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In this book, illustrated throughout, David Meara tells the fascinating story of hundred years of Scottish sleeper services.
A fascinating new lens through which to view the horrifying Burmese campaign of the Second World War, this book looks at the personal cost of the conflict through the objects one British soldier brought home in 1945.
Marking the 100th anniversary of the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow, David Meara draws on archive material - including a previously unpublished first-hand account - to bring the story to life.
Former Archdeacon of London David Meara explores some of John Betjeman's favourite churches, cathedrals and secular buildings.
Former Archdeacon of London David Meara celebrates the beautiful churches designed by architect Nicholas Hawksmoor.
An accessible history of Oxford from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day highlighting the city's significant events and people.
WINNER OF THE ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN AWARD 2022 WINNER OF THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARD 2022 Words like radio waves, bouncing off the spectres of mortality, middle age, and the mundane. Arriving at middle age was a decisive experience for David O’Meara, standing equidistant to the past and future with its accompanying doubts and anticipations, inviting re-evaluation of past goals, confronting personal loss, and the death of his father and friends. These are the masses on radar, indistinct but detectable existential presences encroaching, and in the center of the radar is the lyric 'I' sweeping its adjacent experience. Poems like "I Carry a Mouse to the Park Beside the Highway," "I Keep One Eye Open and...
This beautifully photographed selection of fifty of Berkshire's most precious assets shows what makes it such a popular destination.
Lavishly illustrated throughout, this book explores some of the best locations the county of Oxfordshire has to offer.
Lavishly illustrated throughout, this book explores some of the best locations the county of Oxfordshire has to offer.