Who Am I ? - Born, Anthony Charles Lynton B**** on May 6th 1953, in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father was once chairman of a local Tory (Conservative) Association. He attended the prestigious Edinburgh "Fettes College" before going on to St John's College, Oxford, to read law. He was in a rock band called Ugly Rumours. In 1983 he entered politics.
Have you got a story to tell about you, your family or friends, your life, your beliefs, your experiences? - You could put your life on these pages, just let us know about yourselves and tell us your story.
...It is impossible to read any of Paul McCartney's lyrics without hearing the Beatles' musical refrain as it takes over the lines, dictating rhythm, pace and mood. In Blackbird Singing, his first poetry collection, early and later poems are brought together with some of his finest lyrics, including pop classics such as "Yesterday", "Lady Madonna" and "My Love".
Cherry Smyth
SIMON WINCHESTER -
The Map That Changed the World
The Map That Changed the World
Hardcover - 352 pages (5 July, 2001)
Viking; ISBN: 0670884073
In the summer of 1815 an extraordinary hand-painted map was published in London. Some eight feet tall and six feet wide, brightly coloured - in sea-blue, green, bright yellow, orange, umber - it presented England and Wales in a beguiling and unfamiliar mixture of lines and patches and stippled shapes. It was the product of one man's obsession with rocks, a passion that sustained him whilst the rest of his life slid into ruin. For nearly 20 years, an Oxfordshire blacksmith's son named William...
