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      • Beverley Slopen Literary Agency

        Beverley Slopen Literary Agency has a diverse, distinguished list ranging from major works of history to delightful comic fiction, from self-help to classic memoirs, from award-winning literary and commercial fiction to pop culture and true crime. Whatever the category, we strive for intelligent, accessible and entertaining writing. The Forgotten Daughter by Joanna Goodman from Harper US is a sizzling follow-up to her hugely successful novel The Home For Unwanted Girls. Terry Fallis, author of 8 comic novels, notably Albatross, the heart-winning tale of a championship golfer who hates golf (https://terryfallis.com ). New fiction features Ehab Elgammal’s poignant novel of leaving Egypt. In non-fiction: The Great State: China and World by Timothy Brook, author of the popular Vermeer’s Hat published in 17 territories. Our catalogue features biographies, historical fiction, mysteries, and a new book on supporting your immune system.

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        Frankfurt Invitation Programme Alumni

        The Invitation Programme offers publishers from Africa, the Arab world, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean the chance to participate inthe Frankfurter Buchmesse.

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        Horticulture
        December 1992

        Ornamental Bulbs, Corms and Tubers

        by Alun R Rees

        This volume considers ornamental bulbs, including the related storage organs of corms and tubers. An immense amount of research literature has been distilled, such that general principles are stressed throughout, but common examples are considered in some detail.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2012

        Defectors and the Liberal Party 1910–2010

        A study of inter-party relationships

        by Alun Wyburn-Powell

        This book is the first analysis of political defections over a long time span. It investigates all the Liberal/Liberal Democrat MPs and former MPs who defected from the party between the elections of December 1910 and May 2010 - around one sixth of all those elected - as well as the smaller number of inward defectors. Each of the 122 defections was an expert judgment on the state of the party at a specific date. The research investigates the timing and reasons for all the defections and reveals long-term trends and underlying causes and apportions responsibility between leaders for them. The author finds some significant differences which distinguished defectors from loyalists and draws wider conclusions about the underlying factors which lead MPs to defect. This book will be of interest to students and lecturers of British politics and anyone interested in the relationship between British political parties in the last century. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2017

        Defectors and the Liberal Party 1910–2010

        by Alun Wyburn-Powell

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2020

        Lobbying

        by Wyn Grant, Bill Jones

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2011

        The Transformation of European Football

        Towards the Europeanisation of the national game

        by Arne Niemann, Borja Garcia, Wyn Grant

        The book examines the transformation of European football in recent years by focusing on the impact of Europe in general and the EU in particular on the way that the game has evolved in a broad cross section of European states. The book brings together two significant research agendas: first, that on the governance of sport in Europe/the European Union; secondly, that within European integration studies on 'Europeanisation' (most commonly understood at the process of change in the domestic arena resulting from European integration). The concept of Europeanisation and in particular' top down' Europeanisation is used to shape the individual country case studies. Other transformational factors such as globalization are also assessed. The three chapters in the introductory section set the context within which the transformation of European football has occurred with particular emphasis on the role of UEFA and EU institutions. The ten country studies in the central part of the book include the five leading football nations in Europe and smaller countries that are facing new challenges in the competitive environment of modern European football. They include an example of a country that is a recent accession state and one outside the EU. What emerges from these chapters is both the shaping influence of Europeanisation but also the extent to which it is countered and modified by national culture and structures. What is also noticeable the sense of decline amongst some of the small and even larger footballing nations in the continent. This book will be of interest to students of European politics, sports governance and football, it also represents a substantial contribution to the debate on Europeanisation. ;

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      • Memoirs
        October 2014

        The Hill Farmer

        by Jones, Gareth Wyn

        The autobiography of Welsh hill farmer, Gareth Wyn Jones._x000D_ _x000D_ The farmer and his family came to national prominence in the aftermath of the severe snowstorm which hit their farm in the Carneddau mountain range of north Wales in March 2013._x000D_ _x000D_ Star of the r

      • April 2020

        ‘Intoxicating Shanghai’ – An Urban Montage

        Art and Literature in Pictorial Magazines during Shanghai’s Jazz Age

        by Paul Bevan

        In Intoxicating Shanghai Paul Bevan explores the work of a number of Chinese modernist figures in the fields of literature and the visual arts, with an emphasis on the literary group the New-sensationists and its equivalents in the Shanghai art world, examining the work of these figures as it appeared in pictorial magazines. It undertakes a detailed examination into the significance of the pictorial magazine as a medium for the dissemination of literature and art during the 1930s. The research locates the work of these artists and writers within the context of wider literary and art production in Shanghai, focusing on art, literature, cinema, music, and dancehall culture, with a specific emphasis on 1934 – ‘The Year of the Magazine’.

      • November 2013

        The Ghost Before Christmas

        by Katherine John

        Inspector Dan Evans retired from the Police to Wales to help manage the family pub and holiday rental business, but there is one cottage no holidaymaker can sleep in for a single night. The sixteenth-century farmhouse where Dan’s brother, Alun, murdered his wife. Alun is serving a life sentence, but the body of Christine Phillips was never found. Do the dead who have never been laid to rest really walk at night?     

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        June 2010

        Faith, Hope and Love

        by Owen, Llwyd

        Alun Brady was a bit of a Mummy's Boy, stuck at home at 30 in the suburbs. When grandfather Paddy makes his deathbed in their spare room, he brings fresh air into Al's cushy number and makes Al face the hardest decision of his life. Later, just out of pri

      • Romance
        August 2014

        The White Witch

        by Barbara Cartland

        The Marquis of Wynstanton had become involved with one of the beauties of London Society – Locadi, Lady Marshall and when her husband died unexpectedly, the Marquis set out on a long journey to India and Nepal, as he wished to avoid any gossip arising about their liaison. After his return, he resumed the affair, staying on in London for some time when he should have gone straight to Wyn Castle and his country estate. Then he began to suspect that Locadi was using black magic to entice him to her and to induce him to propose marriage. Almost in a panic the Marquis returned to his estate, which he had neglected for so long only to find to his horror that he had been cheated by the manager he had left in charge. At Wyn Castle he meets Flora Romilly, the daughter of a distinguished author. She is known locally as the White Witch, because she can heal ailments with plants and leaves from her herb garden and has worked wonders with his grandmother’s rheumatism. How Flora despises the Marquis as she is so disgusted at the way his people have been treated in his absence. How she is persuaded to help him make amends and put matters to rights on the estate. And how in fleeing from London the Marquis has not escaped from Locadi and her evil magic is all told in this unusual and exciting story by BARBARA CARTLAND.

      • Biography: business & industry
        December 2010

        The Ladies of Blaenwern

        The Story of the Dorian Trio and the Llanarth Welsh Cob Stud

        by Bevan, Teleri

        This is the story of three ladies who formed a musical partnership called The Dorian Trio in the early twentieth century. By World War II they had turned their attention to farming in Llanarth, Ceredigion where they kept Welsh indigenous breeds. Their mai

      • Biography: business & industry
        October 2014

        Esme - Guardian of Snowdonia

        by Bevan, Teleri

        A profile of Esmé Kirby, the conservationist who formed the Snowdonia National Park Society. Her career began as an actress, and at 23 she married Thomas Firbank, whose bestselling book, I Bought a Mountain (1940) tells of their married life at Dyffryn, a

      • Adventure
        September 2015

        The Mind of God

        by Bevan Frank

        When Liz Greene discovers that her father is missing, she is unwittingly drawn into a plot that could change the world forever. Before he went missing, Professor Harry Greene had been working on the black box global consciousness project. Now, Liz needs to find both her father, and his groundbreaking research before it's too late. On the same day, President of the United States Daniel Rafferty is in Cape Town to give an address at the Convention Centre. Is it a coincidence that the black box was stolen while Rafferty is in the same city, or is there an even more sinister terrorist plot at play? Follow Liz, as she and her friend, Tim Fletcher, decode one clue after another in a deadly hunt around Cape Town, all the while being pursued by an assassin and a CIA agent.

      • Biography: sport
        November 2012

        Who Beat the All Blacks?

        by Gibbard, Alun

        The day the pubs ran dry: 9-3_x000D_ It’s forty years since Llanelli Rugby Club defeated the All Blacks on 31 October 1972._x000D_ This legendary result has been called one of the top ten moments in rugby history, and possibly one of the greatest rugby upsets ever._x000D_

      • True crime
        February 2013

        Pink Ribbons for April: in Memory of April Jones

        by Gibbard, Alun

        It was a tragedy which shook the world. On 1 October 2012, the disappearance of five-year-old April Jones from the mid Wales town of Machynlleth sparked an almost unprecedented wave of concern. _x000D_ _x000D_ Within Wales the event drew people of all ages and backgr

      • Social & cultural history
        November 2014

        William Hazell's Gleaming Vision

        by Burge, Alun

        William Hazell is a key figure to belatedly emerge from the south Wales coalfield. His lifelong commitment to the co-operative movement was inspired by his vision of co-operation as a means of building a better future. He epitomised the deep and loyal rel

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