In Eccentric Wealth, Alastair Scott traces the life of Lancashire industrialist Sir George Bullough in this absorbing biography which explores his family's connection with the Hebridean island of Rum, particularly the building of Kinloch Castle, the most intact preserve of Edwardian highliving to be found in Britain. Based on new information, the book offers a fascinating insight into the life and times of one of the great eccentrics of his age, including the Bullough myths and scandals which continue to make extraordinary reading more than a hundred years later.

a Call Them the Happy Yearsa recounts at first hand the first 40 years of the life of Barbara Everard in her own words, augmented, now in this second edition, with her elder son, Martina s boyhood memories of some of those years. From a privileged early childhood as a daughter of a wealthy Sussex farming family, Barbara grew up through the depression desperate to become an artist, an ambition that she achieved with award-winning success as one of the worlda s foremost botanical artists. But this followed some years of colonial life in Malaya and the horrors of war both in Singapore and England, described in graphic detail as is her husband, Raya s story as a Japanese PoW on the infamous Siam railway.

An exercise in self examination. I hope it delves more deeply into my life than those of whom I have written. Discretion is not the better part of an autobiography, someone once wrote, but identification where it is not necessary, has been my watchword. Someone else wrote a Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiographya . Curious a " yes. But as I age the curiosity becomes less important. Only today matters and the ones I love and have loved. Will there be more? a | Ia d like to think so.

A road trip to Namibia unfolds across these pages, but when? Yesterday, years ago, or never at all? Barbara Adair refuses to say, creating something between memoir and fever dream.

This is no ordinary travel narrative. Language shifts without warning: playful one moment, brutal the next. The text overflows with names of rivers, flowers, trees, places, and people, then suddenly confronts the cruel realities of history and contemporary life. Nothing stays still long enough for comfort.

Here is freedom captured in words: wind, mythology, politics, life and death all tumbling together. Questions emerge about technology, mechanics, the vacuous nature of our existence. The reader can never settle into complacency.

Mark Kannemeyer's eerie illustrations enhance or deliberately undermine the text, offering visual refuge from the relentless verbal energy.

Non-linear, indulgent, challenging: this book demonstrates how language can be bent into new shapes, how stories can become something more than mere storytelling. Fun, sad, and occasionally repellent. Often all at once.

Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Utah, 2nd Edition. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, stagecoach, and train robbers. Duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, hiss at lawmen turned outlaws. A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the Midwest.