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Crosville Motor Services was one of the most important regional bus operators that ultimately became part of NBC. Its services dominated all of North Wales from Holyhead eastwards as far south as a line from Aberystwyth to Oswestry as well as Cheshire the Wirral Peninsula & southern Merseyside. The company was formed as the Crosville Motor Co Ltd on 27 October 1906 in Chester by George Crosland Taylor & Georges de Ville initially to manufacture cars but was to commence operating buses two years later. Taken over by the Tilling Group 20 years later Crosville was to be nationalised along with other Tilling operators in 1948 & thus became part of the National Bus Company in 1969. As a Tilling Group operator the company's fleet was largely formed of Bristol/ECW models although there were odd exceptions & after 1969 the NBC's buying policy determined that vehicles such as the Leyland National would dominate. This volume covers the period from the mid-1960s through to the mid-1980s. It focuses on the transition from Tilling Group operator through the era of the National Bus Company to the period immediately prior to Privatisation. The photographs in the book have generally not been published before & are accompanied by detailed captions. ...

Crow was Ted Hughess fourth book of poems for adults & a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it he found both a structure & a persona that gave his vision a new power & coherence. A. Alvarez wrote in the Observer Each fresh encounter with despair becomes the occasion for a separate almost funny story in which natural forces & creatures mythic figures even parts of the body act out their special roles each endowed with its own irrepressible life. With Crow Hughes joins the select band of survivor-poets whose work is adequate to the destructive reality we inhabit. ...

A tale about the nature of evil & the power of love. It centres on a dark angel who literally rises from the dead to avenge a gang of thugs who brutally killed him & his fiancee on the eve of their wedding. This is the graphic novel that inspired the hit movie The Crow"." ...

Lily dreads going back to school after the summer
- will the bullying this year be as bad as the last? Hiding away from reality
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Crow Lake is that rare find a first novel so quietly assured so compelling & with an emotional charge so perfectly controlled that you sense at once that this is the real thing
- a literary experience to relish a book to lose yourself in & a name to watch. Here is a gorgeous slowburning story of families growing up & tearing each other apart in rural Northern Ontario where tragedy & hardship are mirrored in the landscape. Centre stage are the Morrisons whose tragedy is insidious & divisive. Orphaned young Kate Morrison was her older brother Matt's protegee her curious fascination for pond-life fed by his passionate interest in the natural world. Now a zoologist she can identify organisms under a microscope but seems blind to the tragedy of her own emotional life. She thinks she's outgrown her family who were once her entire world
- but she can't seem to outgrow her childhood or lighten the weight of their mutual past.

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From its bravura opening onwards THE CROW ROAD is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel. It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bachs Mass in B Minor & I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach. Prentice Mc Hoan has returned to the bosom of his complex but enduring Scottish family. Full of questions about the Mc Hoan past present & future he is also deeply preoccupied: mainly with death sex drink God & illegal substances... ...

From its bravura opening onwards THE CROW ROAD is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel. ' It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mass in B Minor & I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach.' Prentice Mc Hoan has returned to the bosom of his complex but enduring Scottish family. Full of questions about the Mc Hoan past present & future he is also deeply preoccupied: mainly with death sex drink God & illegal substances... ...

The Crow Trap is the first book in Ann Cleeves Vera Stanhope series -- which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn VERA. Three very different women come together at isolated Baikies Cottage on the North Pennines to complete an environmental survey. Three women who each know the meaning of betrayal.. . Rachael the team leader is still reeling after a double betrayal by her lover & boss Peter Kemp. Anne a botanist sees the survey as a chance to indulge in a little deception of her own. & then there is Grace a strange uncommunicative young woman hiding plenty of her own secrets. Rachael is the first to arrive at the cottage where she discovers the body of her friend Bella Furness. Bella it appears has committed suicide -- a verdict Rachael refuses to accept. When another death occurs a fourth woman enters the picture -- the unconventional Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope.. . Also available in the Vera Stanhope series are Telling Tales Hidden Depths Silent Voices & The Glass Room. Ann Cleeves Shetland series (BBC television drama SHETLAND) contains five titles of which Dead Water is the most recent. ...

The Crow Trap is the first book in Ann Cleeves Vera Stanhope series -- which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn VERA. Three very different women come together at isolated Baikies Cottage on the North Pennines to complete an environmental survey. Three women who each know the meaning of betrayal.. . Rachael the team leader is still reeling after a double betrayal by her lover & boss Peter Kemp. Anne a botanist sees the survey as a chance to indulge in a little deception of her own. & then there is Grace a strange uncommunicative young woman hiding plenty of her own secrets. Rachael is the first to arrive at the cottage where she discovers the body of her friend Bella Furness. Bella it appears has committed suicide -- a verdict Rachael refuses to accept. When another death occurs a fourth woman enters the picture -- the unconventional Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope.. . Also available in the Vera Stanhope series are Telling Tales Hidden Depths Silent Voices & The Glass Room. Ann Cleeves Shetland series (BBC television drama SHETLAND) contains five titles of which Dead Water is the most recent. ...