Author: Maggi Toner- Edgar
Release Date: 28th February 2012
Format: Paperback (Colour photographs)
ISBN: 978-1-908098-3-82
After running her own design company in the eighties, Maggi spent over 20 years writing, leading, validating and lecturing in Higher Education on Degree and MA courses. Her role in fashion ‘Haute Couture’ and design ‘Textile Craft’ courses and Applied Arts Research culminated in a doctorate, for which this book was a practice-based element. This reflective journal written through adversity, extracted enormous inspirational benefits to fuel the creative artistic process and in addition it offers transformative power in order to deal with trauma.
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Author: Mark Radtke
Availability: In stock
Format: Hardback (Colour photographs – plates)
ISBN: 978-1-908098-00-9
A Canvas of Rock transports the reader through two of the most influential periods in modern British rock-climbing as seen through the eyes one of the UK’s well-respected rock climbers – Mark Radtke.
This collection of personal experiences and friendships with some of the influential climbers from the 1970s to the present day, provides a rare insight and first-hand account on some of the crucial and at times contentious episodes that paved the way to today’s rock-climbing scene. We are also treated to insights of the man himself – his passion and his drive that have allowed him to challenge his limits and to pioneer many new Extreme routes.
Excerpt: ‘The sheer amount of time spent living outdoors, touching rock and getting dirty with the elements has undoubtedly brought me closer to nature. I know that I am a part of nature and not above it. Climbing has allowed me to explore my own fallibilities and shortcomings. Failure has occasionally resulted in one or two broken bones, but more often a bruised ego has been the more painful.
It has provided the opportunity to satisfy creative urges as in my own minds eye I have painted new routes on canvases of rock.’
With Foreword from Andy Cave, Andy Cave Author of Multi Award Winning Learning to Breathe (2006) and Thin White Line (2008)
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Author: June Tower
Release Date: Originally 2009 / release through 2QT 30th May 2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-908098-25-2
When June Kellet was only 15 she fell in love with a young naval officer and over the next four years they were to live their lives through letters and brief stays, when John had leave ashore. The letters, now held in the archives of the Cairn Library of the National Maritime Museum are considered by the then Curator of Manuscripts as being, ‘… very important – to naval historians – they stand, still, as our most important collection from the mid-twentieth century.’
In this journal June Towers shares with us some of the letters which portray the lives of two young people – a junior naval officer and a schoolgirl of 16 years of age – their every day lives, family and friends, dreams, hope and above all love. The letters contained within the book start in October of 1946 and cover a period of four years – the final entry being 29th November 1950. They married in April 1950 but married life was short lived as tragedy hit a year later, the day after their first wedding anniversary. June was 20 years old.
There has been much debate about the submarine the HMS Affray – still considered to be one of the Royal Navy’s worst peacetime disasters.
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Author: Geoff Pegg
Release Date: 30th June 2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-908098-26-9
The struggle to provide a school education for a Cumbrian village heavily dependent on the fortunes of its matting mill and the farming community, was at times a difficult one. Headteachers had to combat epidemics which closed the school for weeks, the apathy of parents for whom the education of their children was not the greatest priority and a budget which was always inadequate.
Holme School, 1911-2011, A Centenary History marks the occasion of the school’s 100 years on its present site, and reveals the travails of these teachers through School Log Book Entries, Managers’ Meeting minutes, newspaper reports and other documents. The journey from those early days to the present where clearly the fabric of the school has much improved, teaching methods have changed completely and children have a much brighter future is described in detail. Photographs of classes through the years will no doubt bring back memories for many, some faces remain anonymous, their names forgotten by the passage of time. There will be those who have moved to destinations far from Holme, others remain, the oldest resident in the village having started school in 1917.
All the children have one thing in common – they were Holme Scholars and hopefully, proud to have been so.
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Author: Sylvia Mayall
Release Date: 9th July 2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-908098-18-4
“Please believe me,” he started, “I know you must have many questions and I’m not being reticent, I genuinely cannot help you. The answers, I am afraid, you will have to find for yourself, but maybe this will help.” He drew a small envelope from his inside pocket…
The envelope handed over by a solicitor on the quayside of a Scottish Highland village, contained a map and small key and sets the narrator on a quest to find the identity of her unknown beneficiary, Avylis.
An austere bothy in the Highlands of Scotland; a case full of papers and a faded picture in the village café are the only clues, but together they provide an enigmatic key to unlock the door to an unexpected adventure of self discovery.
‘While there is still time for Holiday reading The Silent Mentor by Sylvia Mayall could prove to be a gentle, thought-provoking addition to the luggage. The intriguing story is told of a mystery bequest in the Highlands to the “I” of the story – whose name we never learn- and of her coming to terms with it…’ Book review from the Methodist Recorder September 8th 2011
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