Award winning poet, David Stuart Ryan, explores the impact of a return to home after a round the world trip which has lasted some years.The impact of half forgotten places and people comes across in new and revealing ways as he explores what they still mean.But the lure of travel calls again. There is a whole section of the poetry which looks at America as he journeys there for a visit that takes in a long trip along the ocean highway of the eastern seaboard.The ran...

This new autobiography of Marlene Dietrich succeeds in bringing all the threads together that made up such a variegated life.You travel in time from a Germany that was emerging from the settled feudal order of medieval times into the mechanised horrors of modern war.Then on to the glamor and glitz of Hollywood between the wars.For after surviving the great inflation of the early 20s in Berlin, Marlene learned her trade well, as the woman with a fascination that prov...

"Postcards From Around The Globe" brings you the haunting beauty of the Earth in all its variety, deserts, mountains, seas and jungle comes across in picture combined with poem as you join the poet on his quest to capture the very essence of life.From the Himalayan mountains to the jungles of Malaysia, the deserts of Iran and the beauties of Croatia's sea coast, you begin to explore a world rich in variety, experience and romantic possibility.You are about to ship out on a ...

Explore the vast country of Australia with poet David Stuart Ryan. He is exploring his own roots and discovering the very essence of the land, in all its strange beauty.Original color illustrations further bring out the altogether difference of the southern continent,long occupied by man, but still hardly understood by its new arrivals from the far north.The ancestral memories, traces and hints of an ancient world are there to be savored in these poems.In dis...

It has been a long time in the making but now the illustrated poems of David Stuart Ryan are being made available, just as they were created on a year long overland journey to India and then return to London.The poems and original illustrations in vivid entrancing colours reveal the full magic and mystery of the East as you join the poet on his travels to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Kashmir, Varanasi, Bihar, Mumbai and Goa in India.The 20 pictures in the book bring the 10...

The amazing story of the rise of John Lennon's group - The Beatles - to fame and fortune.David Stuart Ryan carried out a great deal of original research into the true background to John, speaking to many of the characters who helped formhis intense view of the world. This was backed up with full access to the files of Time magazine. The result is a comprehensive picture of a great artist living at a time of both tumult and awakening.The author spoke to many of the ke...

You've heard the legend, now read the real storyUntil now, the fog of half-truth and legend has hidden from us a momentous battle that took place in the English coutnryside 650 years ago. For years, Robyn Hood and his merrie men fought a guerilla campaign against utterly ruthless forces.Who was he? Where did he come from? And his merrie men? Who was Maid Marian? Why did he feel forced to fight against all the odds?At last, these and many other questions can be answe...

Author David Stuart Ryan first spent a year in India in 1968-9 and has made regular visits back there ever since.This is why he is able to give you an informative guide, illustrated with dozens of original color pictures, to the places that most tourists miss.By exploring further, off the beaten track of the sites the formal tours take you, you will be able to get a real grasp, insight and feel for what India is all about.In the Hindu holy city of Varanasi you can d...

A review from the Book Exchange aboutAmerica - a guide to the experience"The book gives an up to date impression of America often with an emphasis on the slightly off-beat. All aspects of American life are covered, from cowboy country to the burial of the unknown soldier from Vietnam in Washington, from Dallas to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, Mexico Way and Mardi Gras have attention as do the surfing beaches and Daytona speedway.The reader will discover just ...

The unremembered power of ancient taboosTaboo is a novel that explores those areas of life generally considered off-limits. It is a mystery,a romance, a probe behind convention to look for reality.The story opens in Germany as the Russian armies take their revenge on the captive population. This becomes a metaphor for a continuing war, that between man and woman as the story shifts to an explosive confrontation in present-day Germany and Holland.You quickly b...

You are now entering the second of 'The Seven Worlds' in David Stuart Ryan's poetry series.'The Conjunction of the Sun and Moon' explores the relationship of man and woman in startling images, poems and themes.As with his previous book, 'The Sphere of the Moon Goddess', picture and text are intimately related and create a satisfying whole describing the poetic experience, you cannot help but be taken out of the everyday into the mysterious realms that these poems inhabit.

When we went to the Palace to get The Beatles their OBEs. John Lennon had some acid with him. 'I'm gonna slip it into the Queen's tea,' he told me. 'I want to open her mind and try to get her to declare war on somewhere nice and warm so we can all go and fight on the beaches.' After Jane Asher dumped Paul McCartney he literally used to cry on my shoulder. We hit the bottle together. Hard. 'I had everything and I threw it all away,' he would say. Alistair Taylor was with The Beatles from th...