This book has great humour and colour and draws inspiration from evocative emotions and personal experiences from living in the West Country. The Isles of Scilly, Wales, Bric-a-brac - Cornwall, are sources of inspiration for my verses. My poems are part of my everyday life, and follow me where ever I go.

For Rupert Browne, life in the Chilterns is marked by simple pleasures like playing music at his local church, enjoying a spirited round of badminton, or paying social visits to friends with his wife, Keira. So, when a perplexing anomaly starts to impact on his vision, Rupert is caught completely off-guard, with no idea of the amazing and earth-shattering turn of events he will soon encounter. Uniquely Red Secretly Blue follows remarkable healings, tragedy and drama as this thrilling tale of faith and fiction radiates out from rural England to reach the rest of the world. As Rupert's visual disturbance becomes more stable, he comes to see people in a weird and unique way, with the colour red holding the promise of hope, and the colour blue assuming a vital but secret significance. With the recognition that he is being summoned to help God to perform individual healing miracles, Rupert and a small team set about arranging healing sessions at an expanding variety of locations for an ever-growing number of people. The momentum builds as Rupert receives official confirmation of these miracles through the Roman Catholic hierarchy, although he equally holds healing sessions for adherents of many other faiths and of no faith. Sharing his story and countering the claims of sceptics, Rupert involves the media to report to the world the miracles they and others have witnessed. Punctuating the story of Rupert's astonishing tours are intense moments of tragedy and drama including attempted bombings, a devastating air disaster, an oil terminal explosion, and even a pink gas attack. Uniquely Red Secretly Blue is above all a book of hope that will speak to the heart of those who believe in God and can equally inspire those who hold no fixed belief or religious affiliation.

Creating the Artful Home: the Aesthetic Movement and Its Influence on Home Decor covers the history of a movement that emphasized "art for art's sake"-and the influence it had on home decor. The Aesthetic Movement in America lasted just a few decades (1870-1900), and served mainly as a bridge between the high Victorian sensibility and the radical shift to the Arts & Crafts style. The movement germinated among artists who used opulent color, decorative patterning, and lavish materials simply for the aesthetic effects they could evoke. It was commonly held that a home that expressed an artful, harmonious soul would instill high aesthetic and moral merit in its inhabitants. The Aesthetic Movement in America helped to popularize the idea that everyone should be able to enjoy beautiful, well-made homes and furnishings-not just the very wealthy. Artful homes could be composed from brilliant antique store finds, discriminating department store purchases, and gems hand-made by the ladies of the house. It was the moment when people embraced the idea that only a beautiful home could be a happy home. Karen Zukowski delves into the movement's establishment, evolution, and main characters, and shows how today's homes can incorporate Aesthetic principles: Through suggestion rather than statement, sensuality, massive use of symbols, and synaesthetic effects-that is, correspondence between words, colors and music. How influential designers such as Clarence Cook and Charles Eastlake popularized the idea that beautiful homes with tasteful furnishings could be available to practically everyone How today's designers, manufacturers, and retailers deploy the very same stylistic markers of the Aesthetic Movement: rich color, layered pattern and texture, mixtures of historical motifs

The Good Beer Guide is the comprehensive resource of the UK's best pubs--from sophisticated city bars to cozy country inns, there is a pub for everyone in this indispensable book. The pubs are all regularly surveyed by CAMRA members so you can rely on this being the most up-to-date and well vetted of all pub guides. Discover the best pubs to visit in towns, cities, and the countryside throughout the UK. For each of the 4,500 pub entries you will find full details of real ale served, as well as details about food, entertainment, family facilities, history, and architecture. The guide also contains a unique expanded Breweries Section which lists every brewery that produces cask beer in the UK.

"The Deceivers explores the intersections among artistic crime, literary narrative, and the definition of identity. Through close reading of literary narratives such as Trilby and The Marble Faun as well as newspaper accounts of forgery scandals, The Deceivers reveals the identities - both authentic and fake - that emerged from the Victorian culture of forgery."--BOOK JACKET.