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One Decent Thing
Scottie, a decadent university administrator with a weakness for drink and women, visits his daughter Tina who is studying in Aberystwyth. She wants nothing to do with him because of the shabby way he has treated his ex-wife. After a heavy drinking session, he murders an injured IRA man he finds on the beach and steals the documents the man was carrying. The IRA cell try to hunt him down to recover the papers and exert pressure on him by kidnapping his daughter. Despite his cowardice, he decides that he will do one decent thing in his life and try to rescue his daughter. With the help of three university students he decodes the documents, discovers the IRA arms cache and then does a deal to recover Tina. The deal results in her freedom and his death.
Scotland
Rolling countryside, ruined abbeys, quiet fishing villages, cliff-top castles, peaceful lochs, majestic Highlands, magical islands—Scotland is an outstandingly varied and beautiful region. In addition to advice on when to go and how to make the most of your visit, there are suggestions on places to stay and eat, boat trips, bicycle routes, and walks.
Parker's Modern Wills Precedents
Recommended by the Institute of Professional Willwriters, Parker's Modern Wills Precedents is a well established and highly regarded publication, renowned for its clarity of drafting. The new 7th edition provides private client solicitors and professional will draftsmen with a thorough understanding and working knowledge of the will drafting process and, as a result, the ability to draft better wills. In recent years private client drafting and advisory work has seen rapid and far-reaching changes, for which many practitioners require some reassurance.Parker's Modern Wills Precedents, 7th ed, has been thoroughly revised to include the numerous legislative changes that have impacted this area of the law.An essential resource for all private client advisers, it will help you to improve your precedents, draft better, more up-to-date wills and provide your clients with a more comprehensive service.
Royal Wills in Britain from 1509 to 2008
This is the first book on Royal Wills since 1780 and aims to take over where the previous ones (in 1775 and 1780) left off. Therefore the period 1509 to 2008 is covered. It aims to uncover the many dilemmas and conundrums they have had to deal with, against a backdrop of Imperial splendor and political strife, society scandals and in later instances, a disintegrating infrastructure. This period covers the wills of Henry VIII, Edward VI and George I, which all sought to divert the accepted rules of succession; the wills of Queen Charlotte and George III, which brought into sharp focus the differences between State and Personal property; and the wills from Prince Albert to the present day (wit...
The Wessex Turncoat
Aaron Mew is a seventeen year-old apprentice blacksmith living in a small English village, in the late eighteenth century. His life is simple yet secure, until the day when he volunteers to take the place of his father on an errand for the squire. The country boy is wrenched from the environment in which he grew up and thrust into a world of ruffians, drunks, criminals and disgraced professionals - part of the army of George III. An army desperately short of men, but with the huge ambition to quell the rebellion in America and to retain the country under British rule. After relentless training, Aaron's regiment, the 62nd Regiment of Foot, is posted to Canada. There, fighting side by side with First Nation braves and German allies, the boy soldier becomes a hardened warrior. The Wessex Turncoat tells the story of an ambitious military campaign and the fate of a regiment which was sacrificed mainly because of the vanity and intransigence of an English general.
Izar, The Amesbury Archer
This is the story of a man who lived 4,500 years ago. He was born in the region of the Swiss Alps and died nearly a thousand miles away in the south of England near to Stonehenge when it was being built. The mystery is how this could have happened, for the man's skeleton shows that he was physically disabled. He lived at the end of an era, when human curiosity was pushing the boundaries into a new age. It was an exciting time when dependence on stone gave way to a new, more versatile material - metal. The numerous items buried with the man give tantalising clues regarding to his ability as an archer, but also to his role as a pioneer metal worker. How did this man come to be so far from his ...
The Black River Chronicles
You know these characters: The ranger, the fighter, the wizard, the rogue. But haven't you ever wondered how they learned to be those things? Three months into his studies at the Black River Academy of Swordcraft and Spellcraft, Durren Flintrand is shocked by the news that from now on he'll be assigned to a party, and that his only hope of progressing beyond the lowly rank of level one is to succeed with his new companions. However, Durren has a secret that may make that impossible, and his three partners have problems of their own. Wizard Areinelimus is terrified of her own magic. Rogue Tia has no patience at all with others. And warrior Hule is just an idiot. In fact, when a disembodied, f...
One Decent Thing
Scottie, a self-centered, dissolute university administrator with a weakness for cigarettes, drink and women, finds that he is unwelcome when he visits his university student daughter, Tina. His effort to drown his sorrows leads him into a world of terrorism and danger where he becomes a fugitive from the police and from the IRA. In desperation and with the help of some university students, he decides to break with his egocentric habits and do one decent thing. But he has made powerful enemies and will have to face retribution.
The Cycle Tour
The drama, camaraderie, scenery, history and sheer craziness of the world's biggest individually-timed cycling event. "The Cycle Tour" has become a global sporting phenomenon. From humble beginnings thirty years ago, it has grown into a landmark event around the spectacular Cape Peninsula that attracts a sell-out field of 35 000 riders every year and is the biggest of its kind anywhere in the world. This book tells the story of the pros, the amateurs and the jokers who make up the pack as well as the organisers and the remarkable volunteers who make the event tick. Above all, it captures, in stunning photography, the intense emotions of riding 109km through some of the most beautiful scenery in the world.
