Dogs have been cherished companions to Carol Reeve throughout her long life, and a Not Just for Christmasa is a collection of a tailsa about each one. Following these are more short stories, humorous verses and playlets, all of which will appeal to young people and older readers. This is Carol Reeve's eighth book, following a Soap In My Eyesa , a From Bottisham to Barcombea , a Stage Righta , a Simply Stage Strucka , a DiVerse Reflectionsa , a Murder in the Mountainsa and a The Cob Story.a

Many of these stories are based on real events, and the author's own experiences - such as a visit to the Morteratsch Glacier in Switzerland with her sister in l966, which inspired "Murder in the Mountains". An organised coach trip through Austria in 2006 with her husband and several curious characters is faithfully recorded in "An Austrian Adventure", but with all the names changed. In the story "Jennie's Oak" this old tree existed in Hazelbadge Fields in Poynton, Cheshire where Carol and her family lived for twenty years. "Bedside Matters" was a painful recollection of the author's stay in Maccles - field hospital. "The Speaker for Tonight..." was gleaned from many talks given by the author to various organisations over several years and is apologetically accurate. Many of the shorter stories grew out of suggested titles given during Creative Writing classes, and projects for homework. This collection follows "Soap In My Eyes", 2005, memories of her career in television, which is still available to order. "DiVerse Re flections" published in 2012; "From Bottisham to Barcombe", a childhood journey through the second world war; "Stage Right", sketches and monologues for ladies; "Simply Stage Struck", the art of acting for amateurs, are all available from Fast-Print Publishers. In 2011, Carol wrote "The Cob Story", published privately in Porthmadog for the U3A, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the building of the great embankment.

Diverse Reflections is a fascinating mixture of humorous, tongue-in-cheek and occasionally serious verses, written during a long lifetime by Carol Reeve. Carol was born in Cambridgeshire in 1931, studied drama in London, then married and moved to Cheshire where for over twenty years she enjoyed a career in television while standing as a Parish and Borough Councillor in Poynton and Macclesfield, alongside her husband. They retired to Wales in 2001, where Carol has intrigued Women's Institutes, U3As and other groups with her amusing talk about TV and theatre, as well as setting up a drama group for young people and taking part in amateur productions. She has found time to write five books, and decided to put this one together at the suggestion of her son and daughter, for their children.

Carol Reeve was trained at the Guildhall school of Music and Drama, worked in Repertory and on tour. She also joined various amateur companies, notably the Cambridge Theatre Group, and later the Poynton Players in Cheshire, where she set up the Poynton Jackals, (Junior Acting Class). Most recently she performed with and also directed the Starlight Players in Criccieth, North Wales, where she established the SPYDERS, the Startlight Players Youth Drama Section. For over twenty give years she appeared in many television dramas, as described in her book "Soap In My Eyes" (Athena Press) and she still gives talks to women's institutes and other groups.

Carol Reeve was trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, spent over twenty years in television, is a life member of Equity and has written innumerable plays and sketches for various amateur dramatic groups. She has recently performed with and directed the Criccieth Starlight Players, set up a youth drama group and still gives talks to WI and TWG members, and many other groups, based on her amusing book 'Soap In My Eyes'.

The Second World War brought lasting social and personal changes into the lives of families in the small village of Bottisham in Cambridgeshire, not least for the local doctor and especially for his daughter around whom this story revolves. She is finally sent away to an eccentric private boarding school in Barcombe, Sussex, where music and painting override everything else.

A Cultural History of The Human Body presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers 2800 years of the human body as a physical, social, spiritual and cultural object. Volume 1: A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity (1300 BCE - 500 CE) Edited by Daniel Garrison, Northwestern University. Volume 2: A Cultural History of the Human Body in The Medieval Age (500 - 1500) Edited by Linda Kalof, Michigan State University Volume 3: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Renaissance (1400 - 1650) Edited by Linda Kalof, Michigan State University and William Bynum, University College London. Volume 4: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Enlightenment (1600 - 1800) Edited by Carole Reeves, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London. Volume 5: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Age of Empire (1800 - 1920) Edited by Michael Sappol, National Library of Medicine in Washington, DC, and Stephen P. Rice, Ramapo College of New Jersey. Volume 6: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Modern Age (1900-21st Century) Edited by Ivan Crozier, University of Edinburgh, and Chiara Beccalossi, University of Queensland. Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters: 1. Birth and Death 2. Health and Disease 3. Sex and Sexuality 4. Medical Knowledge and Technology 5. Popular Beliefs 6. Beauty and Concepts of the Ideal 7. Marked Bodies I: Gender, Race, Class, Age, Disability and Disease 8. Marked Bodies II: the Bestial, the Divine and the Natural 9. Cultural Representations of the Body 10. The Self and Society This means readers can either have a broad overview of a period by reading a volume or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume. Superbly illustrated, the full six volume set combines to present the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on the human body through history.

The "Intertext "series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: a core introduction to language analysis (second edition 2001) is the foundation text, which is complemented by a range of 'satellite titles. These provide students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics, and can be used individually or in conjunction with Working with Texts.
"The Language of Science":
- Explores the way in which scientific language is used (and, at times, abused) by politicians, the media and ourselves.
- Demonstrates the interaction between linguistics and science.
- Is illustrated with a wide range of examples from the MMR vaccine to AIDs and the biological weapons debate, and includes a glossary as well as ideas for further reading.
- Looks at the role of 'names' and 'labels' in assigning levels of importance to scientific phenomenon.
- Examines the use of scientific language and the derogatory connotations it may denote as it is used amongst individuals.

The "Intertext "series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: a core introduction to language analysis (second edition 2001) is the foundation text, which is complemented by a range of 'satellite titles. These provide students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics, and can be used individually or in conjunction with Working with Texts.
"The Language of Science":
- Explores the way in which scientific language is used (and, at times, abused) by politicians, the media and ourselves.
- Demonstrates the interaction between linguistics and science.
- Is illustrated with a wide range of examples from the MMR vaccine to AIDs and the biological weapons debate, and includes a glossary as well as ideas for further reading.
- Looks at the role of 'names' and 'labels' in assigning levels of importance to scientific phenomenon.
- Examines the use of scientific language and the derogatory connotations it may denote as it is used amongst individuals.

Craig-y-nos Castle, on the edge of the Brecon Beacons in South Wales, was the home of the world famous opera singer, Adelina Patti. After her death in 1919, it became a tuberculosis sanatorium, mainly for children and young adults. The 'Children of Craig-y-nos' project was begun in 2006 by Ann Shaw who had spent four years there from the age of nine to thirteen. The launch of her blog (www.craig-y-nos.blogspot.com) to collect the memories of ex-patients and staff was so successful that within a year over a hundred stories and 1200 photographs, mostly taken by the children themselves, had been contributed. There followed three photographic exhibitions, radio programmes, a reunion at Craig-y-nos Castle, and a Lottery grant to produce this book. But despite a romantic location, this is not a fairy tale. TB affected the whole community - physically, socially and emotionally. It was the disease never spoken about except in hushed whispers. Craig-y-nos was called a hospital but it had all the hallmarks of a prison for sick children. Even at a distance of fifty or sixty years, some people broke down when reliving deeply buried memories. Others were unable to talk at all but communicated entirely though e.mail. A few remember physical and sexual abuse by staff. Stomach wash-outs terrified toddlers. Use of restraint by tying children to cot and bed railings was justified by over-stretched staff but criticized by hospital inspectors. Even keeping five-year-olds in high-sided cots could be interpreted as a form of imprisonment. The physical isolation of Craig-y-nos was another. Only one young woman admits to successful escape although several teenagers and children made abortive bids for freedom. Although this is an historical study, TB is not a disease of history. The World Health Organization in 1993 declared TB a public health emergency. An estimated 8.8 million people were diagnosed with TB in 2005 and 1.6 million died of it. But however difficult it becomes to control tuberculosis both locally and globally, one thing is certain. Those infected will never again be isolated from the rest of society because history has shown that policing infectious diseases is neither workable nor humane. Ann Shaw was born in Crickhowell, Powys, and worked as a journalist on newspapers in London, Lancashire, Yorkshire and Edinburgh before joining the Glasgow Herald as a Feature Writer. In 1997, she enrolled as a mature student at Glasgow School of Art in order to fulfil a lifelong ambition to be an artist. She now lives in Bridge-of-Allan, Scotland. Carole Reeves is the Outreach Historian, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London. She develops projects designed to further public interest in the history of medicine, and helps others to do so.

From lowly Extra standing around in the freezing cold and pouring rain to Speaking Part with the coveted honour of someone to hold an umbrella over her: Carol Reeve has experienced it all, and she recalls it evocatively and with gentle humour in this charming memoir of her "Extra"-ordinary career on television. Carol Reeve studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and began her television career in the 1970s. After living in Poynton, Cheshire, for thirty years, Carol and her husband Brian retired to Porthmadog in North Wales in 2001, where Carol has joined the Cricieth Starlight Players.

The Enlightenment, 1650-1800 was a time when people began to take stock of their intrinsic worth as individuals. Of course, slaves were still property, servants and apprentices were indentured, daughters "belonged" to fathers and brothers, wives to husbands, and paupers were tethered to their parish. But change was in the air as increased population, migration and urbanization began to reshape both national and personal identity. The birth of modern society in the Enlightenment demanded a rethinking of the human body in all its forms, from conception to death and beyond. The history of midwives, medics, colonialists, cross-dressers, corpses, vampires, witches, beggars, beauties, body snatchers, incest and immaculate conceptions - all reveal how the body changed in this age of turbulence and transition. A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Enlightenment presents an overview of the period with essays on the centrality of the human body in birth and death, health and disease, sexuality, beauty and concepts of the ideal, bodies marked by gender, race, class and disease, cultural representations and popular beliefs, and self and society.