These beautifully told folk tales brought vividly to life by Marcel OLearys graphic illustrations have been collected by the author over his years of working as a greenkeeper gardener teacher & storyteller in Hampshire. Many are published here for the first time & others have evolved through countless retellings in Hampshire schools festivals fetes & events. Featuring dark tales of murderous kings & commoners wild women screaming skulls galloping plague coaches dragons dancing themselves to death giants & wandering corpses combined with humorous stories & evocative tales of love lust & passion this book takes the reader beyond the written page & reveals the wonders that lie within the Hampshire landscape. ...

Hampshire cricket has a rich heritage stretching from the rural game in the Hambledon epoch to the razzamatazz of Twenty 20 cricket under the floodlights at the Rose Bowl. Hampshire Cricket On This Day captures all the key events in those 260 years. It celebrates in diary form Hampshires Championship titles its one-day & Twenty 20 final successes record partnerships great bowling & batting performances its much loved grounds & its most notable matches. Tour & Test performances are also recorded. The exploits of the great players in its history such as Philip Mead Derek Shackleton Roy Marshall Barry Richards Gordon Greenidge Malcolm Marshall Robin Smith & Shane Warne are all recalled. The Countys charismatic captains in a line from Lionel Tennyson to Dominic Cork also receive attention. Readers will also learn of which Hampshire cricketers became a cowboy a monk trained snipers in the First World War served in the SAS emigrated to Australia to become a headmaster scored a try for Scotland whose nemesis shared the same birth date & whose benefit match started at midnight. The book is fully endorsed by the club & shows that Hampshire cricketers have been influential figures in the game all over the world. It will appeal to all cricket followers. ...

The northern half of Hampshire covers territory ranging from the rolling chalk downland of the Test & Itchen valleys to the Wealden edge & the heathlands at the borders with Surrey & Berkshire. Winchester is not only unrivalled for medieval architecture but like many of the smaller towns such as Alton & Alresford has some of the most charming streets in the southern counties. The countryside is rich in small villages with buildings of a delightful mix of timber-framing brick flint & tile & an abundance of houses & gardens of the Arts & Crafts Movement. There are fine country houses of every period from the quiet grandeur of The Vyne to the Victorian showpiece of Highclere Castle. But the area also has late twentieth-century architecture of great distinction much of it by the county's own architects & several monuments of unique interest from Jane Austen's house at Chawton to the spectacular French Imperial mausoleum at Farnborough Abbey & Stanley Spencer's moving series of war paintings for the chapel at Burghclere. ...

Situated beside the River Thames south-west of London Hampton Court Palace was a centre of court life in England from 1529 to 1737 & remains one of the finest palaces in Europe. The Official Illustrated History celebrates this intriguing architectural ensemble including the palaces original sixteenth-century building of Henry VIIIs reign. It features full coverage of the famous formal gardens & also reveals the lifestyles of monarchs mistresses & courtiers.

Includes:: full coverage of Hampton Courts famous & everpopular formal gardens a precious survival of gardening 300 years ago In the same series as Merrells highly popular official illustrated histories of the Tower of London Kensington Palace & Kew Palace

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The Collins Family Pet Guides are attractive colour-illustrated guides that give all the practical advice necessary for raising healthy happy pets. This comprehensive family guide is full of helpful information & expert advice to choosing & owning a hamster. All aspects of everyday care are covered & in addition many interesting facts & anecdotes about one of Britain s most popular family pets are included. Highly illustrated with beautiful specially commissioned colour photographs this book has information & advice on: * Origins & history * Hamster species & varieties * Behaviour & biology * Acquiring a hamster * Housing * Looking after your hamster * Breeding * Healthcare * Emergency care ...

Hancox is the Tudor hall house in rural Sussex where Charlotte Moore grew up & where she lives today. Its been in the family since her ancestor Milicent Ludlow young single & an orphan took it on in 1891 & began to enlarge the house & manage the farm. Hancox" tells the story of the house & the family over the following thirty years in the long run-up to the First World War. In one sense its a rural idyll: the arrival of the car disturbs this peaceful agrarian world but apart from that the rhythms of the countryside go on as they had for centuries before. But all was not quite as it seemed: Milicent made a distinguished marriage but her husband harboured a secret. Milicent herself gradually succumbed to religious fanaticism. & the death of the youngest boy at Ypres devastated the family bringing the idyll to a painful end. Using extraordinary archive material held at Hancox today Charlotte Moore weaves an Edwardian tale of madness & jealousy love & loss heroism & tragedy." ...

Hand Art" is about everything you can make with hand tracings: dragons frogs dogs aliens ducks cats monsters skunks peacocks turkeys & people. Since every creature needs essential details we included essential-detail-makers: googly eyes glue pompoms & crayons. The book itself is crammed with handfuls of inspiration & handy ideas developed by our staff of art experts." ...

Tristram Abberley was an acclaimed English poet of the 1930s whose legendary reputation was sealed when he died fighting for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Nearly fifty years later his sister Beatrix is brutally murdered in her seaside cottage. Her family are stunned by the crime
- especially Beatrix's niece Charlotte Ladram. But Charlotte has little time to mourn her aunt as fifty years of secrets begin to unravel. Beatrix is the victim of a dark conspiracy one that her loved ones are powerless to defeat. A harrowing quest for answers begins one that uncovers a shocking tale of wartime greed & treachery & a vendetta seemingly without end...
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In Cambridge 1355 the colleges of the fledgling university are as much at odds with each other as they are with the ordinary townfolk. This tension has recently been heightened by the return of two well-born murderers after receiving the Kings pardon showing no remorse but ready to confront those who helped convict them. & in the midst of this Bartholomew the physician is called to the local mill to examine two corpses. It is almost a relief to be able to turn his back on the fractious town but as always in Cambridge nothing is disconnected. ...

Moleskine present a catalogue-style book collecting 378 full-colour illustrations consisting of sketches & drawings from a selection of internationally acclaimed architects. Complementing the new A4 Moleskine ' Folio' format the collection also contains interesting & previously unpublished essays that explore drawing & sketching as the most important tools at the architect's disposal as well as being the root of the design process & a metaphor for any creative endeavour.

Includes:: a free 120-page Moleskine sketchbook.

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