'Graham Stewart has done a terrific job. His book brings the decade vividly to life and convincingly places it in perspective... Excellent' -- Toby Young, Mail on SundayBritain in the 1980s was a polarized nation. Determined to take the country in a radically different direction was the most dominant, commanding and controversial leader of her age, Margaret Thatcher. With the two main political parties as far apart as at any time since the 1930s, the perio...

In Britannia Graham Stewart traces two thousand years of an island's story - from Roman province to twenty-first century European nation-state - through one hundred historic documents.From the eighth-century Lindisfarne Gospels to the great testament of Norman bureaucracy, the Domesday Book, and from the designs for the Union Jack in 1606 to Neville Chamberlain's 1938 Munich agreement with Hitler, the documents selected embrace a wide range of national endeavours: politics...

The seventh in a series chronicling the remarkable history of The Times newspaper and the media mogul who bought and reshaped it in the early 1980s.This volume looks at the history of one of Britain’s most venerable newspapers since its takeover by Rupert Murdoch in 1981, and the many changes that took place in the turbulent years that followed.The account will encompass the media mogul’s infamous clashes with the British printers’ unions, culminating in 1986 with the Wappi...

A little girl vanished 100 years ago. Her name was Sophie. Where did she go?An old house in Balmain. A portrait and perfume bottle hidden in a chimney.Unknown and untouched, while a century passed, their memory slowly fading.Glimpses of an eight year old girl and her school friend, missing, never found.The grief of those left behind, those who searched, those who yearned.So begins a journey to discover an Australian family, five generations, from 1840 ...

Whisky: Technology, Production and Marketing explains in technical terms, the science and technology of producing whisky, combined with information from industry experts on successfully marketing the product. World experts in Scotch whisky provide detailed insight into whisky production from the processing of raw materials, to the fermentation, distillation, maturation, blending, production of co-products and quality testing, as well as important information on the methodology used for pac...

The exploits of the twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-second, and twenty-third (Service) Battalions of the Northumberland Fusiliers during the Great War—"Harder Than Hammers."Although called the Tyneside Scottish, very few of the men who made up this Brigade were of Scottish descent. Many came from local villages or were from the Northumberland pits. They saw action at the Battle of the Somme and after it were allowed to put tartan behind their cap badges because of ...

Elusive Light offers valuable reflections on life and meaning through a collection of poetry and short stories. The poems comprise a generational series which first focuses on those who came of age during the Great Depression and World War II. The subject matter then shifts to reflections on the authors two lost sons and explores the nature of grief and loss, before concluding with poems which address the internal struggles of coping with grief and progressing to the processes of ...

Beer is the only detailed book that specifically addresses the science of beer quality. It explores the quality attributes of beer as well as the various impacts on and perception of beer quality. It includes expert insights based on real-world experience. This book details, with extensive referencing, the research that has been devoted to beer and beer quality. It is the first book to approach beer in this way and comprises an essential reference for anyone seeking an authoritative accoun...

Graham Stuart Thomas stands alone as the world's pre-eminent rose gardener. In this unique presentation he focuses on the uses of a variety of garden plants--flowering and nonflowering--with which to create enduring garden designs that rescue roses from the stiff formality of most ornamental gardens. Here, Mr. Thomas employs the lessons of the magnificent garden at Mottisfont Abbey, first created by him in 1972 and extended in the 1980s, to demonstrate thrilling design choices and methods ...

Detective Hercules Poirot is put to the test in this fast-moving tale of skulduggery and intrigue. He needs all his skills to not only solve murder but to survive as well! Accompanied and supported by the inimitable Captain Hastings, Poirot once again shows why he is considered the greatest detective in the world!

This classic Hercule Poirot detective story is one of Agatha Christie's best stories. A man is murdered, but why? Hercule must use all his powers of investigation to bring the truth to light!

A delightful collection of short stories with the legendary Belgian detective Hercule Poirot solving every kind of heinous crime!