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The First Book of Gabriel
Some very kind people (although they may be in serious need of psychiatric help) have described The First Book of Gabriel as being effortlessly funny. So then, how best to describe Gabriel? Explaining it to his mother the author struggled to find the right words and eventually resorted to the catch-all phrase: 'it's satire'. And with characters named Gabriel, Michael, Peter, Jershemal, Samael and a Beelzebub, she offered him the use of her Bible. For research. But no, Gabriel does not satirise religion at all. There are far better targets than that! It sends up, amongst other things (and in no particular order): the EU, regulations, bureaucracy, architects, engineers, builders, management co...
It Never Was Worthwhile
The Great War saw slaughter on an industrial scale. Millions died, countless more had their lives irrevocably blighted by injury, by mental destruction or by the loss of livelihood. Yet precious little was resolved by the greatest conflict the world had yet seen; perhaps its only measurable effect was to make inevitable the still greater atrocity that followed little more than twenty years later. This collection of stories by Jem Shaw (The Larks) and Malcolm Havard (Contrail, The Last Mountain and The First Book of Gabriel) looks at the war through the eyes of the ordinary people who lived through it, people with previously mundane, safe lives; bakers, draughtsmen and well brought-up young ladies fresh from finishing school, who each try to adjust to the inconceivable. By turns tragic, funny and occasionally unbelievable, it will make you re-think your view of World War 1.
Lmf
LMF is a work of historical fiction set against one of Britain's most controversial campaigns, the RAF night bomber offensive. Its central characters are a pilot suffering combat fatigue and desperate to complete the last mission of his tour so he can rest and recover, his navigator, a Quaker struggling to reconcile his beliefs with the morality of his task, and an Australian engineer whose wife is dying of cancer.The novel covers a 24 hour period in January 1944, exploring the events of a mission through the eyes of a single crew of seven men.
The Lambrights
Nicholas Lambright (Lambrecht) was born ca. 1741 in Flanders, Belgium. He immigrated to Caroline County, Virginia, and married Martha Coleman in 1762. Descendants lived in South Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Florida, Oklahoma, Maryland, Missouri, California and elsewhere.
Man and Nature
First published in 1864, Marsh's ominous warnings inspired environmental conservation and reform. By linking culture with nature, science with history, "Man and Nature" was the most influential text of its time next to Darwin's "On the Origin of Species."
