Society Library
The following table lists the book titles available for reading in the Pavilion ‘Douai Room’. They are listed in alphabetical order by the author.
Most titles are authored by Old Boys of the School, communicating our corporate breadth of interests and life experiences. They are ‘non-fiction’ unless noted otherwise in the Title.
Click on the links inside the ‘Author’ cells, or inside the ‘Title’ cells for Information about each publication, (e.g Wikipedia Author’s profile and bookseller site respectively).
Click on the ‘Note’ text ‘ cells for additional information from the Society Librarian.
Publications that are actually stored on the web may be accessed from a second table at the bottom of this page, Click here to view the download links.
| Author | School Yr. |
Title and Bookseller website link | Synopsis | Librarian’s Notes | Publ. |
| Tim Albert | 56/60/65 | Mostly We Had it Good |
‘A Baby Boomers Journey’ – Tim’s Autobiography | Note | 2017 |
| Leopold Antelme | 40/46 | In Retrospect | The Story of a Family | 2004 | |
| Sir Daniel Brabin | 25/32 | Rillington Place | Report of an Inquiry into the Case of Timothy John Evans | Note | 1949 |
| Alfred M Burrage | 10/14 | War Is War; By Ex-Private X |
Experiences as a Private Soldier during WW1 | Note | 2010 |
| Wiliam Canton | 1854-68 | Various – see notes | Poetry & Childrens literature | Note | |
| Joseph Conlon | 91/93/98 | Why String Theory | Popular science account of string theory | 2016 | |
| J A Cuddon | 39/47 | The Owl’s Watchsong | A study of Istanbul, Byzantine Emperors and Turkish Sultans. | Note | 1960 |
| “ | “ | The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories Fiction | 1984 | ||
| Christopher Derrick | 34/39 | Escape from Skepticism | A look at liberal education | Note | 1977 |
| Cuthbert Doyle OSB | 1856/61 | Tercentenary St Edmund’s Monastery | Note | 1917 | |
| Bruce Duncan | 53/58 | The Loan Soldier | Adventures of a Military Man Abroad | Note | 2015 |
| Giles Foden | N/A | Turbulence | Weather Forecasting in June 1944 for D-Day | Note | 2010 |
| James S Hall | 13/16 | G F Handel | The Story of his Life and Work | Note | 1961 |
| “ | “ | Sea Surgeon | The Memoirs of the Lifeboat Doctor | Note | 1961 |
| Adrian Hastings | 43/46 | A History of English Christianity 1920 -2000 | One of the great classics of modern church history | Note | 2000 |
| “ | “ | The Construction of Nationhood | Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism (The Wiles Lectures) | 1997 | |
| Alban Hood OSB | N/A | From Repatriation to Revival | The English Benedictine Congregation, 1795-1850 | Note | 2015 |
| Paul F Jennings | 33/36 | Various titles, see Note | Note | ||
| George Jerjian | 68/73 | Spirit of Gratitude |
Personal account of dealing with mid-life crisis | Note | 2018 |
| P J Kavanagh | 43/48 | Various titles – See Note | Note | ||
| Frank Keating | 52/55 | Bowled Over | Frank’s Sporting Diary 1979 | Note | 1980 |
| “ | “ | Another Bloody Day in Paradise | The 1981 West Indies Cricket Tour | 1981 | |
| “ | “ | Up and Under | Frank’s Rugby Diary | 1983 | |
| “ | “ | Half Time Whistle | Frank’s Autobiography | 1998 | |
| “ | “ | The Highlights | Selection – Frank’s Guardian Articles | 2014 | |
| Henry Mayr-Harting | 49/54 | Religion Politics and Society 1066-1272 | Impact of a changing religious culture | Note | 2011 |
| Hugh McManners |
NA | Forgotten Voices of the Falklands War | The Real story of the Falklands War | 2008 | |
| Edward Micklethwaite Curr | 1837-38 | The Australian Race | Its Origin, Languages, Customs, Place of Landing in Australia…. | Note | 1886 |
| Simon Murray | 94/97 | Icky Doo Dah Fiction | Tale of a fun loving creature, who loves to cause chaos. | Note | 2010 |
| Bali Rai | NA | Now or Never Fiction | A Dunkirk Story – the WW2 role that non-white soldiers played | Note | 2019 |
| Abbot Geoffrey Scott OSB | 62/66 | Gothic Rage Undone | English Monks in the Age of Enlightenment | Note | 1992 |
| Geofff Somers | 63/68 | Antarctica – The Impossible Crossing? | The longest ever journey across Antarctica | Note | 2018 |
| Sir Stephen Wall | 60/65 | Reluctant European | Britain and the EU from 1945 to Brexit | 2020 |
Web Titles
| Author | School Yr. |
Title and Web Link | Synopsis | Webmaster Notes | Publ. |
| Abbot Geoffrey Scott OSB Paul Arblaster Alban Hood OSB |
62/66 87/89 NA |
Douai 1903-Woolhampton 2003: | A Centenary History | Note | 2003 |