HKB Press


HKB Press
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Latest Books - click on covers to see full Publisher's details

Hazel K Macaulife
Leisure Round Bognor In The '50s: A Teenager's Diary (with index of productions of The Buskin Players 1950-1953)
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Not only a teenage diary but 106 productions are listed in the index of The Buskin Players, the Repertory company in the Roof Garden Theatre on Bognor Regis Pier from 1950 - 1953.

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Kay Macaulife
Verses From The 'Forties
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Kay Macaulife wrote these poems in the 1940s, living in the village of Felpham, near Bognor Regis, Sussex, during and following World War II.

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Kay Macaulife
Bedtime Story
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morning confusion over hubands and men folk

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Hazel K Bell
From Flock Beds to Professionalism: A History of Index-makers
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Preface by David Crystal. Presents brief biographies of 65 index-makers since the 15th century. Outlines the history of indexing groups and societies to 1995

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Hazel K Bell
Say it with Flowers: and Other Sketches
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... a book of sketches, nine in total, all of them amusing and all of them very short ...- Tregolwyn Book Reviews

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Hazel K Bell
Stage Mother's Story, A: We're Not All Mrs Worthingtons!
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The story of how a son on his way to a musical theatre career -- takes over the family garage as a children's theatre-- fills the house with recording equipment and touring actors in sleeping bags-- casts a production of The Rocky Horror Show from home-- tours the Continent in the rock musical, Hair-- settles as an impresaro in Vienna while his mother was compiling indexes, writing books and articles and editing learned journals.

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Hazel K Bell (compiled)
Frederica Indexes, The: Cumulative Indexes to A.S. Byatt's Novels
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The Virgin in the Garden / Still Life and Babel Tower / A Whistling Woman

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Hazel K Bell (Editor)
Kay Macaulife: Women Take the Stage
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It provides an interesting picture of the interface between the amateur and professional stage immediately after the Second World War, with the list of her parts from 1947 to 1958 demonstrating the variety of shows staged by the companies she appeared with. As well as personal recollections of her performances, there are her own reminiscences of being a film extra, the recording of a play, appearing as a contestant in TV panel games, together with short extracts from her writing, much of which was tailored for women's groups.- from Theatre Notebook Volume 60 Number 1, 2006

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Hazel K Bell (Editor) with the Barbara Pym Society
No Soft Incense: Barbara Pym and the Church
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Thirteen essays by different authors on the theme of the Anglo-Catholic Church in the life and work of the novelist Barbara Pym, considering clergymen and their ways, clergy wives, celibacy, Victorian hymns, London churches, and the dangerous lure of Roman Catholicism.

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Mary Chiappe
Cabbages and Kings
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The book is a selection of the author's weekly articles in The Gibraltar Magazine, divided into 14 sections dealing with a wide range of subjects from words and language to the brain to politics to women to travel in India et cetera. Individual pieces deal with matters as varied as extreme cases of autism, death by stoning, feral children, myth as opposed to reality and the need for nonsense.

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Hazel K Macaulife
Aged thirteen in Felpham 1949
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a selection of entries from Hazel's 1949 diary ... represent a valuable historical document as well as being entertaining to read. - Tregolwyn Book Reviews

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Hazel K Macaulife
At Chi High 1949-1951
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. . .a valuable social document. . .if you thought Angela Brazil just made it all up, think again! - Tregolwyn Book Reviews

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Hazel K Macaulife
Diary of a Reading University Student, 1954-1956
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It is another valuable record of English social history in the mid-twentieth century. - Society of Indexers' Newsletter No. 3, Autumn 2007

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Kay Macaulife
Many Happy Returns!
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A charade in three scenes, each running for 20 minutes; the first two scenes can be performed separately. In the first, Happy Birthday! Mother is celebrating her eightieth birthday, and her future plans provide a surprise ending and leave her three daughters gasping. In A Piece of Cake Annie's quiet birthday celebration is disturbed by two suspicious visitors. In Welcome to the W.I.! chaotic events during a birthday meeting of the Women's Institute or Guild appall a prospective new member.

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Kay Macaulife
Time Will Tell
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Old Mrs Beams drives her daughter-in-law to desperate, grim measures, hoping to inherit her house

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Kay Macaulife
Would You Believe It?
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Marion, an avid reader of thrillers, finds herself involved in a real-life mystery. Her reactions provide plenty of comedy in a play that keeps the audience guessing to the end.

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Phoebe Raddings
Open Cage, The: An Autobiography
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The memoirs of a profoundly deaf woman born in Surrey in 1908, who overcame her disability to succeed in a variety of fields.

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