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Nickle Prickle is a hedgehog, and his chum Mike is a mouse. One day his Grandpappy tells Nickle about an island where hedgehogs are different. So Nick Prickle decides to go there. And who wouldn’t? Only timid hedgehogs, and Nickle isn’t the slightest bit timid.
An illustrated picture book set amongst the blonde hedgehogs of the island of Alderney.
When a group of avant-garde French and Belgian writers and artists descended upon St Brelade’s Bay in Jersey in the summer of 1907, melodramas and intrigues began to unfold. From vaudeville comedy and somersaults on the beach, to the soul-searching depths of Nietzschean philosophy, Immoralists and Drama Queens takes us on a journey into the extravagant and extrovert lifestyles of the friends, spear-headed by French author André Gide and Belgian artist Théo Van Rysselberghe.
This is the only diary of the Occupation of the Channel Islands written by a German from a German point of view. And not just any German but a Franconian nobleman in the shape of Hans Max Baron von und zu Aufsess. He came to the islands in 1942 as a staff officer in the German Military Government of the Channel Islands. He left in May 1945 as a prisoner-of-war bound for interment on the British mainland.
His diary chronicles in detail his dealings with the civilian population, his ‘parishioners’ as he called them, and with the leading island politicians in Jersey and Guernsey. There were disagreements and wrangles but by and large Aufsess managed to oversee an occupation considerably less oppressive than any other in Europe.
In 1944, as the war turned against Germany, Aufsess was forced to re-assess his political loyalties in the face of the inevitable defeat. Should he support the fight for an impossible ‘Final Victory’ which would surely mean the annihilation of the civil population or follow the path to surrender in the name of humanity and sound military sense? Aufsess’s account of his struggle to find a way through makes for compelling reading and this diary a major contribution to Occupation history.
Edited by Tobias Arand
Translated from the German by Susanne and Robert Crooker
With an Introduction by John Nettles
Over the past five hundred years, the tiny island of Guernsey has found seven amazingly different ways to earn an important place in the world’s economy.
Each time the island’s financial system looked like it was about to collapse, somehow the people of Guernsey managed to reinvent a way for making a living and create a Guernsey ‘brand’ that was known and appreciated far beyond its borders.
From knitting to privateering, ship building to quarrying, and from tomato growing to tourism, Guernsey people have demonstrated resilience, ingenuity, and independence, often having to stand up to Government interference, overcoming major technology shifts and uncovering ways to access new markets.
The most recent of these seven reinventions, the finance industry, is now a mature sixty years old. In this book, Andrew Doyle explores the growth and death of its six predecessors, which provide some lessons for how Guernsey’s current major money earner can continue to flourish.
– What do the fishermen dream of as they cast their lines into the sea at Castle Cornet breakwater?
– What sort of creatures could be watching from the bushes as you circle the Pleinmont fairy ring?
– Which ancient beasts may sleep in the sea just off the coastline?
Take an alphabetical adventure through the Bailiwick of Guernsey, where beautiful places, magical creatures and local history and culture combine.
June 1940 and war is sweeping across Europe. In the tiny Channel Island of Guernsey, Kathleen is about to board a ship that will take her to safety. As they embrace, Charles tells her he will see her again soon; a couple more shi s as an essential worker and he will be free to follow. But his plans are soon to be thwarted by the arrival of the Germans.
Decades later, when an email from a stranger brings a whisper from the past, Charles and Kathleen’s legacy begins to unfold. As the cold, lonely echoes of war begin to rewrite her family’s story, their daughter is led to discover that, sometimes, it is the people closest to us that surprise us the most.
Seaweed is the most under-exploited natural resource on the planet – and it is in abundant supply around Guernsey’s coastline. It is packed with nutrients and properties which make it both a super-food and a natural alternative to man-made skincare products and plastics.
Ben and Naomi Tustin started their journey of seaweed discovery in 2018 and now have two businesses making skincare and food products from this incredible natural resource.
This book shares their knowledge of the history of seaweed’s importance in Guernsey, is a guide to the types of seaweed found around the Island’s coastline as well as their own story and how to use seaweed in our everyday lives. Full of information, ideas, photographs and recipes this book is sure to teach you something about the seaweeds of Guernsey.
For the last four years, Marco Tersigni has been taking photos of Guernsey ‘from the exact spot’ as old photos of the island, and posting them on social media. Some of them show how little has changed – others show the dramatic changes that have transformed the island over the last century.
Based on popular demand, Marco has now selected his favourite pairs of photos – as well as the ones which have received most positive feedback online – and brings them to you in the form of a beautiful coffee table book.
Join Marco on a tour of Guernsey’s past – and present – from the exact spot.
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