Manor House, Life in an Edwardian Country House is a lavishly illustrated, large-format companion book to the television series. The author Juliet Gardiner first sets the historic backdrop of the period & then explores the key events in the social calendar of the family
- a fancy dress ball, , a society dinner party, a village fete, a musical evening, a shooting party. She not only details the activities from the point of view of the family of the house, but as from that of the servants. This was the era when the privileges of the rich were only made possible by the labour of their servants, an age when the inequalities of wealth & poverty were starkly delineated & the conventions of class were still rigidly, if complexly, defined. Descriptions of the day-to-day activities involved in running a country house are told through diary extracts, letters, advice manuals, & recipes, while special craft features enable readers to create a range of authentic Edwardian delights for themselves.
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When an unidentified body is discovered in the harbour town of Axmouth, twenty miles from Exeter, Sir John de Wolfe, the county coroner is called to investigate. The manner of the young man's death is a matter of some dispute
- but, as Sir John soon discovers, it was no accident. The victim did not drown, as the manor reeve alleges, but was strangled to death. In the ensuing murder investigation, Sir John is frustrated by what appears to be a conspiracy of silence among the seamen & townsfolk. Just what is the local population trying to hide? As Crowner John is to learn, there are those who would go to any length to ensure the shocking truth remains hidden. & the coroner must draw on all his resources of courage, cunning & determination if he is to escape from Axmouth with his life.
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The 1980s was a momentous decade in Formula 1 & this book captures its extraordinary drama. A superb range of 250 colour photographs ...

Rock Hudson stars in this Howard Hawks comedy as angling expert Roger Willoughby, employed by a sporting goods company to help sell fishing equipment. But what no one knows is that Roger has never caught a fish in his life, & when his boss Abigail (Paul ...

" Thats one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

With these words, Neil Armstrong marked the

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Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident & much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful amorality, old-fashioned indifference & priggish disapproval of those around her. ...

Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results.

The diffident & much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful amorality, old-fashioned indifference & priggish disapproval of those around her.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781785995040
• Author: Jane Austen
• Publisher: Arcturus
• Format: Hardback
• Dimensions: 17 x 12 x 3cm








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When Henry & Maria Crawford come to Mansfield Park, they bring a taste of glamorous London society to the peaceful world of the Bertram family. Everyone is enamoured of them; everyone except Fanny Price. A poor relation, Fanny has gron up an outsider among her affluent family, finding an ally only in her cousin Edmund. But as Edmund starts to fall for Maria, Fanny finds herself caught in the tangle of sexual jealousies the Crawfords leave in their wake. This flipback book has 787 pages & is 8.2cm x 11.9cm x 1.4cm ...

This work is a resource for gender & development trainers which draws on the work of gender trainers all over the world. It offers field-tested training techniques, activities & photocopiable handouts, drawn from a wide range of sources & shaped into a coherent training programme. ...

A collection of insightful philosophical thoughts & stories, in which Paulo Coehlo offers inspiring answers to profound questions to delight spiritual seekers everywhere. It has proved to be a perfect gift-book in the few countries in which it has been published so far. This will be the first English translation.

This book is a jewel for all of us who look for meaning in our daily lives as we struggle along the spiritual path. Within each of us is a Warrior of Light. Each of us capable of listening to the silence of the heart, of accepting failure without letting it get us down & of holding onto hope even in the face of weariness & depression. Values like love for all things, discipline, friendship & learning to listen to our own hearts are the arms with which this warrior confronts the battles we face in the name of personal growth & in the defence of the light. On every page there is an inspirational thought, which can be read as part of Paulo Coelhos whole philosophy or used form the basis of a daily meditation. The Manual of the Warrior of Light is a handbook that shows human beings how to live as spiritual beings in the material world.

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