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“We modern oarsmen and women are sometimes asked to row as if our lives depended on it. lt is only Jumbo Edwards from the British Olympic rowing family who had to do that literally.”
Water’s Gleaming Gold
Oarsman, Olympian, Airman
The Story of Hugh ‘Jumbo’ Edwards
One wintry afternoon in 1943, a solitary airman lies injured and exhausted in an inflatable life raft. The debris of his Liberator bomber has disappeared beneath the waves of the Atlantic leaving behind a slick of black oil. He is the only survivor of a crew of eight. His name is Wing Commander Hugh ‘Jumbo’ Edwards, one of the greatest oarsmen of all time.
Eleven years earlier, at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Hugh 'Jumbo' Edwards thrilled thousands with an astonishing two gold medals won in a single hour. On this winter afternoon, in the loneliness of the North Atlantic and with darkness descending, he is now rowing to save his life.
Water’s Gleaming Gold is the incredible true story of the most extraordinary oarsman, Olympian, pilot, war hero and legendary British rowing coach. This is the tale of a man of courage and conviction – on a pursuit to redemption from public humiliation.
“One hell of a story”
Daniel James Brown, author of ‘The Boys in the Boat’
“A true Olympic and rowing hero, and a story that is both fascinating and truly dramatic”
Dan Snow, Historian, Oxford Blue and Broadcaster
“A remarkable life elegantly, and lovingly, told”
Matt Dickinson, The Times
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Publication date: 19.06.23
Format: Hardback
Page extent: 256 pages (estimated); over 60 illustrations
ISBN: 978-1999322656
Price: £20.00
“A fantastic new children’s book from Aaron Jackson. Available in a limited edition hardback signed by the author.”
charlotte Jackson
and the magic Blanket
In the tall thin house at the top of the hill, it is an evening like any other. But when Charlotte Jackson wakes later that night to find the Baby Lara gone, stolen, apparently, by the mysterious Treasure Island Monkeys she faces a choice.
Little does Charlotte realise her decision will take her on an adventure beyond her home, to the edge of the Northern Wilderness, and then on to a place she never knew existed where she will face an enemy more villainous and treacherous than she could ever have imagined.
Based on a true story, Charlotte Jackson and the Magic Blanket is a magical and colourful adventure for a time in life when what’s imagined and dreamed is still as important and powerful as everyday life.
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Author: Aaron Jackson
Format: Hardback (246 x 189 mm)
ISBN: 978-1-9993-2267-0
Page extent: 80 pages; 26 black and white hand drawn illustrations
Publication date: 8th May 2025
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“It grips like a mystery novel but it isn’t fiction, it’s all true. Alison Cobb’s book is an evocative account of childhood, the childhood of a bright, mischievous girl with a remarkable father, her happiness marred by an enigma, the secret never to be told, the tragic secret which, like a detective, she eventually unravels.”
A Secret Never To Be TOLD
Unravelling the mystery of my missing mother
“I grew up with a mystery in my background: something important I was never told. My happy early childhood was spent in rural Norfolk, where I was brought up by my extrovert orthopaedic surgeon father. Tightly bound together, we took every opportunity to have fun. He would challenge me, aged six, to gallop across country with him. I sat on his lap steer-ing his Rolls as we raced to Newmarket to bet on horses. When he became an army surgeon and went to Palestine, North Africa and Italy, his loving fiancée looked after me as an evacuee in grand but run-down Norfolk houses. After the war, aged thirteen, I opened a file on my father’s desk and uncovered the truth. Nothing was the same for me again.”
A Secret Never to be Told is an absorbing story of a country upbringing in the early years of the Second World War, and later in Dublin. At the same time, it is a searching look at the experience of being aware that a profound truth about one’s life has been withheld. In attempting to discover what had happened to her mother, Alison Cobb explores the secrecy and even shame involved. It has taken most of her life to find out what really happened, and to understand the devastating impact that this had on her and on those around her. She throws light on some very dark corners but says that, mercifully, nowadays treatment can reduce the chance of the same thing happening.
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Author: Alison Cobb
Format: Hardback (246 x 189 mm)
ISBN: 978-1-9993-2263-2
Page extent: 396 pages; 40+ black and white illustrations
Publication date: 1st June 2022
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The Brothers at War
By Ian Woolgar
The Brothers at War is an account of the wartime exploits of two brothers, Bill and Cecil Woolgar. Two ordinary lads of humble origins, Bill a baker and Cecil a hospital porter, both having never left their roots in the back streets of Hove, were now thrust into a conflict on the far side of the world.
A Tale Teller’s Tale
By Richard G. Constable
The personal remembrances and stories of Richard Constable and his family. From growing up in Sussex during the Second World War to working in the police force and construction industry, and retiring to the French countryside before a return back to his roots.
Flowers and Snow
by Madeleine H. Hyde
Edited by Jason Payne-James
The travel diaries of Madeleine Hyde, and her adventures in the Savoy Alps in 1913. The diaries are accompanied by beautifully hand drawn pen and ink illustrations by Madeleine.
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