Guernsey eBooks - available online
Planet Guernsey - Towards a Sustainable Future by Andrew Casebow (editor)
Climate change is humanity's greatest challenge as it will radically affect the environment of our planet.
This booklet puts this massive global issue into a local context. It is happening on the island and the effects on our lives and the Bailiwick's environment can be seen all around us. We all live and cope with change in our lives and reacting to climate change will be a challenge. This publication shows how we can respond to that challenge.
Available for free download from La Société Guernesiaise website
The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock by Ferdinand Brock Tupper
Biography of Guernseyman Sir Isaac Brock, the Hero of Queenstown Heights, by his nephew and eminent Guernsey historian, Ferdinand Brock Tupper, based on his correspondence
Available for free download from Gutenberg project
Witchcraft and Devil Lore in the Channel Islands by John Linwood Pitts
History of this dark period, including a collection of transcriptions of witchraft trials in the Channel Islands.
Available for free download from Gutenberg project
The Man Who Loved Islands by D H Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence wrote this short story in 1926 and Compton Mackenzie was sure that the character was based on himself. The story was first published in the USA in 1928.
From Islomania eBooks
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Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
Novel written by Victor Hugo during his exile in Guernsey & dedicated to the people of the island. It tells the story of Gilliatt, a Guernsey fisherman who falls in love with the daughter of a local shipowner.
"It is only now being recognised as an important moment in the history of the novel".
"Victor Hugo" Graham Robb
Biography of G B Edwards by Gale Reference Team
GB Edwards was the author of "The Book of Ebenezer Le Page". Following numerous unsuccessful attempts to get it published during his lifetime, he left instructions that it be destroyed on his death. Thanks to Edward Chaney and John Fowles it was not, and now it is one of the best-loved books set in Guernsey.
Guernsey Business Law Handbook
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