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Other Non-FictionThese books can be bought direct from Pomegranate Press via Paypal. Free postage and packing to UK addresses only - contact us for a price to send books elsewhere. |
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A BRUSH WITH ENID BLYTON: The life and work of Marjorie L. Davies
Winning the trust of the prolific children's author Enid Blyton wasn't easy, but illustrator Marjorie L. Davies achieved it by sending her artwork she couldn't resist. Blyton immediately recognised Marjorie's skill and 'good child-like sense of humour' and recruited her to work on a wide range of publications, including Sunny Stories and Enid Blyton's Magazine. The book is packed with drafts and finished illustrations, many in colour. Marjorie lived for many years in Chailey, and after she died much of her early work, sketchbooks and letters from Blyton came to light in a trunk. These are now included, with other examples of her work, to show the full range of her delightful output.
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BASKETFUL OF FRAGMENTS – from the life and times of Mrs Oliphant
Krystyna Weinstein's 'fictional autobiography' of a prolific Victorian author draws on her memoirs, her letters, the hundreds of pieces she wrote for Blackwood's Maga and her contribution to the Annals of that publishing house. Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897) was a Scottish writer who, after the early death of her husband, brought up her three surviving children single-handed on the earnings from her pen. A novelist, biographer, art critic, literary reviewer and travel writer, she met many of the leading figures of the day and, as this book reveals, had strong views about her 'rivals' and the society in which they moved. The complex woman who emerges from this compelling imaginative reconstruction of her life finds herself on the cusp of conflicting attitudes towards women's liberation at a crucial moment in its development.
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This title is available on the author's website: www.mrsoliphant.co.uk
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CHICKEN OR BEEF? Here are the often hilarious memories of a BOAC steward, with all the behind-the-scenes stories passengers can only guess at. Jim Barham’s in-flight experiences include an earthquake, a hurricane and a heart-stopping emergency in the air.
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THE TRAIL OF THE SERPENT - The true story of a Victorian murder on the London to Brighton railway line. In 1881 retired businessman Frederick Gold was murdered in a train down from London, his body thrown into the Balcombe tunnel. Percy Lefroy, a strange and colourful character, was later hanged for the crime, which caused a sensation in Victorian England. Wax models of Gold and Lefroy were created at Madame Tussauds, and while Lefroy was on the run dozens of innocent men were arrested because of a resemblance to his picture on the 'Wanted' posters. James Gardner’s researches have unearthed Lefroy’s hitherto unpublished autobiography written in the condemned cell. It shows him to have been a fantasist with literary pretensions who killed in desperation as he fell deeper and deeper into debt. The story also involves one of the leading young actresses of the day, who was forced to deny any relationship with Lefroy – but whose later fall from grace strangely echoed facts he had invented about her. Drawing richly on newspapers of the time and other contemporary material, the book will appeal both to those interested in Victorian social history and to devotees of true crime stories.
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BODY WORSHIP – the frank, wildly humorous and preposterously near-the-knuckle
memoirs of a Brighton "erotic services provider"
. Meet Letitcia. She’s been there, she’s seen it and she’s most certainly done it – many, many times. She even managed to shock the unshockable Julie Burchill along the way. Letitcia’s accounts of her sexploits as an erotic services provider in Australia, England and several places in between are by turns hilarious and cringe-making, raunchy and risqué. She knows the male of the species inside out, and in this unique revelation of the sex-for-sale business she spills the beans about his desperate attempts to satisfy a slew of irrepressible lusts and longings – often in the most outlandish ways. Unapologetically non-PC, Letitcia gives us her trenchant views about Australians (lousy lovers), Malaysians (sexual hypocrites) and Japanese (eager to please in bed). As for the English, they appear in a variety of guises – anal retentive, malodorous, kinky, exploitative and, just now and then, considerate enough to want to give a girl a good time, too. Beach bum gigolos, sex oral and aural, dating agencies, sex aids, domination, painful accidents, the rate for the job and what men really want from women – this vibrant book offers a unique and unforgettable view of the underbelly of human sensuality.
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THIS TROUBLED EARTH In this amazingly wide-ranging investigation into creation, evolution, myths, prophecies, reincarnation, religion, the metaphysical and the paranormal, the author warns that the Earth is moving rapidly into its 4th density phase – so challenging the human race to raise its consciousness to the new vibrational frequency. Subtitled “A world in crisis”, and dedicated to “all those who dare to look beyond the illusion”, it claims that the Earth is changing after 75,000 years in 3rd density, and that we need to raise our consciousness in order to survive on it. “In the little time left,” the author writes, “we all need to learn that only by a radical change from our self-serving ways towards a more harmonious social climate, and a love of our fellow creatures, will we be in a position to limit the extent of any transitional damage.” |
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WHAT PRICE HUMANITY? Here’s an impassioned polemic by an artist-author who, moved by the sumptuous beauty of the natural world, recoils in vividly expressed distaste from the human greed and violence which betrays and distorts it. Sheila Webber’s uniquely rolling prose ranges from the poetically ecstatic to the savagely condemnatory as she examines the routes mankind has taken – through politics, big business, war and the subjugation of the weak by the powerful – to subvert a benevolent natural order. Despite her unsparing analysis, however, she yet clings to the hope that, ‘rather than being of detriment to the ethos of all life on earth, whilst yet open to moral directive, we might gain at least equal status as the flies and the bees – as the bubbles dancing in a mountain stream’.
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ARMED FORCES AND GOVERNMENT
Candyce Kelshall is a military historian and security analyst. A fellow at Buckingham University Centre for Security and Intelligence Sutdies (BUCSIS), she is currently a DPhil researcher in national intelligence and maritime security.
Focusing on the uprising of the Regiment of Trinidad and Tobago during the Black Power revolutionary era of the 1970s, her book asks a fundamental question: to what extent is the nature of the existing civil-military paradigm in a developing country the basis upon which intervention becomes a possibility?
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MAX MILLER'S NEW BLUE BOOK
The Cheekie Chappie has a statue in his home town of Brighton and a following throughout the world, in no small part due to the Max Miller Appreciation Society (MMAS). They’ve followed up their successful first edition with a new tribute book which features many dozens of the comedian’s jokes (some, of course, decidedly near the knuckle), along with photographs and cartoons.
The book also includes a poem by MMAS president Roy Hudd, a signed message from Ken Dodd and an appreciation by MMAS patron Michael Aspel. There are five pages of colour, too.
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