Books with author Nigel Anthony

(Picture of author) Dr Nixon has BA, MA. M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees. In view of the diversity of his commitments and activities, such as being a former member of Manchester University Court and Her Majesty's Privy Council appointment, he merited well-deserved entries in the most prestigious and distinguished publication and in the famous Cambridge based publication: Dictionary of International Biography 2013 edition. Intellectuals of 21st Century, 2000. He is a published author and wrote Meeting People Through Russia To The Baltics. It was a best seller, published in many countries and translated into several languages. He has decades of involvement, and held senior positions, in the NHS. He is a former chairman of the Independent NHS Complaints Appeal Panel , governor of East Lancashire Hospitals Trust, and a lay assessor visiting residential homes to check resident's welfare. He is now governor of Blackpool Victoria Teaching Foundation Trust Hospitals and a member of the influential Department of Health committee, ACCEA, which gives financial awards to senior consultants for innovative work to improve the performance of the NHS. Under different schemes, he has worked conducting annual inspections of the East Lancashire Hospitals Trust for patient care for the last 8 years and now continues under NHS England. On the 4th May 2012 an incident occurred which Dr Anthony Nixon still finds difficult to describe. In 1991, Marion, Anthony's wife was struck with Alzheimer's disease, fully diagnosed four years later. In a moving account of the progression of the disease and its ramifications on himself and his family, Dr Anthony Nixon in No Life Without You describes how he coped with the impossible.In this work Dr Anthony Nixon hopes to help others who find themselves in a similar situation, watching the inexorable decline of a loved one and shifting through the services to find support for the carer and cared for as the disease progresses through to its conclusion.Dr Anthony Nixon spares no detail in describing how the ‘incidence' which took his wife also nearly took his own. No Life Without You will not cure the disease but it may offer insights into how to cope.

The time has been, but happily exists no longer, when it would have been necessary to offer an apology for such a book as this. In those days it was not held that Beauty is its own excuse for being; on the contrary, a spurious utilitarianism reigned supreme in literature, and fancy and imagination were told to fold their wings, and travel only in the dusty paths of every-day life. Fairy tales, and all such flights into the region of the supernatural, were then condemned as merely idle things, or as pernicious occupations for faculties that should be always directed to serious and profitable concerns. But now we have cast off that pedantic folly, let us hope for ever. We now acknowledge that innocent amusement is good for its own sake, and we do not affect to prove our advance in civilisation by our incapacity to relish those sportive creations of unrestricted fancy that have been the delight of every generation in every land from times beyond the reach of history. The materials of the following Collection have been carefully chosen from more than a hundred volumes of the fairy lore of all nations;

“I wonder when in the world you're going to do anything, Rudolf?” said my brother's wife. “My dear Rose,” I answered, laying down my egg-spoon, “why in the world should I do anything? My position is a comfortable one. I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know), I enjoy an enviable social position: I am brother to Lord Burlesdon, and brother-in-law to that charming lady, his countess. Behold, it is enough!” “You are nine-and-twenty,” she observed, “and you've done nothing but-” “Knock about? It is true. Our family doesn't need to do things.”

(Picture of author) Dr Nixon has BA, MA. M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees. In view of the diversity of his commitments and activities, such as being a former member of Manchester University Court and Her Majesty's Privy Council appointment, he merited well-deserved entries in the most prestigious and distinguished publication and in the famous Cambridge based publication: Dictionary of International Biography 2013 edition. Intellectuals of 21st Century, 2000. He is a published author and wrote Meeting People Through Russia To The Baltics. It was a best seller, published in many countries and translated into several languages. He has decades of involvement, and held senior positions, in the NHS. He is a former chairman of the Independent NHS Complaints Appeal Panel , governor of East Lancashire Hospitals Trust, and a lay assessor visiting residential homes to check resident's welfare. He is now governor of Blackpool Victoria Teaching Foundation Trust Hospitals and a member of the influential Department of Health committee, ACCEA, which gives financial awards to senior consultants for innovative work to improve the performance of the NHS. Under different schemes, he has worked conducting annual inspections of the East Lancashire Hospitals Trust for patient care for the last 8 years and now continues under NHS England. On the 4th May 2012 an incident occurred which Dr Anthony Nixon still finds difficult to describe. In 1991, Marion, Anthony's wife was struck with Alzheimer's disease, fully diagnosed four years later. In a moving account of the progression of the disease and its ramifications on himself and his family, Dr Anthony Nixon in No Life Without You describes how he coped with the impossible.In this work Dr Anthony Nixon hopes to help others who find themselves in a similar situation, watching the inexorable decline of a loved one and shifting through the services to find support for the carer and cared for as the disease progresses through to its conclusion.Dr Anthony Nixon spares no detail in describing how the ‘incidence' which took his wife also nearly took his own. No Life Without You will not cure the disease but it may offer insights into how to cope.

It's not Kitty's fault when she's late for school and Dad crashed into the gatepost! It's not Kitty's fault that baby Tom crawls into trouble or that she's getting too old to sit on Dad's knee! And it's certainly not Kitty's fault that her boring cousin Melissa can't make friends at school! But for some reason Kitty feels that it is ... The eleventh Kitty story from bestselling author Bel Mooney.