ride a fifty-year rollercoaster of Dylan performances, trace the sad story of Bob Dylan and Rick Nelson, and look to The Band for a s...

The authors are two individuals of different ages and from very different educational backgrounds. One suffers from mental health issues including Asperger's Syndrome and Complex Personality Disorder. The other is an alcoholic in sustained recovery. Meeting through a mix of family and social connections they discovered a mutual value in the use of poetry in dealing with their respective problems.This collection of poems aims to promote awarene...

Telegraph People celebrates the characters who produced a multi-edition evening newspaper in the large industrial Midlands city of Coventry across two decades. It reveals what went on behind the façade of the Coventry Evening Telegraph offices in Corporation Street. Read about the journalists who put this newspaper together - the dramas, the crises and the fun. This was before the digital revolution and… • Stories had to be by filed by phone •...

Following the successful reception of his first book, David Crossan-Bratt has created a second collection of poems and short stories. Some of these have been written specially for this book while others are older writings that were not included in the previous book. Those who enjoyed his first publication will be pleased to read his poetic reflections on a similarly wide variety of themes. This book finishes with three short stories written in...

This book enters a twilight world of intrigue, organisational politics, competing personalities and ideological assertiveness. This was a world where in some but by no means all cases, loyalty to the Conservative Party played second fiddle to the group and its agenda. Rivalries were intense, as were the platforms on which Conservative group politics were conducted. There were even cases where certain group zealots had few compunctions about su...

Coventry is used to being written off. But it always makes a comeback. Forty years on from being labelled a 'Ghost Town', it is to be the next UK City of Culture. After Hull, as it happens, the place where Philip Larkin was head librarian at the university's Brynmor Jones Library. His love of libraries, of books, of poetry began in the city where he was born, went to school and spent his first 18 years. His childhood was not "unspent", as he c...