Product Description: Bruce Frederick Cummings (1889-1919), who wrote under the pseudonym W.N.P. Barbellion, was a naturalist who worked in the Natural History Department of the British Museum. Much of his short life was overshadowed by ill-health, and he died shortly after the publication of his most famous work, The Journal of a Disappointed Man, noted for its keen observations of the world around him and its alternating moods of exhilaration and despair...read more

Product Description: Frederick III, second German Emperor, reigned for only three months, from March to June 1888. Having been Crown Prince for twenty-seven years, he was stricken with cancer of the larynx, and by the time he succeeded his elderly father on the throne he was unable to speak above a whisper...read more

Product Description: This book, containing 2400 questions, covers all kinds of music. While the emphasis is on pop, rock and in fact all genres that have been the mainstay of the charts since 1952, classical, opera and musicals are also covered. A couple of ‘Big Mix’ rounds of 100 questions each include folk, blues and jazz as well as pop and the classics, while there are also plenty of specialist rounds on rock’n’roll, Tamla Motown, prog rock, Brit pop, artist-owned labels, and a series on major names including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac, The Kinks, The Smiths, Kate Bush, Take That, John Peel and many many more...read more

Product Description: A two-act drama based around the illness and death of Frederick III, son-in-law of Queen Victoria, who reigned as German Emperor for only three months in 1888. The other characters include his wife Victoria, German Empress; their son William, who succeeded him as Emperor; Queen Victoria, the Empress's mother; the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII; Prince Bismarck, German Chancellor; and Dr Morell Mackenzie, the British doctor in charge of the case...read more

Product Description: For most of the sixties, the British music scene was dominated by two bands, The Majors and The Headwinds. After increasing personal and musical differences, towards the end of the decade one member of each band collaborated in forming a new one, Elmore Sounds...read more

Product Description: From his early days as guitarist with Mike Sheridan and the Nightriders, Roy Wood was always a major figure on the Birmingham music scene. In 1965 he helped to form The Move, who weathered several line-up changes over the next few years while enjoying a spectacular run of hit singles, notably Flowers In The Rain, the first record ever played on Radio 1, and the No...read more

Product Description: In 1914 Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, the nineteen-year-old eldest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra of Russia, sails to England to meet her cousin Edward, Prince of Wales, generally known as David, as a possible husband...read more

Product Description: Home to all three armed services, Plymouth was greatly affected by both major conflicts of the twentieth century. Between 1914 and 1918, Devonport Dockyard was responsible for much routine repair and maintenance work as well as building new ships and submarines, while the marines and army battalions were active in various theaters of war overseas, and Mount Batten became one of the major stations of the newly formed Royal Air Force...read more

Product Description: Did you know cornwall has the longest coastline of any English county. A quarry at Carclaze was used as the location for filming Dr. Who in the 1970s. D.H. Lawrence and his German wife were forced to leave the county in the First World War under the Defence of the Realm Act...read more

Product Description: A compendium of fascinating information about Devon past and present, this book contains a plethora of entertaining facts about the county's famous and occasionally infamous men and women, its towns and countryside, history, natural history, literary, artistic and sporting achievements, agriculture, transport, industry, and royal visits...read more

Product Description: Taking you through the year day by day, The Plymouth Book of Days contains a quirky, eccentric, amusing, or important event or fact from different periods of history. Find out when Plymothians elected the first woman to take her seat at Westminster, when Sir Francis Chichester sailed back into the city at the end of his global voyage in Gipsy Moth IV, when Laurel and Hardy made their last ever appearance onstage, and what became of Casper the famous commuting cat who regularly traveled on the same bus day after day...read more