OMS Latest:

Trypheyna McShane

Trypheyna (1967-70; Cheddar View) has recently had her book ‘The Intimacy of Death & Dying’ published. It can be purchased through Amazon and is also now available as an e-book, as well as through her 'We Wise Women' website www.wewisewomen.com which supports women at midlife and beyond.
 

Pat Benham's 'The Avalonians'

Pat, long-time guitar teacher at Millfield and Edgarley, presents an intriguing account of the life and times of the extraordinary characters who were drawn to Glastonbury, the Isle of Avalon, at the turn of the 20th century.  This well-researched, well-documented work features personalities such as Wellesley Tudor Pole, the renowned physicist Sir William Crookes, composer Rutland Boughton, Alice Buckton, the educational pioneer who started an arts and crafts and drama centre at Chalice Well and the architect Frederick Bligh Bond who carried out psychic investigations into the history of Glastonbury Abbey. This book, now in its second edition, is a sine non qua for those who wish to know Glastonbury as it is today.

316 pp, 215 x 140mm, Illus in black & white photos, ISBN 0 906362 68 7
 

The Astons and Attica

Eloise Aston (1993-94; Edgarley and 2001-03; Day) has informed us that she and her brother, Anselm, (1995-99; Day), together with their mother, Elizabeth Aston, have recently launched an e-book publishing business, run from their website www.atticabooks.com .

Eloise and Anselm, who wrote his first book under the name Anselm Audley while still at Millfield, and Elizabeth can draw on decades of combined experience as authors and publishers with a passion for books in all formats. Hence they will be publishing a selection of well-edited and professionally presented e-books, including titles previously available in print, and new titles in a multitude of genres: historical, fantasy and mainstream fiction, and non-fiction featuring a range of memoirs by inspirational women from the first half of the 20th century.

Having long been on the other end of the process, as readers and book-buyers, and known the frustration of seeing books poorly produced or marketed, or simply not available, they are determined to make the experience of finding, buying and reading a book a pleasure from first to last.
 

Jenny Lovell (1984-86; Overleigh)

For the past fifteen years, Jenny Lovell has been critically engaged in the design, development, and application of building envelope strategies in the United States and the United Kingdom. She is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design at Washington University in St. Louis, and is registered as a member of the Architects Registration Board UK (ARB) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Last year she brought out her first book, 'Building Envelopes:An Integrated Approach', which gives instruction for designing building envelopes, or facades, that are both visually appealing and high-functioning and have the greatest effect on the well-being and safety of its occupants in terms of heat, light and structure.

Read more about Jenny's book by going to:-

http://www.papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781568988184

Andrew Williamson (1971-81; Edgarley and Ashcott)

Andrew has brought out a book which derives from his work as a concept artist for the Harry Potter films:

Harry Potter: A Pop-up Book: Based on the Film Phenomenon

• Publisher: Insight Editions, Div of Palace Publishing Group, LP; Pop up edition (15 Oct 2010)
• Language English
• ISBN-10: 1608870081
• ISBN-13: 978-1608870080

 Andrew is currently working on Alphonso Cuaron's forthcoming film "Gravity".

 Max Milligan (1974-83; Edgarley and Holmcroft)

Max launched his collection ‘The Lebanon’, commissioned by OM Charlie Laba, at the Royal Geographical Society on Wednesday 27th October. For a review of the collection go to:-

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/artsandculture/8145852/Lebanon-A-serendipitous-journey.html

Max divides his time between London and Peru, where he has a farm near Machu Pichu, and would be happy to offer travel advice to any OMs travelling to that part of South America.

Max’s website is www.maxmilligan.com and you can read more about his collection by going to www.maginternational.org/maxmilligan
 

Chris Wickham (Edgarley and Glaston Tor 1961-67)

"The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000"

Professor Wickham's tour de force has attracted much attention, not least from the Daily Telegraph's Dominic Sandbrook who describes it as 'a superlative work of historical schoalrship' and 'a worthy competitor to Gibbon's Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire'.

Christopher Kelly, a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in the Literary Review writes 'In a supremely humane and intelligent book Chris Wickham has presented medieval Europe in all its vivid richness and variety'.

The Inheritance of Rome is published by Allen Lane/The Penguin Press at £35