Please Note This Book is a 1993 Re-Print ACCOUNTING for NON-ACCOUNTANTS This fully revised edition of an established and practical handbook includes the latest changes in accountancy practice and reporting standards FRS 1, 2 and 3. It gives the information necessary to understand the financial workings of any business organisation, large or small. It is…
Will a face from the past bring happiness or heartache? As a widow with a gentle temperament, Maureen Bancroft has been easy to take advantage of and has never learned the art of putting herself first. All that changes when an unexpected windfall comes her way. Determined to make up for lost time, she decides…
‘Yan, Tan, Hethera’ (one, two, three) the Lakeland shepherd counts his flock. Yan is an orphan lamb, one of three brought in from the storm to be reared by Hannah in the farmhouse kitchen. Different from the start, she grows wilful and headstrong, impatient of the placid meadow flock ,restless for the freedom of the…
Playwrights, novelists, short story writers, poets, essayists, historians and philosophers… all are included in this intimate account of the lives and works of over seventy Irish writers. Here, Irish writing is seen within the context of each writer’s life and times, and many curious details, such as the secret scribblings of an Irish rector, are…
Alone at Christmas – will she find somewhere to call home? As Christmas approaches, seventeen-year-old runaway Kathleen stumbles through the snow, alone and about to give birth. But when she’s carried to safety by a mysterious figure, her life is set on a new path… Welcomed by the Mason family at Home Farm, Kathleen believes…
The Best of Betjeman Selected by John Guest ‘A thoroughly well-rounded portrait of Betjeman the artist and Betjeman the man… it is the portrait of a phenomenon’ Charles Causley In addition to the best of Sir John’s poetry, this acclaimed selection includes prose that reveals him as architectural critic, social historian, conservationist, short-story writer, railway…
The Little Book of Betjeman is a perceptive evocation of the late Poet Laureates life and work and was published on 28th August 2006 to coincide with the centenary of his birth, an event that was widely publicised and observed worldwide. The book is lavishly illustrated throughout, in both colour and black & white, with…
On September 11th 2006 – exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers – 40 year old Doug Beattie played his part in the War on Terror. As a guard of Rudolph Hess in Spandau prison, as a junior soldier in Northern Ireland, an NCO in Bosnia and a Regimental Sergeant Major to…
The Cooks Encyclopedia of Curries The definitive guide to mouth watering, authentic curries from all corners of the Indian subcontinent, and from Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, Malaysia, and the islands of Indonesia and the Philippines. In-depth reference focuses on the cultures of India and Southeast Asia, and demystifies curryies with a guide to using and preparing…
Fully empowered by Pablo Neruda translated by Alistair Reed Fully Empowered first appeared in Spanish in 1962, under the title Plenos Poderes. Neruda himself regarded this collection as a particular favourite (and specifically asked the poet Alistair Reed to translate it into English), partly because it came out of a most fruitful period in his…