The Sack of Bath
Title | The Sack of Bath PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Fergusson |
Publisher | Salisbury : Compton Russell Limited |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
The Treasure Bath
Title | The Treasure Bath PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Andreasen |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 45 |
Release | 2009-08-18 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0805086862 |
A wordless picture book in which a young boy explores a creature-filled world beneath the bubbles in his bathtub and finds a surprising treasure.
The Green Bath
Title | The Green Bath PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Mahy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Adventure and adventurers |
ISBN | 9780545206679 |
Sammy's mother tells him to forget about adventures and get cleaned up for his grandmother's visit, but the new bathtub Sammy's father brought home seems determined to have an adventure of its own.
The Story of Bath
Title | The Story of Bath PDF eBook |
Author | Cathryn Spence |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Bath (England) |
ISBN | 9780750964029 |
This richly illustrated history explores the many challenges and triumphs faced by one of Britain's most fascinating cities. The Story of Bath charts the long history of this important city from its beginnings in the Roman period through to the present day. Its lively narrative takes in Bath's medieval reinvention as a health resort and focuses on its Georgian heyday, when a new classical town was achieved as the elegant backdrop to the social round of polite society. The rediscovery of the Roman Baths and growing industries led to Bath's expansion in the late 19th century, while the Blitz and the consequent conservation battles of the Sack of Bath are highlighted in the 20th century. Accompanied by evocative archival images, Cathryn Spence brings to life the many facets of this remarkable World Heritage Site.
The Great Post Office Scandal
Title | The Great Post Office Scandal PDF eBook |
Author | Nick Wallis |
Publisher | Bath Publishing Limited |
Pages | 511 |
Release | 2021-11-18 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1838439056 |
The Great Post Office Scandal is the extraordinary story behind the recent ITV drama series Mr Bates vs The Post Office. This gripping page-turner recounts how thousands of subpostmasters were accused of theft and false accounting on the back of evidence from Horizon, the flawed computer system designed by Fujitsu, and how a group of them, led by Alan Bates, took their fight to the High Court. Their eventual victory in court vindicated their claims about the defects of the software and exposed the heavy handed attempts by the Post Office to suppress them. The book also chronicles how successive senior managers, business leaders, lawyers, civil servants and Government ministers, at best failed to expose the injustice or, even worse, sought to cover it up, resulting in one of the largest miscarriages of justice in UK history. The author, Nick Wallis, is a journalist and broadcaster who has been reporting on the scandal for over ten years and who acted as script consultant on Mr Bates vs The Post Office, the ITV drama that brought the affair into the national consciousness. As the public inquiry reaches its climax, and senior figures such as Paula Vennells come to be questioned, The Great Post Office Scandal reveals the full scale of what happened and will leave you enraged at how so many of our trusted institutions allowed the saga to go on for nearly a quarter of a century, shattering the lives of thousands of innocent people.
Earth and High Heaven
Title | Earth and High Heaven PDF eBook |
Author | Gwethalyn Graham |
Publisher | Cormorant Books |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2003-08-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1770860312 |
When Erika Drake, of the Westmount Drakes, met and fell in love with Marc Reiser, a Jew from northern Ontario, their respective worlds were turned upside down. Set against the backdrop of the first three years of the Second World War, Earth and High Heaven captured the hearts and minds of its generation and helped to shape the more diverse and inclusive culture we have today. Published in 1944, this classic novel was very timely; it spoke of the prejudices of its time, when Gentiles and Jews did not mix in society. Earth and High Heaven was the most successful novel of its time, winning many awards and prizes, including the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 1945 (an award founded to reward books that exposed racism or explored the richness of human diversity). It was translated into eighteen languages and the film rights were purchased by Samuel Goldwyn for a remarkable $100,000. Earth and High Heaven was the first Canadian novel to top the New York Times bestseller list for the better part of a year.
Dimanche and Other Stories
Title | Dimanche and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Irene Nemirovsky |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2010-04-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307739317 |
A never-before-translated collection by the bestselling author of Suite Française Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten gem-like stories mine the same terrain of Némirovsky's bestselling novel Suite Française: a keen eye for the details of social class; the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives; the manners and mannerisms of the French bourgeoisie; questions of religion and personal identity. Moving from the drawing rooms of pre-war Paris to the lives of men and women in wartime France, here we find the beautiful work of a writer at the height of her tragically short career.