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37 Oscar Terrace
Geoff Sadler, author of the much acclaimed 'Tripe and Spanish onions', now introduces us to the residents of '37 Oscar Terrace'. In Victorian days the most prestigious hotel on the South Coast, 'The Mansions' are now a run-down block of apartments.Meet 'Wily' Wilkins, the Council's Chief Planning Officer, a romantic novelist in dire straits, a ninety year old with an unexpected past, and a young rou� with a doubtful future. The exploits of the redoubtable Mrs Baverstock-Taylor, Chairman and self-appointed dictator of The Mansions, a scheming femme fatale, and many more, ensure chuckles galore. Discover too why Bert Figgins, The Mansion's dodgy caretaker, laughed all the way to the bank. As the Great Oscar himself put it 'Life is far too important a thing ever to write seriously about.'
Tripe and Spanish Onions
JOHN AND ANNE HAMMOND have burnt their boats. John has taken early retirement from his insurance company and they have sold their suburban bungalow and bought a run-down cottage in southern Spain. Henceforth life will be one round of perpetual sunshine and cheap booze. But the realities of everyday living intrude. Their encounters with, Spanish builders, bureaucracy, dodgy odd-job men and their attempts to integrate into their new mode of life are frustratingly humourous. John tries his hand at writing a best seller and his wife takes up her painting again. But when they have to contend with the Spanish driving test and the traumas of family visitors, forest fires and the late hours of Spani...
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Mansfield
A young waylaid and battered with a hedge stake while returning home from Mansfield on a summer evening; four family members butchered in a blazing house just off Commercial Street; an old farmer speared with a hay fork in the mire of a rural farmyard. Such cases detailed here show how often violent death has visited Mansfield in the past.
Fouls Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Chesterfield
Maiming, brutal murders, crimes of passion, suicides and executions; Chesterfield has all these and more in 'Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Chesterfield'. The scenic landscape of Chesterfield presents a pleasant face to it's visitors, but a study of it's past shows that it has often been a dangerous place to live. Exploring a catalogue of crimes, some of which are little known while others still claim media attention today. 'Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Chesterfield' has a blood stained thread of crime that is followed from the 'Parish Church Murders of 1422' through later centuries in such crimes as 'A Scandalous Assault 1875' and 'You have Kicked me to Death 1882' . What unfold...
The Six-gun Mystique Sequel
To this structural analysis he adds a new account of the genre's history and its relationship to the myths of the West which have played such an influential role in American history."--BOOK JACKET.
Shirebrook II
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Updating the Literary West
Given in honor of District Governor Hugh Summers and Mrs. Ahnise Summers by the Rotary Club of Aggieland with matching support from the Sara and John H. Lindsey '44 Fund, Texas A & M University Press, 2004.
Shirebrook A Second Selection
Presents a pictorial history of Shirebrook through photographs and images.
Shirebrook
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