Teddy Hudleston was a pilot of immense skill and talent whose wisdom and resourcefulness in both war and peace carried him up through the ranks of the RAF; a Squadron Leader at 28, he was promoted to Air Vice-Marshal at the age of only 35 and finally retired, after 40 years' service, as Air Chief Marshal. He won the Croix de Guerre for his role in the Suez campaign and at the height of the Cold War he was made Commander of Allied Air Forces Central Europe, serving in the front line of the defence against the Soviets. He was knighted in 1963. This very private Edwardian was dubbed by the newspaper obituaries 'the Quiet Australian' for his unassuming manner. His home life was more complicated, as author Eric Grounds knows well; for forty years Hudleston treated Grounds as his son. He has now paid tribute to him by writing this affectionate biography.

Terence Kearey has long harboured a wish to trace his family connections with his homeland back as far as possible in time. As a keen historian he has devoted thousands of hours to researching and recording the history of the Kearey name, all the way back to the 10th century AD, when his ancestors bore the name Ciardha.
In this book he traces a thousand years of history, from the time when Ireland was divided into kingdoms. With the aid of DNA analysis he delves even further back, to the earliest occupation of Ireland by his Stone Age ancestors.

An intellectual pioneer and prolific writer, Steady's much-awaited autobiography is a goldmine for knowledge seekers and a boon to generations of students and scholars she mentored and inspired across continents. - Professor Oyeronke Oyewumi, Stony Brook University, USA.

Born into a global family, as she puts it, Filomina Steady, Professor Emerita of Africana Studies at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, has won awards on both sides of the Atlantic for her work in gender and culture, women's rights and the African Diaspora. An Oxford University PhD graduate, she has taught at several American universities as well as the University of Sierra Leone. A former Deputy Director of the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women in Vienna, Austria, she has served as a Special Advisor to several agencies of the United Nations including on Women,
Environment and Development to the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. She has contributed to four international plans of action for gender equality and the advancement of women, authored several books, monographs and articles, and given keynote addresses and presented papers at international conferences. She describes this memoir as her response to
numerous requests from her family, faculty colleagues, alumnae, students and friends around the world.

One of the first Afghans in London - inspired by true events. In 1895, the despotic Amir Abdul Rahman Khan, nicknamed 'The Iron Amir' who had united Afghanistan through a reign of terror, espionage and retribution had intended to undertake a state visit to England to pay his respects to the ageing Queen Victoria. However, his health prevented him from making the trip, and so instead he sent his youngest son Prince Shahzada Nasrullah Khan to represent him in the court at Windsor Palace. His aim was for Afghanistan to become an autonomous region, which would have allowed him to make foreign policy decisions and other matters regarding relations with countries that surrounded Afghanistan. The Queen refused because of the expansionist ambitions of Czarist Russia. Russia could easily have invaded the crown jewel of Great Britain, India by invading defenceless Afghanistan first. This was a risk she did not want to take. Nasrullah being so upset, and in defiance of Queen Victoria's rejection ordered his 100 plus men to take up arms and start shooting from every corner and window of Dorchester House where they were staying. As a result, London descended into chaos and very quickly after, the disgruntled Prince left London deeply disappointed and in disgrace.

Ellie Murphy gets a job teaching English at a school in Venice where she meets Professor Piero Contarini, suave, sexy, enigmatic and the descendent of an old Venetian family. She agrees to help him with a project curating a new edition of the memoirs of the famous seducer and ne'er-do-well, Giacomo Casanova.

But taking their task to heart and uncovering some of their own secret fantasies, they start to enact the seducers adventures, with each other, ecstatically revealing their own kinks as they do so.

But who is that watching them from the shadowy alleyways of Venice?

Best friends Ashley and Juliet, who've been made redundant from their marketing jobs during Covid, at last get to go to Venice. The long days of lockdown were made a little easier by looking at webcams of the deserted city. One day, Ash spied a man walking his dog in Campo Santa Maria Formosa. What would happen if she were to meet him for real?

In Venice Jules hits it off with a handsome waiter, and both girls take the opportunity to think through big career changes, things otherwise don't go quite according to plan. And why is it

that boring Joe from accounts keeps turning up where he's not supposed to be? Only, whoever falls in love with Venice won't stay boring for long, and Joe unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a trade in faked artworks.

Coincidentally in Venice is a joyous celebration of love, friendship, vintage clothes to die for, Prosecco and spaghetti alle vongole. Oh, and not to mention a stolen gondola, a dog called Killer, ten thousand fictitious virgins and an old Grateful Dead t-shirt.

In this seventh book dedicated to her late and painfully-missed husband, Doreen Kerry reminisces about holidays abroad in the 1970s, when she was in her teens, and shares some further thoughts over the terrible mistakes by NHS staff that led to her losing the love of her life. Returning to the present day, she has strong views about the Covid pandemic, having become a victim of the disease herself.

As a young man, James Johnson left his native Liberia with his family to escape violence, intimidation and the threat of civil war in the disturbances of the 1980s. Embarking on a career in social services in supposedly fair and
egalitarian Britain, he found he had a different kind of battle on his hands - the fight against institutional racism and stereotyping at work, often subtle and propagated through ignorance. To succeed in his profession he found himself having to prove, at every turn, that he was not just as capable as his colleagues but more so. This enlightening, even inspiring, memoir gives an eye-opening insight into the world of a professional Black man.

The Lost Colonial Boy found its roots in the hills and dales of Yorkshire, England.

This fascinating book bridges four generations, World Wars, service to country, the wonderful power and strength of women, loves won and lost, and tragedy. Out of these came the opportunity for a young boy to grow and absorb the cultures, not only of his native land, but of Malaya and it's diverse history and people.

The people are real, we are touched by their histories, and their narratives welcome and reveal memories of times past, and experiences in the present. A moving adventure through an extraordinary life.

In these stories of the impossible, master of the domestic thriller Sally Emerson introduces the eerie into her keen-eyed portraits of everyday life. A clerk working in a public register office begins to receive death certificates dated in the future, but can she alter fate and save the victims? A woman unable to have children discovers a way of cloning her husband, but is their cloned son destined to repeat the mistakes of his father? A suburban mother is prescribed health supplements with rather amorous side-effects; can she resist their sway and keep her hands off her neighbours? And who exactly are the tempestuous and dangerous warring couple who seem to have been alive forever?

Emerson's tales of quotidian life invaded by forces beyond our control are both beguiling and uncanny, and ultimately uplifting as she celebrates the tenuous gap between reality and unreality. Likened to Roald Dahl and Helen Dunmore, with a dash of Shirley Jackson, this is fiction at its finest, a rare blend of fantasy and the literary. Magical, humorous and unfailingly honest in its depiction of humanity, Perfect will stay with the reader long after leaving the twists and turns of its pages.

'So exquisitely drawn, Sally Emerson's stories are full of gripping twists and astute insights into emotional dilemmas. They're uncanny, and quite unlike anything else you'll read' JANE THYNNE

'Emerson's skill is to subvert the humdrum with sinister undercurrents' SUNDAY TIMES

'A writer who excels in portraying the darkness beneath polished surfaces' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

'Sally Emerson has a talent for terror of the best kind, she understands obsession and hints chillingly at evil' DAILY TELEGRAPH

In his first book, Pulpits and Plain Sailing (2017), Kevin Cooney related how he had taken his business from a back-garden engineering shop to the biggest independent supplier of stainless steel rails and fittings for yachts in the UK. Once the business was well established and his son James could take the helm, Kevin found more time to indulge his own passion for sailing, and in recent years he and his wife Ann have spent every available moment sailing the Atlantic from east to west in a succession of yachts. This book, based on the diary Kevin has been keeping for nearly 50 years, tells of long days riding the waves in the Caribbean sun, evenings yarning with fellow sailors, storms and shipwrecks, along with the continuing story of the company he founded, Cooney Marine.

We cannot see where we are going. The road is unknown
to us. There are deep ditches on either side. We do not
always even know where we are going or what the purpose
of life is. All we know is that to us ours is an unknown way
along which we are obliged to travel prepared by time that
is remorseless instead of having strong headlights to show
us a safe way. We have two flickering candle lamps, and
they represent faith and hope.

Alfred Smee (1818-1877) was a doctor, scientist and inventor and also a businessman, campaigner and horticulturalist. His inventions led to his election at age 22 to a Fellowship of the Royal Society. He developed nonfading ink for the Bank of England and better techniques for printing banknotes. Some of his insights into the brain were echoed a century later in computational science.

He was chairman of several companies, campaigned for better water and sewage services in London and stood for Parliament. His passion was plants and gardens, and he created a garden of eight acres which he stocked with plants he collected from far and wide. His wide-ranging, full and successful life has now been chronicled by his
great-great-grandson, John Odling-Smee.

1478: Gianetta and Matteo have a happy life, working in service to the wealthy

Rosini family. They are used to entertaining rich and powerful members of

Florentine society in Palazzo Rosini, where Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici

and Botticelli are regular visitors. Even when the Medici brothers narrowly

escape the Palazzo with their lives (an accident, surely?), Gianetta and Matteo

can't imagine that the growing unrest in the streets of Florence would ever

spoil their happiness.

When a bloody conspiracy erupts in the heart of Florence, in the city's

beloved Duomo, nobody is left unaffected by the aftermath. When the family

hear that Matteo is among the conspirators, Gianetta knows that her life will

never be the same.

Dillibe Onyeama was the first black boy to complete his education at Eton in 1968. Written at just twenty-one, it was a deeply personal, revelatory account of the racism he endured during his time as a student at the prestigious institution.

He tells in vivid detail of his own background as the son of a Nigerian judge at the International Court of Justice at The Hague, of his arrival at the school, of the curriculum, of his reception by other boys (and masters), and of his punishments. He tells, too, of the cruel racial prejudice he suffered and his reactions to it, and of the alienation and stereotyping he faced at such a young age.

'A Black Boy at Eton' was a searing, ground-breaking book displaying the deep psychological effects of colonialism and racism, and the follow-up 'Afro-Saxon' talks more about his story.

This simple, well-designed guidebook is a detailed handbook to practising Yin Yoga techniques with ease. Access to its benefits is provided by many comprehensive Yin Yoga illustrations, diagrams and additional interactive online exercise sessions via our YouTube channel which can be easily accessed by QR codes through your mobile phone. Stress, pain and anxiety are all a result of our fast-paced and sometimes impersonal and unforgiving society. If you add a lack of physical activity, recurring ailments like back, hip, or shoulder pain may affect your quality of life. It is important to understand how essential it is to adopt regular movement and activity that helps to reintegrate the mind-body connection. You will then begin to experience the benefit of that integration in your daily life through better sleep and enhanced mood. That is why Yin, a yoga discipline, can be beneficial to young and old, male, and female alike and is easily accessible to everyone. Practising Yin Yoga postures which are maintained for several minutes allows the mind to calm and reconnect. You will also discover a particular meditation or creative visualization that works well for you to integrate your mind, body, and spirit.

Versatile Verse is a collection of the author's poems written over many years, in many cases for family and friends. The verses reflect the author's varied life, lived out most notably in the halls of Oxford University and the battlefields of Italy, where he served as a young officer during World War II. Moving, insightful and often amusing, they have entertained many, and through this book are now available to a wider audience. A number of the poems reflect matters of contemporary concern, while others are concerned with insight into the human condition.

Exhausted and wounded after coping with redundancy and depression, Amelia Marriette suddenly found her life taking a turn for the better through a chance meeting with an Austrian-born woman, Katie, with whom she was to find love. The couple relocated to Austria and Amelia set out on a journey both physical and spiritual, a journey of self-discovery and rejuvenation through the exploration of nature, centred on her resolution to complete the same 13-mile walk through the hills and woods of beautiful Carinthia every week for a year. By the time that year was over, Amelia knew she had found healing, peace and true happiness.www.ameliamarriette.com