Books published by publisher The Oleander Press

Give your child the gift of a lifetime love of the Bible with this colorful story. Stunningly beautiful illustrations capture even the youngest child's imagination and delight, whilst the simple rhyme of one our favorite and most-loved stories is perfect for sharing together or reading alone throughout the day. The angels sang in heaven,A new day had begun.God summoned the angel GabrielAnd said, “The time has come.You must go on a journey,You have some news to bear,To a little town called NazarethAnd a young girl who lives there.” With One Night on Earth Leanne retells the miraculous story of Jesus' birth in the famously unprepossessing surroundings and the visits by crook-wielding shepherds and star-struck magi – all warmly and brightly illustrated by Marilyn McCullough in a colourful and appealing style that children will love to explore. One Night on Earth is a wonderful picture and storybook for young ones and an ideal first reader your children will treasure.This edition does NOT feature stickers.

Give your child the gift of a lifetime love of the Bible with this colorful story. Stunningly beautiful illustrations capture even the youngest child's imagination and delight, whilst the simple rhyme of one our favorite and most-loved stories is perfect for sharing together or reading alone throughout the day.With One Night on Earth Leanne retells the miraculous story of Jesus' birth in the famously unprepossessing surroundings and the visits by crook-wielding shepherds and star-struck magi – all warmly and brightly illustrated by Marilyn McCullough in a colourful and appealing style that children will love to explore.The angels sang in heaven,A new day had begun.God summoned the angel GabrielAnd said, “The time has come.You must go on a journey,You have some news to bear,To a little town called NazarethAnd a young girl who lives there.”One Night on Earth is a wonderful picture and storybook for young ones and an ideal first reader your children will treasure.

“Rejoice in the knowledge that gluttony is the best cosmetic.”As chosen for Nigella’s edition of Stylist MagazineSome of the most sublime and exhilarating essays on the subject of food are collected here in Pennell’s book, first published in 1896; this reproduction being the final edited and refreshed edition of 1922. Written as pieces for the Pall Mall Gazette, the resulting feast presents an awed love letter to culinary excellence.Pennell was a biographer and critic of art and cookery and, as a world-travelled gourmand herself, brought to her reviews an artist’s sensibilities, aiming to reconfigure meals as high art, employing the language of aestheticism to turn eating into an act of intellectual appreciation.Beginning with a chapter on Gluttony as a Virtue, her enthusiastic appreciation of the best cuisine provides a remit including breakfast, sandwiches, dinner, supper, portage, soups, sole, oysters, partridge, salads, assorted vegetables, cheese and coffee. Quite simply one of the most accomplished works on the wealth that is food, A Guide for the Greedy is the perfect book for those who love any culinary adventure, cookery books and hedonistic literature in general. An absolute delight that will reignite your love of all food and awaken the epicurean in all of us.A Guide for the Greedy is a practical handbook for creating an incredible gastronomic experience in a time when good, let alone great, cuisine was a rarity. If you like real-life examples and recipes, no-nonsence advice, and simple steps you can even start right now, then you'll love Mrs Pennell's eye-opening guide.Buy A Guide for the Greedy and enjoy this must-have literary tasting menu by the first modern foodie today.

Have you ever wondered how you could better understand and connect with your animals?Would you like to easily strengthen that link with them?You will discover the step by step route to achieving this greater understanding. It really is possible to communicate with your pets and animals so you can understand what they are thinking and feeling.Animal Communication is an intuitive language between humans and animals - they love to interact and communicate with us in a telepathic way. They have their own energy just like us and, by tuning in to this more subtle energy, we can exchange information directly with them.Michelle Childerley is an experienced and intuitive animal communicator recently featured in FremantleMedia’s Pet Sense and Sky One’s popular series Pet Nation. She is qualified in The Balance Procedure & EFT (emotional freedom technique) – both methods being energy techniques that enable the quick release of emotional blocks in animals. Michelle has worked with a huge variety of animals over the years; she has worked with horse racing trainers, wildlife parks and as a regular volunteer at local animal shelters.This book represents the culmination of her years of experience and study and in it Michelle explains the step by step route to achieving the greater understanding and connection that you desire with your companion animals. Exercises, explanations and anecdotes combine to make this an inspiring, entertaining read that will soon have you gaining the knowledge necessary to bridge the communication gap between human and animal.Scroll up, get your copy and start your incredible journey today.

“Rejoice in the knowledge that gluttony is the best cosmetic.”As chosen for Nigella’s edition of Stylist MagazineSome of the most sublime and exhilarating essays on the subject of food are collected here in Pennell’s book, first published in 1896; this reproduction being the final edited and refreshed edition of 1922. Written as pieces for the Pall Mall Gazette, the resulting feast presents an awed love letter to culinary excellence.Pennell was a biographer and critic of art and cookery and, as a world-travelled gourmand herself, brought to her reviews an artist’s sensibilities, aiming to reconfigure meals as high art, employing the language of aestheticism to turn eating into an act of intellectual appreciation.Beginning with a chapter on Gluttony as a Virtue, her enthusiastic appreciation of the best cuisine provides a remit including breakfast, sandwiches, dinner, supper, portage, soups, sole, oysters, partridge, salads, assorted vegetables, cheese and coffee.Quite simply one of the most accomplished works on the wealth that is food, A Guide for the Greedy is the perfect book for those who love any culinary adventure, cookery books and hedonistic literature in general.An absolute delight that will reignite your love of all food and awaken the epicurean in all of us.This brand-new edition has been fully transcribed from the original, edited and optimised for the Kindle.

Arabian Gulf Intelligence is an essential compendium of information concerning the eastern regions of the Arabian Peninsula and islands in the Gulf in the middle of the ninetenth century. If a copy of this rare book ever emerges on the market it commands many hundreds of pounds, so this new edition fills an urgent need in Arabian scholarship. The British Government of India maintained close surveillance over Eastern Arabia before the Arab states gained independence, and their most important reports by civilian and military personnel are reprinted for the first time in this volume of Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government, with a new frontispiece, new introduction and six maps. Extensive information is provided on the history, topography, campaigns, and tribal relationships in Muscat and Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the Emirates, with especially detailed studies of the qawasim, Utuba and Wahhabi. Treaties between Great Britain and Oman, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Bahrain appear verbatim. Navigation between islands and both shores of the Gulf is fully eluidated. There are notes on Hufhuf, al-Qatif and Buraimi. Dr Robin Bidwell, who provided the introduction, was Secretary of the Middle East Centre at Cambridge University. He also wrote the introduction for Vincenzo Maurizi's History of Seyd Said, Sultan of Muscat. Part of the Oleander Classics series, this 1985 title has been reproduced using the highest-quality modern scanning technology. This is in order to keep important works from the Press’s 50-year history from going out of print. In this way, the invaluable resources provided by this and other books in the series remain available for general readers, academics and other interested parties.

Meet Jacob the Jumpy Squirrel and his Fun-Loving Friends!Jacob is a very happy squirrel who loves to jump about and impress his friends. One day he gets challenged to a jumping race by Tufty the Leaping Hare... Find out what happens - who will win? And how? Stunning original illustrations by Fae Charlotte Dickerson run alongside a fun storyline from Jessica Blagbrough.This colourful and engaging story is perfect for young children to have read for them or for those older to read for themselves.Suitable ages: 2-6.

Bored of eating grass, a hippo decides he’d like to try ZEBRA for a change!Naturally, the munched zebra is none too pleased at becoming lunch...The wily zebra has no intention of staying inside the hippo’s tummy. He has a plan! An escape scheme formulated with wit, cunning – and a few tatty old bits and bobs found in the huge belly with him. Believe it or not, it involves some very bad poetry!Join our unfortunate zebra on this tummy-tastic adventure! With expressive illustrations and simple text, this giggle-inducing tale about finding creative solutions to problems features endearing characters in colourful images that will make story-time a joy.

FIVE CENTURIES OF SPIES FROM CAMBRIDGE“Spies, as Christopher Catherwood’s book shows, are a Cambridge tradition”What do the dramatist and Shakespeare contemporary Christopher Marlowe, the Elizabethan courtier Sir Francis Walsingham, and Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and John Cairncross all have in common?The answer is that they were all at Cambridge University and all of them were spies... This brilliant new book is the first to unite such a fascinating group of people, and to explore this extraordinary 500-year continuity provided by their place of education. This direct continuity is something of which Cambridge and its colleges are very aware, and which makes it such a unique place in the annals of espionage, treachery and intrigue.The murder of Christopher Marlowe in a tavern brawl is still a mystery, a subject upon which many books have been written, none with conclusive results. But there is one factor upon which they all agree – that his death was directly related to his activities as a spy. Some of those involved, such as Robert Poley, were also Cambridge graduates, and with the ideological war with Spain in the 16th century having strong parallels with the similar 20th-century struggle of the Cold War (not to mention the fight against fascism in the 1930s that recruited many Cambridge students to Marxism), the level of continuity is therefore remarkable yet again.The Cuckoos’ Nest examines and illustrates the common international themes of the times alongside the domestic political and social atmospheres prevalent and elegantly and fascinatingly weaves them into a spellbinding tale of treachery and treason.Reviews“Spies, as Christopher Catherwood's entertaining book shows, are a Cambridge tradition. Graduates from most British universities have joined the British intelligence services. Twentieth-century Cambridge, however, provided some of the best recruits for the KGB as well. The Cuckoos’ Nest brings their extraordinary careers vividly to life.” – Christopher Andrew, Official Historian of the Security Service (MI5)“As Christopher Catherwood points out in The Cuckoos’ Nest, spy stories – the real ones, that is – seem to have an endless fascination for us. When these stories have a connection with an ancient university and a charming city, then the fascination is all the greater. In this extraordinarily readable book, Catherwood explores the connection between place and intrigue, between a university committed to truth and people committed to dissemblance. The result is an extraordinarily rich narrative.” – Alexander McCall SmithScroll up and <u>grab your copy now.</u> About the AuthorChristopher Catherwood is a writer and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and lives with his wife Paueltte just outside Cambridge. He is attached to Churchill College and St Edmund's College at Cambridge and attends the Intelligence History Seminar run by the Official Historian of MI5, Professor Christopher Andrew. He is an expert on 20th century history in Europe and the Middle East, and has written many books in that area, and on Winston Churchill in particular. He also teaches 20th century and English Reformation history for the Tulane and Wake Forest Universities’ INSTEP Study Abroad programme in Cambridge and taught for many years at the University of Richmond in Virginia. He is currently writing on special operations and espionage in World War II for a series on secret intelligence history, and on Randolph Churchill and Evelyn Waugh as SOE agents in the Balkans.

CLASSIC DETECTIVE FICTION REDISCOVERED Hetherwick, a young barrister, is heading home late one night when two men enter his train compartment. He listens, intrigued, to their conversation about a beautiful and mysterious – but un-named – woman. When one of the men drops dead, for no apparent reason, as the train pulls into Charing Cross station, Hetherwick is thrown headlong into a disturbing and intriguing mystery that keeps him – and the police – guessing right to the end. “He stared wildly around him: Hetherwick caught the flash of his eye as it swept the compartment, and never forgot the look of frightened amazement that he saw in it; it was as if the man had been caught, with lightning-like swiftness, face to face with some awful thing ...” This, the first in our new series, is an opportunity to rediscover a great, early 20th Century detective story from a well-respected author writing at the height of his powers. Set largely in the capital, this thrilling tale pulls the reader deep into 1920s London, carrying them through countless familiar place names and locations in the hunt for the perpetrator of, and reason for, this heinous crime. An amateur sleuth classic! LONDON BOUND – A series of classic crime novels, largely from the Golden Age of detective fiction, faithfully transcribed, re-set and reprinted by Oleander under the series name London Bound - owing, unsurprisingly, to their all being set in the nation's capital. The Series Editor, Richard Reynolds, is current Chair of the CWA Gold Dagger judging panel and crime specialist at the world-famous Heffers Bookshop in Cambridge. Make sure you check out the next two in the series: The Doctor of Pimlico Search 978-1909349735 and the long-sought after Fatality in Fleet Street Search 978-1909349759 Beautifully produced in a completely re-set edition. A joy to read and to own.

Foreword by Jamie Oliver Return to the kitchen in the second instalment of Oliver’s Kitchen – Seconds and accompany young Oliver and his sister Mia cooking up a storm. Follow them on another culinary adventure and see the world of cooking through their young eyes as we explore another four seasons full of flavour and fun! This time around we discover a huge variety of dishes from the healthy to the just-plain-naughty and including salads, brownies, fudge and even ratatouille. There are family favourites such as sticky toffee pudding and classics like home-made lemonade. All in all, 150 pages of full-colour tastiness! If all that wasn’t tempting enough, don’t forget that 100% of the profits made from this book are being split between West Suffolk Hospital’s Neonatal Unit and The Stroke Association. So get stuck in and have some fun!

The Night Climbers of Cambridge was first published in October 1937 with a second edition rapidly following in November of the same year. Reprinted in 1952, the book has since been unavailable and has built up a cult following with copies of either edition becoming increasingly rare. Authored under the pseudonym Whipplesnaith it recounts the courageous, or foolhardy, nocturnal exploits of a group of students climbing the ancient university and town buildings of Cambridge; creating in effect, a literary blueprint to the city's skyline. These daring stegophilic feats, including such heights as the Fitzwilliam Museum and the venerable King's College Chapel, were recorded with prehistoric photographic paraphernalia carried aloft over battlements, up chimneys and down drain-pipes. The climbers all this while trying, with mixed results, to avoid detection by the 'minions of authority': university proctors, Bulldogs and, of course, the local 'Roberts'...The result is a fascinating, hu