Martin Cross: 4 books

A raw and emotional look into the personalities behind the incredible success story of British Rowing, as it prepares to face its biggest challenge yet in the London Olympic Games. This revised and updated edition contains one completely new chapter and additions to the 14 original chapters. Set...

OLYMPIC OBSESSION brings to life the personalities behind British rowings incredible success story at the Sydney Games. Set to a compelling narrative, the book unfolds against the story of Martin Cross, himself an Olympic champion, turned BBC commentator. Crosss unique relationship with the sport over...

Once merely a footnote in Restoration and eighteenth-century studies and rarely taught, Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688), by Aphra Behn, is now essential reading for scholars and a classroom favorite. It appears in general surveys and in courses on early modern British writers, postcolonial literature,...

Alton has been a market centre for the villages that surround it for many hundreds of years and these two pictures show the changes that have taken place in the last 100 years. For most of that period a weekly Tuesday market took place in the Market Place and on 14 December 1909 it was accompanied...