A new edition published to celebrate the life of Mike Peyton, 'the world's greatest yachting cartoonist', with personal tributes from successful and well-known sailors. Along with 80 of his incomparable cartoons, Peyton recounts how he became a yachting cartoonist and his fifty years of sailing.
This book follows the blossoming of a young girl called Lily living in 1920s rural England. Born into poverty, she befriends and falls in love with the young lord of the manor and wildly follows him into the skies.
When Christina marries, she hopes that life at Flambards will settle down at last. But when Mark returns from the First World War, Christina's loyalties are divided between tradition and progression, and between the two men who stand for such opposing values. She knows there is a terrible decision to be made . . .
When Christina returns to Flambards in 1916, she finds the estate overgrown, deserted, and desolate. With the First World War well underway and all the men absent, she vows to return the manor house to its former glory. But when a familiar face appears at her door one day, all her plans are thrown into confusion . . .
Mike Peyton drew his first cartoon in 1942. At the time he was interned in a German prisoner of war camp, and the cartoon appeared in a newspaper run by and for his fellow prisoners. Seventy years later, he has only recently stopped providing cartoons for the Yachting Monthly Confessional column for which he has become so well loved in recent decades.Having provided illustrations for magazines as varied as the Church of England Times and Corsetry & Underwear, Mike became best known for cartoons relating to his first love - yachting (and as he will happily point out, he had a boat before he had a car). To celebrate his career, Adlard Coles Nautical presents this hilarious retrospective of the very best of Mike's cartoons from the last eight decades, a collection that will bring a smile to the face of even the most rain-sodden sailor stuck in his marina berth for another week supposedly in summer. When yachting journalist Dick Durham wrote Mike's biography, he called Mike 'the world's greatest yachting cartoonist' and this book shows why. Witty, wise and well-executed, Mike's lively, perceptive and highly distinctive cartoons will speak to anyone who has ever taken to the water.
'All that Glitters' is a fabulously funny story about two scruffy ponies, fancy dressage horses, competition, jealousy, friendships, fun, laughter, adventure and buried treasure
After she's expelled from her latest school, Tessa's domineering step-father finds her a job at the local stables. She's left to look after Shiner, an ugly and seemingly untalented horse. But her interest in Shiner is fired when she discovers who his mother was.
A brilliant memoir of the author's second world war. In October 1940 he joined is family regiment, in June 1942 they were overrun and all but wiped out fighting a rearguard actioon in the Western Desert. He was a POW in Italy, then Germany. He escaped and spent the last months of his war fighting with the Soviet army.
Young sweethearts, Christina and Will, have left their lives in the countryside and are off to make their dreams come true. Will is determined to design and pilot flying machines, and Christina can only stand by while he risks everything to fulfil his ambition. But as the WWI approaches, Christina knows that she has bigger fears to face.
Jonathan doesn't like Robin, the English master at his boarding school. It's not his inability to control his classes that he dislikes, nor even his incompetence as a teacher - it's his complete indifference to the feelings of anyone but himself. The coroner rules that it was suicide, but Jonathan soon comes to have reasons for doubting this .