Morris, Richard

  • The dam buster

    £28.00

    Barnes Wallis’ contribution to British aircrafts and weapons is legendary; from the R100 intercontinental airship and innovative aircrafts like the Wellesley and Wellington, to bombs that destroyed hitherto invulnerable targets, and variable-geometry aerodynes. In addition to playing a significant part in both world wars and the Cold War, his work and inventions extended to a radio-telescope, ships, bridges, prosthetic limbs, and a nuclear-powered submarine designed to travel the world’s oceans in near silence. Yet little has been written about the private Wallis; the man who fell in love with his 17-year-old distant cousin-in-law when he was 34 – and thus began a love that lasted 57 years; the man who loved the British countryside and spent every spare moment rambling. Using previously unseen letters and diaries, Richard Morris brings to life one of Britain’s greatest inventors.

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  • Evensong

    Evensong

    £25.00

    For a thousand years or so churches have been at the heart of things. Traditionally, churches were places where we marked turning-points in our lives. The parish church was where your parents took you to be baptised, and you took your parents to be buried after their deaths. In between, the church was a social and spiritual focus. But not now. Last year fewer than two citizens in a hundred attended an Anglican church. Many people have never been inside one. And since the underlying meaning of ‘church’ is its people, the buildings are fast becoming husks, outwardly part of the local scene but functionally mysterious. A similar combination of familiarity and unawareness surrounds the connection between church and nation. This book examines this topic.

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