Redcliffe Press Publications
How I lived a Year on just a pound a day
Kath Kelly 
With the recession biting and green issues constantly in the news, publication of this entertaining but always practical guide to sensible living could not be more timely.
Incredible but true – the story of how one woman lived for a whole year on just a pound a day.
Kath Kelly was broke. That was OK, as all her friends were, too. But she had an important event to budget for, just a year away. One drunken night, she made a rash decision: to live on just a pound a day for the next twelve months.
In 12 month-by-month chapters, she tells how a mission to cut her spending to the bone showed her another side of herself and of human nature. Through a year like no year she had spent before, she discovered how greed and waste was messing up people – to say nothing of the planet – and came to see how much fun can be had on a few pennies a day.
A comprehensive directory of organisations and websites provides invaluable leads for all of us – whether we want to follow Kath all the way or just pick up tips on how to save money and live more sensibly.
ISBN 978-1-906593-12-4
192pp
paperback
£6.99
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The Historic Gardens of Cheshire
Tim Mowl and Marion Mako 
One hundred gardens feature in this richly illustrated celebration of historic gardens in Cheshire.
From the Duke of Westminster’s Eaton Hall to Lord Leverhulme’s Thornton Manor and his noted garden village at Port Sunlight, there is a swagger and grandeur about the landscape and garden experiments in the county. Country-house gardens by noted designers abound throughout the county. Public parks feature, too, including Joseph Paxton’s astonishing Birkenhead Park, which was the inspiration for New York’s Central Park.
Other highlights include a garden laid out to symbolise John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, a cosmic arboretum created by Sir Bernard Lovell at Jodrell Bank and England’s most atmospheric rococo garden at Adlington near the border with the Peak District.
Exciting modern gardens include one based on Piet Mondrian paintings, another draws inspiration from Alice in Wonderland while a back garden in Sale combines brilliant planting with modern sculpture and ceramics laid out like objets trouves among exotic architectural planting.
This is the eighth title in Tim Mowl’s celebrated series of books in the Historic Gardens of England series, now being published by Redcliffe Press. Somerset and Staffordshire will follow in 2009
ISBN: 978-1-906593-14-8
288pp with 60 colour and many black & white illustrations
Softback with flaps
£19.95
A Life of Two Halves: The Chris Garland Story
With James Ryan and Mark Leesdad
‘Roller-coaster ride’ is an over-used phrase but for former soccer star Chris Garland, it’s very apt.
Born in the red half of Bristol, Chris supported Bristol City from a very early age. Like a lot of youngsters, he enjoyed watching his heroes train and play, particularly his hero John Atyeo, and would often hang around the ground to get the players’ autographs. His footballing skills developed, along with his dream of playing for the club he loved. He was soon signing autographs instead of collecting them.
Once established in the Bristol City first team, he was destined to move to one of England’s bigger clubs and in 1971 he set off for Chelsea. A move from the bright lights and the King’s Road came in 1974 when he joined First Division rivals Leicester City. In December 1976 he achieved his ultimate dream, when he came home to play for Bristol City in the First Division. But after Chris had played a key role in helping the club retain its top-flight status, things started to go wrong –successive relegation seasons, being frozen out by the new manager, long-term injury and the financial crash of 1982, when Chris became one of the famous Ashton Gate Eight.
Although Chris was later to rejoin City for a third time, things were never the same. After football, ventures in the fruit-and-veg business and then in the wine trade proved unsuccessful, while a career in insurance ended in redundancy. A gambling problem created additional stresses, leading to marriage break-up and bankruptcy. At one stage he was sleeping rough and even contemplated suicide. And all this while struggling with Parkinson’s Disease.
For Chris Garland it has certainly been a roller-coaster ride. A life of two halves.
ISBN 978-1-906593-11-7
230 x 155mm
176pp, with 32pp plate section
Hardback
£16.99
John Barry: The Man with the Midas Touch
Geoff Leonard, Pete Walker, Gareth Bramley
John Barry, far and away Britain’s best-known film and popular composer, has made not one but four outstanding contributions to the international music scene.
For rock 'n roll fans, The John Barry Seven were pioneers of the emerging British music scene in the 1950s, while his distinctive pizzicato string arrangements for Adam Faith’s pre-Beatles successes like ‘What Do You Want?’ are part of pop music history. Chart aficionados point to commercial successes like ‘Hit and Miss’ for TV’s Juke Box Jury and The Persuaders. But, for millions of film-goers, Barry’s greatest achievements, apart from the memorable James Bond film themes and scores, have been the Oscar-winning scores for Born Free, The Lion in Winter, Out of Africa and Dances with Wolves. In John Barry – The Man With The Midas Touch, this astonishing 50-year career is celebrated in all its musical facets. The authors, each one an authority as well as a fan, draw not only on their own experience, but also on conversations with Barry himself and people who have known him since his formative years as performer, producer, arranger and writer.
More than 300 photographs (120 colour and 180 black and white) celebrate John Barry’s entire career, including many never previously published.
The most detailed and complete discography yet compiled is another feature of the book, making it an essential reference for enthusiasts and music historians.
ISBN 978-1-904537-77-9
255 x 180mm
304pp
£19.99
The History of British Pathology
GEORGE J CUNNINGHAM
The story of pathology from the eighteenth century when the best clinicians began to perform post-mortem examinations and to collect their autopsy and biopsy specimens into museums. Concludes with the formation of the College of Pathologists in the 1960s.
220mm x 155mm 374pp
ISBN 1 872971 57 1 softback £15
A Taste of Somerset
ANDREA LEEMAN
Weaves together recipes and stories about a spectacular range of local produce. In what other county can a cook with an eye for a fine larder stock up on ingredients ranging from smoked eel to asparagus, luscious strawberries, truckles of prize-winning cheese, and to round off the meal a Somerset apple brandy good enough to tweak Gallic noses across the Channel?
210mm x 240mm 112pp colour and black & white illustrations
ISBN 1 904537 00 6 softback £12.50