The Exmoor Files

The Exmoor Files
Author: Liz Jones
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2009-08-06
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0297857835

Moving from Islington to Exmoor; one small step for mankind but a very large one for MAIL ON SUNDAY columnist Liz Jones. Liz Jones lived the perfect urban life. The immaculate Georgian townhouse in a leafy London square. The glamorous career. The Italian wardrobe stuffed with designer bags and shoes. The much younger novelist husband. But then it all goes horribly wrong. She discovers her husband has been having numerous affairs (with women who are younger, dimmer, slimmer) and realises that her pursuit of perfection has never made her happy, and probably never will. And so she decides to start all over again, burying herself alive in the middle of the bleak, unforgiving wilderness that is Exmoor National Park. She buys a wreck of a farmhouse, with an original stable block, 46 acres, an ancient wood and a lake. She rescues a nervous and abused but breathtakingly beautiful racehorse and hopes to live out the rural dream. The reality, of course, is much, much harder. THE EXMOOR FILES is a funny, honest, often brutal real-life account of what it is like to start all over again in an alien environment. It is about discovering that you cannot find peace just by moving somewhere peaceful. It is about mourning for a relationship and letting go of the life you thought you deserved.

The Exmoor Files

The Exmoor Files
Author: Liz Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2009
Genre: Country life
ISBN: 9780750532990

How I Lost a Husband and found Rural Bliss...When Liz Jones discovers that her much younger husband has been having numerous affairs, she realises that her perfect urban life - immaculate Georgian townhouse, glamorous career, exotic holidays - has never made her happy. So she decides to start all over again, in the middle of Exmoor National Park. She buys a wreck of a farmhouse, rescues an abused racehorse and dreams of harvesting her own organic produce, when she isn't spending her days wafting through flower-filled meadows. The reality of course is much, much harder, and she finds that you cannot find peace just by moving somewhere peaceful.

Top Secret Alien Abduction Files

Top Secret Alien Abduction Files
Author: Nick Redfern
Publisher: Disinformation Books
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2018
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1938875168

For decades, people have reported close encounters with extraterrestrial entities. Witnesses describe being kidnapped by large-headed, black-eyed creatures from other worlds. Those same creatures have become popularly known as "the Grays." There is, however, another aspect to the alien abduction controversy. Abductees very often report being followed and spied upon by military and government personnel. It is typical for abductees to see black helicopters hovering directly over their homes in an intimidating manner. Phone calls are monitored. Emails are hacked into. Strange men dressed in black suits are seen photographing the homes of the abductees. All of this brings us to the matter of what have become known in the domain of alien abduction research as "Military Abductions," or "MILABS." According to numerous abductees, after being kidnapped by aliens they are kidnapped again . . . by the government. These follow-up events are the work of a powerful group hidden deep within the military and the intelligence community. It is the secret agenda of this highly classified organization to figure out what the so-called Grays are really up to. And, the best way for the government to get the answers is to interrogate those who have come face-to-face with the UFO phenomenon: the abductees. Why is the government secretly compiling files on alien abductees? Is the alien abduction issue so sinister that it has become a matter of national security proportions?

The Hedgerows Heaped with May

The Hedgerows Heaped with May
Author: Stephen Moss
Publisher: Aurum
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2012-10-18
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1781311013

An exploration of everything the countryside means to us, from a hundred years of the Telegraph’s archive. The Telegraph is, as its former editor Max Hastings identified, more than any other national broadsheet the newspaper of the countryside, which over the years has been written about in its pages by such distinguished writers as J.H.B. Peel, John Betjeman and W.F. Deedes, alongside eminent modern naturalists like Richard Mabey and even unlikely proponents of the rural life like Boris Johnson. This anthology is no bland celebration of bucolic idyll, but rather an exploration of everything that the countryside represents to the British. For some it means the reintroduction of long-lost wildlife such as the red kite, or ancient crafts like thatching. For others it means jouncing along a green lane in a four-wheel-drive Range Rover. To the Prince of Wales, his new town of Poundbury is the countryside while subjects as diverse as crop circles, second homes, Mad Cow Disease and polytunnels are all flashpoints in the modern debate about what, and who, the countryside is for. Hugely varied, by turns funny and provocative, this is an essential exploration of a central aspect of our national identity.

Liz Jones's Diary

Liz Jones's Diary
Author: Liz Jones
Publisher: Quadrille Publishing
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2006
Genre: Man-woman relationships
ISBN: 9781844002924

He is laidback, she makes Howard Hughes look like a slob. He is in his thirties, she isn't. Can it ever work out? This book presents a hilarious account of one relationship, from being stood up by the love her life on Millenium Eve, to when she first meets a much younger man, through falling in love, getting married and finally, living together.

Britain's X-traordinary Files

Britain's X-traordinary Files
Author: David Clarke
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2014-09-25
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1472904958

David Clarke opens The National Archives' own X Files to uncover the secret, official accounts behind legendary paranormal and extraordinary phenomena. From mediums employed by the police to help with psychic crime-busting to sea monster sightings reported to the Royal Navy, Britain's X-traordinary Files brings to light a range of secret documents created by military intelligence and government agencies who have investigated and even used extraordinary phenomena or powers in recent history. Each chapter is underpinned by original, official records held at The National Archives, which throw new light on many rumours and unsolved historical mysteries, including the Angels of Mons and other legends of the Great War plus a variety of strange phenomena reported both in the sea and in the air, from phantom helicopters to the great sea serpent of the Victorian era. The final chapter scrutinises official interest in the infamous Loch Ness Monster of Scotland and the 'Beast of Bodmin'. These accounts are supplemented with contextual material gathered from interviews and the author's own investigations, making truly eye-opening reading for anyone interested in the paranormal.

The Witch of Exmoor

The Witch of Exmoor
Author: Margaret Drabble
Publisher: HMH
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2012-03-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0544002954

A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year: “Part social satire, part thriller, and entirely clever” (Elle). It is a midsummer’s evening in the English countryside, and the three grown Palmer children are coming to the end of an enjoyable meal in the company of their partners and offspring. From this pleasant vantage point they play a dinner-party game: What kind of society would you be willing to accept if you didn’t know your place in it? But the abstract question of justice, like all their family conversations, is eventually brought back to the more pressing problem of their eccentric mother, Frieda, the famous writer, who has abandoned them and her old life, and gone to live alone in Exmoor. Frieda has always been a powerful and puzzling figure, a monster mother with a mysterious past. What is she plotting against them now? Has some inconvenient form of political correctness led her to favor her enchanting half-Guyanese grandson? What will she do with her money? Is she really writing her memoirs? And why has she disappeared? Has the dark spirit of Exmoor finally driven her mad? The Witch of Exmoor brilliantly interweaves high comedy and personal tragedy, unraveling the story of a family whose comfortable, rational lives, both public and private, are about to be violently disrupted by a succession of sinister, messy events. “Leisurely and mischievous,” it is a dazzling, wickedly gothic tale of a British matriarch, her three grasping children, and the perils of self-absorption (The New Yorker). “As meticulous as Jane Austen, as deadly as Evelyn Waugh.” —Los Angeles Times

Ben Macintyre's Espionage Files

Ben Macintyre's Espionage Files
Author: Ben Macintyre
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 1549
Release: 2012-11-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1408838389

Agent Zigzag: One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's Agent Zigzag. Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, inside the traitor was a hero, inside the villain, a man of conscience: the problem for Chapman, his many lovers and his spymasters, was knowing where one ended and the other began. Ben Macintyre weaves together diaries, letters, photographs, memories and top-secret MI5 files to create the exhilarating account of Britain's most sensational double agent. Operation Mincemeat: One overcast April morning in 1943, a fisherman notices a corpse floating in the sea off the coast of Spain. When the body is brought ashore, he is identified as a British soldier, Major William Martin of the Royal Marines. A leather attaché case, secured to his belt, reveals an intelligence goldmine: top-secret documents Allied invasion plans. But Major William Martin never existed. The body is that of a dead Welsh tramp and every single document is fake. Operation Mincemeat is the incredible true story of the most extraordinary deception ever planned by Churchill's spies - an outrageous lie that travelled from a Whitehall basement, all the way to Hitler's desk. Double Cross: D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit... At the heart of the deception was the 'Double Cross System', a team of double agents whose bravery, treachery, greed and inspiration succeeded in convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway, not Normandy, were the targets of the 150,000-strong Allied invasion force. These were not conventional warriors, but their masterpiece of deceit saved thousands of lives. Their codenames were Bronx, Brutus, Treasure, Tricycle and Garbo. This is their story.

Exmoor: Project Genesis

Exmoor: Project Genesis
Author: Robert Bavister
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2006-11-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1467012947

Exmoor Another moor Another beast! A year has passed since the incident down at Bodmin Moor, and now the two survivors of the encounter with the moors legendary beast, Howard Smith and Christina Valentine, have continued with their lives, trying to put the past behind them, but ever remembering the responsibility of GenoCorp. However, down on Exmoor, the local area is facing terror from a new beast a beast even bigger and more ferocious than the one that prowled Bodmin, and soon both Howard and Christina are going to have to relive the nightmare they experienced a year ago. Meanwhile, behind closed doors and in luxurious board rooms, the creative minds behind GenoCorp, including one scientist named Professor Joseph Barnes, are analysing GenoCorps current operation: Project Genesis!

THE MULHOLLAND FILES

THE MULHOLLAND FILES
Author: Sandy Jones
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2019-08-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1838591478

Edward is enjoying his semi-retirement, but when a mysterious photograph lands on his doormat, he knows it spells trouble. Pulled back into a world he thought he’d left behind for good, his new relationship with Abby is put to the test and both of their lives are in danger… The mystery deepens and Edward’s choices are limited. Who are the people in the shadows and just who should he trust? Why did this woman contact him and what does she know? As Edward’s comfortable life is blown apart by the revelations that unfold, he desperately searches for the truth and struggles to keep one step ahead of his pursuers. Will he recognise the danger confronting him before it’s too late?