Best Selling Books by Andrew Taylor

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..

''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 fifth instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth series When Mattie Harris''s body is found drowned in the river, everyone in Lydmouth knows something is wrong. Mattie wasn''t a swimmer - it can''t have been a simple accident. She was drunk on the last night of her life - could she have fallen in? Or was she pushed? Mattie was a waitress, of no importance at all, so when Lydmouth''s most prominent citizens become very anxious to establish that her death was accidental, Jill Francis''s suspicions become roused. In the meantime she is becoming ever closer to Inspector Richard Thornhill, and discovering that the living have as many secrets as the dead... ''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

This publication is an excellent introduction to the diagnostic and therapeutic uses of nuclear medicine procedures and a must have for clinicians, residents, interns, medical students and referring physicians. It reviews nuclear medicine procedures, available alternatives, advantages and limitations of each, and provides patient information to aid in preparing patients

Globalization and technology are combining to change socio-economic relationships. The pace of change and uncertainty of the world of work – no job for life, zero-hours contracts, diminished pension rights and a growing delivery dependence on digital networks over human contact – are creating a profound unease that may be unprecedented in the Western world. If organizational patterns are not sufficiently adjusted and businesses continue as usual, we run the risk of alienating entire groups within society with many feeling ‘left behind’. Using deliberately accessible language for students and the general reader, the authors draw upon socially innovative models of economic organization from the nineteenth century to present a model to master this new economy for the common good. The book illustrates, with practical examples, how digital networks can be leveraged and provides a common checklist to identify suitable conditions for organizations to flourish and provide the means to more effectively evaluate opportunities.

The third instalment of the brilliant William Dougal series, from the bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London. There''s unfinished business between William Dougal and his widowed father. Part of it has to do with Celia Prentisse, William''s ex-girlfriend. When her historian father is found drowned, it''s declared suicide, but Celia remains unconvinced - not least because his abandoned clothes were found with a bottle of the wrong brand of gin and a slim volume of Schopenhauer''s essays. It''s not much evidence, but it''s enough to send her godfather, retired British intelligence officer Major Ted Dougal, and his son William off on a trail that leads to a 1930s arsenic poisoning and a still-classified World War I court martial . . .

''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

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.

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.

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.

''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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Korean war rumbles in the background throughout this novel as a reporter is found murdered at the Bathurst Arms, squatters are evicted from a military camp and there are new developments in the three-year-old hunt for a missing teenager. And in spite of all that''s going on, Jill Francis, a local journalist, and DI Richard Thornhill find they can no longer resist their feelings for each other.

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.