Rodney Dale

Rodney Dale (born 1933), from Haddenham in Cambridgeshire, is an English writer and owner of the publishing company Fern House Publishing.

Dale usually writes books about science and engineering but also about urban legends, jazz and Louis Wain.

Works

• Louis Wain - the man who drew cats 1968 (2nd edition 1991)
• Bridges 1973
• Inland Waterways 1974
• Iron Roads 1974
• Catland 1977
• The Manna Machine 1978
• The Tumour in the Whale 1978
• The Kabbalah Decoded, (with George Sassoon), Duckworth 1978, ISBN 0715612891
• Hobsons Engineering Casebook 1979
• Die Manna Maschine 1979
• From Ram Yard to Milton Hilton 1979
• Edwardian Inventions 1979
• BASIC Programming 4 Vols. 1979
• Hobsons Computing Casebook 1980
• Understanding Microprocessors with the Mk14 1980
• The Myth of the Micro 1980
• The World of Jazz 1980
• O-level English 3 Vols. 1982
• From Ram Yard to Milton Hilton 1982
• A History of Jazz 1983
• A Career in Architecture 1983
• It's True…It Happened to a Friend 1984
• Hobsons 6th Form Casebook 1985
• The Sinclair Story 1985
• Walter Wilson: Portrait of an Inventor 1986
• Understanding AIDS 1988
• Puss in Boots 1990 (2nd edition 2002)
• Machines in the Home 1992
• Early Flying Machines 1992
• The Industrial Revolution 1992
• Timekeeping 1992
• Home Entertainment 1994
• Machines in the Office 1994
• Early Railways 1994
• Early Cars 1994
• Inventors & Inventions 1994
• The Tinder Box 1994
• About Time 1995
• The Fern House Design & Technology Pack 1995
• A Dictionary of Abbreviations & Acronyms 1997
• Cats In Books – A Celebration of Cat Illustrations through the Ages 1997
• Hello, Mrs Fish 1997
• Teach Yourself Jazz 1997
• Cats in Books 1998
• The Wordsworth Dictionary of Abbreviations & Acronyms, (with Steve Puttick), Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2nd edition, 1999, ISBN 185326766X
• Halcyon Days – Recollections of Vintage Motoring, Fern House, 1999, ISBN 1902702050
• The Wordsworth Dictionary of Culinary and Menu Terms, Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2000, ISBN 1840223006
• Welcome Back Mrs Fish 2002
• A Treasury of Essential Proverbs 2003
• A Treasury of Love Poems 2003
• The Book of What?, CRW Publishing Ltd, 2004, ISBN 1904919197
• The Book of When? 2004
• The Book of Where? 2004
• The Book of Who? 2004
• Book of Urban Legend 2005
• Dickens Dictionary 2005
• Mrs Fish Swims Again 2005
• Mrs Fish on Tour 2005

External links

• Rodney Dale & Fern House Books