The son of a watercolour artist, William Gershom Collingwood (1854-1932) studied at University College, Oxford where he met John Ruskin, whose secretary he later became and with whom he shared a wide range of interests. Collingwood travelled extensively, sketching as he went, and after studying at the Slade School of Art, moved to the Lake District where he wrote extensively about the Lakes, Icelandic sagas and Norse mythology, as well as publishing a biography on Ruskin in 1893. He was an accomplished artist, founding the Lake Artists Society in 1904 and serving as Professor of Fine Art at the University of Reading from 1905-11. His interest in art and Scandinavia prompted his research into the Pre-Norman Crosses of Cumbria and the North of England. In 1927 he published 'Northumbrian Crosses of the Pre-Norman Age', illustrated with his own drawings. He was also an accomplished musician, climber, swimmer and walker. His son was the noted archaeologist (a leading authority on Roman Britain), philosopher and historian R. G. Collingwood. This well researched biography provides a comprehensive account of the life and works of a nineteenth century polymath whose story should be better known.

Published by CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONS Set in the hauntingly beautiful pine forests and bushland of Australia, Spirits of the Forest is a romantic adventure of forbidden love, tragedy and jealousy across family generations still haunted by memories of passion and betrayal. The wealthy and powerful Lancaster family own diamond mines in the breathtaking Kimberley Ranges. Katrina, their beautiful daughter, has her choice of men vying for her love. One such beau is Ryan Curtis, who, with his three boyhood friends, are learning the hard lessons of life, and face the inevitable challenges of growing older and leaving their boyhood town. Love and friendship proves to be their unifying thread. But there's something special about the young man with the taut and muscled body named Mundego and his incredible ability with horses, nature and the spiritual world that has captivated her, attracting her with a raw passion like a rare pink diamond glinting in the sunlight. Country secrets, bonds of true friendship, the joy and healing power of horses, the power of the spiritual world, where all time is eternally present, both the present and the past with a dramatic climax. Graphic and emotional, the story exposes and strips away the torn and tattered bark of a seemingly innocuous, tranquil and picturesque rural Australian town grappling with the dark secrets of its past. A catharsis in the pines where dark birds are uncaged and set free. For most, time will see them vanish. 'A powerful and compelling adventure love story, moving and uplifting....' Pinnacle

"A must-read, sure to engage. . . An important and richly narrated reminder to women of why, 'If you not at the table, you're on the menu.'" --Jessica Valenti, founder of Feministing.com and author of Full Frontal Feminism "Women had to fight first for the vote, and then for the right to be voted for. No one, but no one, has been more crucial to this ongoing struggle than Ellen Malcolm, and no one has more revealing stories to tell, her own plus those of women candidates in all our diversity. When Women Win will give you faith that this country might one day become a democracy." --Gloria Steinem In 1985, aware of the near-total absence of women in Congress, Ellen Malcolm launched EMILY's List, a powerhouse political organization that seeks to ignite change by getting women elected to office. The rest is riveting history: since then, EMILY's List has helped elect 23 women Senators, 12 governors, and 116 Democratic women to the House. When Women Win delivers stories of some of the toughest political contests of the past three decades, including the historic victory of Barbara Mikulski as the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right and Elizabeth Warren's dramatic Senate win. When Women Win is both a page-turning political drama and an important look at the effects of women's engagement in politics. "Both a rip-roaring political tale and an inspirational blueprint--with every trade secret revealed--of how and why Democratic women have been on the rise in electoral politics for three decades." --Nancy Pelosi, House Democratic leader "Superwoman Ellen R. Malcolm, with Craig Unger, heroically continues to beat the drum for female equality in When Women Win." --Vanity Fair