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Over the past five hundred years, the tiny island of Guernsey has found seven amazingly different ways to earn an important place in the world’s economy.
Each time the island’s financial system looked like it was about to collapse, somehow the people of Guernsey managed to reinvent a way for making a living and create a Guernsey ‘brand’ that was known and appreciated far beyond its borders.
From knitting to privateering, ship building to quarrying, and from tomato growing to tourism, Guernsey people have demonstrated resilience, ingenuity, and independence, often having to stand up to Government interference, overcoming major technology shifts and uncovering ways to access new markets.
The most recent of these seven reinventions, the finance industry, is now a mature sixty years old. In this book, Andrew Doyle explores the growth and death of its six predecessors, which provide some lessons for how Guernsey’s current major money earner can continue to flourish.
Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between the coasts of England and France yet a world apart from either. Ebenezer himself is fiercely independent, but as he reaches the end of his life he is determined to tell his own story and the stories of those he has known. He writes of family secrets and feuds, unforgettable friendships and friendships betrayed, love glimpsed and lost. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is a beautifully detailed chronicle of a life, but it is equally an oblique reckoning with the traumas of the twentieth century, as Ebenezer recalls both the men lost to the Great War and the German Occupation of Guernsey during World War II, and looks with despair at the encroachments of commerce and tourism on his beloved island.
G. B. Edwards labored in obscurity all his life and completed The Book of Ebenezer Le Page shortly before his death. Published posthumously, the book is a triumph of the storyteller’s art that conjures up the extraordinary voice of a living man.
– What do the fishermen dream of as they cast their lines into the sea at Castle Cornet breakwater?
– What sort of creatures could be watching from the bushes as you circle the Pleinmont fairy ring?
– Which ancient beasts may sleep in the sea just off the coastline?
Take an alphabetical adventure through the Bailiwick of Guernsey, where beautiful places, magical creatures and local history and culture combine.
June 1940 and war is sweeping across Europe. In the tiny Channel Island of Guernsey, Kathleen is about to board a ship that will take her to safety. As they embrace, Charles tells her he will see her again soon; a couple more shi s as an essential worker and he will be free to follow. But his plans are soon to be thwarted by the arrival of the Germans.
Decades later, when an email from a stranger brings a whisper from the past, Charles and Kathleen’s legacy begins to unfold. As the cold, lonely echoes of war begin to rewrite her family’s story, their daughter is led to discover that, sometimes, it is the people closest to us that surprise us the most.
Through the use of 174 fascinating old photographs, Sue takes us on a tour of her home island of Sark to reveal its unique history and compare how it looked in the past with its appearance in the present. To stand in the footsteps of the original photographers she has scrambled up cliffs, dodged bicycles in the car-free lanes and even been dangled by crane. As well as bringing together an intriguing collection of old photographs she has also captured a snap-shot of life on this beautiful island in the early 2020s.
For the last four years, Marco Tersigni has been taking photos of Guernsey ‘from the exact spot’ as old photos of the island, and posting them on social media. Some of them show how little has changed – others show the dramatic changes that have transformed the island over the last century.
Based on popular demand, Marco has now selected his favourite pairs of photos – as well as the ones which have received most positive feedback online – and brings them to you in the form of a beautiful coffee table book.
Join Marco on a tour of Guernsey’s past – and present – from the exact spot.
An exploration of the monuments, characters and superstitions of the Isle of Guernsey written and illustrated by Roseanna Courtney.
These pages contain written accounts and illustrations of Guernsey Folklore.
You will find worshipped gods and menacing ghosts, local spiritual monuments and strange customs involving eggshells.
Whilst these tales have been passed down for centuries, they are now visualised within the realms of illustration.
Each page aims to be more whimsical and fascinating than the last – serving as a connection to a past way of life.
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