Roaming Midsomer

Author: Martin Andrew
Publisher: History Press
ISBN: 9780750955874
Category : Bars (Drinking establishments)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Roaming Midsomer is the perfect follow-up to the successful Exploring Midsomer, which enticed lovers of Midsomer Murders and rural England to go and enjoy the beautiful 'Midsomer' for themselves. This compilation of interesting and pleasant walks offers plenty to do, see, eat and drink while exploring the area, with each walk based around locations used in the TV series. Most walking books are designed for the serious explorer, but this guide is Sunday afternoon friendly with a simple, modern and easy-to-follow style, including postcodes for all the eating and drinking establishments.Chris Behan and Martin Andrew, both residents of the area for nearly forty years, have used their intimate knowledge of 'Midsomer' to create a book that is essential for fans of Midsomer Murders and sure to enchant all those who love these rural locations, steeped as they are in 'Midsomer' lore.

Midsomer Murders Location Guide

Author: Frank Hopkinson
Publisher: Batsford Books
ISBN: 1841659509
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
A visitor's guide to Midsomer, pinpointing the most popular real-world locations used for filming the series. 'Midsomer Murders' was an immediate success from its very first episode 'The Killing at Badger's Drift', aired in 1997. With this guide, fans of the show can pinpoint the most popular locations used for filming the series, including familiar pubs, churches, villages and countryside that are open for visits. The guide features: - Famous pubs such as The Lions at Bledlow, which has been five different pubs in its Midsomer lifetime, and The Crown in Sydenham, which can claim at least three. - Villages clustered around the Oxfordshire/Buckinghamshire border – Turville, Hambleden, Fingest, Haddenham and Long Crendon, all favourite backdrops in the show. - Grand country houses including the Mapledurham Estate, Chenies Manor House and Dorney Court, all open to the public. - Ancient churches to admire, quite often the scene of grisly goings on in the vestry. - Short profiles on the two DCI Barnabys, John Nettles and Neil Dudegon, along with the five Detective Sergeants and Sykes the dog. With all episodes available on BritBox, fans of the show can watch old episodes with the Midsomer Murders Location Guide in hand and spot exactly where Inspector Barnaby brings the sometimes unlikely villains to book.

Exploring Midsomer

Author: Chris Behan
Publisher: History Press
ISBN: 9780752462233
Category : East Midlands (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Exploring Midsomer

Dead on Arrival

Author: Katie Gray
Publisher: The Endless Bookcase Ltd
ISBN: 1908941286
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
An enjoyable cosy crime novel. This is the first book in The Dead Series. Pippsy and Jack Standage are private investigators who visit a luxurious Cotswold hotel for a restful break. Alas it proves to be anything but restful. Within a couple of days a car with a dead man in the driving seat arrives at the hotel’s front door. Despite some initial reluctance on Jack’s part, the pair become embroiled in a series of occurrences, which include finding a suitcase full of money in the boot of the dead man’s car and a bag of diamonds lying in the bushes. The investigating police inspector is perhaps not all he seems, and a number of the other guests look suspicious. There is an attempt on their lives, and some very nasty people kidnap them more than once! Somehow or other they always manage to extricate themselves, but can they find the criminal brain behind it all?

Participant Observer

Author: Robin Fox
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351322826
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 582

Book Description
Robin Fox, one of the preeminent anthropologists of our time, takes us on an exuberant personal, intellectual and cultural journey through the 1930s to the 1970s. This is a personal, historical, intellectual journey, one that is at once intriguing, hilarious, and moving. Like Browning's Sordello (who recurs throughout the book), Fox is telling the story of "the development of a soul." Fox's method is to depend entirely on memory to select the people, events, and ideas that have driven him towards what was called at the time a "revolution in the social sciences." This revolution was the founding of the biosocial, or what came to be called the sociobiological, movement in the study of human behavior. It was a long road peppered with strange events, brain-bending ideas, odd adventures, dangers and sorrows, and a cast of lively, often eccentric characters.Fox describes himself as an observer of a series of endings: the last gasps of now extinct ways of life. He witnessed the last of the old steam and horse-powered northern wool towns of the industrial revolution and the pre-industrial Hardy countryside of southern England. He saw the ancient grammar schools before their destruction by doctrinaire socialism; the old LSE when it was still an international family, not just a big college; the brave but failed experiment that was Talcott Parsons' Social Relations Department. In the United States, he experienced the innocent but troubled America of the 1950s and the last gasp of traditional Indian life in New Mexico. He lived in genteel Jane Austen England in Devon and experienced peasant-crofter life in the Irish islands.Participant Observer is a report from the cultural and social battlefront, seen through the personal lens of a combatant. Fox has given us a kind of Cook's Tour through the ideas and intellectual movements of mid-century, when the world changed and the foundations of the twenty-first century were set. It is the history of an education by a narrator in love with learning.

Words and the Poet

Author: R. O. A. M. Lyne
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198152613
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
This book identifies and categorizes such diction in Vergil, but more importantly it shows how such comparatively unpromising material is converted by the poet's methods of 'combination' (iunctura) into poetry.

Dai Morris

Author: Dai & Williams Morris, Martyn
Publisher: Y Lolfa
ISBN: 1847716539
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 153

Book Description
The story of legendary Welsh rugby player Dai Morris, a member of the successful 1970s squad - a man who worked shifts in the coal mine in the morning and played for his country in the afternoon.

Muddied Oafs

Author: Richard Beard
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448112370
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
There is Rugby Union: the fast, compelling, TV-friendly combat sport in which sponsored gladiators are sold on their ability to crash into each other at top speed, and sometimes even to avoid each other and score. And then there's rugger. Rugger was once the serious version of rugby, more than a mere game, a fierce contact-sport developed in Victorian public schools to forge manly and unshakeable character. For a hundred years boys played rugger and made themselves into men. They also drank too much beer and took their trousers down in public. Richard Beard sets out to examine this contradiction by revisiting his seven former rugby clubs in four different countries. He meets Booker prize-winning authors and former England hookers, explores rugby's rivalry with soccer, its surprising attraction for nonconformists, and its unlikely role in organised crime. All while trying to get himself a game. This is Beard's quest into his rugby-playing past, where he's lived the sport in many of its varied forms. By the end of his wayward journey, he almost qualifies to judge whether rugger has achieved what the Victorians always intended, and made him a better man.

Cherringham Box Set: Episodes 1-12

Author: Matthew Costello
Publisher: BASTEI LÜBBE
ISBN: 3732564258
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1472

Book Description
IT'S HERE... Your Cosy Mystery Summer Reading Box Set! For a limited time - the first TWELVE novellas from the popular cosy mystery series in one BIG BUNDLE! For MORE THAN 1,400 pages you'll be visiting Cherringham - a sleepy English village in the Cotswolds. Here Sarah, a British web designer, and Jack, a retired American cop, pair up in an unlikely partnership to get to the bottom of numerous exciting cases. Stroll the cobblestone streets or chat with the locals at The Spotted Pig. But beware! From mysterious disappearances to unsolved murders, there's always mischief afoot in Cherringham. Thrilling and deadly - but with a spot of tea - it's like Rosamunde Pilcher meets Inspector Barnaby. Each of the self-contained novellas is a quick read for the morning commute, while waiting for the doctor, or when curling up with a hot cuppa. Buy the Cherringham Cosy Mystery Box Set and start solving your next mystery (or twelve) today! This eBox Set contains the first 12 novellas of the series: MURDER ON THAMES MYSTERY AT THE MANOR MURDER BY MOONLIGHT THICK AS THIEVES LAST TRAIN TO LONDON THE CURSE OF MABB'S FARM THE BODY IN THE LAKE SNOWBLIND PLAYING DEAD A DEADLY CONFESSION BLADE IN THE WATER DEATH ON A SUMMER NIGHT Co-authors Neil Richards (based in the UK) and Matthew Costello (based in the US), have been writing together since the mid 90's, creating content and working on projects for the BBC, Disney Channel, Sony, ABC, Eidos, and Nintendo to name but a few. Their transatlantic collaboration has underpinned scores of TV drama scripts, computer games, radio shows, and - most recently - the successful crime fiction series Cherringham.

The Real Pet Detective

Author: Tom Watkins
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241979277
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
"'Okay listen up everyone,' I said, zipping up my high visibility jacket. 'It will be most effective to comb the local area by taking a village each.' I told my team as I traced my finger across the map. My experience as a former copper was invaluable for our search. We weren't looking for a missing person though - we had a dog to find." Any pet owner knows the agonising panic when their beloved furry family member goes missing, but Tom Watkins, former policeman turned pet detective, is on hand to reunite our animal companions with their owners. From recording the owner's voice to lure cats from their hiding place, to organising a fly-over to raise the profile of missing Toby the terrier, from emptying the contents of the owner's vacuum to tempt in the missing animal with the scent, to organising a Crimewatch-style reconstruction of a dog-snatching on national TV, Tom will do whatever it takes to get the nation's pets home, safe and sound. The Real Pet Detective is the story of 20 years of missing pets, their owners and Tom's team of expert pet investigators.