The unspoiled county of Shropshire is among the most appealing in England for lovers of architecture. The countys many historic towns of which Shrewsbury & Ludlow are the largest are especially plentiful in Georgian & timber-framed buildings. Shropshires villages intriguingly varied in plan & building materials reflect the diverse landscape of plains hills & moorland & the rich & complex underlying geology. The Cistercian abbey of Buildwas is the finest of several notable monastic ruins & outstanding medieval parish churches & castles are also numerous. Many of the country houses have a central place in the story of English architecture: the fortified mansions at Acton Burnell & Stokesay thirteenth-century design at its most sophisticated; the vigorous Baroque houses of John Prince & Francis Smith; John Nashs Italianate villa at Cronkhill looking like something in a Claude painting; Norman Shaws splendid Late Victorian mansion at Adcote. Shropshire is also unrivalled for its early industrial remains including the spectacular bridge at Coalbrookdale the first in the world to be built of iron. More ancient cultures are represented by the numerous prehistoric hill-forts & the celebrated Roman town at Wroxeter. Each city town or village is treated in a detailed gazetteer. A general introduction provides a historical & artistic overview. Numerous maps & plans over a hundred new colour photographs full indexes & an illustrated glossary help to make this book invaluable as both reference work & guide. ...

A Shropshire Lad (1896) is a cycle of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman. A Shropshire Lad was first published in 1896 at Housmans own expense after several publishers had turned it down much to the surprise of his colleagues & students. At first the book sold slowly but during the Second Boer War Housmans nostalgic depiction of rural life & young mens early deaths struck a chord with English readers & the book became a bestseller. Later World War I further increased its popularity. Alfred Edward Housman (26 March 1859
- 30 April 1936) usually known as A. E. Housman was an English classical scholar & poet best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical & almost epigrammatic in form the poems were mostly written before 1900. Their wistful evocation of doomed youth in the English countryside in spare language & distinctive imagery appealed strongly to late Victorian Edwardian & Georgian taste & to many early twentieth century English composers (beginning with Arthur Somervell) both before & after the First World War. Through its song-setting the poetry became closely associated with that era & with Shropshire itself. Housman was counted one of the foremost classicists of his age & has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars of all time. He established his reputation publishing as a private scholar & on the strength & quality of his work was appointed Professor of Latin at UCL & later at Cambridge. His editions of Juvenal Manilius & Lucan are still considered authoritative.
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The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse & comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills she is horribly brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously & it is up to Adam Dalgliesh to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills. ...

The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse & comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays the patient in a demonstration of nursing skills she is horribly brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously & it is up to Adam Dalgliesh to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills. ...

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James Hunt is remembered more for his girlfriends & wild personal life than for his skills in a race car. But the excesses of his glamorous life in the seventies cannot hide the fact that he was in many people’s opinion the fastest driver on the Formula One circuits in the 1970s. In an era dominated by the likes of Emerson Fittipaldi Niki Lauda & Ronnie Peterson Hunt stood out in terms of raw speed & the ability to effortlessly plant a Formula One car on pole position. The first chapter will be very emotional & tell the story of his death. It started on the Sunday morning of 13th June 1993 when he cycled the six miles from his home in Wimbledon to the BBC Television Centre in London’s White City to commentate on the Canadian Grand Prix with Murray Walker. When the race finished he cycled home & began a marathon snooker match which lasted into the early hours of the following day. At around 2am on Tuesday morning about to get into bed he suffered a massive heart attack & collapsed beside his bed wearing his dressing gown. For nine hours he remained undiscovered on the floor with his two dogs Jackson & Muffy laid one each side guarding their master. He was pronounced dead at 10am at the age of 46 his heart muscles had been fatally weakened by a life of hard drinking recreational drug taking & smoking cigarettes. In the book the author & his researchers have examined every detail of the driver’s life from his very earliest days to the last hours of his existence -and the people he left behind. It is a story many have tried to tell
- but never in such a complete way. The book is about James Hunt’s life his victories on the track the girls he loved & lost & the huge amounts of money he earned & spent. No stone has been left unturned no fact too small to include including his lifelong devotion to dogs & budgerigars. It is the first proper story of a man loved by all those that knew him well but despised by people who did not understand the rules by which he lived his life. It is a story of a man whose like will almost certainly never be seen again.
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The Sweeney broke the mould for British cop shows. Until it was broadcast they'd been rather stolid sometimes quaint dramas like Dixon of Dock Green Z-Cars & Softly Softly about policemen
- or even bobbies: not cops. They were about upholding the law: not breaking it: about smart blue uniforms not kipper ties & long hair. They were about preventing or punishing violence
- not about inflicting it with pleasure on villains. Then in 1975 The Sweeney burst onto commercial television. Based on the notoriously corrupt activities of Scotland Yard's Flying Squad it followed two dishevelled uncouth detectives Regan & Carter played by John Thaw & Dennis Waterman who hurtled around unsalubrious parts of London in a battered Ford Granada roughing up anyone who failed to spill the beans quickly enough. Where Dixon of Dock Green would bid his viewers Goodnight all 1" with a cheery salute this pair snarled " Shut it!" at toe-rags who spoke out of turn & " Put 'em away love" at gangsters' molls whose boudoirs they'd burst in on. Philip Glenister's Gene Hunt in Life on Mars is both parody & homage. Now Pat Gilbert has written the book on this cult cop show interviewing dozens of people who made it happen from screenwriters to stuntmen. It's an essential companion to one of the DVD box sets."

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When their mother is called to Iraq with her National Guard Unit 17-year-old Mario Barajas & his 10-year-old brother Eddie are sent to live with their Aunt Carmen. Soon after the boys move in their aunt's boyfriend Denton begins spending more & more time at Carmen's particularly with Eddie. When Mario notices that his little brother is laughing less & behaving rather strangely he soon discovers the sexual abuse that Eddie has been suffering at the hands of Denton. With their mother miles away their aunt's boyfriend threatening to split the boys up into different foster homes & his brother refusing to tell anyone else the truth Mario must do whatever he can to keep his brother safe. This is a gripping & moralising tale of trust betrayal & secrets that should never be kept. ...

Tie-in to the major motion picture released on 12th March 2010. US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane to find an escaped murderer named Rachel Solando. As a killer hurricane bears down on the island the investigation deepens & the questions mount. How has a barefoot woman escaped from a locked room? Who is leaving them clues in the form of cryptic codes? & what really goes on in Ward C? The closer Teddy gets to the truth the more elusive it becomes. & the more he begins to believe that he may never leave Shutter Isl&. Because someone is trying to drive him insane... ...

This publication offers some outstanding pictures taken by local motorcyclist photographer Dave Collister with complementary text by leading journalist & writer Mick Duckworth. The book gives an insight not only to the famous TT Races but also narrative text from both Dave Collister on his work & interesting facts & information on the TT from Mick Duckworth. ...