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SAGUS Vol 6
The 2 World War is over and Paul Thomas starts life in peace-time Britain. A year later he meets Betty on a blind date and their romance flourishes. Marriage follows. This is a time of great austerity in the country and great optimism. A royal wedding takes place and then in 1953 a Coronation. Slowly Britain turns from a black and white world to one full of colour. This short volume continues the SAGUS series with many photographs that have never been published before and a simple story of a family beginning to rebuild a life after the ravages of war.
SAGUS Vol 12
SAGUS is a series of books that document a life, a life that proceeded it and a life thereafter. Each volume covers a period of time or an event and they run chronologically. The uniqueness of the series is that it uses as contemporaneous records, diaries, notes, images, books, archives and photographs most of which belong to the author and his family. In other words the volumes are the closest that can be achieved to real-time testimony with a true record and insight to the times. There is no rewriting of history and hence they avoid this deficiency of most memoirs. Well almost because even when the basis of the writing is a diary, it is of course one person’s view and interpretation of an event. We all look at the same thing in slightly different ways, see some things but not others. SAGUS Vol 12 covers a single academic year at the authors English grammar school running from 1970 through until the summer of 1971.
SAGUS Vol 13
SAGUS is a series of books that document a life, a life that proceeded it and a life thereafter. Each volume covers a period of time or an event and they run chronologically. The uniqueness of the series is that it uses contemporaneous records, diaries, notes, images, books, archives and photographs most of which belong to the author and his family. In other words the volumes are the closest that can be achieved to real-time testimony with a true record to the times. There is no rewriting of history which avoids this deficiency of most memoirs. SAGUS Vol 13 covers the period from September 1971 to July 1972.
SAGUS Vol 33
This volume about Marugame is more an extended essay that takes snapshots of a city that is not well-known even in Japan. It covers a period from when I made my first visit in 1998 to 2015, the early chapters adapted from those that appeared in the first book I wrote. The waters of the Inland Sea lap on its shoreline; the air is tinged with salt, yet behind Marugame lie densely vegetated mountains that rise up steeply from a plain to create a geological amphitheatre an ever present backdrop and the backbone of Shikoku. Thus trapped by rock and sea, the people of Marugame define and live out their lives.
SAGUS Vol 5
Roy Thomas served in the Royal Navy, principally in the British Pacific Fleet. Using his history and records, a unique insight into his life during this time has been pulled together including the time he was in Occupied Japan.
SAGUS Vol 2
In 1914, Henry Thomas was working on the SS Victoria that ran between Australia and New Zealand when war broke out. He joined the Otago Regiment from Dunedin and then served for four bloody years in Egypt, Gallipoli, and the Western Front before being sent to Oxford to train as an officer.
SAGUS Vo1 11
SAGUS is a series of books that document a life, a life that proceeded it and a life thereafter. Each volume covers a period of time or an event and they run chronologically. The uniqueness of the series is that it uses as contemporaneous records, diaries, notes, images, books, archives and photographs most of which belong to the author and his family. In other words the volumes are the closest that can be achieved to real-time testimony with a true record and insight to the times. There is no rewriting of history and hence they avoid this deficiency of most memoirs. Well almost because even when the basis of the writing is a diary, it is of course one person’s view and interpretation of an event. We all look at the same thing in slightly different ways, see some things but not others. SAGUS Vol 11 covers a single academic year running from 1969 through until the summer of 1970.
SAGUS Vol 38
Most likely you have never heard of the Shiwaku Islands - neither had I, even after I first started visiting them. It was several years later that someone mentioned that they had a name. Yet even in Japan they are all but unknown, rarely visited and are off the tourist trail. All the more reason to get to know them. Comprising a group of eight principle islands and around twenty rocks and islets they form a compact archipelago on the eastern board of Japan’s Seto Inland Sea. Islands such as Hiroshima, Honjima and Takamishima are backwaters, albeit ones rich in history and deeply redolent of a time now past and a Japan that is rarely seen. This is the first book in any language dedicated to the story of these islands. Open the pages to discover a fascinating story in both words and photographs.
SAGUS Vol 10
As the SAGUS series of memoirs unfolds, Vol 10 covers the years 1967-69.
SAGUS Vol 3 Oxford to Liverpool 1918 - 1930
SAGUS the biography of a family, a potentially never ending series of volumes that covers my life, my families life and my descendants life. I say potentially because the continuation by my descendants does of course depend upon their willingness to become embroiled in the task. I may be the end of the line. SAGUS is everything and anything: diaries, essays, books proper, notes, jottings, photo albums, long and short-form. Almost all of SAGUS is taken from contemporary writings; all the photographs were taken by me or my family. Most of the other images are from items in our possession. This is a true record rather than relying on faulty and revisionist memory, or items imported in an attempt to recreate a period. In short it is reality: for good or bad and as comprehensive or incomplete as it may be. SAGUS 3 describes the Thomas’s family life, first in Oxford and then in Liverpool during the 1920s.
