Biographical (A - Z)

Rochester, Ralph

For Love of Williamina

Dorset, Agre, 2001

First Edition. Fine in card wraps (no hardback edition).

 SIGNED by author.

The moving true story of the last days of Williamina Belsches, first love of Sir Walter Scott - interspersed with poems.  Williamina sought relief from consumption in the village of Lympstone on the Exe Estuary, taking with her her youngest child, James. A fascinating and poignant glimpse of life in Georgian times in East Devon.

Galloway, George

The Fidel Castro Handbook

London, MQ Publishing, 2006

Fine in Fine dustjacket (small format hardback).

Signed by the author.

The extraordinary life of Fidel Castro  -  from rural childhood, through guerilla struggle, to Cuban leader.  Liberally illustrated with monochrome photographs.

Purdey, Mark.  Purdey Nigel, editor

Animal Pharm. One man's struggle to discover the truth about Mad Cow Disease and variant CJD.

Clairview Books, East Sussex, 2007.

Paperback original.  Fine as issued in printed wraps.

The remarkable autobiography of Mark Purdey, an organic farmer from Somerset, who, convinced of the dangers of over-use of agricultural chemicals, achieved world-wide fame for the research which led him to challenge the orthodox line on the origins of Mad Cow Disease and variant CJD.

Sturgis, Matthew

Aubrey Beardsley

London, Harper Collins, 1998

Fine in Fine dustjacket.  Liberally illustrated.  Describes Beardsley's childhood and brief but dazzling career (he died at the age of only 25).