 RoseTintedSpecs ImprintThe imprint was established in 2002. Eleven published titles by three authors including myself are currently showing. Almost all sales are through Amazon (e-books and paperbacks). Apologies, information links are temporarily suspended while I work on my new RoseTintedSpecsImprint web site. Publisher's List Autumn: Falling Leaves This is a celebration of Autumn with dozens of pictures of leaves in freefall. Wonderful colours and settings in woodland and around historic houses in France mostly. Large format, photography. Buy it in paperback (7"x 10"), paperback pocket size (5" x 7") and e-book through Amazon. Notes on the Botany of the Bible (David Gordon Rose) Number One in the publisher's Reference series. This book incorporates in facsimile an exercise book of the same title written in the 1920s by an amateur but knowledgeable botanist with a passion for the Scriptures. David has expanded the list of plants, the indexes of common and scientific names and updated the taxonomy. As far as is known it is the only comprehensive book on plants of the Bible. The original drawings are supplemented. Buy it in paperback and e-book. My 1st Horse Book and Me (Tracy Scott) This is an attractive book for the first-time horse owner, typically youngsters to young teenagers. It is full of information on horses and horse care with illustrations and photographs. Really Useful Books No. 1, large format. Buy it in paperback and e-book through Amazon. Poems Writ for Lublu: A Tragedie in Fifty-one Sonnets (David Gordon Rose) These sonnets in the Elizabethan form were written for the author's friend Margaret. She was ever reading Shakespeare's sonnets such, David promised he would write one more to her than Shakespeare wrote to his loves. He had written 51 of the target 155 at the time of her death (the Tragedie.) Trade paperback, poetry. Buy it in paperback and e-book through Amazon. Penny Lane goes to Italy (David Gordon Rose) This comedy drama is the first in a planned series set around Europe featuring the Penny Lane Associates in Liverpool, England. In Penny Lane goes to Italy two Little People, sons of an Italian count, rob a Swiss bank of money rightfully belonging to the family that was lent to the Nazis during WWII. The family does not know the Zurich bank is still in the hands of neo-Nazis. Trade paperback, fiction. Buy it in paperback and e-book through Amazon. Naked Nurse: My Life in Nursing (Rose MacFarlane) Rose trained at the prestigious Sheffield Royal Hospital in the 1960s coming top of her year. Her father was a GP, her older sister a nurse and her Scottish aunt Britain's youngest matron in 1929. It is a heartfelt look at the life and career of a young woman in Derbyshire, London and Jordan (as a volunteer nurse after the Six-Day War) cut short by a workplace accident. Trade paperback, nursing memoirs. Buy it in paperback and e-book through Amazon. Triad (David Gordon Rose) This thriller is about the abduction of teenagers across Europe for sex slavery. Behind it is a criminal syndicate and Hong Kong's notorious 14K triad. The protagonist, a master of an ancient Korean martial art working for a UN anti-slaving organisation is forced to confront the very triad of his youth. It is also a love story with action across Europe and Asia. Trade paperback, fiction. Buy it in paperback and e-book through Amazon. Neil's War: One boy's story of his evacuation to Ireland at the outbreak of WWII (Neil W. Murphy) Neil was six when evacuated with his brother and sister to family in Ireland in 1939. What he got up to beggars belief and includes providing the intelligence to the Germans for the sinking of the SS Irish Oak. He was deported back to Britain on de Valera's direct order in 1943. Drama continues to VE Night in Sheffield. Trade paperback, wartime memoirs. Buy it in paperback and e-book through Amazon. Seaside Frolics: Whitstable, Tankerton & Herne Bay (David Gordon Rose) This is the definitive book of pictures capturing seasonal life in these three towns on Kent's North Coast. The author lived in Whitstable for several years. This is the second edition of the book with many newer pictures along with those from 2003-2006. Large format, photography. Buy it in paperback (8" x 10") and e-book through Amazon. The e-book is a facsimile of the paperback. Further information coming soon on ths web site to the titles below. The Amazon links are active. Beach Photography 3: Footprints (David Gordon Rose) 322 shod footprints photographed on beaches around Europe, including some of the walkers. If you are fascinated by shoe and boot prints this is the book for you. It moves such prints into the realms of art. Large format, photography. Buy it in paperback (7"x 10")and paperback pocket size (5" x 7") through Amazon. Beach Photography 4: Footprints bare (David Gordon Rose) 339 bare footprints photographed on beaches around Europe, including some of the walkers and animals. If you find such Man Friday images intriguing or even fetishistic this is the book for you. Large format, photography. Buy it in paperback (7"x 10") and paperback pocket size (5" x 7") through Amazon. Published soon: Beach Photography 1: Beach Cool (David Gordon Rose) A wide range of seaside images from quirky and sweet, to unusual and bizarre Life as caught in Street Photography but on the beach. I may pubish this in hard back on art paper along with trade formats and paper through Amazon. |