This is a selection of the author's work written over forty years. It includes the Dartmoor Cycle, a sequence of verses reflecting each of the seasons in turn, alongside over a hundred poems inspired by everything from art, music and travel to friendship, love and loss - or life in general.

The DICTIONARY OF ROYAL BIOGRAPHERS brings together short entries on more than 500 authors who have written and published in English on the lives of British and European Kings, Queens, Emperors, Empresses and their families from the Norman conquest and the eleventh century to the present day. Writers from the early nineteenth century onwards are included, as are over thirty monarchs, ex-monarchs, princes and princesses who published their own memoirs. A list of relevant titles with date of first publication follows each entry.

When Dave goes to college in London for two years he meets Lisa, a fellow student. After they have been out together a few times, he decides that she is not the one for him. Soon afterwards the less complicated Jo comes into his life, and before long they are an item. But Lisa, trying to put the past behind her and make a new start for herself, is reluctant to let go of him. Somehow, she seems to be always there...

Alexander III, Tsar of Russia, reigned from 1881 to 1894. Having succeeded to the throne on the assassination of his father, Alexander II, he rejected the latter's plans for constitutional reform. A firm autocrat, he made no concessions to liberalism and his reign was noted for political repression and persecution of the Jews, as well as a loosening of the alliance with Germany and a new understanding with France. Lowe's biography was first published in 1895, and though it appeared within a year of the subject's death, it remains an invaluable record of his life and times. This new...

LETTERS OF THE EMPRESS FREDERICK, a selection of correspondence from the Empress to her mother, Queen Victoria, was published in 1928. The former Princess Royal of England, who married Prince Frederick William of Prussia in 1858, had never been popular in court circles in Germany because of her liberal influence on her husband and was known behind her back as 'die Englanderin'. When Emperor Frederick III ascended the throne in March 1888, he was fatally stricken with cancer and died after a reign of three months. Their eldest so, who became Emperor William II, the 'Kaiser Bill' of the First...

Alexander, Grand Duke of Russia (1866-1933), grandson of Tsar Nicholas I, and brother-in-law of Tsar Nicholas II, served as a naval officer during the last years of the Romanov dynasty. Married to Grand Duchess Xenia, he was the father-in-law of Prince Felix Youssoupov, one of the men who helped to murder Rasputin, the 'Holy Man', whose influence over Empress Alexandra did so much to bring about the fall of the last Tsar. After the Russian revolution and the fall of the dynasty Alexander settled in France, where he published two volumes of memoirs, 'Once a Grand Duke' and 'Always a Grand...

ELO were formed by Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne as a fusion of rock and classically-influenced music with strings. After their 1971 debut, Wood left and Lynne took them into more commercial pastures. They disbanded in 1986, but Lynne returned with an album in 2001 and as Jeff Lynne's ELO in 2014. This book examines all their studio albums in detail.

Emperor Alexander II ascended the throne of Russia in 1855. His reign was noted for the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, earning him the title of 'Tsar Liberator', and for a victorious war against Turkey in 1877-78. His last years were overshadowed by several attempts on his life, culminating in his assassination in 1881. F.R. Grahame's life, the first in English, was published in 1883. This new illustrated edition includes a Foreword by John Van der Kiste.