White Rose Content: 9 books

Cover of The Story of Butchart Gardens
by Dave Preston
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013

How did Jenny Butchart turn an ugly, disused limestone quarry into the world’s most famous private garden?  Over 100 years later Butchart Gardens still attracts almost a million visitors from around the globe, to enjoy a world created by an unrivalled green-thumb visionary. The stuff...
Cover of It's Time I Told You
by Dave Preston
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013

Words of Love. Love can be a fleeting moment of deepest joy, or the journey of a lifetime. Here's a collection of love poems from all stages of the journey, some illustrated by the author's photography and artwork. The pieces range from finding and nurturing love, creating romance, through...
Cover of Rails & Rooms - A Timeless Canadian Journey
by Dave Preston
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013

An Amazing Journey! From Halifax to Victoria, clear across Canada, Dave Preston rode the rails, exploring what was once the most popular mode of transport in the country. Days and nights spent rollicking across the amazing and diverse geography of Canada were punctuated by stays at some of the country's...
Cover of Try and Stop Me

Try and Stop Me

A Daughter's Challenge, A Father's Poetry

by Dave Preston
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016

The moment you have a child your world changes. What a gift! The pure joy of welcoming a new life into yours puts everything else in perspective. Parents struggle with infant feeding, teething, toilet training, first falls and injuries, the stress of school, bullying, and a myriad trials and...
Cover of All is Bright - A Yorkshire Lad's Christmas
by Dave Preston
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012

All is Bright - The Funniest British Christmas Stories! Derek Bradley’s just like any other daft young lad growing up in the 1960s - unique. Through his brutally honest eyes and ears we recall what it's like to celebrate Christmas past in a small Yorkshire village. The advent calendar...
Cover of Yorkshire's Christmas Recipes
by Dave Preston
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016

The year-end is a time to celebrate! It’s a time to relax the reins of restraint and enjoy the fruits of our labour with good old-fashioned food and drink. A 21st century Christmas often makes us all so busy we don’t think we have time to make our own festive treats, meals and drink… so we end...
Cover of Waiting for Godonlyknows - A Play by Dave Preston
by Dave Preston
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2013

The classic Godot is revisited by two luckless pilgrims camped out in the disappearing wilderness. Equal shots of humour and pathos fuel this look at rampant consumerism and a society that threatens to bulldoze everything into the ocean, for the price of creature comforts. "At last, someone...
Cover of Take Three - A Play by Dave Preston
by Dave Preston
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2013

Take three women and listen to the stories they tell here for the first time. Hear how unremarkable lives can become quite remarkable when they strip away the hair, the clothes, the makeup, the smile and reveal themselves for who they really are. Mixing their laughter with tears, each one struggles,...
Cover of Personals - A Play by Dave Preston
by Dave Preston
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013

Personals. It's the hardest thing you will ever have to write: a description of yourself that will sell your heart and soul, (and often, more importantly, your body) to the perfect partner. Personals follows the heartbreaking, heartwarming stories of seven people in search of friendship, affection,...
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