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Shrewsbury School Library
First Published in 1990. Shrewsbury School dates back to the end o f the sixteenth century, and owes its existence to the provision contained in the Ordinances of 1578. This is a listing and descriptions of the books, bindings and comtents of the library.
Wounded Leaders
Political leaders in Britain are consistently drawn from a class born to be educated away from their families in institutions - elite boarding schools. This has a direct effect on their ability to love, to relate, to make good judgments and to develop the necessary leadership qualities for today's world. In this controversial and highly acclaimed book, the author guides the reader along the elite path through boarding school and Oxbridge to government, unpacking what he calls the Entitlement Illusion. Central to the Illusion is a uniquely British phenomenon, an industrialised process for turning out servants of the Empire that has been unwilling to change with the times. It was deified in the Victorian Rational Man Project and normalised by the British public, who still buy into the trance. Up to date evidence from Neuroscience shows what a poor training for leadership this actually is.
Lizzy Harrison Loses Control
'Have you ever noticed that the modern romantic heroine can be, not to put too fine a point on it, a bit useless?’ Lizzy Harrison has everything under control Lizzy Harrison isn’t a romantic heroine. Not even close. She doesn’t have a cat, owns no more shoes than the average person, and is in no way hopelessly scatty and disorganised. In fact her life is in perfect order, and that’s just how she likes it. Okay, so she hasn’t met the right man yet, but she really doesn’t have the time what with her busy job in PR and her packed schedule of improving activities. Her diary is planned months in advance and she’s determined that nothing spontaneous will force its way into her life. ...hasn’t she? But when her best friend Lulu questions her need for control, Lizzy starts to wonder if she needs to let go a little. So when she’s thrown into the arms of her boss’s number one client, notorious comedian (and love-rat) Randy Jones, she reluctantly relaxes her hold on routine. Lizzy Harrison is about to find out that losing control could win her more than she had ever imagined. 'Funny, moving, totally gripping' Harriet Evans
Secrets and Other Stories
Married love, male friendship, a small boy intruding upon secret adult grief, a husband contemplating infidelity - in these wonderful stories Bernard MacLaverty catches his characters at moments of epiphany, when ordinary life is set alight with sudden knowledge, memory, regret or desire.
Shrewsbury School
This book contains an alphabetical list of all Old Salopians (pupils of Shrewsbury School) who are known to have served in the armed forces of the Crown during the Great War, and the obituary notices of nearly all those who died. At the beginning there is a very useful page of statistics giving such details as the total number who served (1850), killed, PW, wounded and how many times, totals of Honours and Awards (two VCs) and Mentions in Despatches, showing how many times. The nominal roll shows the highest rank held at any one time in the War, Honours and Awards (in bold), the House and date of leaving, casualties including PW, all in bold, and the House at school and date of leaving. The last sxty-five pages contain the obituaries.
