Best Selling Books by Andrew Taylor

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''Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller'' Daily Telegraph From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the third instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth series After the coldest night of the year, they find the man''s body. He is dangling from the Hanging Tree on the outskirts of a village near Lydmouth, with his trousers round his ankles. Is it suicide, murder, or accidental death resulting from some bizarre sexual practice? Journalist Jill Francis and Detective Inspector Thornhill become involved in the case in separate ways. Jill is also drawn unwillingly into the affairs of the small public school where the dead man taught. Meanwhile a Peeping Tom is preying upon Lydmouth; Jill has just moved into her own house and is afraid she is being watched. And there are more distractions, on a personal level, for policeman and reporter . . . ''An excellent writer. He plots with care and intelligence and the solution to the mystery is satisfyingly chilling'' The Times ''The most under-rated crime writer in Britain today'' Val McDermid ''There is no denying Taylor''s talent, his prose exudes a quality uncommon among his contemporaries'' Time Out

From the No.1 bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London comes a gothic novella – perfect for fans of The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley.

In Two Years Below the Horn, engineer Andrew Taylor vividly recounts his experiences and accomplishments during Operation Tabarin, a landmark British expedition to Antarctica to establish sovereignty and conduct science during the Second World War. When mental strain led the operation’s first commander to resign, Taylor—a military engineer with extensive prewar surveying experience—became the first and only Canadian to lead an Antarctic expedition. As commander of the operation, Taylor oversaw construction of the first permanent base on the Antarctic continent at Hope Bay. From there, he led four-man teams on two epic sledging journeys around James Ross Island, overcoming arduous conditions and correcting cartographic mistakes made by previous explorers. The editors’ detailed afterword draws on Taylor’s extensive personal papers to highlight Taylor’s achievements and document his significant contributions to polar science. This book will appeal to readers interested in the history of polar exploration, science, and sovereignty. It also sheds light on the little known contribution of a Canadian to a distant theatre of the Second World War. The wartime service of Major Taylor reveals important new details about a groundbreaking operation that laid the foundation for the British Antarctic Survey and marked a critical moment in the transition from the heroic to the modern scientific era in polar exploration.

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''Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller'' Daily Telegraph From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the final instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth series As a young police officer in Palestine during the closing months of the Mandate - the cradle of Middle Eastern terrorism - Richard Thornhill saw and did things which still haunt his dreams and make him fear for his sanity. Is he himself a killer? Now, when a retired police officer is found dead in the ruins of Lydmouth Castle, the past has come back to claim Detective Inspector Thornhill, and he is under suspicion of another murder. His wife Edith and former lover Jill Francis join forces in an uneasy alliance to try to help him. But there are many complications - scandalous allegations have been made about Miss Awre''s School of Dancing; the Ruispidge Charity''s annual dance for young people is under threat; teenagers haunt the newly opened Italian coffee bar and yearn for fumbled intimacies in the sheltering darkness of the Rex Cinema. And the Spring floods are rising higher than they have in living memory, drowning a multitude of secrets . . . ''An excellent writer. He plots with care and intelligence and the solution to the mystery is satisfyingly chilling'' The Times ''The most under-rated crime writer in Britain today'' Val McDermid ''There is no denying Taylor''s talent, his prose exudes a quality uncommon among his contemporaries'' Time Out

First published in 1984, The Politics of the Yorkshire Miners examines all aspects of political activity of the Yorkshire Area of the NUM. The book was written using original research from the archives of the Yorkshire Area combined with the author''s personal experience. It explores developments from 1945 onwards, and looks at internal politics within the Area, discussing the nature of policies on both industrial bargaining and wider political aims. It considers the role of sponsored MPs and their relationship to the Area, as well as the NUM''s ''special relationship'' with the Labour Party. The structure of the Area and its role within the NUM nationally are also discussed, and detailed analysis is given to the strikes of 1972 and 1974.

Jack Watson and his new neighbor Saturday Holmes investigate a case of a missing teddy bear and two other mysteries.

In Newport County AFC: The First 100 Years, author and club historian Andrew Taylor celebrates Newport County AFC’s first century, detailing the club’s highs and lows over the years..

Concise history of discovery, exploration and mapping of the Queen Elizabeth Island (Canadian High Arctic archipelago) includes summaries of all known expeditions, the search for the Northwest Passage including the Franklin expeditions, attempts to reach the North Pole, and Arctic patrols of the R.C.M.P. as well as the voyages of the St. Roch. Extensive bibliography referenced to Arctic Bibliography.

From the author of The Ashes of London, comes a new historical mystery set in the last days of WWII

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For most people, a fear of redundancy hangs over them like a darkcloud. In Andrew Taylor''s case, it was a sudden, brutal pushin the back. Building on his contribution to the Aftershockseries on dealing with redundancy in The Sunday Times andhis own personal experiences, Burning the Suit shows how itcan be used as an opportunity to take control of your life. This isfor anyone who is looking for more in life than a 9-5 job,featuring: Disaster or Opportunity? What am I going to do? Taking stock, taking control, and taking a newopportunity Outplacement agencies, counsellors, and career coaches Selling yourself Being your own boss Networking Making it happen

Bonar Law was a prominent opponent of Home Rule for Ireland; he also served the shortest term of any of Britain’s 20th century Prime Ministers. In 1922 he was responsible for ending the coalition.

This uncompromising biography tells the story of a wounded D-Day veteran, a deserter, a violent drunk, a loving father who abandoned his first child, a boxer and brawler, a wife-beater, a bigamist, and a passionately romantic lover. It is also, most importantly, the story of a poet. Vernon Scannell wrote some of the finest poetry to come out of the Second World War. He won the Chomondeley Prize and the Heinemann Award, and for half a century he was acknowledged as one of the leading poets in the country. His Collected Poems are still in print, and his poetry for both adults and children is regularly anthologised and appears on English Literature examination papers. Scannell died in 2007, and Walking Wounded draws on his personal diaries, poems, and other writings to offer the first detailed study of this complex, controversial, and occasionally tragic life. For the first time, the women who loved him tell their stories; his children describe growing up with a father who was funny, affectionate, sometimes violent, and often not there at all; and his fellow poets, including Seamus Heaney, Anthony Thwaite, Alan Brownjohn and Kit Wright, speak of the dedicated stylist, assured performer, and occasionally roistering drunk that they knew. Scannell was seriously wounded in Normandy shortly after D-Day, but the book looks at the deeper, mental scars from the War that he bore all his life, and of the suffering they caused to him and the people who loved him. It is an important book about an important poet, which investigates where poetry comes from, and the terrible price that sometimes has to be paid for it.

The relationship between the Conservative Party and the organised working class is fundamental to the making of modern British politics. The organised working class, though always a minority, was perceived by Conservatives as a challenge and many union members dismissed the Conservatives as the bosses’ party. Why, throughout its history, was the Conservative Party seemingly accommodating towards the organised working class that it ideology would seem to permit? And why, in the space of a relatively few years in the 1970s and 1980s, did it abandon this heritage? For much of its history party leaders calculated they had more to gain from inclusion but during the 1980s Conservative governments marginalised the organised working class to a degree that not so very long ago would have been thought inconceivable.

First published in 1987. This book considers the Trade Unions-Labour Party relationship. It traces developments over the 1970s and early 1980s, and analyses the debate between those who argue for the Unions to take a more prominent lead within the Party and those who are against this. This title will be of interest to scholars and students of politics and history.

This book collects all the poems published by Andrew Taylor since his first book appeared in 1971, together with a substantial section of new work, and confirms him as one of Australia''s most original and individual poets. The poems range through explorations of personal and family relationships, encounters with a wide variety of landscapes and cultures, and social and political issues. A strong sense of mortality is balanced by a delight in the details of the physical world, a fascination with everyday objects, and a belief in the regenerative power of love. Poems for children and aging or dying parents explore the hopes and possibilities of the future for the young, and the significance of a lived life for the old and those who survive them. This poetry is firmly located in the physical world, often in specific landscapes and places, ranging from the coastlines of southern and western Australia to numerous places in Europe and the USA where the poet has lived. Although many of the poems are short and meditative-lyrical, there are also several extended sequences, including one of book length written during the absence abroad of the poet''s wife. Other sequences explore this relationship within a variety of geographical and historical contexts, and the importance of the beach, the coast and significance of living on an island-continent for the poet''s youth and middle age. Both the physicality and the ephemerality of the physical world are given meaning and illumination by the lives lived within it, in a language that is lively and confident, yet also aware of how the richness of the world inevitably evades its grasp.

However, the divisions and splits that finally ended the strike of 1984 - 85 was in many ways much more typical of the NUM''s experience throughout the twentieth century.

Mattie var servitrice, og ikke særlig indflydelsesrig. Så hvorfor har nogle af byens bedsteborgere så travlt med udbasunere, at hendes død skyldes et uheld? Rygter begynder at versere, og i deres kølvand endnu et dødsfald. En lun aften mellem endnu et forår og endnu en sommer hører man for sidste gang Mattie Harris'' latter. Kort tid efter bliver hendes lig skyllet på land i Lydmouth. Mattie kunne ikke svømme. Faldt hun i vandet, eller er hun selv hoppet i? Mens frygten holder byen i et jerngreb, kan journalisten Jill Francis og kriminalassistent Thornhill ikke holde sig på afstand af hinanden og undgå de bittersøde konsekvenser af deres gensidige følelser. Men flere hemmeligheder ligger begravet her. De levende har deres hemmeligheder, lige så vel som de døde ... Femte bind i serien om kriminalassistent Thornhill.

Som ung politimand i de sidste måneder af mandattiden i Palæstina – den mellemøstlige terrorismes vugge – så og oplevede Richard Thornhill ting, som stadig forfølger ham i hans drømme og gør ham bange for, at han kan være ved at miste sin tilregnelighed. Nu hvor en pensioneret kollega findes død i ruinerne af Lydmouth Castle, kommer fortiden tilbage for at gøre krav på ham – og kriminalkommissær Thornhill må konstatere, at han selv er under mistænke. Komplikationerne hober sig op. Der rettes grove beskyldninger mod miss Awres danseskole, Ruispidge Fondens årlige velgørenhedsbal er truet, teenagere mødes på den nyåbnede italienske kaffebar og længes efter famlende kærtegn i ly af Rex-biografens mørke, en universitetslærer fra Oxford er på jagt efter kærligheden, dødens engel optræder i kakishorts og kører i en Ford-varevogn. ''Blottet for bødlen'' er ottende bind i serien om kriminalassistent Thornhill og byen Lydmouth.

Koreakrigen og kommunistforskrækkelsen er på sit højeste, og den i 1946 forladte militærlejr Farnock uden for Lydmouth skal tages i brug igen. Men der er et problem: Lejren er beboet af husvilde, som ikke er til sinds at rømme den frivilligt. Luften er tæt af mistro og had. Midt i denne hadske stemning gæster tre fremmede Lydmouth: Sensationsjournalisten Cameron Rowse, som gerne vil puste til hadet mod alle såkaldte ikke-nationalsindede elementer; Labour-parlamentsmedlemmet Oliver Yately, som har brug for hjælp fra sin tidligere kæreste Jill Francis; og endelig ''Manden med fisken'' – en nylig løsladt forbryder med sin helt egen dagsorden. Fjerde bind i serien om kriminalassistent Thornhill.

I London i 1934 vækker det en vis opsigt, at den unge Lady Langstone forlader sin ægtemand og sit aristokratiske overklasseliv fra den ene dag til den anden. Lydia Langstone mister med et slag alle sine privilegier og har nu kun sin far at ty til, den forsumpede kaptajn Ingleby-Lewis, der bor på Bleeding Heart Square nr. 7. Hvad Lydia ikke ved, da hun flytter ind i hos sin far i den skumle London-bydel, er, hvilke grusomme hemmeligheder huset gemmer på. Hvad skete der med dets tidligere ejer, miss Penhow, der forsvandt sporløst for fire år siden. Hvem er den mand i det lurvede jakkesæt, der holder øje med huset dag og nat? Og hvorfor ankommer der blodige pakker med halvrådne svinehjerter i adresseret til Joseph Serridge - den sidste, der så miss Penhow i live? "Beskrivelsen af 30''ernes mørke, tågede og politisk usikre London gør ''Miss Penhows blødende hjerte'' til en rig læseoplevelse." Politiken "Den fritstående kollektivroman ''Miss Penhows blødende hjerte'' sætter en eftertrykkelig streg under Taylors originalitet. (...) viser Taylor som antydningens mester. Han lader os ane konturer, skjult bag myriader af løgne, halve sandheder og fortielser. Når det gælder kvindelist og intuition, er Andrew Taylor stadig den bedste femikrimi-forfatter i miles omkreds." Mogens Rude, Jyske Vestkysten "Klassisk engelsk kriminalroman i moderne indpakning om en stærk kvinde i en brutal verden. Andrew Taylors nyeste krimi skildrer en Dickens underverden i 1930'' ernes klassedelte England" Helsingør Dagblad "Andrew Taylor har valgt London hvor et crime of passion er blevet begået. Han giver et intenst billede af livet i 1930’ernes storby, hvor tingene ikke helt er som de ser ud til: Charles Dickens-ånden har været henover Bleeding Heart Square. Taylor er en fremragende story-teller. Han kan den ædle metier at fastholde læseren med sit plot og sin pen hvorved han giver en medrivende skildring af sædernes forfald og menneskers udnyttelse af hinanden." Helle Regitze Boesen, Litteratursiden

Seguimos rescatando lo que nos pertenece, y para ello, he "vuelto a casa" otra vez, para rescatar otro de los libros de Andrew Taylor Still, "su filosofía", publicado en 1899, con 71 años. En este libro vamos a iniciar a ver cómo realmente entendía el cuerpo Andrew, cómo era la anatomía de Andrew, algo que todos deberíamos rescatar alguna vez para poder mirar el cuerpo de nuestros pacientes como verdaderos osteópatas. Entender la anatomía de Andrew es entender la osteopatía.

Mystery. A couple discover a medieval script, the first clue to the whereabouts of a cache of diamonds, but their search becomes a deadly kind of fairy story in which even the several murders have an other-worldy quality.

London 1671. The damage caused by the Great Fire still overshadows the capital. When a man''s brutally disfigured body is discovered in the ruins of an ancient almshouse, architect Cat Hakesby is ordered to stop restoration work. It is obvious he has been murdered, and Whitehall secretary James Marwood is ordered to investigate. It''s possible the victim could be one of two local men who have vanished - the first, a feckless French tutor connected to the almshouse''s owner; the second, a possibly treacherous employee of the Council of Foreign Plantations. The pressure on Marwood mounts as Charles II''s most influential courtiers, Lord Arlington and the Duke of Buckingham, show an interest in his activities - and Marwood soon begins to suspect the murder trail may lead right to the heart of government.