Books by alumni
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August 1914: England in Peace and War by Mark Rowe (BA 1989)
September 2013Diaries, letters and newspapers of the day tell of the watershed month when Britain went to war with Germany. In Bristol, for example, when crowds lined the streets to cheer the Territorials leaving their base on Whiteladies Road, a horse and cart lost control on Park Street and crushed a woman to death.
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But That's Absurd by Gordon Harrison (BA 1961)
August 2013Paul is an ordinary lad who on waking up on an ordinary day, just cannot talk normally, mouthing occasional words but mostly struck dumb. A diagnosis from a top consultant informs him that his complaint is simply an inability to say out loud any word containing that most common sign in our ABC (it's found twixt "d" and "f").
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Aux Yeux de l'Avenir by Gordon Harrison (BA 1961)
August 2013A most unusual novel in French, set in Paris in the near future: a world that is all upside down. The European Union has long since fallen apart and France is now a prosperous kingdom at war with Islamic neighbours. Virgin Mary has replaced Marianne in its town halls and people greet each other in Latin. In this world of intrigues, a young journalist recovers his memory after an accident but loses his faith. Yet amusing events and curious characters add a dose of spice to it all.
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Literature and Culture in Late Byzantine Thessalonica By Eugenia Russell (MA 2001)
June 2013The 'long' fourteenth century perhaps can be seen as Thessalonica's heyday. Alongside its growing commercial prowess, the city was developing into an important centre of government, where members of the Byzantine imperial family of the Palaiologoi ruled independently under full imperial titles, striking coinage and following an increasingly autonomous external policy.
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Masculinities in a Global Era by Joseph Gelfer (BA 1995)
June 2013The ongoing movement toward globalization challenges us to reconsider issues of individual identity. Are we evolving into citizens of the world? How crucial is nationality? And for men, what does it now mean to be male?
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Russian Roulette by Giles Milton (BA 1989)
May 2013He wore a khaki cap and tattered clothes and looked the very picture of a Russian revolutionary activist. But Joseph Ilitch Afirenko was neither Russian nor a revolutionary activist. He was Paul Dukes, one of a group of spies on an undercover mission of vital importance.
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A Tourist in the Arab Spring by Tom Chesshyre (BSc 1993)
May 2013One year after the Arab Spring revolutions in North Africa, Chesshyre heads off across Tunisia, Libya and Egypt to take the temperature of the countries as they come to terms with their new, post-dictator world. This travelogue captures with humour and a sense of realism three nations at a time when their future hangs in the balance, talking to ordinary folk along the way... and with only the occasional abduction holding up progress from Tunis to the Sinai Peninsula.
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A Life is a Life, aren't you luckeeeeee? by Thomas E. Mall (MA 1965)
April 2013Bold! Intense! One of a kind! Here's an opportunity to join a young boy from Green Bay, WI, taking the challenge to find his sexual identity and education by degrees. Join him as he works through his thesis, meets the cream of the British theatre and toils in the French libraries and continental museums researching ancient costuming and designs in pursuit of his MA in theatrical costuming from the renowned University of Bristol.
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Polska Dotty: Carp in the Bathtub, Throttled Buglers, and other Tales of an Englishman in Poland by Jonathan Lipman (LLB 1989)
December 2012Are you travelling to Poland and wish to know more about the Poles you’ll encounter? Have you ever wondered what makes your Polish plumber or cleaner or waitress tick? Are you fascinated by this country of forty million - one of the most visited countries in the world - rich in natural beauty, cultured, and famous for its people’s wanderlust? What book do you pick for background and insight? A superficial travel guide? A dry history book? No! You need the genre-busting Polska Dotty.
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Hand-Painted Signs of Kratie by Sam Roberts (BA 2001)
November 2012Flying pigs, retro hairstyles and hand grenades are among some of the images found in this book celebrating the art and craft of Cambodia’s hand-painted advertising. The book introduces the signs, the people who paint them, and explores their links to Cambodian art, culture and history.
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Korea: A Cartographic History by John Rennie Short (PhD 1977)
September 2012The first general history of Korea as seen through maps, Korea: A Cartographic History provides a beautifully illustrated introduction to how Korea was and is represented cartographically. John Rennie Short, one of today’s most prolific and well-respected geographers, encapsulates six hundred years of maps made by Koreans and non-Koreans alike.
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The Bend in the Sky by David Morgan (BA 1966)
September 2012The Bend in the Sky is a fast-paced humorous sci-fi read that draws us into the life of a young guy and his drop-dead gorgeous girlfriend as they struggle to save planet Earth.
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Monday to Friday Man by Alice Peterson (BA 1996)
August 2012While friends are marrying, having children and moving to the depths of the countryside, Gilly Brown finds herself alone in London with just her little dog Ruskin for company. It’s time to move on, so, on a friend’s advice she looks for a lodger, a Monday to Friday one, and finds handsome television producer Jack Baker. Gilly falls for Jack’s charm and is transported into an exciting social whirlwind of parties, dining out and glamour.
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The Other Mitford: Pamela's Story by Diana Alexander (BA 1963)
August 2012The story of Pamela Jackson, nee Mitford, is a fascinating one. Despite shunning the bright city lights that her sisters so desperately craved, she had many wild adventures of her own and was very much involved in the activities of her extraordinary family, picking up the many pieces when things went disastrously wrong - which they often did - but was always content to be her own delightful self.
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Final Whistle By Dan Freedman (BA, 1999)
July 2012It's the final whistle for Jamie Johnson! After leading Scotland to near-victory in the World Cup, Jamie Johnson has landed the dream job: playing football for one of the best teams in the world,Barcelona. But when disaster strikes and his days of football glory feel like a distant memory, Jamie's future will begin exactly where everything first kicked off.
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Alzheimer's and other Dementias: The Facts by Professor Julian C. Hughes (MB ChB 1988)
May 2012With more people in the world living into older age, Alzheimer's and other Dementias: The Facts takes a comprehensive look at the spread of dementia, and provides authoritative information and practical advice for sufferers, their families, and the medical professionals who care for them.
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Thinking Through Dementia by Professor Julian C. Hughes (MB ChB 1988)
May 2012Dementia affects millions of people throughout the world. This book is unique in exploring the complex philosophical issues regarding our understanding and treatment of this disorder. It provides a critique of the main models used to understand this disorder, and attempts unification of these approaches, with clear implications for treatment.
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A Greater Power by P J Craig (PhD 1969)
May 2012This is a story of love, war and betrayal seen through the affair of Harry Oldham and Lottie Simplon, an affair which one way or another lasted for most of the twentieth century.
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Scram by Harry Benson (BSc, 2000)
April 20122 April 2012 marked the 30th anniversary of the invasion of the Falkland Islands. This is the thrilling untold story of the young helicopter pilots - most barely out of their teens - who risked their lives during this brief but ferocious war.
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Engaged: Unleashing Your Organization's Potential Through Employee Engagement by Geoffrey Matthews (BA 1980) and Linda Holbeche
April 2012For managers and business leaders who want to enhance performance, this easy-to-use guide to employee management offers real solutions for getting workers engaged and increasing productivity. It explains what employee engagement is, why it matters, what the benefits of it are, what helps and hinders it, how to measure it, how to put theory into action when trying to create it. As an added benefit, it offers plenty of advice on how managers can keep themselves engaged, even during the toughest of times.
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For Fukui's Sake: Two years in rural Japan by Sam Baldwin (BSc 2000)
April 2012Far from the high-tech, high-rise of the super-cities, there lies another Japan. A Japan where snakes slither down school corridors, where bears prowl dark forests and where Westerners are still regarded as curious creatures. Welcome to the world of the inaka – the Japanese countryside.
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Patriarchal Structures and Ethnicity in the Italian Community in Britain by Azadeh Medaglia (PhD 1998)
March 2012This text focuses on the forms and specificities of gender relations within the Italian community in Britian. When migration to Britain, from Italy, began the patriarchal traditions and belief systems the Italian migrants brought with them were rigid and strongly held. However, life in modern Britain has posed new challenges and led to some major adaptations.
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Quick, Said the Bird by Richard Swigg (PhD 1966)
March 2012In Quick, Said the Bird, Richard Swigg makes the case for acoustics as the basis of the linkages, kinships, and inter-illuminations of a major twentieth-century literary relationship. Outsiders in their home terrain who nevertheless continued to reach back to their own American vocal identities, Williams, Eliot, and Moore embody a unique lineage that can be traced from their first significant works (1909–1918) to the 1960s.
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An Officer and a Gentlewoman by Heloise Goodley (BSc, 2001)
March 2012The trials and tribulations of a female army officer in the making, at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. When Héloïse Goodley quit her job as a City banker and decided to attend officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, she had no prior military experience. On her arrival she was a complete novice: she'd never fired a rifle, never dug a trench; she couldn't march in file; she couldn't even shine her shoes.
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Dictionaries as Cultural Products: Exploring meanings and definitions by Marina Friesen (Cert, 2004)
February 2012Are dictionaries really an ultimate source of 'correct' language? "Dictionaries as Cultural Products" is the first manuscript of such volume to deal with intentional and unintentional cultural biases and limitations in lexicography. It offers both, a theoretical exploration of word meaning and a practical perspective on dictionaries in use.
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Fern Fever by Sarah Whittingham (PhD 2005)
February 2012Pteridomania or Fern Fever took a frantic hold in Britain from the 1840s. It was a craze fostered by an array of books and magazines and special equipment designed for fern hunting trips and the cultivation of the finds in delicate fern cases.
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Double Chance by Bryan Betts (BSc 1952)
January 2012Double Chance tells the tale of Charlie Chance who invented an imaginary friend after losing his best friend, the exotic Carlos.
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The Temperament of Keyboard Music, by A.C.N. Mackenzie of Ord, (MLitt 1980)
January 2012This new book is a radical reappraisal of the whole science of keyboard tuning. Its fundamental feature is a complete revision of the terminology currently in use, since this is frequently not only confusing but also can be conflicting, as well as being inaccurate.
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2012: Decoding the Countercultural Apocalypse (Equinox Publishing, 2011) By Dr Joseph Gelfer (BA, 1995)
December 2011December 21 2012 is believed to mark the end of the thirteenth B'ak'tun cycle in the Long Count of the Mayan calendar. A growing number of people believe this date to mark the end of the world or, at the very least, the end of the world as we know it: a shift to a new form of global consciousness.
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More Morello Letters: Pen Pal to the Super Stars by Duncan McNair (LLB 1978)
November 2011Duncan McNair's (LLB 1978) first book The Morello Letters was heralded by WH Smiths as the funniest book in over 30 years and reached No 1 in Amazon for humour parody. The sequel, More Morello Letters - Pen pal to the super stars, is receiving similar stellar reviews everywhere and is named by the broadcaster Jon Snow as "the funniest book I have ever read". Read some hilarious sample letters from the discombobulous Morello family to the great and the good, and the genuine replies, at www.morelloworld.com
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The Morello Letters: Pen Pal to the Stars by Duncan McNair (LLB 1978)
November 2011A collection of hilarious letters sent to the great and good of British society. Mr. Morello is a slightly confused, pear-shaped forty-five year old Italian immigrant living with his larger, plump wife Mrs. Morello and three children -- Tosti, Amphora and Rizzo -- in that most salubrious of London suburbs: Ealing. As a family, they share a curious fondness for all things British and yet by dint of their Italian heritage, struggle to come to terms with some of our more esoteric characteristics.
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The University of Bristol Historic Gardens by Marion Mako (MA 2005)
October 2011Using many original archive resources, this book has been researched and written by Marion Mako, who studied for an MA in Garden History at the University. Lavishly illustrated, it tells the story of nine gardens and the people who created them.
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Star with a thousand moons by Andrew Parkin (PhD 1969)
October 2011Andrew's latest book contains an ode written in the form of a film scenario because it is about Chinese cinema and Shaw Studios. This is followed by a suite of lyrics about Chinese gourds engraved with scenes from literature and legend.
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The Cuban Intervention in Angola, 1965-1991, From Che Guevara to Cuito Cuanavale By Edward George (BA 1995, PhD 2001)
October 2011A new examination of why Cuba, a Caribbean country, sent half a million of its citizens to fight in Angola in Africa, and how a short-term intervention escalated into a lengthy war of intervention.
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Writing Medico-Legal Reports in Civil Claims – an Essential Guide by Giles Eyre (LLB 1973) and Lynden Alexander
October 2011A comprehensive guide to medico-legal report writing in civil claims, the book offers easy to use techniques to help experts and lawyers alike to apply essential legal principles in practical reporting situations. It also serves as a valuable reference, giving guidance on to how to approach a wide-variety of reporting issues – from causation and damage through to multiple incident claims and exaggerating claimants.
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Why should anyone buy from you? by Justin Basini
September 2011Trust in business is currently at an all-time low. From banks to oil companies to car manufacturers, despite the billions poured into marketing and brand messages, the level of consumer trust in business is collapsing. Marketing departments and their leaders increasingly look like they are selling snake oil, taking reckless multi-million pound gambles on advertising and marketing campaigns that barely move the needle. One of the most pressing questions for business leaders is "Why don't they trust us?".
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The Thinking Tank by Jae De Wylde Minshall (BA 1981)
September 2011The Thinking Tank by Jae De Wylde. 1969, London, England and Sally, a little girl dressed in brown, visits Father Christmas at a church fair. He rescues her as she trips and stumbles into his arms. As he hoists her onto his lap she thinks she feels the breath of a kiss on her cheek.
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The Conduit by Chryselle Brown (BA Classical Studies, 2005)
August 2011The place is Cyprus, the island of love in the Mediterranean. The city is Nicosia, the only divided city in the world. Greeks and Turks, opposing factions for decades – finally, a peace deal is on the table. A young English woman, Cathy Burkert is on a job in Cyprus, part of a team to identify the ancient Greek poet, Homer’s great work, the Cypria. Cathy has secrets, secrets which enables a deadly machine to be invented, one never before seen by mankind. A web of intrigue is spun to change the will of a nation, is Cathy the inspired medium?
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THE DEVIL’S DOGS by Penny Morgan (PhD,1969)
August 2011DCI Paul Draper and his friend Professor Mark Rees, an eminent primatologist, reappear in this third book, The Devil’s Dogs’, a crime thriller with a strong animal welfare theme. Both characters also featured in ‘Prime Witness’ and ‘Blood Wood’ by the same author.
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Kafka... for Our Time: Journeys of discovery by Michael Major (Author) & Azadeh Medaglia (Translator - PhD 1998)
August 2011Kafka... for our time: Journeys of discovery is a book of 24 thought provoking interpretations based around updated translations of classic Kafka stories. The insightful interpretations aim to make Kafka’s work relevant not only to the man himself and the time in which he lived, but also to our modern day lives and our own personal struggle.
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The Arundells of Wardour, by Barry Williamson (BA 1964)
August 2011Eventful and colourful history of the Arundell family, landed gentry based at Wardour Castle, south-west Wiltshire (UK), from the 16th to 20th century, engagingly written for the general reader but fully referenced for the scholar.
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Out of the Ashes by Tim Albone (BA 2002)
June 2011In 1987, aged 12 Taj Malik Alam set-up the Afghan Cricket Club. Its headquarters were a refugee camp in Pakistan and the team played with tennis balls, sticks and plastic bags on a rutted, dusty piece of scrubland. But Taj, and his two brothers, had only one childhood dream: to represent Afghanistan in an international cricket match. Out of the Ashes is the remarkable story of Taj, and his team mates, and their incredible journey from obscurity to the groomed grass pitches of elite cricket.
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World Class
June 2011It's the big one! The World Cup Finals beckon for Jamie Johnson but first he must answer a huge question: Which country will he play for? With brand new characters and all the trademark jaw-dropping footy action, Dan Freedman and Jamie Johnson return on very top form for the fifth book in the series.
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The Last Storytellers: tales from the heart of Morocco
June 2011Richard Hamilton has witnessed at first hand the death throws of a tradition that has passed seamlessly from generation to generation for nearly a thousand years. It is thought the storytellers or hlaykia in the main square in Marrakech, the Jemaa el Fna, have recounted ancient folktales and fables to rapt audiences since the city was first founded in the eleventh century. But this unique unbroken chain of oral tradition is now teetering on the brink of extinction.
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Seven Days to Tell You
June 2011When Kate marries the wild, sexy Frenchman she meets on holiday, everybody is stunned. Marc, however, is an attentive and adoring husband - until one morning he goes out, and doesn't come back. After three years of searching for him, Kate has to move on. She cuts her hair, throws away his things and finds new love. Then one morning she wakes up with Marc asleep in her bed. He asks for seven days to prove his love. Kate knows Marc is not the man she once fell in love with, but as he discovers, she too has changed.
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And The Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris
June 2011And The Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris by Alan Riding (BA (Econ) 1964) looks at how artists, writers and intellectuals - from the likes of Gide, Sartre and Camus to Picasso, Cocteau and Chevalier - responded to the occupation.
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The Postmodern Mystic
April 2011In Emergent Holistic Consciousness: The Postmodern Mystic Stuart P Heywood (BA 1994) examines the nature of thought, from Darwin to postmodernism.
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The Best of Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality
January 2011The Best of Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality by Dr Joseph Gelfer (BA 1995) brings together the best papers published to date in the Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality (JMMS), offering them for the first time in printed form.
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Sir George Oatley: Architect of Bristol
December 2010Architectural historian Sarah Whittingham (PhD 2005) tells the story of Sir George Oatley’s (1863-1950) very full life, from his poor childhood on the Isle of Wight, to running the most successful architectural practice in Bristol on his return to his native city.
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Talking to a Brick Wall
October 2010In Talking to A Brick Wall: How New Labour stopped listening to the voter and why we need a new politics, Britain’s leading political pollster, Deborah Mattinson (LLB 1978), reviews the New Labour years from the voter’s point of view.
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Obscure Logic of the Heart
October 2010The Obscure Logic of the Heart is the new novel from the Commonwealth and Dylan Thomas prize longlisted author of Ishq and Mushq, Priya Basil (BA 1991).
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Creative Disruption
September 2010Digital technologies are having a profound effect on business and industry. They’ve ripped up traditional business models and have created both opportunities and challenges for businesses in the 21st century.
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Mr Two Bomb
August 2010Is a man who witnesses two atomic bombs in a week blessed or cursed? This is the question behind the latest offering from writer William Coles (BA 1968), a release that coincides with the 65th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and that is based on a true story.
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Pluto: Sentinel of the Outer Solar System
August 2010Richly illustrated, this book by Barrie W Jones (BSc 1962, PhD 1967), Emeritus Professor of Astronomy at The Open University, is a timely account of Pluto for general readers, amateur astronomers and students wanting to know more about this intriguing celestial object. Boxed text provides more advanced information for readers who wish to delve deeper into the subject.
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A Year of Living Musically
August 2010A Year of Living Musically charts Katherine Dixson’s (BA 1978) first year at the helm of a large amateur choral society.
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Why Man Made Gods and Dogs
July 2010In Why Man Made Gods and Dogs, John Burton provides an overview of modern science as it relates to religion, ranging from cosmology, mathematics and physics, through the thicket of biology and biochemistry to evolutionary psychology and even a little home-spun philosophy.
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It’s All About the Bike: the Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels
July 2010Robert Penn’s (BA 1998) latest book It's All About the Bike tells of his journey to design and build his dream bike. En route, he explores the science, history and culture of bicycles.
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Survival: Saving Endangered Migratory Species
July 2010Survival: Saving Endangered Migratory Species by Robert Vagg (BA 1984) and Stanley Johnson is both a warning against the threat facing many migratory species and a celebration of their beauty.
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Man of the Match, by Dan Freedman (BA 1999)
July 2010The latest in Dan Freedman's successful football-themed books.
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Fraser's Line, by Monical Carly (BA 1957)
October 2009Monica Carly (nee Tucker) (BA 1957) has waited 52 years to write her first novel.
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Guns and globalisation
March 2009Journalist Misha Glenny (BA 1980) delivered a seminar in March on International Organised Crime at the University’s Department of Politics.
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Prairie Rose by Fred Smith (BSc 1956)
January 2008Fred Smtih started to write this book more than 25 years ago. After graduating from the University of England, he was hired as a field engineer in Swift Current, Sask. Smith fell in love with the vastness of the prairies and its inhabitants.
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The Well-tempered Clavier by William Coles (BA 1986)
October 2007Seventeen-year-old schoolboy Kim is an idle drifter at one of Britain's most extraordinary institutions, Eton College – crammed with over a thousand boys and not a girl in sight.
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The Wrong Kind of Snow - The Complete Daily Companion to the British Weather by Robert Penn (BA 1989) and Antony Woodward
October 2007It is a fact universally acknowledged that the British are obsessed with the weather. This is not surprising: no country in the world has such unpredictable weather, with such power to rule people's lives.
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The Optimist's Handbook by Nick Inman (BSc 1978)
October 2007In this brand new book Nick Inman pulls together a list of 100 non-sh*t things for us to feel glad about - a book to inspire the reader while they are slogging to work or taking a break from the ironing.
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The Selman-Troytt Papers, by P J Barrington (BA 1998)
October 2007The Selman-Troytt Papers is the first anthology of Jeremy Selman-Troytt's writing, and includes many of his masterpieces of prose and observation such as 'Social and Sexual Etiquette' and 'My First Involuntary Ejaculation’.
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The Bradt Travel Guide to Kosovo by Gail Warrander (LLB 1993)
September 2007The first dedicated solely to Kosovo, this guide provides full coverage of the young, fast-growing capital, Pristina, tips on living in Kosovo, including cultural norms, accommodation, food and communications and information on Kosovo’s ski resort, Brezovica, which offers some of the best skiing in south-eastern Europe.
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Breaking the Shakespeare Codes by Robert Nield (BSc 1979)
September 2007This book presents the most astounding thesis and the greatest collection of evidence ever assembled in the history of the Authorship Controversy.
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Cornwall Cree Nation by Alan Davis
September 2007Philip Cormack, a GP in a Cornish village, is facing burn-out, divorce and the end of his cricketing days. He sets out on a rejuvenating sabbatical in Canada, but finds himself on an aboriginal reserve where deprivation, drink and violence abound.
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Welcome to the Working Week by Paul Vlitos (BA 2000)
August 2007Meet Martin Sargent. He hasn't got a girlfriend (not anymore, anyway); he hasn't got a flatmate (see point one) and he definitely hasn't got the gift of tact. But he has got his mates (against all odds), an office crush and a mum who wants him to welcome Jesus into his life.
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The War for all the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo by Roy and Lesley Adkins (née Smith) (BA 1976)
August 2007The extraordinary story of the British Navy’s epic struggle against Napoleon. While most naval histories stop at Nelson, this book shows that what came afterwards is just as enthralling.
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Catalonia: a Cultural History by Michael Eaude
July 2007This book illuminates the cultural and literary history of Catalonia – from the stunning modern architecture of Barcelona, to the medieval Benedictine abbey at Montserrat, to the ancient Roman ruins of Tarragona.
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Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters by Philip Eade (BA 1988)
June 2007Sylvia Brooke was also known as Her Highness the Ranee of Sarawak, the notorious wife of the last White Rajah. One of the more exotic figures of the twentieth century, she was described by the press as 'that most charming of despots', and by her own brother as 'a female Iago'.
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Olaf's Saga by Stephen Liley (ME 1988)
June 2007Olaf's Saga is a story which chronicles the life and times of one many hailing from a remote region of Norway in the late eighth century. The protagonist takes part in and witnesses key events of the pre-Christian or pagan Viking period.
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To Grow Young by Peter Talbot (BSc 1964)
June 2007This is a story of one man’s experience of the horrors of World War I. But it is more than a war story. Well researched and based on real lives, To Grow Young reflects the courage of ordinary people in a world gone mad, and a love that transcends adversity.
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Everything I Need to Know about Being a Manager, I Learned from my Kids by Ian Durston (MEng 1992)
June 2007A witty and wise book for managers and parents alike, Everything I Need to Know... is a salient reminder of the life skills we all need to succeed whether at work or at home.
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Big Secrets for Not So Little Girls by Miranda Shearer (BA 2006)
May 2007This book covers travel, jobs, boys, love and hate, sex, glamour, fashion no-nos, parties, cooking, nasty habits, things that go terribly wrong, and lots of other weird bits and pieces.
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Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, Volume 4: A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing, by Frank Buschmann, Kevlin Henney (BSc 1989) and Douglas C Schmidt
April 2007This book is about a pattern language for distributed computing.
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Muddled Daze by Christopher Fewtrell
February 2007A freak accident, involving a pallet of pineapples, leaves Graham ‘Ray' Sunshine in a coma fighting for his life. When he recovers, the only lasting legacy of his accident is that every week he experiences Thursday before Wednesday. Struggling to come to terms with this affliction, will he use his 'gift' for good or ill?
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The Big Bible Storybook by Maggie Barfield (BA 1977)
February 2007The Big Bible Storybook is a lead-in to regular Bible-engagement for the under 5s.
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Quiet Killers: The Fall and Rise of Deadly Diseases by Dr Robert Baker (MB ChB 1988)
February 2007With bird flu a very present threat, this is a timely and important look at the impact of quiet killers through the ages. Some infectious agents are becoming resistant to nearly all available antibiotics; differences in travel and social behaviour spread infections more widely; and, with changes in climate, diseases are either being described for the first time, or appearing in previously unaffected areas.
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Project U.L.F. by Stuart Clark (BSc 1993)
February 2007Stuart Clark's debut novel is a science-fiction adventure set on a hostile world. Wyatt Dorren leads a team of trappers on a specimen gathering expedition for Chicago's Interplanetary zoo. However, Wyatt is soon to discover that he is the victim of a foul conspiracy – and the hunters have become the hunted.
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Bristol: City on the Edge by Neill Menneer and Tim Mowl (BEd 1975)
January 2007For a 1000 years Bristol has been badly governed. In every age, out of greed or plain stupidity, Bristolians have made the wrong decisions in developing their city, yet art and architecture have rioted in the resultant thousand errors. This book, packed with beautiful photographs, illustrates those errors and attempts to account for the paradox.
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The Knife and Fork Man by Bill Fairney (BSc 1963)
January 2007This book chronicles the life and work of Charles Benjamin Redrup, an innovative engineer who built his first engine in 1896 and his last in 1953
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Christ Triumphant by Michael Saward (BA 1955)
January 2007Prizewining author of 17 books and over 100 hymns, his hymns have appeared in over 215 hymnbooks across the world. The texts of 75 hymns and psalm paraphrases written by Michael Saward between 1962 and 2006 are contained in this book.
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Charles Williams: Alchemy and Integration by Gavin Ashenden (LLB 1976)
December 2006He was a close friend of TS Eliot, deeply admired by CS Lewis, inspirational for WH Auden in his journey to faith, and a literary sparring partner for JRR Tolkien.
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Witness Testimony: Psychological, Investigative and Evidential Perspectives, Anthony Heaton-Armstrong (LLB 1972)
October 2006Testimonial evidence remains the greatest source of information available to those who try cases in court. The assessment of the reliability and accuracy of contentious evidence given by witnesses has always been fraught with difficulty for judges and juries yet it has been the subject of scant academic study.
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The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology edited by Dan Hicks (PhD 2003)
October 2006This book provides an overview of the international field of historical archaeology (c. AD 1500 to the present) through 17 specially-commissioned essays from leading researchers in the field.
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Are You One in a Million? by Peter Hewkin (Cert in Education 1988)
October 2006Peter Hewkin has been a Royal Air Force officer, commercial pilot licence holder, Master Scuba diver, juggler, windsurfing instructor, and holder of both bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and thought to himself, what was the probability that someone else had done all those things?
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Icons of Twentieth-Century Landscape Design by Katie Campbell (MA 2002)
October 2006The 25 landscape designs selected for this book have changed the way we look at landscape. Each is here separately explored and illustrated and the reasons for its importance and influence explained.
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The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (BA 1986)
October 2006This book went straight into the number one spot on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly charts. It is a tale is about a naive young bibliophile drafted to write the biography of a troubled and dying writer.
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Fat, Bald and Worthless: The Curious Stories Behind Noble Nicknames by Robert Easton (BA 1984)
September 2006Was Ethelred the Unready always late for breakfast? Was Ivan the Terrible simply impossible to live with? Exactly how often did Wilfrid the Shaggy get a haircut? These vital historical questions are explored in this investigation into the vainglorious, unfortunate, and sometimes downright insulting names that pepper the history books.
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Opera (Eyewitness Companion Guides) by Alan Riding (BA 1964)
September 2006Spanning 400 years of musical drama, from the late Renaissance and including such classical masters as Verdi, Puccini, and Bizet, this is the complete visual guidebook to the great operas, their composers and performance history.
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Rules, Britannia, by Toni Summers Hargis (LLB, 1983)
September 2006An insiders guide to life in the United Kingdom.
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Fat, 40 and Fired by Nigel Marsh (BSc 1976)
June 2006Approaching 40, Nigel Marsh has a seemingly enviable life running the Australian office of a leading advertising agency. But he’s stressed, overweight, and struggling to balance a career, marriage and the demands of four small children. Then he loses his job.
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Cornwall on the Rocks by John Simmons (BSc 1970) (writing under Grace Tremayne)
April 2006Cornwall on the Rocks introduces Sven Ffolkes, a Norwegian policeman with an acute grasp of the British way.
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The Restless Prelate: Bishop Peter Baines by Pamela Gilbert (MA 1988)
March 2006This book tracks the life of Bishop Peter Baines, one of the most colourful and controversial bishops of 19-century Catholic England. A great correspondent, his letters and archives throw considerable light on the problems he faced and provide a fascinating insight to the times in which he lived.
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Eat to Beat Fatigue by Jane Harris (BSc 1976)
January 2006After a hard day’s work it’s often hard to summon the energy to cook ‘properly’. Here’s a cook book to make sure you don’t just reach for the ready meal.
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Palliative Care in Severe Dementia by Julian Hughes (MB ChB 1988)
November 2005This book deals with the issues holistically, looking at the physical, psychological, social and spiritual aspects of care. Written by experts in the field, with some very practical advice, it also places a heavy emphasis on the ethical issues that arise for professionals and for families in the care of people with severe dementia.
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Journey of the Tall Horse: A Story of African Theatre by Mervyn Millar (BA 1995)
October 2005In 1862 a giraffe was transported from Egypt to France as a prize addition to the King’s private zoo. In 2004 a unique collection of international performers, led by South Africa's acclaimed Handspring Theatre Company and the Sogolon Puppet Troup of Mali, joined together to tell its story.
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End Slice by Ernest Camden
June 2005Based on actual events, End Slice by novelist Ernest Camden details the injustice and sorrow experienced by the nation of Zambia during Zimbabwe's guerrilla war. For a full description, see http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/06/prweb530109.htm
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Software that Sells by Edward Hasted (BSc 1981)
May 2005So you think you're ready to become the next Microsoft?