Aphorisms & Maxims

Valorising Esse
‘Pearls of wisdom’ and the ‘world in a word’ try to capture the wit and appeal of aphorisms and maxims, which have been found throughout the centuries.
Aphorisms are the spark plugs to daily life giving it a pithy twist that people recite to give a new angle on making sense of their world. This is a new collection of over 500 aphorisms and maxims reflecting some of the highlights of Paul Marsden’s life covering everyday items from cushions, snoring and pain through to the woes of being a writer and on to wars and political personalities.
The antipode of Ethics is Boris.
Losing one’s phone is like your face going through a spider’s web.
You are given life for free. It is yours, so enjoy it!
Short Stories

Problems & Politics
Sixteen short stories on life’s problems and the world of politics by Paul W. B. Marsden.
There are the themes of the future of artificial intelligence, the passion of books, semi-autobiographical memories of childhood, gender and global connections.
Technical Reference

Digital Quality Management in Construction
Digital Quality Management in Construction is the first ‘how to’ book on harnessing novel disruptive technology in construction quality management.
The book takes a tour of the new technologies and relates them to the management of quality, but also sets out a road map to build on proven lean construction techniques and embed technologically based processes to raise quality professionals’ digital capabilities. With the mountain of data being generated, quality managers need to unlock its value to drive the quality of construction in the twenty-first century, and this book will help them do that and allow those working in construction Quality Management to survive and thrive, creating higher quality levels and less waste.
Poetry

Living Esse
A compilation of forty three poems by Paul W. B. Marsden focused on childhood memories growing up in Cheshire and holidays in Wales, together with living as an adult in chronic pain and poor mental health. Despite those topics this is a book full of hope and uplifting ideas that readers will find a comfort and an inspiration.
Local History

The Black Friars of Shrewsbury
Paul Marsden, the former Shrewsbury MP has written the first comprehensive history of the Dominican Friary of Shrewsbury to appear in the last 120 years. The Black Friars built a church, cloisters and probably an infirmary and outbuildings stretching from St Mary's Water Lane down to the English Bridge, which lasted for three hundred years, before being destroyed by King Henry VIII's men in 1538.
Through the ages the friary saw frequent visits of English Kings and Queens and on the eve of the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403, Prince Henry prayed in the church and after the battle many of the fallen knights were brough back and buried at the friary. It was the birthplace of Prince Richard in 1473, later one of the murdered Princes of the Tower.
With a little imagination and meticulous research Paul Marsden has brought alive the hustle and bustle of the friary and delved into the past to investigate the lives of the Black Friars. Inspired by St. Dominic, the friars came to Shrewsbury to preach the word of God and give medical aid and spiritual support to Salopians.
Travel back to medieval times and discover the forgotten Black Friars of Shrewsbury.

Helsby
The small village of Helsby in the north of Cheshire, appears on the commuter belts for Chester, Liverpool and Manchester and at first glance may appear to be unremarkable. From the M56 motorway the soaring cliffs of the hill provide a dramatic backdrop to the village at its foot.
The village name has confidently been deciphered as originating from the Norse name of Hjallr-By but given its distance from the Wirral peninsular that has received much interest for its Norse connections, Hjallr-By has previously failed to reveal anything else about who founded the settlement and its early origins.
This book describes Helsby’s history from the creation of the sandstone in the Triassic Age through to Neolithic people, the Celtic Cornovii tribe, the building of the Roman Road which carried Emperors and Legions on to battles, Æthelflæd, King Alfred’s daughter and Lady of the Mercians, the first settlement by the Norse men and women and the
Norman conquest.