Country houses were reliant on an intricate hierarchy of servants each of whom provided an essential skill. Up & Down Stairs brings to life this hierarchy & shows how large numbers of people lived together under strict segregation & how sometimes this segregation was broken as with the famous marriage of a squire to his dairymaid at Uppark. Jeremy Musson captures the voices of the servants who ran these vast houses & made them work. From unpublished memoirs to letters wages newspaper articles he pieces together their daily lives from the Middle Ages through to the twentieth century. The story of domestic servants is inseparable from the story of the country house as an icon of power civilisation & luxury. This is particularly true with the great estates such as Chatsworth Hatfield Burghley & Wilton. Jeremy Musson looks at how these grand houses were for centuries admired & imitated around the world. ...

Mike Pannett once of the Metropolitan Police is back in Yorkshire policing one of the largest rural beats in Engl&. Mike is called to investigate a series of burglaries which are sending shock waves through the area. Remote farmhouses appear to be the targets which stretches Mike's small team to the limits. Then as winter sets in two dogs are found running loose
- Mike fears the owner has gone missing in the dreadful weather & is forced to call on a full-scale search. Throw in a night-time operation in an empty museum & the harrowing business of taking three children into care against their mother's wishes & it's quite a case-load for the author of Now Then Lad You're Coming With Me Lad Not On My Patch Lad & Just the Job Lad.
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Mike Pannett once of the Metropolitan Police is back in Yorkshire policing one of the largest rural beats in Engl&. Mike is called to investigate a series of burglaries which are sending shock waves through the area. Remote farmhouses appear to be the targets which stretches Mike's small team to the limits. Then as winter sets in two dogs are found running loose
- Mike fears the owner has gone missing in the dreadful weather & is forced to call on a full-scale search. Throw in a night-time operation in an empty museum & the harrowing business of taking three children into care against their mother's wishes & it's quite a case-load for the author of Now Then Lad You're Coming With Me Lad Not On My Patch Lad & Just the Job Lad.
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Bailey Wingates scheming adult stepchildren are surprised when their fathers will leaves Bailey in control of their fortune & war ensues. A year later while flying from Seattle to Denver in a small plane Bailey nearly dies herself when the engine sputters
- & then fails. Cam Justice her sexy Texan pilot manages to crash-land the aircraft. Stranded in the wilderness & struggling to douse her feelings for the ruggedly handsome man by her side Bailey begins to wonder whether this was a mere accident. Who tampered with their plane? Whos trying to reunite Bailey & her husband in the afterlife? Cut off from the world & with little hope of rescue Bailey must trust her life-and heart-to Cam as they battle the harsh elements to find a way out of the unforgiving wilds & back to civilization.. .where a killer may be waiting to finish the job.
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Having taken to the lifestyle of a middle-aged civilian the last thing Paul Brenner wanted to do was return to work for the Army's Criminal Investigation Division the agency that thanked him for years of life-risking service by forcing him into early retirement. But when an old friend calls in a career's worth of favours Paul finds himself moonlighting for the Army as he investigates a puzzling murder that took place thirty years before in the midst of the Vietnam war. Forced to return to the country that haunts him & work for the people who cast him aside Paul must engage in the battle of his life as he attempts to find justice in a world of staggering corruption. ...

New York 1961: the dawn of the commercial Jet Age & a golden era of air travel. Betty Riegel spent her early childhood hiding in air-raid shelters as bombs dropped all around. From humble working-class roots growing up with a mother who struggled to make ends meet & a father away at war she had always dreamed of bigger things. After responding to an advert in the local newspaper she secured herself an interview for the Pan Am training programme & at just 22-years-old was selected from thousands of eager young British women to begin a career that would change the course of her life. Betty said goodbye to everything she knew & boarded a plane to New York a city full of noise towering skyscrapers & promise. Under the watchful eye of her 'housemother' Dottie Betty mastered the art of being the perfect Pan Am stewardess; everything from faultless etiquette geography & safety to seamless make-up application how to charm influential passengers & preparing five-course Parisian cuisine at 37 000 feet. But no amount of training could have prepared her for the rollercoaster of life in the air. Up in the Air charts the gruelling yet fabulous life aboard the most iconic airline there has ever been & how a young woman from Essex opened her eyes to the world & lived her dream. ...

The master of a journalistic style long vanished
- urbane lucid courteous...A masterpiece of observation & storytelling".
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Penguins Stopped Play" meets " Cool Runnings" in this hilarious & uplifting true story of footballing triumph against all the odds set on a Pacific isl&. After one too many late night discussions football journalist Paul Watson & his mate Matthew Conrad decide to find the worlds worst national team become naturalised citizens of that country & play for them
- achieving their joint boyhood dream of playing international football & winning a cap. They are thrilled when Wikipedia leads them to Pohnpei a tiny remote island in the Pacific whose long-defunct football team is described as the weakest in the world. They contact Pohnpeis Football Association & discover what it needs most urgently is leadership. So Paul & Matt travel thousands of miles leaving behind jobs families & girlfriends to train a rag-tag bunch of novice footballers who barely understand the rules of the game. " Up Pohnpei" tells the story of their quest to coach the team & eventually organise an international fixture
- Pohnpeis first since a 16-1 defeat many years ago. With no funding a population whose obesity rate is 90 percent & toad-infested facilities in one of the worlds wettest climates their journey is beset by obstacles from the outset. Part travelogue part quest " Up Pohnpei" shows how the passion & determination of two young men can change the face of football
- & the lives of total strangers
- on the other side of the world."



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The girls
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Although it was first published more than thirty-five years ago Up the Organization continues to top the lists of best business books by groups as diverse as the American Management Association Strategy + Business (Booz Allen Hamilton) & The Wharton Center for Leadership & Change Management. 1-800-CEO-READ ranks Townsend's bestseller first among eighty books that every manager must read." This commemorative edition offers a new generation the benefit of Robert Townsend's timeless wisdom as well as reflections on his work & life by those who knew & worked with him. This groundbreaking book continues to remind us not to get mired in all those sacred organizational routines that stifle people & strangle both profits & profitability. He shows a way to humanize business & a way to have fun while making it all work better than it ever worked before." ...