Alison: 1980 books

Breaking all the rules Since Ryan Talbot had become Kirrily's self-appointed guardian, he'd been determined to make her live life by his rules: Rule 1: Never date any man Ryan wouldn't approve of. **Rule 2:**Find a respectable job and don't wear too much makeup-or dresses above...

Two women from different worlds. Linda, a successful psychologist, uses her work to distance herself from her own loneliness. Christina works for a sex hotline to make ends meet. Their worlds collide when Linda calls Christina’s sex line. Christina quickly realizes Linda...

Reports of ghostly music playing in the dead of night, apparitions drifting along the tower parapet, a mischievous child ghost stealing keys and an old butler lurking in the shadows . . . they can't all be rumours, can they? Built on the grounds of an old Roman ruin, Livingstone Hall Country House...

Before Lord Somerton*, he was just plain Captain Alder, a penniless career officer in Wellington’s army. As Napoleon makes his last great bid for power, he will meet an Iron Duke and an indomitable force of English and allied troops in the fields just south of a little village called Waterloo. For...

The man behind the crown… The clock is ticking for Prince Raoul de Poitier-he's been granted one month of freedom before he must marry and assume the crown. Temporarily setting aside his royal identity, he heads to gorgeous Italy, where he meets captivating Mika Gordon… Street kid...

He's the only one with the key to unlock her heart Army medic and emergency specialist James "Jet" Munroe thrives on danger. Physical danger-never emotional. Beautiful helicopter pilot Becca Harding has spent long years trying to forget Jet, but she's never been able to forgive him. Now,...

Are We There Yet? Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism connects the Victorian fascination with "virtual travel" with the rise of realism in nineteenth-century fiction and twenty-first-century experiments in virtual reality. Even as the expansion of river and railway networks in the nineteenth...

This title was first published in 2000:  John Petts (1914-1991) is one of the outstanding wood-engravers of the twentieth century. His stunning prints featuring Welsh mountains and the people who live amongst them reflect his deep concern for the history of the land and are distinguished by his profound...

This is the first fully comprehensive biography on the hangman James Billington, a former pub entertainer and barber who secured the post of executioner for London and the Home Counties. The reader is introduced to the real Billington, illuminating the dark side of a man who held the mandate to kill....

For the last 70 years, the guests of Woman’s Hour have been entertaining listeners with their compelling combination of wit, warmth, insight and humour**.** Woman’s Hour has interviewed many of the biggest female names from entertainment, politics, the arts and beyond. Words from Wise,...

Told largely in the words of people who lived through this extraordinary time, The Forties: Good Times Just Around the Corner is a vividly remembered account of the most important decade of the twentieth century. With original photographs and memorabilia of every kind, this is a book for anyone interested...

Pope Gelasius, who canonized St George in 494, described him as one of those 'whose names are rightly reverenced among us, but whose actions are known only to God.' The story of England's Patron Saint is so encased in myth and legend that the truth of his remarkable life is unknown to the great majority...

Along with the fine art of queuing and proper tea, talking about the weather is the essence of Britishness. We’re all a little bit obsessed by it. Will it snow this Christmas? Was this year really the warmest on record? And where on earth did ‘raining cats and dogs’ come from? According...

Tracking the changing representation of female gender-crossing in the press, this text breaks new ground to reveal findings where both desire between women and cross-gender identification are understood. Her Husband was a Woman! exposes real-life case studies from the British tabloids of women...